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Title
Caterpillar thirty and bean cutter, cutting 12 rows of beans each time, Rio Vista, California
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 Caterpillar thirty and bean cutter, in Rio Vista, [s.d.]. Three men pilot the "caterpillar," a tractor-like device which cuts 12 rows of beans each time. Two men sit by the main engine, while another sits on a wing-like area above the cutting devices. The ground beneath the machine is muddy and cut into rows.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 in.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19807 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35722
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19807
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35722.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--General
Caterpillar tractors
Agricultural sites
Place
California
USA
Source
35722 [Accession number]
CHS-35722 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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