Workers (some Asian Americans) working jubilantly in an olive grove, Los Angeles, ca.1900 (CHS-5355)

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Workers (some Asian Americans) working jubilantly in an olive grove, Los Angeles, ca.1900 (CHS-5355)

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Workers (some Asian Americans) working jubilantly in an olive grove, Los Angeles, ca.1900
Photograph of workers (some Asian Americans) working jubilantly in an olive grove, Los Angeles, ca.1900. A man stands along the street supervising (?) the workers. The workers are lined up along the orchards. Many are seen standing on, working around or moving their stepladders. Buckets and handbags are scattered about near the area where the men are working. The men are holding sticks used to harvest the olives (or knock the olives off their branches?).
Call number: CHS-5355
Filename: CHS-5355
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5355
Microfiche number: 1-116-10
Archival file: chs_Volume68/CHS-5355.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.; 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): agricultural sites
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Agriculture -- Crops -- Olives
Legacy record ID: chs-m9438; USC-1-1-1-9575
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Olive industry and trade; Olive

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