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Title: Crop of Prickly Pear Cactus
Creator: Unknown
Contributing Institution: History San Jose Research Library
Collection: History San Jose Online Catalog
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Description: This photograph was taken near what is now Tamien Train Station, San Jose. According to the 1952 Santa Clara County Department of Agriculture Annual Report, there were 40 acres of prickly pears producing 12,000 flats at a unit value of $1.50, and a total value of $18,000.
Type: Image
Format: Black & White, Gelatin Silver Print
Identifier: 73965D11-EE2A-40AC-82B0-641114622326
1974-17994
Subject: Cactus
Panoramic photographs
Nineteen hundreds (Decade)
Agriculture (LCSH)

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