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Title
Wilson & Company cooler showing butchers quartering beef, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 Wilson & Company cooler showing butchers quartering beef, ca.1930. A man wearing a long lightly colored jacket stands with a knife in his right hand and a slab of meat in his left hand while he faces the left at the edge of a table. To the left, a second man stands with both hands on a piece of meat on the table in front of him. Both of these men have stains on their clothing and sharpening tools hanging from their waist. A third man stands wearing a clean lightly colored jacket while he holds his left hand straight out and points to the right. To the right, long rows of whole beef hang from tracks on the ceiling that starts in the right foreground and extends to the background. Parts of beef hand behind the men on the left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12002
USC-2-1-1-12154 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40763
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12002
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40763.jpg
Subject
Industry--Food
Meat
Meat industry and trade
Meat cutting
Wilson and Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40763 [Accession number]
84-1-1800 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40763 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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