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Press photographs of Latino laborers and field workers in California
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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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[Photograph of fruit packing workers]
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1 photograph depicting male workers standing around boxes of fruit in an outdoor area of a packing plant, with a box label for The Duffy Co. visible at left and doors labeled for "Fear & Haerse" and "W. Thompson" visible on the building in the background.
photPF 982
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Clark Kinsey photograph of Japanese lumber camp workers and their families in Washington
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A group portrait of lumber camp workers of Japanese heritage, and their families, in front of a camp building with railroad tracks at the doorstep. The gelatin silver photograph, 11 x 14 inches, depicts 31 men, three women, several young children and babies, and a dog. A few men are holding babies and one man is posed holding a watering can above a flowering planter box. Handwriting at the bottom of the print reads: "This is All Japanese Boys at Camp" and the photographer's credit is in the negative: # 65 Kinsey Photo. These loggers worked for the Manley-Moore Lumber Company, which operated approximately 1910 to 1934 on a tract of old growth timber in Pierce County, Washington. (Source: Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection, University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.)
photPF 26026
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Photographs of California Petroleum and Asphalt Company plant, Carpinteria
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Thirty cyanotype photographs. Includes views of buildings and workers sacking ore, pouring asphalt and building a still.
photPF 410-439
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Photographic views of California
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Consists of 33 copy prints with some duplicates. The back of each photograph has a title and a number to a corresponding lantern slide. photPF 190-193 are photographs of prospecting in California, depicting Yreka, Chinese prospectors, and a prospecting party, and appear to be copies of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge. photPF 194-196 photos are views of Ellwood Cooper's Ranch in Santa Barbara County. photPF 197-199 depict scenes of workers and lodgings in Yosemite Valley as well as the studio of artist Albert Bierstadt. photPF 200 depicts the construction of the Bear River Crossing C.P.R.R. photPF 201 depicts trout fishing in Sonoma County. photPF 202-209 focuses on early Los Angeles County, with snapshots of ranches, orchards, vineyards, Los Angeles High School, and the homes of Maria Sepulveda, F. D. Bacon, and F. P. F. Temple. photPF 210-217 depict various locations in early San Francisco, including Telegraph Hill, Alcatraz Island, Goat Island, Woodward's Gardens, and the Mercantile Library. photPF 218-219 feature the Keystone quartz mill and the first quartz mill in Amador City.
photPF 190-219
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Photographs of geologists out in the field in Southern California and elsewhere
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Snapshots of geologists, including Ulysses S. Grant IV, Joe Eaton, Frank B. Tolman, Hubert G. Schenck, and Harry B. Allen on various field trips throughout California, including Coalinga, the Volcan Mountains in San Diego County, the Salton Sea, the Caliente Mountains, Mugo beach, and several unidentified locations. The photographs chiefly include informal portraits of the geologists, as well as shots of them camping, swimming, and doing field work. There are also three photographs of a house at the corner of Sherwood Drive and West Knoll Drive in West Hollywood, California, 1940.
photPF 20194-20209