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Orange packers, San Fernando Heights Citrus Packing House, Los Angeles County. 1938

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Young women pack crates of oranges in the San Fernando Heights Citrus Pack House. Wearing aprons and gloves, the young women stand in front of orange crates picking out oranges from a conveyor belt on their right. Each of the oranges is wrapped in paper and placed in the crate which has "Sunkist California Orange" labels on the ends, and the same stamped on the sides.
Type
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Date
1938
Call number
photCL Whitt 1615 ; Whitt neg. 1028
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