Harvesting Mexico's century plant for tequila

Associated Press

1964 October 8

PC-GS_00026

Title supplied by cataloger.
Newsprint reads: "(Advance for Sunday ams, Oct. 11, with Robert Berrellez AP Spotlight Story) (NY30-Oct. 8) Tequila in the Making -- Looking like giant pineapples or perhaps pine cones, the cores of Mexico's century plant are harvested and cooked to provide the basic juices from which the country's famous liquor-tequila-is made. A move is underway to refine the Aztec-originated drink to put in nearer on a par socially with such sophisticated liquors as Scotch. (AP Wirephoto) (f51531str)1964."
Two prints included on one sheet.

Photographs
Gelatin silver prints

2 photographs : gelatin silver prints, black and white ; sheet 24.3 x 18.3 cm

Associated Press Wirephoto

Harvesting Mexico's century plant for tequila, General Subjects Photography Collection, PC-GS-Agriculture-Crops-Century Plant, California Historical Society, PC-GS_00026

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Agriculture
Agaves
Agricultural laborers
Tequila

California

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2j49q0s2/

PC-GS-Agriculture-Crops-Century Plant