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Agriculture and shipping industry photographs

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Description: A series of 105 black-and-white photographs taken by Hi Worth Pictures of Altadena, California, in the late 1940s and early 1950s depicting work in various agricultural, transport, and shipping industries presumably in Southern California. The agricultural images include views of men and women working in fields and orchards, harvesting, irrigating, and spraying pesticides, and in packing houses at assembly lines picking over fruit, canning, crating, and working with machinery. The types of produce chiefly depicted include berry, grape, citrus, carrot, apricot, and date. Among the images there are views of the interior of a supermarket and the process of harvesting dates from palm trees. There are also scenes of shipping and transport of cargo on trucks, ships, and train boxcars, with scenes from the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles.
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Production date: approximately 1940s-approximately 1950s
Call number: photCL 418
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Image of a certificate from the Sonoma County Agricultural and Mechanical Society of California with three farming and labor vignettes depicting cattle in a field, smiths working at an anvil, and women and girls with fruit baskets harvesting in an orchard; arch of flowers, fruit, vegetables, and grain topped with an eagle on a globe makes a decorative border for the certificate text.

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Diploma awarded by the New-York State Agricultural Society

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Image of a farm with livestock, farmhouse, barn, and farm workers on a diploma issued by the New York State Agricultural Society; sheaves of wheat, livestock, and farm scenes including a man with plow and horses, a man harvesting grain, workers pulling a wagon full of hay, and a woman watering flowers form a border.

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The California State Agricultural Society award this diploma to

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Photographs to accompany Olmsted agricultural report

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An album with 101 photographs of the Mexican Petroleum Company facilities throughout San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Subjects depicted include farms and agricultural workers, livestock, crops, fields and rivers, oil wells, swamps and marshes, villages, village life and urban street scenes in Ebano and San Luis Potosí. Four of the pages have panorama images, created by taping 2, 3, or 5 photographs together (panoramas vary in width from 38 to 93 cm), which show men on horseback, a village with children, an oil field, and a train yard. The album includes four maps intended to accompany the report. The maps are labeled "Map of the Property of the Mexican Petroleum Company - San Luis Potosi, Mexico"; "Map Showing Headquarters at Ebano..."; "Map Showing Ebano and the Railroad Station at Ebano" and "Map of Mexico...". Each map includes the printed words "Partial Index to Photographs" and each map is dotted with locations labeled with numbers in red.

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