Gathering and drying raisins, California

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  McPherson brand. California raisins

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  Image of a label for McPherson Brand raisins; an elevated view of the town of McPherson, California, created by the McPherson Brothers packing company in the 1880s (now Orange, California) surrounded by fields full of grape vines with mountains in background; decorative border of grapes and vines.

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  Athens-Rosecrans Oil Field, Los Angeles, California. May, 1925

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  Panoramic view of oil wells and derricks in the Athens and Rosecrans oil field in Los Angeles (present-day Gardena, California). Text on the photograph reads "Athens-Rosecrans Oil Field, Los Angeles, California. May, 1925 – One Year Old, making 25,000 bbls. daily from 50 wells. Has deepest producing well in world, the General Petroleum Corp., Amestoy No. 1, pumping from 6,737 feet.” All of the oil wells are numbered and identified by name (136 total), with names including Union, J. Paul Getty, E. J. Miley, George F. Getty, Mohawk, Walter H. Fisher, etc. Streets are also marked: 131st Street, 132nd Street, 133rd Street, 135th Street and Hoover Street.

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  Drying racks

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  Photo of three farm workers pushing drying racks into building.

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  Los Angeles, No. 7

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  Elevated view of downtown Los Angeles, California, focused on the Spring Street face of the three-story Italianate Temple Block building at the intersection of Main Street and Spring Street; in the background a two-story building, the Lanfranco building, with the sign "El Dorado Store" is visible (listed at 76 Main Street in an 1873 advertisement in the Los Angeles Herald). New High Street is visible in the foreground with houses including a yard with laundry drying on a clothesline in a yard behind a fence in the foreground has handwritten signs "Fishing tackle of Liddle & Kaeding 538 Wash. St., SF" and "Dr. J.C. Young Cures All Chronic Diseases 618 Sac St. S.F."

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  Hotel at Santa Monica, California

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  A view of the Santa Monica Hotel with dirt roads and horse and horse-drawn buggy in front in Santa Monica, California.

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  Panoramic view of business district of San Fernando, California

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  View of business district of city of San Fernando, California, showing streets, businesses, pedestrians, hills in background. Some businesses seen in view are: Montgomery Ward, Western Auto Supply Co.; Western Union; Whelan Drugs; Scotts. A Southern Pacific railroad station is at center, in distance. A street sign in foreground identifies San Fernando Road as the main street in view, running horizontally.

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