복숭아 - 레드 리버
1910
Before modern grocery stores standardized our produce, artists like Elsie E. Lower traveled the country to document unique fruit varieties for the USDA. Painted in July 1910, this watercolor captures the 'Red River' peach with scientific precision, showcasing its blushing red-and-green skin speckled with dark spots alongside a cross-section that reveals the intricate, woody pit. The handwritten notes at the bottom act like a vintage data log, tracing the fruit's specific lineage to farms in Arlington and Rosalyn, Virginia. It serves as a delicious slice of agricultural history, preserving a regional cultivar that might otherwise have vanished.
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