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Unidentified people are outside the O. G. Olson Company in Turlock, California, circa 1935

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Title: Unidentified people are outside the O. G. Olson Company in Turlock, California, circa 1935
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1935
Publication Information: California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: California State University, Stanislaus. Library
Collection: Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: A wagon full of watermelons is ready to unload at the O. G. Olson Company, one of the produce and shipping companies in Turlock, California. Because more melons were grown and shipped from Turlock than anywhere else it was known as the "Melon Capital of the World" between 1911 and approximately 1925.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 11 x 18 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9j49r19x
cturs_027
Language: English
Subject: Agriculture--California--Central Valley (Valley)--History
Fruit trade--California--Turlock
Watermelon industry--California--Turlock
O. G. Olson Co. (Turlock, Calif.)
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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