Title:
Hewes Ranch orchard with women pickers, 1920
Subject:
Citrus fruit industry--El Modena (Calif.)
Group portraits
Hewes Packing House--El Modena (Calif.)
Farmerettes
Description:
Women lemon pickers posed in the orchard at the Hewes Ranch, ca. 1918-1920. The April 9, 1920 Orange Post newspaper article
"Farmerettes Pick Lemons" referred to "a crew of 17 Orange, El Modena and Santa Ana girls in the orchards of the Hewes Ranch"
as a result of a labor shortage (women had filled in during WWI but left the fields at its conclusion). David Hewes located
his 800 acre ranch near El Modena, and named it Anapama, "a place of rest." The ranch was one of California's noted orange
groves, and existed from 1876 until 1920.
Photographic print
b&w
12.7 x 17.7 cm.
Publisher:
Orange Public Library
Date:
1920
Type:
Image
Identifier:
OPL247
10511075
Language:
eng
Relation:
Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Historic Orange Online
Rights:
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