169 results for: Agriculture and Farms
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Migrant workers, Skagit Valley, 1943
The entrance of the United States into World War II created a shortage of farm laborers, as American men left to serve in the war. In the Yakima Valley and western Washington, the labor shortage was exacerbated by the incarceration of Japanese-Americans, many of whom worked on farms. The Braceros program, a series of laws and diplomatic agreements between the…
ID Number:1986.5.2907.2
Date:1943
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Mexican farm workers operating pea sheller, Skagit Valley, August 1943
The entrance of the United States into World War II created a shortage of farm laborers, as American men left to serve in the war. In the Yakima Valley and western Washington, the labor shortage was exacerbated by the incarceration of Japanese-Americans, many of whom worked on farms. The Braceros program, a series of laws and diplomatic agreements between the…
ID Number:1986.5.2907.6
Date:1943
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Mexican farm workers receiving paychecks, Skagit Valley, 1943
The entrance of the United States into World War II created a shortage of farm laborers, as American men left to serve in the war. In the Yakima Valley and western Washington, the labor shortage was exacerbated by the incarceration of Japanese-Americans, many of whom worked on farms. The Braceros program, a series of laws and diplomatic agreements between the…
ID Number:1986.5.2907.10
Date:1943
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Migrant workers camp, Skagit Valley, 1943
The entrance of the United States into World War II created a shortage of farm laborers, as American men left to serve in the war. In the Yakima Valley and western Washington, the labor shortage was exacerbated by the incarceration of Japanese-Americans, many of whom worked on farms. The Braceros program, a series of laws and diplomatic agreements between the…
ID Number:1986.5.2907.12
Date:1943
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Teenage farm workers in Puyallup Valley, May 1942
World War II caused a shortage of farm labor in Washington state. Some workers had left to serve in the military. Japanese Americans, many of whom farmed on Bainbridge Island or in eastern King County, had been forcibly removed to inland incarceration camps.This May 1942 photo shows a row of high school students working as farm hands in a field…
ID Number:1986.5.2909.1
Date:1942
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Teenage farm workers returning from the fields, June 1942
World War II caused a shortage of farm labor in Washington state. Some workers had left to serve in the military. Japanese Americans, many of whom farmed in King County, had been forcibly removed to inland incarceration camps. Governor Arthur B. Langlie declared the first week of June 1942 as "Farm Labor Week," and called for volunteers to help harvest…
ID Number:1986.5.2909.2
Date:1942
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Young men board buses for the Victory Youth Farm Aid Corps, 1942
With farmers' pressing demand for workers during World War II, the United States Employment Service and the Council of Social Agencies supplied youthful workers for the Victory Youth Farm Aid Corps. Written on sleeve: FARMS, Youth workers Written on image: Farms & Farming; Youth Farm Labor [crossed out] Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and…
ID Number:1986.5.2909.5
Date:1942
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Seattle youth in raspberry field, Puyallup, August 1943
With farmers in need of pickers, many Seattle area residents, including nearly 400 youths, volunteered to help out with the effort. The United States Employment Service and the Council of Social Agencies supplied twelve-to-sixteen-year-old pickers for the Victory Youth Farm Aid Corps. The program called for two adult volunteer supervisors for each twenty children, a quota which was not fulfilled,…
ID Number:1986.5.6546.2
Date:1943
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Seattle youth eager to pick raspberries, Seattle, August 12, 1943
With farmers' pressing demand for pickers, the United States Employment Service and the Council of Social Agencies supplied youthful pickers for the Victory Youth Farm Aid Corps. Some 400 twelve to sixteen-year-old pickers turned up at 7th Avenue and Madison Street to board a truck headed for Puyallup berry farms. The program called for two adult volunteer supervisors for each…
ID Number:1986.5.6546.3
Date:1943
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Capeloto brothers unloading fruit at market, Seattle, November 4, 1948
Louis, Joseph, and Salvo Capeloto were three of the nine children of Moisin "Morris" and Behora "Dora" Capeloto. The Jewish family immigrated together from Rhodes to Washington State in 1912, around the time that Italy seized Rhodes from Turkey during the Italo-Turkish War, a significant precursor of the First World War.In this image the three Capeloto brothers pose in the…
ID Number:1986.5.9812.1
Date:1948