Stuart Commercial Club Deep Water Harbor Proposal, 1923

Collection Items

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  Stuart Commercial Club photographs description, 1923

  Damaged sheet taped to inside of photograph album. Text:
  
  PHOTOGRAPHS
  Made and secured especially for the consideration of the
  United States Government Engineers
  at the
  PUBLIC HEARING IN STUART, FLA. JANUARY 16th, 1923
  And present to them as part of the
  facts, figures, data and reports
  answering the questions they asked
  to arrive at an opinion regarding
  the recommendations of
  
  GOVERNMENT AID FOR A DEEP WATER HARBOR HERE.
  
  Photographs were carefully limited to views in and near
  Stuart, Fla, and in the territory directly
  Tributaries to the prospective Harbor here the North and
  South Forks of the St. Lucie River, the Indian River close
  to Stuart, the St. Lucie Control Canal, Salerno, Hobe Sound,
  Port Sewall and the inlet.
  The aim of the pictures is to back up the reports
  Submitted potential out-going and incoming freight for ocean
  going ships, if the harbor is made here.
  
  STUART COMMERCIAL CLUB
  Stuart, January 16, 1923
  
  Property of Stanley Kitching
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  Seminole man hunting, 1923

  "The Seminoles used to own all of this land - Here is a hunter." Seminole man in palmettos holding a rifle.
  
  Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Firearms, Seminole Indians
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  Man driving cart filled with pineapples and bananas, 1923

  "Bringing in pines and bananas from his little productive farm." Hill residence in background.
  
  Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Bananas, Carriages & coaches, Horses, Pineapples
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  Planting pineapples near Stuart, 1923

  "Planting pineapples near Stuart - ten thousand slips to an acre." Three men, one woman in a bonnet, and three small children planting pineapple slips.
  
  Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Agricultural laborers, Children, Croplands, Pineapple plantations
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  Stuart pineapple field, 1923

  "Stuart pineapples - 80 percent of all U.S. pineapples grown here." Pineapple field.
  
  Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Croplands, Pineapple plantations, Pineapples
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  Team of ox hauling fruit, 1923

  "Bring in the fruit by ox-team before the canal is completed."
  
  Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Agricultural laborers, Ox teams
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  Pineapples growing between citrus trees, 1923

  "Pineapples between citrus trees. A Highly Profitable Manner of Farming."
  
  Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Croplands, Pineapple plantations
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  Clearing land, 1923

  "Clearing land for a big pineapple plantation. There are six hundred acres of growing pineapples within two miles of Stuart Shores." Workers in the field with hoes. Stuart Shores was planned for the panhandle of Sewall's Point. Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Agricultural laborers, Pineapple plantations
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  Workmen move boxes of grapefruit, 1923

  "Putting luscious grapefruit in field boxes for Yankee breakfast table use. Nowhere else in the world are such fine grapefruit raised as in this Indian River country." Packing crates stamped "Deerfield Groves June 1919." Published in the 1926 birthday event program with the caption "Gathering grapefruit in the Niagara Grove ten miles from Stuart." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Agricultural laborers, Citrus fruit, Fruit, Grapefruit
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  Loading boxes of grapefruit onto a boat, 1923

  "Loading Indian River Fruit on a barge near Stuart, Florida." Three men on a pier load boxes onto a small boat. Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

  Tags Agricultural laborers, Boats, Piers & wharves, Waterways