1901 Photograph of a Young Man Working on a Fresno Raisin Farm.
Fresno, California: Detroit Photographic Co., 1901. Single photograph measuring 7 x 8 ¾ inches. Captioned on negative with Brown Brothers and Frank A. Munsey stamps verso. Wear and damage with large folds on right hand side, missing upper and lower left corners including intersecting with caption text. Very good plus. Item #List3115
A photograph of a young man standing in a grape field and holding a drying rack in Fresno, 1901. Grape farming in Fresno began in the early 1870s and by the 1880s grapes, including raisin grapes, were the area’s main crop. Cultivation in Fresno’s semi-arid climate required a system for irrigation and so was generally up to wealthy capitalists, corporations, or sometimes farming colonies like the Fresno Colony.[1]
[1] Thomas Pinney, A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition (University of California Press, 1989).
Price: $375.00