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Title
Lemon packing house
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator
Sunkist Photo
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
View of employees working in a lemon packing house, which is part of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Because of their shape lemons require more handling in the packing house than do oranges. These lemons are being sized and packed for shipment Each packer wears gloves and selects by eye lemons of uniform size as they pass along the conveyor. The smallest size lemons packed are 540 to the box. The largest are 240.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00047178
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Agriculture-Fruit-Citrus Fruit-Processing Plants.; A-004-468 4x5
CARL0000051299
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/102686
Subject
California Fruit Growers Exchange
Agriculture--California
Agricultural processing plants
Citrus fruit industry--California
Lemon--Packaging--California

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