Image / Picker scales eighty-six foot tall avocado tree, Duarte, 1938

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Title: Picker scales eighty-six foot tall avocado tree, Duarte, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December, 1938
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Similar photograph taken on same occasion appears with the article, "Tree at Duarte Yields 8000 Avocados in Year," 01 Jan. 1939: A6.
Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] 15231 -- Largest Avocado in World Chappelow Tree in Duarte 12/38 [stamped:] DEC [...] 1938
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11960
ark:/21198/zz002h8tk8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trees--California--Duarte
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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