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| Title | Postcard of Snoqualmie hops pickers |
| Photographer | Darius Kinsey |
| Caption | Postcard titled "Siwash and two Klootchmen Hop Picking in Snoqualmie Hop Fields." |
| Notes | For nearly thirty years, beginning in the early 1880s, entrepreneurial farmers in King County raised hops to sell to regional breweries. Chinese and Native American laborers picked the annual crop, setting up camp in the fields, and picking the hops into baskets. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Snoqualmie; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact The Snoqualmie Valley Historical Society, 320 North Bend Blvd S, North Bend, 98045 snovalmuseum@isomedia.com |
| Credit Line | Snoqualmie Valley Historical Society; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Snoqualmie Valley Historical Society |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
