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Title: Packing whole pears
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: Whole, fresh pears are packed into boxes. Printed on some boxes: "California Fruit Exchange. Santa Clara. Palo Alto: Santa Clara pears."
The California Fruit Exchange was a cooperative that used the brand name Blue Anchor for its produce.
Wooden crates are assembled (or broken down?). Trays of pears. Stamped on some crates: "California Fruit Exchange. Santa Clara. Palo Alto: Santa Clara pears."
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_1306
filename: jcg_fruit_process_016.jpg
oclc: 694067121
islandora: 78_1306
Language: English
Subject: Fruit industry
Pears
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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