Image / Quinter Bashore holds a therapeutic lamp to help his orchard, Covina, 1939

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Title: Quinter Bashore holds a therapeutic lamp to help his orchard, Covina, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: December 29, 1939
1939-12-29
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Infrared Rays Tried Out on Covina Man's Lemon Ranch," Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec 1938: A5.
Quinter Bashore has discovered a way to keep his orchards from being affected by cold weather due to his installation of 128 lights, 260 watts each, the kind used by physicians in electrotherapy.
Bashore stands on top of a barrel reaching above his head to adjust one of the lamps attached to a row of wires above his orchard.
Text from newspaper caption: SUN LAMPS AND FROST FIGHT. Quinter Bashore, Covina inventor, shown with one of his therapeutic lamps used to protect orchard from frost.
Text from negative sleeve: 15456 - Quinter Bashore Therapeutic lamps to heat orchard in Covina 12/38 [stamped:] Jan 27 1939
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14812
ark:/21198/zz002j8g9q
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lamps
Inventors
Orchards--California--Covina
Bashore, Quinter Earl, 1889-1966
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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