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Title
An agribusiness field
Creator
Lowe, Ernest, 1934-
Date Created and/or Issued
1961-03-21
Contributing Institution
UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection
Ernest Lowe Photography Collection
Rights Information
Copyrighted
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
Description
Scope/Content: A plowed corporate field stretching off to distant Westside hills with no sign of houses or other buildings. Some sample San Joaquin Valley landholdings of the time: <br>South Lake Farms 30,478.43 acres<br>Calfax 18,120 acre<br>J.E. O'Neill 4,480 acres<br>Pleasant Valley Farming Co. 8,436.85 acres<br>Anderson-Clayton 28,451.18 acres<br>J.G. Boswell 32,364.0<br>Crockett-Gambody 28,503.49 acres<br>Kern County Land Co. 348,026 acres<br>Tejon Ranch Co. 168,531 acres
Type
image
Form/Genre
Photographs
Identifier
6821910
Language
English
eng
Subject
Migrant agricultural laborers
Place
Fresno (county); California; United States
Relation
Farmworker Communities and Homes
Provenance
Acquired from Ernest Lowe with support from the UC Merced Office of the Chancellor, 2020.

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