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Fruit Cleaning and Polishing Machine

Files

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.

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

040176

Original Format

Film Negative

Physical Dimensions

8x10 Film

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Fruit Cleaning and Polishing Machine,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/74492.

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