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Title: El Sol del Mayo tortilla plant
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photo of Mexican women making tortillas by hand at El Sol del Mayo tortilla plant. The photo shows that the corn for the tortillas was ground by hand with stone mortars. The plant owned by Maria Quevedo in the 1920s or 1930s and was located at 110 North Spring Street, in Los Angeles.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00031481
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Food-Tortillas.; G-000-369.1 4x5
CARL0000034856
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/96350
Subject: Quevedo, Maria
El Sol del Mayo (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Food industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Tortillas

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