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Title: Hewes Ranch orchard with women pickers, 1920
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920
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: Women lemon pickers posed in the orchard at the Hewes Ranch, ca. 1918-1920. The April 9, 1920 Orange Post newspaper article "Farmerettes Pick Lemons" referred to "a crew of 17 Orange, El Modena and Santa Ana girls in the orchards of the Hewes Ranch" as a result of a labor shortage (women had filled in during WWI but left the fields at its conclusion). David Hewes located his 800 acre ranch near El Modena, and named it Anapama, "a place of rest." The ranch was one of California's noted orange groves, and existed from 1876 until 1920.
Photographic print
B&w
12.7 x 17.7 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt787014pp
OPL247
10511075
Language: English
Subject: Citrus fruit industry--El Modena (Calif.)
Group portraits
Hewes Packing House--El Modena (Calif.)
Farmerettes

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