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Title
Interior of a beet sugar factory showing filter presses
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 the interior of a sugar beet processing plant, Ventura County, showing beet sugar filter presses where the saccharin syrup is freed of all foreign matter. Five workers stand near 8 large horizontal screw presses. Pipes run overhead and feed into large vats at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
8 x 10 in.
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9071
USC-1-1-1-9209
USC-1-1-1-10320 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2490
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9071
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2490.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Beet sugar
Ventura County--General
Sugar beet industry
Agriculture
Food
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Ventura
Source
1-103-6; 1-218- [Microfiche number]
2490 [Accession number]
CHS-2490 [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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