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Title
Workers loading bales of cotton into a warehouse at Los Angeles Harbor
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 loading bales of cotton into a warehouse at Los Angeles Harbor, [s.d.]. A line of small metal carts stretches from the foreground at left to the background at right. The closest car is empty, but the others are filled with large bales of cotton. At left, a man is wheeling a bale into an open warehouse using a dolly. At right, three other men are preparing to load another bale onto another dolly. In the background, stacks of cotton bales can be seen inside the warehouse.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17933 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35853
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17933
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35853.jpg
Subject
Warehouses
Cotton--Handling
Docks
Stevedores
Harbors
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35853 [Accession number]
CHS-35853 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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