169 results for: Agriculture and Farms
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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
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Employees working 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, two workers pick 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. Caption information written by:…
ID Number:2000.107.20021016.CD02.002
Date:2002
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United Farm Workers boycott poster, Seattle, 1975
This 1975 poster calls for the boycott of all lettuce and grapes sold without the UFW label, and calls out Gallo wine in particular for its contract with the Teamsters rather than the farm workers union. Printed on both sides, the poster also describes union-busting efforts by grape growers, the hazardous nature of farm work, and the success of the…
ID Number:2002.23.8.14.4
Date:1975
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Pacific Poultryman poster, circa 1914
Paul Wadsworth Harries (1877-1960) was born in Minnesota and moved to Seattle around 1909. He married Sara Powell Bittle (1887-1982) in 1910, and by the following year he was working as the advertising manager for Pacific Poultryman, a monthly magazine about farming and livestock that began in 1895 as Northwest Poultry Journal. Mr. Harries became the editor and publisher of…
ID Number:2011.61.3
Date:Circa 1914