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[Thompson's Seedless Grapes]
Carleton Watkins1880
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
In this image celebrating Kern County's agricultural bounty, Carleton Watkins clearly defined each fresh grape, tooth-edged leaf, and woody twig. Real estate developers successfully used photographs of lush fields, ripe produce, and plentiful harvests as a means of advertising to boost Southern California's economy. The grape bunches hanging from the tendrils of this vine represent the earliest cultivation of seedless grapes.
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Details
- Title: [Thompson's Seedless Grapes]
- Creator: Carleton Watkins
- Date Created: 1880
- Location Created: Kern, California, United States
- Physical Dimensions: 37.6 × 55.7 cm (14 13/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 98.XM.21.1
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Carleton Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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