172 results for: Agriculture and Farms
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Alice Signey receiving award from Wes Uhlman at Pike Place Market, Seattle, August 17, 1973
The Pike Place Market's 66th-anniversary celebration was held in Seattle August 17-18, 1973. Bluegrass, jazz, and jug bands provided live music, and featured activities included children's arts and crafts booths, Soap Box Derby Races, and 66-cent sales at many shops and stalls within the market.In this image Alice Mary (Cooper) Signey (1923-1999) is presented with the grand prize for best…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.05
Date:1973
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Tomás Villanueva at United Farm Workers office, Granger, May 3, 1989
Tomás Villanueva (1941-2014) was a labor activist who spent decades advocating for the rights and welfare of farmworkers, especially Latino migrant workers. Villanueva was born in Monterrey in northern Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. The Villanueva family settled in Toppenish, Washington in 1958 after traveling across the US following farm work for…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.02
Date:1989
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Tomás Villanueva speaking at press conference, Seattle, October 29, 1987
Tomás Villanueva (1941-2014) was a labor activist who spent decades advocating for the rights and welfare of farmworkers, especially Latino migrant workers. Villanueva was born in Monterrey in northern Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. The Villanueva family settled in Toppenish, Washington in 1958 after traveling across the US following farm work for…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.03
Date:1987
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Cesar Chavez speaking at Garfield High School, December 19, 1969
Cesar Estrada Chávez (1927-1993) was a Mexican-American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and civil rights activist. He co-founded, with Dolores Huerta, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Chavez advocated for the use of direct but nonviolent actions, such as pickets and…
ID Number:2000.107.243.07.01
Date:1969
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Cesar Chavez speaking at press conference, Seattle, December 3, 1985
Cesar Estrada Chávez (1927-1993) was a Mexican-American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and civil rights activist. He co-founded, with Dolores Huerta, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Chavez advocated for the use of direct but nonviolent actions, such as pickets and…
ID Number:2000.107.243.07.02
Date:1985
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National Family Farm Coalition protest before WTO conference, Seattle, November 29, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.107.19991129.15.15
Date:1999
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Steve Sakuma weighing strawberries during harvest at Sakuma Brothers Farms, Burlington, WA, June 27, 2002
Building on a long tradition of Indigenous berry picking in the Puget Sound region, European Americans brought their preferred varieties of berries to the area as they settled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the first decades of the twentieth century, Japanese Americans were setting up family farms, based on practices in fertilization, irrigation, and crop rotation…
ID Number:2000.107.20020627.CD02.01.001
Date:2002
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Jerry Mapes, Burlington, Washington, June 27, 2002
Building on a long tradition of Indigenous berry picking in the Puget Sound region, European Americans brought their preferred varieties of berries to the area as they settled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the first decades of the twentieth century, Japanese Americans were setting up family farms, based on practices in fertilization, irrigation, and crop rotation…
ID Number:2000.107.20020627.CD02.01.002
Date:2002
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Steve Sakuma with portrait of his grandparents and their children, Burlington, Washington, June 27, 2002
Building on a long tradition of Indigenous berry picking in the Puget Sound region, European Americans brought their preferred varieties of berries to the area as they settled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the first decades of the twentieth century, Japanese Americans were setting up family farms, based on practices in fertilization, irrigation, and crop rotation…
ID Number:2000.107.20020627.CD02.01.003
Date:2002
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Francisco Hernandez hauling apples at Brandt Orchards, Orondo, Washington, October 16, 2002
Apple growers in Washington State contribute significantly to the state's economy, especially in the eastern regions of the state, such as the Wenatchee apple district.In this image, Francisco Hernandez transports a bin of Cameo apples at Brandt Orchards in Orondo, Douglas County. In 2002 growers harvested a particularly good crop, bringing apple prices up by about $2 box that year.…
ID Number:2000.107.20021016.CD02.001
Date:2002