Woman worker sealing honey jars with beeswax, ca.1930

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Photograph of a woman worker sealing honey jars with beeswax, ca.1930. An elderly lady sits to the left of center wearing a lightly colored dress, a bonnet, a pearl necklace and round glasses with dark shows. The woman places her hands over a pot to the right of center while holding a round jar in her hands. Identical jars can be seen stacked behind her to the left and spread out over a table cloth on the left. A second woman sits in the right background facing the left side while she uses her right hand to place a jar into a metal device.

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Title Woman worker sealing honey jars with beeswax, ca.1930

Subject Food (lcsh), Honey (lcsh), industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Food (file heading), Southwest Honey Producers (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 ; 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

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11997

Identifier 40759 (accession number), CHS-40759 (call number), CHS-40759 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11405 (legacy record id), chs-m11997 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-12149 (legacy record id), 84-1-1253 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11405

Unique identifier UC128852

Legacy Identifier CHS-40759.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.3 in × 21.0 in at 300dpi
41.5 cm × 53.4 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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