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Title: Orange groves and snow
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Although there is snow on the mountains, the orchards are flourishing with oranges. Photo of orange groves near Covina in the foreground, with a view of the perfectly centered, snow-capped, San Antonio Peak - aka Mt. Baldy. Mt. Baldy is the highest mountain in the San Gabriel range, rising to 3,074.4 m (10,080 ft). Photo dated: 1939.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069664
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (9631) 4x5; Santa Monica Mountains.
CARL0000073696
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3126
Subject: Mountain passes--California, Southern
Crops and climate--California--Covina
Agriculture--California--Covina
Orchards--California--Covina
Oranges--California--Covina
Snow--California, Southern
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
Mount Baldy (Calif.)
Covina (Calif.)

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