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Title
View of an airplane dusting crops, May 1932
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1932-05
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 a view of an airplane dusting crops, May 1932. A small plane flies low over a field of crops, spewing fertilizer from its rear end as it heads toward the viewer. Below, stalks of some indistinguishable crop stand tied to wooden sticks, in neat rows.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m15011 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35721
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m15011
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35721.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Grapes
Orchards
Fumigation
Spraying and dusting in agriculture
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1932-05
Place
California
USA
Source
35721 [Accession number]
CHS-35721 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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