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Title: Men working in a warehouse cotton gin
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Bareu, R
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Image taken and supplied by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California.
Photograph shows a close up of two men pulling out a finished bale of cotton that has just been wraped in burlap. Six metal bands are placed around the bale to keep it together. Note on the back of picture states that this is the Bal--- Cotton-Imperial Co. warehouse is in Imperial County, properly protected. The are stacked neatly on the warehouse floor. Photo dated: May 20, 1938.
Type: Image
Format: 1 Photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00062542
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 9681 4x5
CARL0000067280
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2474
Subject: Agriculture--California--Imperial County
Cotton--California--Imperial County
Imperial County (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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