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Title: Corn cooking room, La Fortaleza, Inc
Alternative Title: Industrial Los Angeles Photo Collection;
Creator: Zimmerman, Tom
Contributor: Part of the Industrial Los Angeles project. Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 2009
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
La Fortaleza, Inc. is located at 525 N. Ford Avenue in Los Angeles.
View of the "corn cooking room" at La Fortaleza, Inc. Several large vats hold "nixtamal", the Spanish word for hominy, which is used to make tortillas. La Fortaleza, Inc. is a plant focusing on corn and flour tortillas, as well as tortilla chips, which are made on the premises daily.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00087405
Industrial Los Angeles Collection;
GPC_b17_f1_i7
CARL0004799718
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/666
Subject: Corn--Processing--Machinery--California--Los Angeles
Industrial buildings--California--Los Angeles
Tortilla industry--California--Los Angeles
Corn products--California--Los Angeles
Industries--California--Los Angeles
Factories--California--Los Angeles
Industrial Los Angeles Collection photographs

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