Tebessa, Algeria
Description:
Photograph of El-Ma-el-Abiode on a broad valley plain about 20 miles south of Tebessa in a region where an olive tree cannot now be found, are the ruins of a very large olive press, showing splendid construction. It was designed to receive and compress large quantities of olives expeditiously. The ruins show that 6 large presses with base stones 3 feet in diameter were used here. It strikes one with amazement to contemplate what this elaborate press for compressing oil from olives implies in ol…
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Date:
January 27, 1939
Creator:
W. C. L.
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Partner:
Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society