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Guayule Rubber Industry in Salinas, California, ca. 1942

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

About this Collection

This collection consists of an album of 44 photographic prints, plus ephemera, of the guayule rubber industry in Salinas, California, circa 1942. The photographer is unknown. Included in the photographs are images of workers planting, harvesting and manufacturing the guayule; views of agricultural equipment; guayule fields; guayule plants; mills and mill machinery at Salinas; and Senator Sheridan Downey, Major Evan W. Kelley of the U.S. Forest Service, rubber chemist Dr. David Spence, and members of the "Truman Committee," which investigated Salinas' guayule industry.... View collection guide.

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After the seed is dried, it is placed in air tight drums …
Almost a thousand miles of duckboards and wooden rails on which to …
Another original machine, which Bud Spencer is driving, loosens the dirt around …
Another picture of the mill
Another seed collecting device that was first developed collected the seed from …
Chopped shrub at the bin where it has been dumped from the …
Closeup view of seedling topper
Cross-cultivation is a simple process with this machine
Dr. D. Spence, well known rubber chemist and specialist, Major Evan W. …
The first settling tank. The wood silt becomes water logged and goes …
Four year old plant. Note yard stick
From this plant which Juan holds can be extracted a quantity of …
Harvesting device which picks up the two plowed rows of guayule rubber, …
Harvesting device which picks up the two plowed rows of guayule rubber, …
Laborers picking seedlings from the beds after digging same
Long tubular ball mills are used, using flint stones the size of …
[Machine working the field]
[Machinery]
Major Kelley, Senator Downey and Dr. D. Spence. Dr. Spence advocates the …
[Man and machinery]
Mature seven year old field. This field went 2,850 pounds of rubber …
Mill at Salinas, California which cost $265,000
New Seed sower. Plants seed in two inch strips with five inch …
Nursery seedlings, eight months old, ready for digging and transplanting to the …
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