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Title: Grown in one hill, Elm Lawn Farm, Turlock, Cal
Creator: Heald, C. A
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1907
Publication Information: California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: California State University, Stanislaus. Library
Collection: Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Over twenty sweet potatoes are arranged in a small mound. A yardstick leans across the length of the mound to give a perspective of their size. Two small sweet potatoes in front are labeled "The Parents". Sweet potatoes were an early specialty cash crop cultivated after irrigation water was available via the Turlock Irrigation District beginning in 1900.
Type: image
Format: 1 postcard; 8 x 12 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0870215r
cturs_014
Language: English
Subject: Agriculture--California--Central Valley (Valley)--History
Sweet potato industry--California--Turlock
Turlock Irrigation District (Calif.)
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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