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Just Peachy

by The Library of Congress

Summertime is the perfect time of year to enjoy this selection of peaches in all forms from the Prints & Photographs Division collections.

22 photos · 136 views

Peach water tower, Gaffney, South Carolina (LOC)

Peach crates await the fruit from adjacent peach trees in Phoenix, Oregon, near Medford (LOC)

[Red Cross workers canning fruit] (LOC)

[Trademark registration by Farmer's Fruit Preserving Co. for Rising Sun Peaches brand Preserved Fruits and Vegetables] (LOC)

Picking peaches, Delaware (LOC)

Young peach trees in the orchard-filled town of Palisade, outside Grand Junction, Colorado. In the distance is the area's famous Grand Mesa, which, at 40 miles in length, is reputed to be the world's largest mesa, an elevated, flat-topped area of land (LO

[Trademark registration by A. Booth Packing Company for Extra Peaches brand Canned Fruits and Vegetables] (LOC)

Peach pickers with sackful of peaches, Delta County, Colorado. These are local boys (LOC)

Momo (peach) (LOC)

Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colo. (LOC)

Grocery boy leaning on basket of peaches, Muskogee, Oklahoma (LOC)

[Woman sitting by smokehouse door, peeling peaches(?)] (LOC)

[Trademark registration by Robinson Tobacco Manufacturing Company for Peach & Honey brand Fine-Cut Chewing or Smoking Tobacco] (LOC)

Bufford's fruit cards, no. 779-6 [peach] (LOC)

"More than a full basket" (LOC)

Sign on roadside, Delta County, Colorado. Independent truckers come into this section where the fruit farms are comparatively small to buy peaches for the city markets (LOC)

A Carload of Peaches from California (LOC)

Pickers in a peach orchard, Delta County, Colo. (LOC)

Peaches, three of a kind. Washington, D.C., July 11. Mrs. E.C. Gathings, wife of the congressman from Arkansas today received a basket of peaches via American Airlines, to be presented to the President tomorrow. The peaches commemorate the annual Peach Fe

Fruit auctioneer and clerk eating peaches in front of livestock pavilion, Sikeston, Missouri (LOC)

A Weastern Peach and peach orchard (LOC)

A bountiful peach orchard in Franklin Township, Pennsylvania (LOC)