California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Sacking walnuts, La Puente Valley Walnut Growers' Association packing house at Puente, October 19, 1927

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Sacking walnuts, La Puente Valley Walnut Growers' Association packing house at Puente, October 19, 1927

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Photograph of workers sacking walnuts, La Puente Valley Walnut Growers' Association packing house at Puente, October 19, 1927. Six young men work on the ground floor with large bags of California Emerald Brand Walnuts at their feet. Four more men and four ladies in aprons work on large tables on a raised floor on the left. Apparently completed bags of walnuts are stacked in the back of the dark factory on the far right.

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Title Sacking walnuts, La Puente Valley Walnut Growers' Association packing house at Puente, October 19, 1927

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1927-10-19

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture -- Crops -- Walnuts (file heading), Orchards (lcsh), Walnuts (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), La Puente (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1927-10-19

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19981

Identifier 35999 (accession number), CHS-35999 (call number), CHS-35999 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19798 (legacy record id), chs-m19981 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19798

Unique identifier UC122277

Legacy Identifier CHS-35999.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
47.6 cm × 34.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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