Horace Little and Chinese pickers at his lemon grove, cabinet card photograph, circa 1890s

A cabinet card photograph of Horace Little and Chinese pickers at his lemon grove, Ontario, California, USA, by Guy Carleton Hovey, circa 1890s. The image shows Little, holding a dog in his arms and standing near a ladder, at the right. In the foreground are three Chinese laborers, one dumping fruit into a crate, another picking fruit from ground level, and the third picking from a ladder. In the background is a horse-drawn cart loaded with crates. Other crates are near the laborers with two stamped "H Little" and another having a label with a grizzly bear image and having the words "Bear Brand", "Lemon Growers" and perhaps "Ontario California" and "Lemon Exchange." Printed at the bottom of the matte is the photographer's surname and that of the "Ontario Cucamonga Fruit Exchange" of North Ontario (later Upland) and listing packing houses at Ontario, North Ontario, Cucamonga and Narod, the latter being partly within Montclair today. Little, born in England in 1872, was an emigrant of 1890 or 1891 to the U.S., was in Ontario by at least 1895, and had an orchard there in the 1900 census. By 1910, he was in Santa Ana and then, in 1920, running a store in Upland. Little was involved in a notorious incident in early 1903 in San Bernardino involving his wife Mary Frances Boxall's family. Charles R. Lloyd, a Welsh born capitalist with transit interests in Oakland and and an electric and gas company in San Bernardino, was accused of having incest with two of Mary Frances Little's sisters. A brother, William Boxall, was driven by Little to San Bernardino to confront Lloyd, who attempted to escape and was shot by Boxall several times on 31 January 1903. Lloyd hovered near death for weeks, recovered sufficiently to return home, and then died in early August. Boxall appears to have been tried twice for the death, but the result of the second trial is unknown. Little was initially arrested for his involvement, but not charged. With fading and stains on the image and significant staining, soiling, rubbing, corner lesses and abrasions on the matte, the condition is perhaps fair.

本数据集为盖伊·卡尔顿·霍维（Guy Carleton Hovey）于19世纪90年代左右拍摄的橱柜卡照片（cabinet card photograph），内容为美国加利福尼亚州安大略（Ontario）的霍勒斯·利特尔（Horace Little）与其柠檬园内的华工。照片右侧可见利特尔怀抱着一条狗，站在一架梯子旁。前景处有三名华工：一人正将水果倒入板条箱，一人在地面采摘水果，另一人则在梯子上采摘。背景中可见一辆装载着板条箱的马拉马车。工人身旁还放置了若干板条箱，其中两个加盖有"H Little"的印鉴，另有一个带有灰熊图案的标签，印有"Bear Brand""Lemon Growers"字样，还可能带有"Ontario California"与"Lemon Exchange"字样。照片衬纸底部印有摄影师的姓氏，以及"北安大略（后更名为阿普兰（Upland））的安大略库卡蒙加水果交易所（Ontario Cucamonga Fruit Exchange）"的相关信息，同时列出了安大略、北安大略、库卡蒙加以及纳罗德（Narod，现部分区域隶属于蒙特克莱尔（Montclair））的果品包装厂。霍勒斯·利特尔于1872年生于英国，1890或1891年移民美国，至少在1895年已定居安大略，并在1900年的人口普查中显示其在当地拥有一处果园。1910年，他迁居圣安娜（Santa Ana）；1920年，他在阿普兰经营一家商店。1903年初，利特尔卷入圣贝纳迪诺（San Bernardino）一桩臭名昭著的案件，该事件涉及妻子玛丽·弗朗西斯·博克索尔（Mary Frances Boxall）的家族。原籍威尔士的资本家查尔斯·R·劳埃德（Charles R. Lloyd）在奥克兰（Oakland）拥有交通产业，并持有圣贝纳迪诺电力与燃气公司的股份，他被指控与玛丽·弗朗西斯·利特尔的两名姐妹发生乱伦关系。利特尔的弟弟威廉·博克索尔（William Boxall）受其驱使前往圣贝纳迪诺与劳埃德对质，劳埃德试图逃跑并于1903年1月31日被博克索尔连开数枪。劳埃德病危多周，后康复返家，最终于8月初去世。博克索尔似乎因该命案受审两次，但第二次审判的结果不明。利特尔最初因涉案被捕，但未被起诉。该照片存在褪色与污渍，照片衬纸带有明显污渍、污损、摩擦痕迹、边角缺损与磨损，品相尚可。