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Lindsay, California. The pressure of the olive press must be carefully watched, for different degrees of pressure are prescribed for the two pressings. The first yields the virgin oil, about twenty-five percent of the total oil content of the olives; the second yields refined oil

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1942

person

Contributors

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

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Location

california

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html