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Ruskin Farm Photos

Description
A large collection of Ruskin Farm Photos provided by the Dickman family. Pay particular attention to the photos relating to pre-packing of vegetables before shipment as this was, perhaps, Paul B. Dickman's greatest contribution to the farming industry was in the pioneering of Prepackaged vegetables designed to cut out wholesale middlemen and get products in the customers' hands more efficiently and quickly. These photos depict many aspects of that process.
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Vegetable Processing in the Field

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Type: Still Image
Year: 1951, 1951
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Publisher: Burgert Brothers
Description: Vegetable processing in the fields at Ruskin Farm, in 1951. Note the Ruskin brand on the shipping crates at the bottom of the picture. NOTE ON REVERSE SIDE OF PHOTO: Dickman Farms in 1950s. Cauliflower packed in the field. Center Paul Dickman on left and Lyle Dickman on Right.
Full Text: Burgert Brothers … http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ …

Mechanical spraying machine. Dickman Invention

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Paul Dickman was an inventor of machinery to aid in his farming business. The cultivation and spraying of tomato crops was difficult because they were staked well off the ground. To overcome this issue he elevated another machine he had in his possession and created a spraying machine with arms on both sides and jacked up the chassis quite high to ride easily over the staked tomatoes. This is a… more
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Dickman Cattle Ranch

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Type: Still Image
Year: 1947, 1947
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Photo is of Clint Roberts, head cowboy at the Dickman Cattle Ranch. The ranch, known as the Bar-D-Bar ranch, was located south of Ruskin between the town and the Little Manatee River. Cattle were also grazed on the land that is now occupied by Apollo Beach.
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Packing Photo #009 Machine Cutting of Corn

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Packing Production Line: Initial Machine trimming of corn, sorting.
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Harvesting Tomatos in Ruskin

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Photo of tomato harvesting. Growing tomatoes was expensive, forcing many, including Paul Dickman to abandon tomato crops in the early 1950s in favor of cattle ranching and salad vegetables. This is one of the reasons. Tomatoes were handpicked which required expensive labor at harvest time. (Even today, tomatoes designed to be sold as fresh, whole tomatoes are picked by hand. All other… more
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ …

Icing Down Broccolli

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: icing Down Broccolli for freshness in processing
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Packing Photo #010 Inspection and Sorting of Corn

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Packing production line: visual inspection and sorting of cut corn
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Packing Photo #005 Filling Boxes

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Packing production line, filling boxes
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Tomato Processing Plant Overview #2

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Another view of tomato processing plant. Note that the upper level does have a degree of machine processing.
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Corn Production: Ruskin Packaging Plant

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Cut corn production. Ruskin
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Cultivating fields Ruskin Farms/Mechanical Cultivator

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Mechanical Cultivator. Preparation of fields for crops. One of the first jobs required in the farm process
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Packing Photo #23

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: This is a photo huskers, shown in the center of the photo. Once the corn was husked it was placed on a conveyor belt (to the left) to pass by the first inspectors.
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Packing Photo #011 Packaged Small cut Corn

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Packaging: Showing 5 cut corn pieces.
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Brahma Stock on Dickman Ranch

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: On Reverse side of Photo: "Dickman Brahma Stock: c. 1950s - D - (Bar D Bar Ranch was the brand symbol of Dickman's cattle holding) North side of Little Manatee River (location of one of the ranch locations (Between College Avenue Little Manatee River.) more
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

Packing Photo #020 Vegetables Arriving from Field to Packaging Conveyor

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Type: Still Image
Member of: Ruskin Farm Photos
Description: Untrimmed vegetables delivered to production line from fields.
Full Text: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ …

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Creators and Contributors

  • Lyle Dickman (1)
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  • Burgert Brothers (4)
  • MacManus, John & Adams, Inc. (1)
  • Photo Illustrators Inc. (1)

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