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Title: Cutting room at Bisceglia Bros
Contributor: Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Dozens of women stand beside tables peeling and cutting pears. A man on the left pushes a dolly of cut pears. Another man on the right pushes a cart of wooden crates stamped "Bisceglia Bros., San Jose." A third man towards the center is dressed in a suit and hat. Bisceglia Bros. was a cannery located on South 1st Street in San Jose, California.
Women peeling and coring (?) pears. Man pushing cart of wooden crates stamped "Bisceglia Bros. San Jose (?)" Bisceglia Bros was a cannery located on South 1st Street in San Jose. Apparently the same Bisceglia Bros. had a vineyard in Evergreen or St. Helena, California and a dried fruit store.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:78_1292
filename: jcg_fruit_process_001.jpg
oclc: 694067122
islandora: 78_1292
Language: English
Subject: Canneries
Cannery workers
Pears
Canned fruit industry
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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