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Title
Workers picking lemons at the Lemoneira Ranch in Santa Paula, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of workers picking lemons at the Lemoneira Ranch in Santa Paula, ca.1925. The workers wear picking sacks over their shoulders as they pick lemons from the tops of thin ladders. Two opposing rows of pickers work through the opposing lanes of lemon trees. The scene continues into the distance. Photoprint reads "Picking lemons on part of 900 acres devoted to lemons on the largest lemon ranch in the world, the Limoneira Ranch, Santa Paula".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9341
USC-2-1-1-9478 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35655
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9341
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35655.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Citrus--Cultivation
Citrus fruit industry
Lemon
Limoneira Ranch
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
California
Los Angeles
Santa Paula
USA
Source
35655 [Accession number]
CHS-35655 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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