|
| Title | Hops Basket, 1880-1900's |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | ca. 1890 |
| 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 such as this one. A series of blights afflicted the hops fields, and the invasion of the hop louse severely restricted the crop. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
|
| 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 copy of this image or inquire about permissions, contact the Curator of Collections at (425) 450-1049 or P.O. Box 40535, Bellevue, WA 98015. |
| Credit Line | Eastside Heritage Center; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Eastside Heritage Center |
| 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. |
| Accession/Acquisition Number | # 1999.001.236 |
