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Title: Men standing at a 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: Men standing next to retorts. Also called pressure canners or pressure cookers, retorts were used to cook and then cool canned fruit for purposes of sterilization. Chutes transport the cans from one vessel to the next in the cooking and cooling process.
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_1324
filename: jcg_fruit_process_025.jpg
oclc: 694067154
islandora: 78_1324
Language: English
Subject: Canneries
Cannery workers
Food processing machinery
Canned fruit industry
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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