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Simons Brick Company photographs

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Description
Copy prints of scenes at the Simons brickyard in Montebello, California, including views of Mexican laborers at work in the brickyard and showing the tasks associated with producing bricks. There are also photographs depicting various activities of the company town, including group portraits of the Simons baseball team, the Simons band, and the students of the Vail School in Montebello, ca. 1940s, as well as a photograph of Walter Malone, supervisor of the brickyard, and two men playing a mandolin and guitar identified as Sostenes Jaramillo and Pedro Baltazar, 1911.
Type
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Production date
approximately 1910-approximately 1940s.
Call number
photPF 20001-20015
Dimensions
sheets 8 x 10 in.
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