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Title
Man pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field, Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930-02-03
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 pulling onions from the seed bed and preparing them for planting in the onion field, Petit Ranch, San Fernando Valley, near Van Nuys, February 3, 1930. A man in a hat can be seen kneeling by the onion bed holding a group of onions in his left hand. Behind him, several other people can be seen engaging in various tasks around the onion bed. The mountains can be seen in the distance beyond rows of trees.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17615 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35684
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17615
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35684.jpg
Subject
Agriculture--Crops--Onions
Agriculture
Onion industry
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1930-02-03
Place
California
San Fernando Valley
USA
Source
35684 [Accession number]
CHS-35684 [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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