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Title
Loading platform for railroad cars in the Central Manufacturing District, showing cars with "Pacific Fruit Express", July 1, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued
1932-07-01
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 the loading platform for railroad cars in the Central Manufacturing District, showing cars with "Pacific Fruit Express", July 1, 1932. Tracks stripe the foreground while railroad cars reading "Pacific Fruit Express" stand against the wall of the factory on the left. The factory stands several stories high with many small windows and faint letters near its roof which read "Continental Produce Co.". The district continues into the background on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9251
USC-0-1-1-9387 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40060
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9251
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40060.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Citrus--Processing
Central Manufacturing District
Pacific Fruit Express
Citrus fruits
Citrus fruit industry
Agriculture
Railroads--Cars
Agricultural sites
Time Period
1932-07-01
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40060 [Accession number]
CHS-40060 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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