File:Workers bottling olive oil, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, ca.1900 (CHS-5358).jpg

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English: Workers bottling olive oil, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, ca.1900
  • Photograph of workers bottling olive oil, Sylmar area, northeastern San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, ca.1900.
  • The room's roof is comprised of a framework of horizontal wooden beams supported by rows of wooden posts. To the left are rows of metallic barrels lines up on pallets or some type of wooden structure. The barrels are covered with cloths. At right are cylindrical vats(?) situated on top of tall wooden tables.
  • In the center is a worktable where three men are seen processing the olive oil (or running test on the olive oil?). Several different types of contraption are on or near the table. The men appear to be transferring olive oil from larger containers to the smaller glass bottle containers. Several crates of bottled olive oil sit on the left side of the table.
  • Labels on the bottles of olive oil reads: "Sylmar Brand olive oil, California pure, the olive from which this oil is made were grown and the product manufactured at their grove at Fernando, Cal., and the contents guaranteed absolutely pure by Los Angeles Olive Growers Association.
  • A hat hangs on the post at left. A crated used to hold the corks appear to have been nailed to the post (right).



Call number: CHS-5358
Filename: CHS-5358
Coverage date: 1895/1905
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): San Fernando Valley
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5358
Microfiche number: 1-116-13
Archival file: chs_Volume68/CHS-5358.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, 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: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1895/1905
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Agriculture -- Crops -- Olives
Legacy record ID: chs-m9430; USC-1-1-1-9567
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
Date 1895/1905 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/9685
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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