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Boxes of fresh table grapes are stacked in a field near Turlock, California

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Title: Boxes of fresh table grapes are stacked in a field near Turlock, California
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1925
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: Boxes filled with bunches of fresh grapes (table grapes) are stacked in the foreground of the photograph. Empty boxes line the rows of vines for workers to cut the grapes and fill the boxes. These grape vines grew on the ground rather than being trellised or supported off the ground. Fresh grape production went up in the Turlock area after the National Prohibition Act of 1920 because the price increased dramatically. The price was ten dollars per ton in 1916 and in 1921 it was eighty dollars per ton of table grapes.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 12 x 11 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9r29r2tg
cturs_040
Language: English
Subject: Agriculture--California--Central Valley (Valley)--History
Grape industry--California--Turlock
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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