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Title
Man collecting avocados with a fruit picking device, November 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
1933-11
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 man collecting avocados with a fruit picking device, November 1933. A man stands in the foreground, holding a thin sack attached to a long pole that serves to reach the avocados on the higher branches of the tree. The tree is visible to his right and additional trees are viewable aligned side by side behind the first one.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19832 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35467
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19832
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35467.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Avocados
Trees
Avocado
Agricultural sites
Time Period
1933-11
Place
California
USA
Source
35467 [Accession number]
CHS-35467 [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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