Workers on ladders fill crates beneath trees so heavily laden with fruit the branches nearly bow to the ground in this golden-toned postcard of the Hood River Valley apple harvest, Oregon's premier fruit-growing region promoted heavily by the railroad that ran through it. A Swedish-language message home to a Minnesota farm suggests the sender was part of the era's Scandinavian immigrant community.

• Caption: "Picking Apples, Hood River, Oregon."
• Publisher: Portland Post Card Co., Portland, Ore. / Card no. C. 1229, A-7937 / On Line of O.W.R. & Co.
• Postmark: Portland, Ore., Oct. 24, 1912, 5:30 PM — with World's Panama-Pacific Exposition San Francisco 1915 advertising cancel
• Status: Posted