Date palm with harvesting platform, Indio, 1931-1948
Item Overview
- Title
- Date palm with harvesting platform, Indio, 1931-1948
- Photographer
- Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
- Date Created
- [1931-1948]
- Date
- 1931/1948
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Notes
- Description
- Crown of palm tree laden with dates, photographed from below, with open square wooden harvesting platform attached by chains around trunk
- Caption
-
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2181 P1 - 2 Indio - Calif. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. DATE PALM HAREM. Indio, Calif., oasis of date palms, showing at right male trees alongside rows of female, bearing, trees. On the female trees are great bunches of ripe dates which are gathered and tended from platforms like one in second view enclosed. It is 16 ft. up to the fruit. Some of these grees [sic] bear 250 lbs. of dates. Oct. is ripening season. DEGLET NOOR variety. Few us[e?] about 10. [Struck out in pencil: 225R1694 Mrs. Jack Pfister of Chicago and Los Angeles and]
Handwritten at edge of negative: 2181 P1
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Dimensions
- 4 x 5 inches
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Location
- California--Indio
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Palms--California--Indio
Business
Environment
Dates--California--Indio
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1300_1328
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002bx4gh
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.