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Date Created1955-01-03

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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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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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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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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TitleFarm map of Hillsboro Somerset Co., N.J.

Date Created1860

DescriptionA map of local farms in Hillsboro (Hillsborough), N.J. Insets depict farm residences on the map.

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

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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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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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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)

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TitleField workers

Date Created1936-06

DescriptionThe photograph depicts men working in the potato field at Jersey Homesteads, one of the crops on the farm of four hundred and fourteen acres. Source: Farm Security Administration, Office of War...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)