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| Title | Youth farm workers' camp near Auburn, June 28, 1943 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1943 |
| Caption | World War II caused a shortage of farm labor. Some workers left to serve in the military. Japanese Americans, many of whom farmed in King County, Washington, were relocated to inland internment camps. In late June 1943, a call went out asking Seattle and area residents to pick peas, berries and other crops or work in canning plants. Several hundred teenagers gathered at a camp near Auburn, where they harvested peas and weeded corn.
This June 28, 1943 photo shows rows of tents at the Farm Aid Camp near Auburn. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, all of the tents had floors and were furnished with "excellent" beds. The camp, run by the Farm Security Administration, a federal government agency, housed 240 people and would soon be expanded to 400. |
| Notes | Written on sleeve: Farms, Auburn
Written on image: White River Valley camp at Auburn
Caption information source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 13, 1943. (PI research files)
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): July 6, 1943. |
| Subjects | Agricultural laborers--Washington (State)--Auburn
Farm Aid--Washington (State)--Auburn
Work camps--Washington (State)--Auburn |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Auburn
White River Valley (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.2904.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
