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Title: Calavo avocado packing plant, view 2
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
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: Female employees pack avocados in wooden crates at the packing plant of Calavo Growers of California. The fruit is carefully bedded in excelsior to prevent bruising in transit. The crates describe the avocados as "The Aristocrat of Salad Fruits". The Calavo plant is located in the Central Manufacturing District at 4803 Everett Street. Photo dated: January 25, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00062788
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-001-618.2 5x7
CARL0000066977
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108058
Subject: Calavo Growers of California
Central Manufacturing District (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Avocado--California--Los Angeles
Fruit processing plants--California--Los Angeles
Fruit--Packaging--California--Los Angeles

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