Raw silk from Japan being loaded into railroad cars for shipment to New York City, September 17, 1930

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Title	Raw silk from Japan being loaded into railroad cars for shipment to New York City, September 17, 1930
Description	Photograph of raw silk from Japan being loaded into railroad cars for shipment to New York City, September 17, 1930. A long boxcar stretches across the image from left to right. A wooden ramp leads up to a set open double doors in the middle of the car, and a worker can be seen pushing a dolly loaded with bags of silk into the car. Another man can be seen standing inside the railroad car. The freighter Tokai Maru brought the cargo to Los Angeles Harbor from Japan.
Subject (adlf)	harbors
Subject (lcsh)	Silk industry Docks Railroad cars
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1930-09-17
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1930-09-17
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Accession number	35847
Call number	CHS-35847
Legacy record ID	chs-m11864
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-35847
Full text	PjHpvft
Archival file	chs_Volume76/CHS-35847.tiff

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