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Title
Harvesting potatoes
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 workers harvesting potatoes, [s.d.]. Three men in lightly-colored shirts, work pants and hats collect potatoes from the soil at center and place them in wooden buckets at their sides. One man packs the potatoes into sacks at right. A stack of wooden boxes sits at right while rows of plants sit behind them in the right background. More rows of crops sit in the left background. A horse-drawn carriage can be seen standing in front of more crops that lie at center background. Electrical poles line street in the left distance while large buildings stand in the right distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19957 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36817
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19957
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36817.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Potatoes
Potato
Agriculture
Agricultural sites
Place
California
USA
Source
36817 [Accession number]
CHS-36817 [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
chs-m265

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