Image: Workers weighing and sacking sugar at the Pacific Sugar Company, Visalia, Tulare County, California, ca.1900 (CHS-5392)

Description: Workers weighing and sacking sugar at the Pacific Sugar Company, Visalia, Tulare County, California, ca.1900 Photograph of workers weighing and sacking sugar at the Pacific Sugar Company, Visalia, Tulare County, California, ca.1900. One man is operating a lever to allow sugar to flow into a large sack. The sack is then placed onto a conveyor belt that runs it past a sewing machine(?) to seal the sack. The machine is located next to the man operating the lever contraption. Two other men (at right and left) stand and watch. The man at left is holding onto an object that looks like a club. The room is filled with sacks of sugar (foreground). In the back of the room is a large mound of sugar. Call number: CHS-5392 Filename: CHS-5392 Coverage date: circa 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Format: glass plate negatives Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Visalia Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 5392 Microfiche number: 1-103-17 Archival file: chs_Volume67/CHS-5392.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., 10 x 13 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: circa 1900 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Agriculture -- Crops -- Beet sugar Legacy record ID: chs-m9026; USC-1-1-1-9164 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Geographic subject (county): Tulare Subject (lcsh): Sugar beet industry Subject: Pacific Sugar Company
Title: Workers weighing and sacking sugar at the Pacific Sugar Company, Visalia, Tulare County, California, ca.1900 (CHS-5392)
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