Santa Paula Citrus Fruit Association lemon packing house, ca.1905-1919

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Photograph of the interior of the Santa Paula Citrus Fruit Association lemon packing house, ca.1905-1919. The top left image shows two groups of women in a room of hundreds of stacks of pallets holding fruit. The center image shows ten women in aprons in two lines around a table grading pallets of fruit. The bottom image shows the packing room with men filling the pallets. Caption reads: "Work at the Santa Paula Citrus Fruit Association, composed of 90 growers, a member of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, shipping 'Sunkist' lemons. An addition larger than the present building is well under way, will make this organization the largest lemon packing house in the world, shipping 15 carloads of lemons a day. Roy Sheldon is the manager."

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Title Santa Paula Citrus Fruit Association lemon packing house, ca.1905-1919

Subject agricultural sites (adlf), Agriculture -- Crops -- Citrus -- Processing (file heading), Citrus fruits (lcsh), Lemon (lcsh), Santa Paula Citrus Fruit Association (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Paula (city or populated place), USA (countries), Ventura (counties)

Temporal Subject 1905/1919

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 1905/1919

Creator Martindale, L.E. (photographer)

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-m9262

Identifier 40076 (accession number), CHS-40076 (call number), CHS-40076 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9525 (legacy record id), chs-m9262 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-9398 (legacy record id), 84-1-1402 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9525

Unique identifier UC139244

Legacy Identifier CHS-40076.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.3 in × 22.7 in at 300dpi
36.5 cm × 57.8 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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