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Title
Irrigating cantaloupes near Brawley, showing a worker at left, ca.1910
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
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 cantaloupes being irrigated near Brawley in the Imperial Valley, showing a worker at left, ca.1910. A man at left walks through the moist rows of plants with a tool in his hands. Thin streams of murky water flow between the plants. A straw-topped horse pen stands in the left background while another straw-topped structure stands in the right background. A grassy field lies in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7271
USC-0-1-1-7400 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45159
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7271
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45159.jpg
Subject
Imperial County--Brawley
Muskmelon
Fruit
Irrigation
Agriculture
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Brawley
California
Imperial
USA
Source
45159 [Accession number]
CHS-45159 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 1680; unidentified no: 31048; unidentified no: 21042 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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