United States of Cider is featuring images from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection.
Beautiful images, and interesting details regarding variety, location collected, and artist who created. More images posted on tumblr.
Attribution: “U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705”
Malus domestica: Rhode Island Greening
- Artist: Steadman, Royal Charles, b. 1875
- Scientific name: Malus domestica
- Common name: apples
- Variety: Rhode Island Greening
- Physical description: 1 art original : col. ; 17 x 25 cm.
- Specimen: 88085
- Year: 1916
- Notes on original: Apple purchased in market
- Date created: 1916-03-30