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Rebuilt and Remade: The Florida Citrus Industry, 1909-1939
Title
Rebuilt and Remade: The Florida Citrus Industry, 1909-1939.
Creator
Padgett, James, Lester, Connie, Pineda, Yovanna, French, Scot, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Prior to orange juice concentrate, Florida citrus was already an industrialized agricultural sector. This thesis explores the early-20th-century Florida citrus industry and demonstrates that contemporary farming practices were influential in advancing how citrus was produced, processed, worked, marketed, and regulated in early-20th-century Florida. Restarted after devastating freezes in 1894-1895, resolute Florida growers rebuilt their groves into marvels of large-scale citrus fruit...
Show morePrior to orange juice concentrate, Florida citrus was already an industrialized agricultural sector. This thesis explores the early-20th-century Florida citrus industry and demonstrates that contemporary farming practices were influential in advancing how citrus was produced, processed, worked, marketed, and regulated in early-20th-century Florida. Restarted after devastating freezes in 1894-1895, resolute Florida growers rebuilt their groves into marvels of large-scale citrus fruit production. Continuing a legacy in experimental crossbreeding, improved varieties of citrus were developed to lengthen the season and markets. Advocated by nurserymen and university educators, biological innovation helped the citrus thrive in the 1910s and 1920s from adverse weather effects, pests, and diseases. Scientists were agents of modernization whose research influenced its industrialization. With the inclusion of machines in the processing of citrus, technological innovation materialized significantly in Florida's packinghouses by the 1930s. These changes affected the lives of agricultural workers and small growers. Whether by prejudice or by resisting collective efforts, big growers gained power and influence in the industry, Their power concentrated into the Florida Citrus Codes and Florida Citrus Commission in 1935, which effectively allowed large-scale growers to direct the industry's development into the rest of the 20th century. In all, this reexamination into Florida citrus exemplifies the remaking of this industry into a modern agricultural system as well as the gradualism of southern agricultural modernization in early-20th-century America.
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Date Issued
2018
Identifier
CFE0007906, ucf:52745
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007906
Florida of to-day
Title
The Florida of to-day: a guide for tourists and settlers.
Creator
Davidson, James Wood, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Describes the Florida of the late 19th century in terms of its history, physical environment, population, travel destinations and facilities, crops and products.
Date Issued
1889
Identifier
AAA3452QF00001/16/200208/04/200515972BfamIa D0QF, ONICF179- 0, FHP C CF 2001-01-16, FCLA url 20020422xOCLC, 50217857, CF00001574, 2562094, ucf:9170
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001574.jpg
American Siberia
Title
The American Siberia: or, Fourteen years' experience in a southern convict camp.
Creator
Powell, J. C., PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
The author's detailed account of the terrible conditions of the prison camps of North Florida and Southern Georgia in the post-Civil War era.
Date Issued
1893
Identifier
AAA3230QF00011/15/200108/04/200515713BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2001-11-15, FIPS12039, FCLA url 20020227, 49476526, CF00001561, 2559055, ucf:7756
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001561.jpg
My pioneer days in Florida, 1876-1898
Title
My pioneer days in Florida, 1876-1898.
Creator
Bell, Emily Lagow, PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Personal account of the Bell family's move from Indiana to Ft. Pierce, Florida with numerous anecdotes and descriptions of places they saw and people they met.
Identifier
AAC2509QF00011/15/200603/02/200712094BnamI? D0QF, FHP S UCF 2006-11-15, FIPS12111, FCLA url 20070302, CF00001730, 2700743, ucf:20074
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001730.jpg