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Yolo County Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope During WWI (Panel #3)

Yolo County Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope During WWI (Panel #4)

Yolo County Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope During WWI (Panel #5)

Yolo County Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope During WWI (Panel #6)

Stephen William Shaw (American, 1817-1900),
Portrait of R. B. Blowers, n.d.
Oil on canvas, 27 x 22 inches.
Crocker Art Museum, gift of Mary S. Stephens, 1942.1

This is the first panel of the R. B. Blowers display. This panel discusses the early history of R. B. Blowers, including his birth in Ohio and his emigration to California in the 1850s.

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This is the second panel in the Blowers display. This panel covers the birth of R. B. Blowers' children, the death of his first wife and marriage to his second wife. It also discusses R. B. Blowers' planting of grapes and the beginning of his raisin…

This is the third panel of the Blowers display. This panel discusses the diversification and growth of the Blowers crops. The movement from grapes toward olives and other nuts and fruits.

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This is the fourth panel of the Blowers display. This panel continues to discuss the agricultural products of the Blowers family and some of the awards that they received for their raisins, pears, and almonds.

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This is the fifth panel of the Blowers display. This panel discusses R. B. Blowers' creation and patenting of a fruit drier for his raisins and other produce. It also covers his extensive work to promote irrigation in Yolo County.

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