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Title: Battery of retorts
Contributor: Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Sealed cans are conveyed to a battery of retorts for the cooking and cooling process. Also known as pressure cookers or pressure canners, retorts were used to sterilize the product. Stamped on the side of one vessel: "Built by Gardner Mfg. Co."
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:78_1329
filename: jcg_fruit_process_039.jpg
oclc: 694066651
islandora: 78_1329
Language: English
Subject: Canneries
Cans
Food processing machinery
Canned fruit industry
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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