Dairy Industry / Sponge Fishing Industry / San Antonio, Texas / Dairy Industry Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Machinery capping milk bottles - workers in dairy plant - cows in a field. [1920] b. Man loads bag with sponges - inside warehouse bags of sponges are dumped into high cart pulled by a donkey - river launch pulling a dinghy - native workers on dock - pile of sponges on shore, with overturned dinghy behind them - native picking sponges from shallow water - natives in shallow water with boat filled with sponges - warehouse with sponges loaded on cart - men empty bags filled with sponges - native women trimming sponges - child plays with large sponge - sailboat and natives in dinghies - natives sponge fishing from dinghies - native women on shore - sailboats and dinghies - natives sponge fishing from dinghies - smoke stack of an industrial plant. “Ford Educational Library.” [1920] c. Two men hold pole with attached catch of fish - cowboy rolls a cigarette - cowboys on horseback ride along a wooded trail - cowboys around a campfire - Spanish style building, sign in background, ‘Ford’s Clifton Garage Motors’ - pedestrians - tourists around pool in a courtyard - mission ruins - irrigation dam as seen from the base. [1920] d. Two men hold pole with attached catch of fish - cowboy rolls a cigarette - cowboys on horseback ride along a wooded trail - cowboys around a campfire - Spanish style building, sign in background, ‘Ford’s Clifton Garage Motors’ - pedestrians - tourists around pool in a courtyard - mission ruins - irrigation dam as seen from the base. [1920]
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