Image / [Irrigating at strawberry farm, Santa Clara?, California]

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Title: [Irrigating at strawberry farm, Santa Clara?, California]
Creator: Hill, Thomas (1829-1908), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1888]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Several workers, including two Chinese laborers, tend field in foreground; irrigation spouts gush water into field and lake in middleground. Park-like setting with lake, boat, and pavilion; Mediterranean-style building surrounded by trees in background; low mountain ranges in far distance.
Title and date based on labels (on verso). Signature (LR): T. Hill. Note from inventory sheet: made for Picturesque California, p. 292. Known to be Northern California; is area near Santa Clara?
Type: image
Format: Painting on board: oil? 30.7 x 47.2 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7k401195
BANC PIC 1963.002:1364--FR
Subject: Agriculture
California, Northern
Chinese
Laborers

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