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Picking Grapefruit near Bradenton

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Stock #:1134375
Type: Postcard
City: Bradenton
State: Florida (FL)
County: Manatee
Publisher: E.C. Kropp Co.
Postmark: 1940 Dec-31
Postmark City: Bradenton
Postmark State: FL
Stamp: 1c George Washington
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Publisher's Series #: 9135 N
Recipient Address:1017 Orchard
Muscatine, IA

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Workers use ladders to pick grapefruit from trees in an orchard. Wooden crates filled with fruit are on the ground. The card mentions that grapefruit was first raised in America in the vicinity of Bradenton, introduced by the Spaniards from Polynesian and Malayan Islands. Florida produces six to seven million boxes of grapefruit annually.

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