Smudge pots at work to keep orange trees from freezing in an orchard

undated

PC-GS_00115

Title supplied by cataloger.
Typed caption on back: "On cold nights the temperature may often be kept above the danger point by the use of hundreds of heaters, using principally crude oil, placed between the rows." No. 10 in series. Written in pen on back: "Oranges - California."
Stamped on back: "This photograph is our file copy do not mutilate it. Please return as soon as possible Philadelphia Commercial Museum. 1310 3." Written in pencil on back: "FN-32483"

Photographs
Gelatin silver prints

Smudge pots at work to keep orange trees from freezing in an orchard , General Subjects Photography Collection, PC-GS-Agriculture-Crops-Oranges-Cultivation , California Historical Society, PC-GS_00115

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Agriculture
Citrus fruit industry
Agricultural implements

California

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

PC-GS-Agriculture-Crops-Oranges-Cultivation