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| Title | Seattle youth eager to pick raspberries, Seattle, August 12, 1943 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1943 |
| Caption | 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 twenty children.
In this 1943 photo, swarms of youngsters anxious to help harvest berry crops rush a farmer's truck while Eugene Dils, Seattle Public Schools employment representative, explains there are no adult supervisors to go with them, but the children were sent out anyway. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: PUYALLUP, Wash., Berry pickers.
Caption information source: P-I research files.
Date photograph was published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: August 13, 1943. |
| Subjects | Labor supply--Washington (State)--Seattle; Agricultural laborers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Teenagers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Vehicles--Washington (State)--Seattle; Commercial streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fruit industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Farm relief--Washington (State)--Seattle; Public service--Washington (State)--Seattle; Public spiritedness--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Dils, Eugene |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.6546.3 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
