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Title
Fumigating equipment, workers and children in a citrus orchard, ca.1892-1910
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1892/1910
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 fumigating equipment, workers and children in a citrus orchard, ca.1892-1910. Two horse-drawn wagons outfitted with large frames for placing fumigation tents over trees works its way through and orchard. There is a man on horseback looking on at right. Behind the wagon in the center is another horse-drawn wagon without the framework. Small children and a baby in a stroller stand in the foreground near one tree. Several other men look on or assist in the fumigation process.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9187
USC-1-1-1-9324 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1376
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9187
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1376.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Citrus--Cultivation
Citrus
Orchards
Citrus fruits
Fumigation
Spraying and dusting in agriculture
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1892/1910
Place
California
USA
Source
1-105-21 [Microfiche number]
1376 [Accession number]
CHS-1376 [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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