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Standard Felt Company, Alhambra, California, photographs
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A group of 76 photographs, 1910s to 1930s, of the Standard Felt Company, 29-115 Palm Avenue, Alhambra, California. Images depict buildings, workers, and the felt manufacturing process, including workers picking through bales of wool and using heavy machinery. Some images are of women workers, and products made by the company. A two-page typed history of the company by an unknown author accompanies the collection. Also includes two boxes of glass plate negatives.
photCL 241
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Glass plate negatives
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A group of 76 photographs, approximately 1910s-1930s, of the Standard Felt Company, 29-115 Palm Avenue, Alhambra, California. Images depict buildings, workers, and the felt manufacturing process, including workers picking through bales of wool and using heavy machinery. Some images of women workers, and products made by the company. A two-page typed history of the company by an unknown author accompanies the collection. Also includes two boxes of glass plate negatives.
photCL 241
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Panoramic photograph of farm workers in Orange County, California
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A panoramic photograph documenting about 100 agricultural workers, including men, women, and children, of an unidentified farm in Orange County, California, taken between approximately 1900 and 1920. The photograph features mostly white workers, but there are several Latino men, possibly Mexican migrant workers, and about fifteen women and girls. Some workers are holding tools or equipment, wearing slings for picking fruit, or handling horses. Behind the two rows of people are stacks of wooden crates labeled "F Co.," along with a wagon of hay and a two-story wooden building. The photograph is not captioned, but has a small photographer's label crediting commercial photographer F. D. Leonard of Santa Ana, California.
photPAN 155
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Ortiz adobe near Elizabeth Lake, Los Angeles County, and other photographs
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Snapshot photograph of the Miguel Ortiz adobe on Burns Ranch, one mile east of Elizabeth Lake, and two snapshots of the road crossings near Andrade adobe, Los Angeles County (1920s). Other photographs in this folder: five photographs of W. M. Bristol's lodge in Wrightwood (1930s); historical building and bandstand, Ontario, California; and image of Hindu workers picking oranges, Upland Citrus Association (1900s).
photPF 2160-2169
Workers posed in front of the Huntington residence during construction, circa 1910
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Photograph of the approximately 115 workers (and 1 dog) employed during the construction of the Huntington residence.
photCL 285
Picking oranges, Riverside, California, U.S.A
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View of workers in an orange grove in Riverside, California, picking oranges from trees amid ladders and boxes of fruit crates lettered "Riverside Navel Orange Co."
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