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| Title | Western Producers Exchange, exterior, with Toshi Ishahara and Mae Iseri Yamada standing near a refrigerator car, Auburn, June, 1940 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1940 |
| Caption | Toshi Ishahara and Mae Iseri Yamada in front of Western Producers Exchange warehouse, a packing house located south of Highway 18 on C Street SW, next to the Northern Pacific tracks.
The warehouse had just been rebuilt after a fire.
The company was founded in 1936 by Harry Satoru Kuramoto and Tom Iseri.
Lettuce crates are stacked on the platform behind the refrigerator car in foreground. |
| Notes | Date supplied by White River Valley Museum staff.
Source of caption information: White River Valley Museum staff. |
| Subjects | Japanese Americans--Women--Washington (State)--Auburn
Japanese Americans--Social life--Washington (State)--Auburn
Railroad refrigerator cars--Washington (State)--Auburn
Crates--Washington (State)--Auburn
Warehouses--Washington (State)--Auburn
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| Classification | Auburn, WA/Business & Industry/Misc. Business |
| Personal Names | Yamada, Mae Iseri
Ishahara, Toshi |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Auburn |
| Digital Collection | White River Valley Museum Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1060 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions contact: hpittenger@auburnwa.gov. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Repository | White River Valley Museum (Auburn) |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 5 1/2 x 10 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | A photographic print was scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color or 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 or 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
