Assembly line workers filling bottles of drinking water at the Arrowhead-Puritas plant, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

Item Overview

Title

Assembly line workers filling bottles of drinking water at the Arrowhead-Puritas plant, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

Photographer

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Date Created

[between 1929-1939]

Date

1929/1939

Collection

Connell (Will) Papers

Notes

Description

In 1917, the Arrowhead Spring Company moved its bottling plant to Los Angeles. In 1929 it merged with the company that marketed Puritas water.
View of three women in an assembly line standing behind a row of ornate 5-gallon bottles of drinking water at the Arrowhead-Puritas plant. The glass bottles are embossed with the diamond-shaped logo arrowhead pattern. The women are dressed in light-colored uniforms and hats.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Arrowhead-Puritas #10

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Factories--California--Los Angeles
Mineral waters
Bottled water industry--California--Los Angeles