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Title
Thousands of eggs lined-up under heat lamps in a San Fernando Valley hatchery, ca.1950
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
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 thousands of eggs lined-up under heat lamps in a San Fernando Valley hatchery, ca.1950. What appear to be chicken eggs are arranged in corrugated bins on long rows of countertops to which wood boards have been affixed. In the corner in the righthand foreground, some documents, along with what appears to be egg-testing equipement, have been laid out.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5757
USC-1-1-1-5879 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6681
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5757
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6681.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Ranching--Livestock--Chickens
Agriculture
Ranches
Poultry
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
USA
Source
1-49- [Microfiche number]
6681 [Accession number]
CHS-6681 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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