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Japanese American workers planting onions
Japanese Americans
Onions
Farming
Agricultural laborers
Onions
Farming
Agricultural laborers
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…
African American group in bean field
A group of African-Americans working in a bean field near Scappoose, Oregon, led by Rev. M. C. Cheek of Guilds Lake Community Church, 1947. After the war ended, many African-Americans previously employed in Portland's shipyards sought farm work.…
Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Worley at the Mitoma Hop Yard
Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Worley from Longview, Washington picking hops at the Mitoma Hop Yard near Independence. He is a Texan; she is a Minnesotan. He was a Marine Private during the war and saw service at Bremerton, Washington. Now, he is a second…
Green bean processing
The three men dumping tipped beans in the machine here are Harold Moell, National Bisquit Company, C.J. Simmons, Pacific Motor Trucking Official and D.W. Clemets, lumber grader.
Bean tipping machines
The two men on the bean tippers are H.H. Hughes, SP locomotive engineer, and and Walter Sorenson, sawyer in the Springfield Plywood mill.
Entrance to the Klamath Marine Farm Project
Entrance to the Klamath Marine Farm Project in Klamath County.
Camp Adair soldiers at Jannehill yard
Camp Adair soldiers at Jannehill yard in Jefferson.
Camp Adair soldiers at Jannehill yard
Camp Adair soldiers at Jannehill yard in Jefferson.
Camp Adair soldiers at Jannehill yard
Camp Adair soldiers at Jannehill yard in Jefferson.