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Title: Family Harvesting Prunes
Creator: Moulin, Gabriel 1872-1945
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Publication Information: San Jose Public Library. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. California Room
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Collection on Santa Clara County's Agricultural Past
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Photograph of one adult and three children picking prunes off the ground and putting them into metal buckets. Prunes were harvested by shaking the tree and gathering the fallen fruit. Children often earned extra money by participating in the prune harvest.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 20 x 24 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0s2021gp
CSJ_186
ARB-C343
Language: English
Subject: Orchards--California--Santa Clara County
Fruit--California--Santa Clara County
Agriculture--California--Santa Clara County
Prune Industry--California--Santa Clara County
Prunes--Harvesting
Agricultural Laborers--California--Santa Clara County
Place: Santa Clara County (Calif.)

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