Image / Historical marker commemorating citrus in Riverside

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Title: Historical marker commemorating citrus in Riverside
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1938
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical marker mounted on a rock in Riverside reads, "To honor Mrs. Eliza Tibbets, and to commend her good work in planting at Riverside in 1873, the first Washington navel orange trees in California, native to Bahia, Brazil, proved the most valuable fruit introduction yet made by the United States Department of Agriculture 1920."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 20 cm. on board 25 x 20 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077837
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (6098); Agriculture-Fruit-Oranges
CARL0000080320
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111651
Subject: Historical markers--California--Riverside
Oranges--California--Riverside
Citrus fruit industry--California--Riverside
Riverside (Calif.)

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