- Title
- Bishop, California. Threshing
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- Description
- Threshing operation on farm at Bishop, California. Threshing machines are most likely steam powered. Title supplied by cataloger.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
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- Subject
- Agricultural machinery & implements--California--Bishop; Threshing machines--California--Bishop; Farm life--California--Bishop
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- Note
- This photograph depicts the farming that was at the heart of the economy of Bishop, California, in its early history. Located in the northern end of the one hundred mile long Owens Valley, the town is named after Samuel A. Bishop, one of the first Anglo-American settlers there (1861). Originally known as Bishop Creek for the creek on which the original settlement grew, the Bishop Creek area provided beef and mutton for such mining towns as Aurora, Nevada, and Bodie, California. By 1864, Bishop Creek had a stage line; by 1883 the Carson and Colorado Railroad serviced the area. In 1889, Bishop Creek became Bishop, which incorporated in 1903. The purchase of farm and ranch land for the Los Angeles Aqueduct by the City of Los Angeles in the 1920s disrupted the local agrarian economy. Although agriculture persisted, Bishop's economy depended on tourism by the 1930s, still the economic mainstay of the town. In 2000, Bishop had a population of 3,575 people. Unknown
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- Collection
- J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Subseries A: Photographic Postcards, Box 5, Sleeve 18
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- Type
- ["Photographs","Postcards"]
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- Language
- eng
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