Pear

 

1698 engraving. "Mapou Pear", Brazil. 

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1900-06. Pear blossoms.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016803178/

1891 chromolithograph. 

c1887. Bufford's fruit cards, no. 779-1 [pear] / Bufford.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2013646760/

1860. Pears and Rose.

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Sept., 1941. Pear picker. Hood River, Oregon.

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Sept., 1941. Lidding crates of pears. Hood River, Oregon.

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1940 Dec. Feeding unmarketable pears to hogs on farm. Placer County, California.

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Pears arriving from orchard at packing plant. Hood River, Oregon.

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Nov., 1938. Pears hung from hoop by means of string. This is one method of keeping pears from rotting. New Iberia, Louisiana.

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Lange, Dorothea, photographer

Created / Published

1939 Aug. 

Harvesting pears, Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34.

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Dumping freshly-picked pears into chute which leads to washing vats. Hood River, Oregon

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