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Title: Citrus packing plant
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: Crates of Shamrock Brand Sunkist Oranges are stacked in a row at the end of a processing belt. Rows of women in aprons and caps stand by conveyor belts, wrap the fruit and place them in crates. Some worker placed a bouquet of flowers at one end of a conveyor belt. Fruit is stored in bins in the background and brought down to the processing floor on chutes. Photograph dated April 26, 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00062909
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 13 (9627) 4x5; N-001-216.3 5x7 (Additional print); S-001-505.42 4x5 (Additional print); Agriculture-Fruit-Citrus Fruit-Processing Plants.
CARL0000067101
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2469
Subject: Sunkist Growers, Inc
Agricultural processing plants--California--Los Angeles
Citrus fruit industry--California--Los Angeles
Oranges--Packaging--California--Los Angeles
Uniforms--California--Los Angeles
Crates

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