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Title
Man loading crates of pre-cooled oranges into a railroad car, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 a man loading crates of pre-cooled oranges into a railroad car, ca.1930. Five wooden crates filled with oranges can be seen on a conveyor belt from right to left into a railroad car. A man wearing a hat and apron can be seen at the end of the conveyor belt in the railroad car unloading the crates. The crate at right reads, "Sunkist Oranges". The conveyor belt is propped up by a few unstable stacks of empty crates.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9212
USC-2-1-1-9348 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40073
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9212
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40073.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Citrus--Processing
Citrus fruits
Citrus fruit industry
Agriculture
Orange
Railroads--Cars
Railroad features
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
USA
Source
40073 [Accession number]
CHS-40073 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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