Caltrans workers erecting sign reading "Entering Mexican Fruit Fly Quarantine Area" along Long Beach Freeway, South Gate (Calif.), 1983

Item Overview

Title: Caltrans workers erecting sign reading "Entering Mexican Fruit Fly Quarantine Area" along Long Beach Freeway, South Gate (Calif.), 1983
Photographer: Barnard, Tony
Date Created: November 12, 1983
Date: 1983-11-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes

Caption: Fencing in fruit flies--State transportation workers erect a quarantine sign on the Long Beach Freeway just south of Imperial Highway to warn against removing citrus, avocados, peaches and other fruit that can host Mexican fruit flies. The signs are part of a campaign against the ruinous pest. Spraying is to resume Monday in the southeast metropolitan area.

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Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 35 mm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Names: California. Dept. of Transportation
Location: South Gate (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Highway departments--Employees--California--Los Angeles County
Legal
Fruit-flies--Control--California
Street signs--California
International
Interstate 710
Mexican fruit-fly--Control--California
Animals

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Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b1473_299393
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002rz75
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