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Title: Woman Sitting in Pumpkin Patch
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: Photograph of a woman sitting on a large pumpkin in the middle of a pumpkin patch. Written on the bottom of the photograph are these words: "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." This is a quotation by Henry David Thoreau.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 12 x 17cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7m3nd4b7
CSJ_133
ARB-B186
Language: English
Subject: Agriculture--California--Santa Clara County
Pumpkin
Pumpkin Growers--California--Santa Clara County
Place: Santa Clara County (Calif.)

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