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Title: Pumpkins and People on the Vennum Family Farm
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1895
Publication Information: San Jose Public Library. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. California Room
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Collection on Santa Clara County's Agricultural Past
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Photograph of a patch of large pumpkins on the Vennum Family farm. The 150 acre farm was owned by Oliver Vennum and located near Lundy Avenue in the Berryessa area of San Jose. The men standing are, left to right, Fred Vennum, Oliver Vennum, and Charles Phillips. The woman seated on the pumpkin is Oliver's wife, Mary Kelleher Phillips Vennum. The young man reclining against the pumpkin in the foreground is Leo Vennum.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 19 x 24 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0h4nd0n4
CSJ_154
ARB-C004
Language: English
Subject: Agriculture--California--Santa Clara County
Pumpkins
Pumpkin Growers--California--Santa Clara County
Vennum Family
Vennum, Frederick 1876-1961
Vennum, Oliver Hazard Perry
Phillips, Charles
Vennum, Mary Kelleher Phillips
Vennum, Leo 1889-1950
Place: San Jose (Calif.)

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