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Bean Pickers Wanted
Display at Miller's Department Store in Salem, Oregon recruiting farm labor during WWII. The window display was done by Mrs. Gladys Turnbull of the Marion County farm labor office.
Elsie Hill driving tractor
Mrs. Elsie Hill, Route 3, Junction City, Oregon, spent the summer driving a tractor at the Benton County Flax Grower's Cooperative plant near Monroe, Oregon.
Women wigwaming flax
A crew of neighborhood women are wigwaming fibre flax at the Benton County flax Growers Cooperative near Monroe, Oregon.
Filbert pickers
The filbert pickers are coeds from Benton County, Oregon.
Florence L. Hall picking hops
Miss Florence L. Hall, chief of the Women's Land Army, puts on her gloves and learns to pick hops.
OSU co-eds are ready to go to the fields
Oregon State College co-eds are ready for the Benton and Linn County fields.
Co-eds waiting at the MU
OSC Co-eds awaiting trucks which will take them to Benton and Linn County fields to how and weed hops and beets.
Miller's department store window display in Salem
Display was set up to promote the Women's Land Army that would help with the bean harvest.
Harvest War Crops poster
The poster was sponsored by The Women's Land Army of the U.S. Crop Corps. The United States Government used the poster to recruit pickers to harvest the crops during the World War II years.