California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Interior view of a walnut packing plant, showing women workers, 1930

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Interior view of a walnut packing plant, showing women workers, 1930

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Photograph of the interior of a walnut packing plant, showing women workers, 1930. Several women work around a table at center, putting walnuts into tin cans which are then put into a large wooden container, at left. At right, one can see containers full of walnuts. In the background, at the far left, several women sit or stand around a table, working with boxes of their own. Overhead, factory equipment can be seen.

Asset Metadata

Title Interior view of a walnut packing plant, showing women workers, 1930

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930-10-20

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)

Date Created 1930-10-20

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

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-m19989

Identifier 35715 (accession number), CHS-35715 (call number), CHS-35715 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19803 (legacy record id), chs-m19989 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19803

Unique identifier UC122280

Legacy Identifier CHS-35715.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.9 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
48.0 cm × 33.7 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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