Turkeys in Arcadia (processing plant getting turkeys ready for Thanksgiving), 1952

Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Richardson. Date: 1952-11-18. Reporter: Swaim. Assignment: turkeys Arcadia. K22: Jack Miller, left, foreman, and Harold A. Sparling, Sou.Cal's largest turkey farm owner, checking in truckload of hens at Arcadia processing plant. K39/40: Women working a cleaning tables. K6: Concepcion Quinteros placing cleaned turkey in 'boiling ice water,' (agitated water which quickly cools off all parts of bird). K5: Vera Segovia pulling handtruck racked with finished birds. K21: Mary Dominguez placing celaphane [sic] bagged 26 lb tom in box for shipment to freezer".

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