DescriptionThe employees standing in line to receive their pay from paymaster Pratt as the director of the U.S. Mint, Nellie Taylor Ross, looks over the situation. Picture taken on June 30, 1950.
DescriptionPacking Birdseye asparagus. You knew the quality was "A-1" for Birdseye packed only the best grades. Their representative kept an eagle eye for degective products and would stop the line immediatley...
DescriptionBy December 1944, 817 internees had been released to Seabrook Farms. The total number would exceed 2,500, although many Issei and Nisei returned to California after the war's end.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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.
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)