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Title
Harvesting oranges
Alternative Title
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Picking oranges with a clipper designed to prevent cutting or injuring the skin. Oranges are clipped rather than pulled from the trees. Pickers wear white gloves of cotton to prevent fingernail scratches, as a cut or scratch on the skin of the orange will cause decay.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00062983
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (6058); Agriculture-Fruit-Oranges.
CARL0000067260
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108261
Subject
Agriculture--California
Oranges--California
Fruit--California
Harvesting--California
Orchards--California
Agricultural laborers--California

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