Image of a square-shaped, hand-powered wine press with iron crank on Rancho La Ballona (present-day Culver City, California). "Wine Press at Ballona"--text, handwritten on negative. Title transcribed from negative; date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. Machado Ranch, originally granted to Don Ygnacio Machado was known as Rancho La Ballona and consisted of 14,000 acres. A print of this image appears in the Huntington Library's Verne Dyson Collection (mssHM 26404), p. 23 (Box 3) with the caption: "A Hand-power wine press on Rancho La Ballona. The iron crank may be seen on the left side of the press."
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