Apple Raising / Toledo, Ohio / Cleveland, Ohio

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Apple Raising / Toledo, Ohio / Cleveland, Ohio Produced: 1916

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Apple trees - workers pick apples. “Sorting the fruit. The pickers having filled their bags, carry them to the sorting table where the apples are graded according to size.” Worker fastens lid to barrel, loads boxes on horse-drawn wagon. “Trucking a big load to the freight depot.” “A luscious wine apple. Fruit of this description is graded as ‘Fancy’ stock and brings a ‘Fancy’ price.” “There ain’t going to be any core.” Man eats apple. “…is an important factor in the development of the apple orchard. More than half a million successful grafts is the record of this man -- some grafter.” Man demonstrating tree-grafting process. “Setting the graft.” “The old cider mill. The windfalls and lower grades of fruit are gathered and taken to the mill for cider making.” “The milkman stops on his home journey and takes away a barrel of sweet cider.” Loads barrel on milk wagon. “Making cider is evidently a righteous undertaking, at least this venerable manufacturer has been in the business for over sixty years.” Filling cider barrel - cider maker - children sip cider from barrel with straw, are chased away. Making apple butter over fire outdoors. “And now for the pie-peeling apples in a way mother never did.” Pie making on commercial scale - apple peeling machine. “Mixing and kneading the pie crust.” “Filling the pie crusts.” “Crisp and brown, fresh from the huge ovens.” [1916] b. “An important manufacturing city and lake port. Much of the iron ore, copper and lumber from Lake Superior passes through Toledo. Toledo has a population of 170,000.” Panorama - river - bridges - waterfront - industrial district, sign on building, ‘You Will Do Better in Toledo.’ “Madison Street, the main business and shopping district of Toledo.” Pedestrian, automobile, streetcar, horse-drawn vehicle traffic. “Loading a big lake freighter. Note particularly the unique method employed in this work. The freight car is lifted complete in an immense crane and its load of coal shot into the ship.” Coal freighter ‘Leonard C. Hanna.’ [1916] c. “Cleveland, a city of 640,000 people, is the metropolis of Ohio. Its most important manufactures are in iron and steel and their products. Cleveland is noted among American cities for the width of its streets. Euclid Avenue the main thoroughfare on the east side is one of the famous streets of the world.” Panorama of business district - Euclid Avenue, pedestrian, streetcar, automobile traffic. “The public square. The center of the downtown business district from which radiate Cleveland’s principal thoroughfares and street railway lines.” “Cleveland street railway systems have attracted wide attention…” Aerial view of street with streetcars. “Public square and fountain.” “Statue of General Moses Cleveland who in 1796 founded the city of Cleveland. Standing majestically in the heart of the city…” “Cleveland is noted for its plan for grouping its public buildings in a ‘civic center’ being the first American city to engage in actual construction of a great project of this character.” Public buildings. “Rocky Bridge connecting Rocky River and Lakewood, Ohio, suburbs of Cleveland.” “Rockefeller Park…” Automobile traffic on parkways. “The Garfield Memorial Mausoleum an impressive structure situation in beautiful Lake View Cemetery.” [1916]

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