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Title
Worker leveling the ground for seeding, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 worker leveling the ground for seeding, ca.1900. Two darkly-colored horses are chained to a flat, wood device carrying a man with a mustache and hat. Horizontal lines can be seen in the dirt in the foreground where the man has flattened the soil, while lines cannot be seen in the ground behind him. The town can be seen in the background. "Dry floating -- leveling the ground for seeding".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9481
USC-1-1-1-9618 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8336
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9481
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8336.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Ranching--General
Agriculture
Agricultural machinery
Cultivators
Seeds
Crops
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1-117-42 [Microfiche number]
8336 [Accession number]
CHS-8336 [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
USC
chs-m265

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