Subject: Meat cutting--California--Los Angeles / Subject: Butchers--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Three butchers prepare animal carcasses in the Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen. One of the butchers stands at the butcher block table at left and prepares a shank. Behind him, another butcher begins to carve into one of the several animal carcasses hanging from hooks on an elevated track. The line of carcasses stretches across the image towards the right. The third butcher stands at right and holds his knives as he assesses the carcasses.
Date:: [circa April, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three butchers stand behind butcher block preparation tables in the Los Angeles County General Hospital's kitchen. The tables sit in the foreground, entering frame from the sides and angling back towards center. The butchers stand behind the tables and prepare shanks of raw meat that sit atop the tables. The butcher at center sharpens his knives. Light streams in from a window in the background at left. Subway tiles line the back corner of the room at center and shanks of meat sit in partial view atop stacked trays along the right edge.
Date:: [circa April, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection