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- Picking and Crating Grapefruit for Riverside Fruit Exchange, Riverside, California, 1893-1905 - The Riverside Fruit Exchange served California citrus growers and packers starting in 1893. Members of the exchange hand-picked and packed fruit into crates for transportation in refrigerated railcars to eastern markets. Commons crops included navel oranges and lemons. This worker harvested grapefruit, a crop promoted by the exchange in response to competition from grapefruit growers in Florida and Texas.
- 1893-1905
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Picking and Crating Grapefruit for Riverside Fruit Exchange, Riverside, California, 1893-1905
The Riverside Fruit Exchange served California citrus growers and packers starting in 1893. Members of the exchange hand-picked and packed fruit into crates for transportation in refrigerated railcars to eastern markets. Commons crops included navel oranges and lemons. This worker harvested grapefruit, a crop promoted by the exchange in response to competition from grapefruit growers in Florida and Texas.