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Title: Avocado show, Whittier 1933, view 5
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
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: An exhibit at the Avocado Show held in Whittier, May 1933. This exhibit is for Murphy Ranch, "Murphy Oil Co." Photo shows a tiered table displaying several labeled varieties of avocados, surrounded by lemons, and two lemon crates displayed at the bottom. The avocado varieties are as follows: Top row: "Spinks", 2nd row: "Queen", 3rd row: "Verde", "Fuerte", "Linda", and "Lyon", Bottom row: "(illegible)", "Sharpless", "Taft", and "Cantell". There is a First Prize trophy on the 3rd row that reads, "California Avocado Show, Whittier 1933".
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00062812
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-002-261.5 5x7
CARL0000066993
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108075
Subject: Agriculture--California--Whittier
Avocado--California--Whittier
Agricultural exhibitions--California--Whittier
Agriculture--Competitions--California--Whittier
Agriculture--Awards--California--Whittier
Avocado--Varieties--California--Whittier
Whittier (Calif.)

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