Image / Thistle Towel Factory interior, Orange, California, 1929

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Title: Thistle Towel Factory interior, Orange, California, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Publication Information: Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection: Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information: For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description: Thistle Towel Factory, M. Eltiste proprietor, located on the southwest corner of Cypress Street and Almond Avenue, Orange, California, 1929. Image shows interior view of the towel factory with women sewing, folding and weighing towels at long tables. The building previously housed the West Coast Textile Company, which went bankrupt and was purchased by Michael Eltiste. By 1931 it became known as the Eltiste Textile Mills and in its last years in the mid-1930s, it was known as the California Textile Mills.
Photographic print
B&w
17 x 25.1 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6t1nb9xj
OPL3433
10511775
Language: English
Subject: Textile mill workers
Textile machinery
Textile industry
Towels
Thistle Towel Company--Orange (Calif.)

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