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Tag: Working the Land

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Working the Land: A Letter from the Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange to DeWitt Clinton Sawyier, 23 March 1898

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  • Posted on March 23, 2020December 29, 2020
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Working the Land: “California Wine-Making” in a Harper’s Weekly Supplement, 9 March 1889

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  • Posted on March 9, 2020December 29, 2020
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Working the Land: “California Orange Primer,” 11 February 1907

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  • Posted on February 11, 2020December 29, 2020
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Working the Land: A Monthly Statement from Mathew Keller, Los Angeles Winemaker, 17 December 1878

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  • Posted on December 17, 2019January 6, 2021
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Working the Land/Drilling for Black Gold Two-Fer: Oranges and Oil in Whittier, 4 March 1909

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  • Posted on March 4, 2018January 11, 2021
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Working the Land: Sugar Beet Farming at Hynes (Paramount), 1910

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  • Posted on January 27, 2018January 11, 2021
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Working the Land: The Workman Vineyards and Wine-Making, 1840s through 1870s

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  • Posted on September 27, 2017December 28, 2020
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Working the Land: Latina Women and Children Picking and Shelling Walnuts by Hand, El Monte, ca. 1920s

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  • Posted on August 18, 2017December 28, 2020
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Working the Land: Irrigation at a San Fernando Lemon Grove, ca. 1910s

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  • Posted on June 29, 2017December 28, 2020
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Working the Land on “Los Robles,” the Stoneman Ranch, ca. 1880

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  • Posted on May 31, 2017December 28, 2020
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