Figure 2. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. Fruit growing quickly led to the emergence of supporting industries like canning factories to use less marketable produce. The “very cheap” labor was a major component in attracting investment in the fruit industry. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source More

Figure 5. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. The 1895 fruit crop was an “enormous” one, a fact overlooked by railroad leaders, who justified high freight rates by saying that growers' promises of increased production “did not materialize.” Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits More

figure 1. View of banana plantation, Tela, Honduras, 1922, UF54.044, United Fruit Company Photograph Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. More

figure 3. “United Fruit Company Organization” chart showing the new research department under the management of Hartley Rowe, an industrial engineer by training. “Vice-Presidents of the United Fruit Company,” 132. More

figure 5. United Fruit Division of Tropical Research logo, from letterhead used by D. H. Radler, October 7, 1959. Box 23, folder 289, Popenoe Papers, HIBD. Courtesy of Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. More