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California Agriculture: Food processing

Owning Institution: California Historical Society

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Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting food processing in California. View this collection on the contributor's website.
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52 items found in this collection

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Boxes of oranges are unloaded on roller carriers at the packing house
Drying fruit at Mr. Clough's, Alameda County, August 1885
A flour mill
Glimpse of a fruit cannery warehouse, California
Inside a Lucky meat-processing plant
Machinery for brushing washed fruit in a food processing facility
Machinery used to extract saccharine juice from beets, California
Men and women at a flour mill
Men and women processing fruit to be dried
Men and women workers canning peaches in Santa Clara County, Califonira
Men standing at the filter presses used for processing beet sugar, California
Men, women, and child with a fruit press, Hayward, Alamda County, 1885
Oil mill, showing full wheel for crushing olives, California
Oil settling room where oil and water are separated, California
Olives in processing vats, California
Oranges in the water bath at a California Fruit Growers Exchange packing …
Raw Sugar W.H. No 1 Sec Pile 64 High, May 4 1921
Sacked wheat awaiting shipment, California
Sacks of barley laid out in Clarksburg, California, circa 1921
Separating the beet sugar from the syrup by centrifugale, California
Sorting graded oranges
Women and men at work in one of the largest fruit canneries, …
Women and men crating peaches in Reedly, Fresno County, California
Women and men packing oranges in Riverside, California
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