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| Title | Woman and young boy in cabbage field, Kent Valley, October 1943 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1943 |
| Caption | In 1943, workers harvested some 15, 500 tons of cabbage in Bellevue and Bothell and in the White River and Sammamish Valleys. This wartime record exceeded the 1942 crop by 50%. Sauerkraut factories canned most of the crop, and the rest was dried into flakes for military meals or sold fresh to homemakers. That year, fresh cabbage was not rationed. This meant that people could save their precious ration points to buy other, more limited, foods.
This photo was taken during the 1943 cabbage harvest on Ivan Unbedacht's cabbage farm near Kent, Washington. Little Sonny Hauck investigates a cabbage which is almost as big as he is, while an unidentified woman sits nearby. Many of the wartime farm workers were volunteers. |
| Notes | Written on sleeve: Cabbages, Kent Valley
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 25, 1943 |
| Subjects | Agricultural laborers
Boys—Washington (State)—Kent
Cabbage—Washington (State)—Kent
Farming
Food crops—Washington (State)—Kent
Women--Employment
World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)—Kent |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.1346.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| 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. |
