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Title
Men working on a celery field in Playa Del Rey, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued
1925
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 men working on a celery field in Playa Del Rey, 1925. Men in work gloves and hats pick celery plants from the soil at center and set them in small boxes. Some men stand with plants in their hands while others dig in the soil on their hands and knees. An automobile stands behind the field on the left while a truck to transport the boxes of plants stands on the right. Electrical poles stand along the background while hills sit in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
9 x 15 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m24789 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-39049
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24789
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-39049.jpg
Subject
Agriculture
Celery
Agricultural sites
Time Period
1925
Place
California
Playa Del Rey
USA
Source
39049 [Accession number]
CHS-39049 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
chs-m825

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