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Title: Orchard Workers with Tussock Moth Cocoons
Creator: Hare, Alice 1859-1942
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900-1905
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: A group of 14 Japanese orchard workers crouch in a semicircle around a pile of Tussock moth cocoons which have been removed from fruit trees. The cocoons would later be burned. Behind the workers are a well dressed man and woman. The man has a small notebook and may be tallying the number of cocoons picked per worker. Several of the workers have their dogs with them.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 12 x 17cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2j49q665
CSJ_129
ARB-B176
Language: English
Subject: Cocoons
Moths
Lymantriidae
Orchards--California--Santa Clara County
Agricultural Pests
Agricultural Laborers--California--Santa Clara County
Japanese Americans--California--Santa Clara County
Place: Santa Clara County (Calif.)

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