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Color photograph of five Lotito family members standing together. Third from left: Larry.

Black and white photograph of man holding bunch of celery behind truck bed. Second man leans on door frame.

Black and white photograph of approximately 125 crates of iceberg head lettuce for delivery to the Rocky Mountain Seed Company or the Western Seed Company. People left to right: 1) unknown, 2) Vincent Lotito, 3) Lawrence Lotito, 4) Joe Conte, 5)…

Back and white photograph of five people help with placing glass frames over hotbeds after seeding. People from left to right: Marie Lotito (wife of young Rocco Lotito), young Rocco Lotito holding the sash with Rocco Lotito Sr., person with snowball…

Black and white photograph of Vincent (Jimmy) Lotito standing next to truck loaded with carrots. Rutabagas in sacks behind truck. Telephone pole in distance. Black & white.

Black and white photograph of Vincent (Jimmy) Lotito loading manure for truck farm at Gibson Farm Dairy in Wheat Ridge on 32nd Avenue between Wadsworth and Kipling.

Black and white photograph if iceberg lettuce harvested and crated, awaiting loading to go to shippers. A load consisted of about 120 crates on one truckload. Ridge home buildings in background and the old Arvada water pressure tank on the hill to…

Black and white photograph of one woman sitting in dirt and one person standing in irrigation ditch next to row boards and vegetable crops. Buildings of 30 acre farm in the distance. Just east of Ridge home.

Black and white photograph of seeded rows of vegetables on Rocco Lotito's 30-acre farm east of Ridge home. Trees and buildings in background.

Black and white photograph of Vincent (Jimmy) Lotito plowing with a Fordson two-way plow. Reaching the end of the row, the plow was raised, the tractor was turned, and the opposite plow was lowered. This mechanism was invented by Martin Monson, a…