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Description
Image of an agricultural valley with aerial view of fruit groves, vegetable farms, packing houses, and railroad tracks located between mountain ranges; Salton Sea in distance. Label hinged to brown paper overprinted with red lattice design; indicates that label was pasted to outside of inventory envelope in Schmidt company files and used to identify contents. [DHM] "Oct 13 1944"--text, upper left and lower left, stamped in purple ink. "#2208"--text, upper left and lower left, ms in black ink. Grapefruit"--text, lower left to right. "From the famous / Coachella Valley / Gardens / Packed by / Coachella Valley / Packing Co. / Indio, Calif. / U.S.A."--text, on blue banner in lower right corner. "Schmidt Litho. Co., Los Angeles"--text, lower right margin.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 27.31 x 27.94 cm (10 3/4 x 11 in.)
Citrus crate labels--California--Indio Grapefruit industry--California California--Aerial views Coachella Valley--Aerial views Coachella Valley (Calif.) Coachella Valley Packing Company Fruit crate labels--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc) Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Food Small Size California Citrus Box Labels The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
