DescriptionOlan Conover was the plant manager at the Seabrook Farms factory during the 1950s. John Fuyuume describes the duties of shift plant managers, and the nature of the shift work, in his memoir, 'I...
DescriptionMan on the garment factory floor pulling with his hand an electric cutting machine over patterns drawn on the flat laid fabric. Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945), The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionThis letter, which has been translated from Yiddish, describes the ways in which the author felt that the Communist Party had infiltrated the Jewish farm co-operatives of New Jersey and used them as a...
DescriptionThe federal government created Jersey Homesteads as part of a New Deal initiative. It was unique because it was the only community planned as an agro-industrial cooperative that included a farm, a...
DescriptionIn this "I remember" memoir, John Fuyumme recalls working at Seabrook during the summers in between his college semesters. He had many different jobs, including collecting samples of farm production...