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Workers in the greenhouse
Workers in the greenhouse
Unidentified people posing in greenhouse
Unidentified people posing in greenhouse
Unidentified group of people sitting outside
Ten people sitting outside
Unidentified
Homemade rat cover on top of tractor
Transportation truck at Ecke Ranch
Lower right: Paul Ecke Sr.. The truck would head to the Encinitas Train Station to ship boxes of bare root poinsettias. Customers would plant them and they would grow into large plants. Cut poinsettias would then be harvested from them.
Shipping bare root poinsettias by rail
Picture taken at the Encinitas Train Station, in downtown Encinitas. Second from left: Charlie McCarver. Behind him: Ernie Ruth.
Rolling bench system for poinsettia cuttings
Rolling bench system for poinsettia cuttings.
Paul Ecke Jr. in front of Ranch trailer
The Paul Ecke Ranch, Inc. Business Records and Family Papers
Paul Ecke Jr. (left) and Thony Maurer
Paul Ecke Jr. and Thony Maurer (Magdalena Ecke's brother) at Barn 1, Paul Ecke Ranch in Encinitas. Boxes in the background are filled with bare root poinsettias to be sent by rail car across the country. The large scale on the right was used to weigh…
Paul Ecke III with his 4-H pig, J. Peter
Paul Ecke III outside of Barn 2 with one of the first Duroc pigs in San Diego County, "J. Peter", named after the family friend and dentist, J. Peter Fitzpatrick.
Paul Ecke III and his 4-H steer, Beebe
Paul Ecke III and his 4-H steer, Beebe
Machine to make soil blocks
Machine to make soil blocks
Julie Hampton (left) and Ruth Kobayashi
Julie Hampton (wife of Paul Ecke III) and Ruth Kobayashi, head flower breeder at the Paul Ecke Ranch.
