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TitleItalian Village
Date Created1912-1933
DescriptionThe Seabrook community was comprised of numerous housing developments, many of which were reminiscent of barracks. Owned and leased by the company, these dwellings served as home to many workers and...
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TitlePostcard from Seabrook
Date Issued1950
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. Migrant who lives alone in a barn on the farm where he works
Date Created1942-07
DescriptionMigrant workers like the man living in this barn often did not have adequate food storage or cooking facilities.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleVegetable Varieties: Life photo
Date Created1955-01-03
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleWork and Live at Deerfield
Date Created1944
DescriptionA pamphlet promotes Seabrook's new housing, which was built during the war and leased to the company by the Federal Public Housing Authority.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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Title500 Satisfied Issei and Nisei Already Employed
Date Created1943
DescriptionRelocation and supervised work was implemented gradually by the WRA, beginning in January 1943. This poster touts Seabrook Farms' success in attracting and retaining released internees, to convince...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleYear Around Work for Men and Women
Date Created1941-1945
DescriptionWritten in both Japanese and English, this poster advertises the more permanent status of positions at Seabrook Farms, which, due to the continual processing of warehoused frozen vegetable, was not...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBridgeton migrant child
Date Created1943
DescriptionIn a 1943 photo from the Farm Security Administration, a small child is shown picking beans in a field. Many migrant workers traveled with their children, and reformers were concerned about working...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitlePicker and farmhand who lives by himself in the corner of an old barn by himself on a farm.
Date Created1942-07
DescriptionIn 1943, 516 Jamaican men employed by Seabrook lived in the Big Oaks Farm Security Administration camp. Guestworkers entered the US under government contracts that prohibited them from changing jobs.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from Mary Dyckman to NJ Dept of Health, August 11, 1944
Date Created1944-08-11
DescriptionA letter from Mary Dyckman, President of the New Jersey Consumers League, to Dr. Julius Levy, a state health official, details sanitary conditions at the camps and notes racial discrimination in the...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)