Wilson & Company cooler showing butchers quartering beef, ca.1930

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Photograph of Wilson & Company cooler showing butchers quartering beef, ca.1930. A man wearing a long lightly colored jacket stands with a knife in his right hand and a slab of meat in his left hand while he faces the left at the edge of a table. To the left, a second man stands with both hands on a piece of meat on the table in front of him. Both of these men have stains on their clothing and sharpening tools hanging from their waist. A third man stands wearing a clean lightly colored jacket while he holds his left hand straight out and points to the right. To the right, long rows of whole beef hang from tracks on the ceiling that starts in the right foreground and extends to the background. Parts of beef hand behind the men on the left.

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Title Wilson & Company cooler showing butchers quartering beef, ca.1930

Subject industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Food (file heading), Meat (lcsh), Meat cutting (lcsh), Meat industry and trade (lcsh), Wilson and Company (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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

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-m12002

Identifier 40763 (accession number), CHS-40763 (call number), CHS-40763 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11500 (legacy record id), chs-m12002 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-12154 (legacy record id), 84-1-1800 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11500

Unique identifier UC128804

Legacy Identifier CHS-40763.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.1 in × 14.2 in at 300dpi
53.7 cm × 36.2 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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