Avocado trees being irrigated at H.C. Smith's plantation, La Habra Heights, October 25, 1933

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Photograph of avocado trees being irrigated at H.C. Smith's plantation, La Habra Heights, October 25, 1933. A small avocado tree can be seen standing on the left foreground, while a pipe, which extends from the center foreground straight into the background, is irrigating it. Additional trees can be seen aligned side by side in rows along long pipes, squirting water in the direction of each tree. All objects are sitting on a grassy and vegetated lawn.

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Title Avocado trees being irrigated at H.C. Smith's plantation, La Habra Heights, October 25, 1933

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture -- Crops -- Avocados (file heading), Avocado (lcsh), Smith, H. C. (subject), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), La Habra Heights (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Gertrude Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1933-10-25

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), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1933-10-25

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-m19843

Identifier 35471 (accession number), CHS-35471 (call number), CHS-35471 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19666 (legacy record id), chs-m19843 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19666

Unique identifier UC121829

Legacy Identifier CHS-35471.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 33.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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