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We invite you to explore the images, photographs and video clips presented in the exhibit.
Three part photograph of a booklet. The left section shows the red booklet cover, titled Modern Methods of Packing Apples and Pears, by A. McNeill, Chief, Fruit Division. Published by Direction of the Hon. Martin Rurrell, Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont., June 1913. Black and white photo top right shows a man wrapping an apple in tissue. Black and white photo lower right shows six packed apple boxes with apples packed in different patterns.
Sepia paper certificate numbered 882, The Government of the Province of British Columbia, Department of Agriculture Fruit Packing School Certificate. Dated at Victoria this 5th day of August, 1918. Signed (on the bottom right) by M. J. Middleton, Provincial Horticulturalist and Inspector of Fruit Pests, and by J. W. Gibson, Director of Elementary Agricultural Education. Stamped signatures (on the bottom left) of Hon. John Oliver, Minister of Agriculture and W. E. Scott, Deputy Minister of Agriculture.
Black and white photo inside a building. Apples are moving along a conveyor belt in the middle and, from each side women are sorting the apples.
Colour photo of a stack of four wooden apple boxes. The top two have OK Brand labels.
Black and white photo of the inside of a building. Two lines of women are standing at boxes on each side of a centre conveyor belt, with the women on the right facing the camera and the women on the left facing away. Each woman is picking up an apple from the box to her right, wrapping it in tissue, and placing it into a box in front of her.
Colour photo of the end of a wooden packing box stamped Winoka Co-op Exchange, Okanagan Centre, BC. The box stamp and an apple are in front.
Black and white candid photo of ten men, ages early 20's to mid-40's, and seven young women all in casual clothing outside a wooden building. Some are sitting on stacked lumber; others are standing or leaning back. Two men are smoking pipes.
Black and white photo of six women (front) and five men (back) seated in front of an old building. They are wearing 1920's style clothing.
Black and white photo of a building with an older model truck and three older model cars.
Black and white photo of a wooden house with laundry outside. A large wooden building is next to the house and a railway track runs in front of both buildings.
Black and white photo of about twenty men and women working inside an old building. In the foreground is a raised row of boxes filled with apples and labelled OK Brand. Shooks of wood are stacked beneath. Men are looking at apples in boxes or at the photographer. In the centre, women are packing apples along each side of two central conveyor belts. To the right, a man is building an apple box.
Black and white photo of three women inside a fruit packinghouse. The woman in the foreground is wrapping an apple in tissue.
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