Picking Oranges, Riverside, California
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.31
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting 3 men, two of whom are on ladders, picking oranges The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: 5958 Picking oranges , Riverside, California, U.S.A Copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer and Wyman. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso is printed in black ink written in English is a description of the purchase, irrigation and cultivation of the land in the Riverside district by eastern colonists from 1870 onwards. In addition there is in description of the introduction and prodction on navel oranges form root stock from Brazil. As a result of their labours land bought for $3.50 per acre had risen to $2,000 per acre and the annual harvest for the Riverside region iwa said to be worth $2,000,000. Below this written in English French German Italian Swedish Spanish and Russian is the title: Picking Oranges, Riverside, California
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher Strohmeyer and Wyman , photographer and publisher