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Title
Plowing and seeding 5,000 acres of wheat
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1898/1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a long row of horse-drawn wagons and men on horseback plowing and seeding 5,000 acres of wheat on the southeasterly portion of the Lankershim Ranch in the San Fernando Valley. Here the outfit is stopping for noon lunch in the fields. One hundred horses were used in this field for plowing. Five tall trees are visible in the distance. A mountain range rises in the distance.
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : glass photonegative, transparency, photonegative, photoprint, b&w
13 x 21 cm., 20 x 25 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
glass plate negatives
negatives (photographic)
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9483
USC-1-1-1-9620 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2502
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9483
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2502.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Ranching--General
Agriculture
Agricultural machinery
Wheat
Grasses
Lankershim Ranch
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1898/1900
Place
California
Lankershim
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-49-; 1-117-27 [Microfiche number]
2502 [Accession number]
CHS-2502 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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