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Caltrans workers erecting sign reading "Entering Mexican Fruit Fly Quarantine Area" along Long Beach Freeway, South Gate (Calif.), 1983

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Title: Caltrans workers erecting sign reading "Entering Mexican Fruit Fly Quarantine Area" along Long Beach Freeway, South Gate (Calif.), 1983
Contributor: Barnard, Tony
Date Created and/or Issued: November 12, 1983
1983-11-12
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Fencing in fruit flies--State transportation workers erect a quarantine sign on the Long Beach Freeway just south of Imperial Highway to warn against removing citrus, avocados, peaches and other fruit that can host Mexican fruit flies. The signs are part of a campaign against the ruinous pest. Spraying is to resume Monday in the southeast metropolitan area.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b1473_299393
ark:/21198/zz0002rz75
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Highway departments--Employees--California--Los Angeles County
Legal
Fruit-flies--Control--California
Street signs--California
International
Interstate 710
Mexican fruit-fly--Control--California
Animals
California. Dept. of Transportation
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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