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Men sucking freshly pressed juice fresh from an apple press through rye straws, southeastern PA, circa 1910.
Credit: Courtesy of Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center, Pennsburg, Pa.
In the early 1900s, photographer H. Winslow Fegley photographed images of the vanishing culture of rural Pennsylvania, including this scene of men sucking freshly pressed juice fresh from an apple press through rye straws. The juice would then be barreled for cider and hard cider.