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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of workers bringing sugar beets to mill by steam-tractor and horse-drawn cart, ca.1900. A man in a hat and vest in the foreground tends the reigns of one of the four horses pulling one of the two cartload full of sugar beets, while a steam-powered tractors billows smoke in the background, trailing its own cargo of beets. The second cart of beets can be seen farther back to the right. Nine workers pose on and around the equipment. Writing on the tractor reads: "Amedee" and "The Best Manufacturing San [...]eandro". Picture file card identifies the operation as the "Pacific Sugar Co.".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographs
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