Fruit Cleaning and Polishing Machine
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Title
Fruit Cleaning and Polishing Machine
Subject
Fruit industry - Virginia - Woodstock
Food processing machinery - Virginia - Woodstock
Description
Photograph of a type of fruit cleaning and polishing machine manufactured by the Grabill Manufacturing Plant.
The plant was located near the intersection of what became Main Street and Reservoir Road in Woodstock and still stands in 2025.
The business was eventually taken over by the FMC Corporation in 1948.
The sign tacked to the wall above the machine reads, "Please do not spit on floor".
The plant was located near the intersection of what became Main Street and Reservoir Road in Woodstock and still stands in 2025.
The business was eventually taken over by the FMC Corporation in 1948.
The sign tacked to the wall above the machine reads, "Please do not spit on floor".
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Undated
Contributor
Identified in 2013 by staff at the Shenandoah County Historical Society (SCHS).
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
Other examples of Grabill manufactured machinery appear in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 003759, 018587, 040170, 040172, 040173, 040175, and 040176.
Identifier
040172
Original Format
Film Negative
Physical Dimensions
8x10 Film
Collection
Citationzork
Morrison Studio, “Fruit Cleaning and Polishing Machine,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/74488.
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