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| Title | Cambodian farmers at Rainier Vista, Seattle, September 29, 2001 |
| Photographer | Youth in Focus Photography Program |
| Date | 2001 |
| Caption | Nim Sok and Zay Neuf are Cambodian refugees who came to Seattle in the 1980s. They grow vegetables and flowers in the community gardens at Rainier Vista and New Holly housing projects, and sell their produce through a subscription program arranged by the City of Seattle. |
| Notes | For more information about Cambodian farmers at New Holly, see South Seattle Star vol. 2 no. 11 (May 28, 2003). The Rainier Vista housing project was built as wartime housing in 1942, served as public housing after the war, and was torn down in 2002 to be rebuilt as a mixed-income housing development. |
| Subjects | Farmers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Cambodian Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Columbia City (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | FS.01 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number. |
| Repository | Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle |
| Repository Collection | Rainier Valley Food Stories Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: color; 5 x 8 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
