Image / Orange packers, San Fernando Heights Citrus Packing House, Los Angeles County. 1938

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Title: Orange packers, San Fernando Heights Citrus Packing House, Los Angeles County. 1938
Creator: Dick Whittington Studio
Contributor: California Fruit Growers (client)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Young women pack crates of oranges in the San Fernando Heights Citrus Pack House. Wearing aprons and gloves, the young women stand in front of orange crates picking out oranges from a conveyor belt on their right. Each of the oranges is wrapped in paper and placed in the crate which has "Sunkist California Orange" labels on the ends, and the same stamped on the sides.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 negative. 4 x 5 in (10 x 13 cm)
Identifier: photCL Whitt 1615
179490
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/3880
Subject: Citrus fruit industry--California--Los Angeles County--Employees--Photographs
Fruit trade--California
Women employees
Negatives. (aat)
Prints (visual works) (aat)
Place: Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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