Gathering and drying raisins, California – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Gathering and drying raisins, California in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gathering and drying raisins, California
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Raisin harvesting in California was a fast-growing agricultural business around 1900, when grape growers in the Central Valley dried their crops in the open sun before packing them. In this view, the work is the focus: workers gather fruit and spread it to cure on the ground, the routine that turned fresh grapes into a shelf-stable crop. The Universal Photo Art Company issued many inexpensive views of American farm life at the time, and this one is worth studying for its record of hand labor in the orchards and drying fields.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Copyright by The Universal Photo Art Co. (no. 5429) This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farms...--Fruits...; Photog. I; Ca.--Misc.; Raisins; Farm...--Harvest; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,378 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135058 |
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