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Jamaican laborers
Jamaican laborers working on a pea viner in Umatilla County
OSU co-eds are ready to go to the fields
Oregon State College co-eds are ready for the Benton and Linn County fields.
Portrait of a Japanese American woman
Japanese American field worker, Ontario, Oregon. In May 1942, Malheur County became one of the first areas to recruit Japanese- American evacuees for farm work. Some of the evacuees remained in Eastern Oregon after the order excluding them from the…
Smith cannery
A mixture of town men and women, as well as soldiers, supplied the labor for Smith cannery.
Japanese American workers planting onions
Japanese Americans
Onions
Farming
Agricultural laborers
Onions
Farming
Agricultural laborers
Weighing Hops
P.M. Osborne, section boss from Salem, watching two weighers helt the hops belonging to Myrna Hedrick, 14, Dequeen, Arkansas
Native American strawberry picker
Indian strawberry picker near Gresham, Oregon.
Bean Pickers
"Dickie Nash (left), 14, from Cromwell, Oklahoma, picking beans on the John Grenz place near Jefferson in Linn County.
John Grenz, Jr. is with him. Dickie batches and lives in a tent on the place. Picked 204 pounds in one day."
John Grenz, Jr. is with him. Dickie batches and lives in a tent on the place. Picked 204 pounds in one day."
Sailors from the Naval Hospital at Camp Adair
Sailors from the Naval Hospital at Camp Adair are hoe creeping red fescue grass.
Ernst Family at Horst Hop Ranch
Frank Ernst (second left) and his wife (fourth left), with their family working on the Horst Hop Ranch near Independence. He is a carpenter; she is a nurse; they are vacationing. Kids are Johnny (left), 11; Alice Marie (light shirt), 16; Mary Ann…