Laborers loading a watermelon seeding machine - Monticello, Florida

Laborers loading a watermelon seeding machine - Monticello, Florida

Monticello, Florida
Watermelon
African Americans
Agriculture

"When the watermelons are at just the right state of development-- over-ripe enough to be picked up easily by a pitchfork, but not too ripe to slip off the forks, or break open-- they are loaded by farm hands into a specially designed field seed separating machine designed by the Simpson Nursery of Monticello, Florida."

State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory

1946

C002777

Monticello, Florida