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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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
Pictured is Railroad Street in Knights Landing. The California Pacific Railroad built tracks through Knights Landing in 1869. The Southern Pacific photograph shows Nellie McInerney, the freight agent, and a large number milk cans on the platform of…
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.