1

TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp

Date Created1942-06

DescriptionThe Farm Security Administration, which operated the camp at Big Oaks, constructed housing using materials not affected by wartime shortages.These structures typically housed guestworkers from the...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

2

PDF-1

TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Company houses built by Seabrook for migrant workers

Date Created1942-06

DescriptionPrefabricated houses - located in "Field no. 16" - were preferred residences at Seabrook, and in 1943 and 1944 housed white Southern migrant workers and their families. Though small and made of flimsy...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

3

PDF-1

TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Picker and farmhand who lives in the corner of an old barn by himself on a farm

Date Created1942-06

DescriptionA worker stands outside of a barn in the Big Oaks FSA migrant labor camp in Bridgeton, NJ.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

4

PDF-1

TitleJohn Emmons, Seabrook Farms

Date Created1950-1960

DescriptionJohn Emmons was one of the supervisors of the Freezing Department at Seabrook Farms. After produce was packaged, wrapped, and sorted on the marathon line, the cartons would then be moved to the giant...

5

PDF-1

TitleScale house at Seabrook Farms

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionPictured is a plant truck parked at the scale house at Seabrook Farms. John Fuyuume explains: 'The trucks would drive onto the platform scale to be weighed fully loaded, and [then] after discharging...

6

PDF-1

TitleCrop elevators at Seabrook Farms

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionAfter samples were taken of freshly harvested crops, produce was delivered by elevators, or ladle chains, to the third floor for processing. Here, crops were washed, blanched, and sorted.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

7

PDF-1

TitleHenry Behnke, Seabrook Farms

Date Created1940-1960

DescriptionPictured is Henry Behnke of the Seabrook Farms Contract Department. He helped secure contracts from private farmers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, to produce goods for Seabrook.

8

PDF-1

TitleKaoru Kamikawa

Date Created1953

DescriptionThis November 23, 1953, photograph shows Kaoru Kamikawa standing in front of the Amerio freezers at Seabrook Farms. He is mentioned in Iddy Asada's essay, 'I remember Hoover Village.' When Iddy's...

9

PDF-1

TitleSeabrook Farms 1952 Management Team

Date Created1952

DescriptionThis photo from December 1952, pictures the top management members at Seabrook Farms. From left to right are Peter Brothers, Don McAllister, and Lee Towson. Don McAllister and Pete Brothers worked...

10

PDF-1

TitleWendall Stamm

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionPictured is Wendell Stamm, supervisor of the Raw Material Grading Department at the Seabrook factory. John Fuyuume describes produce grading and sampling in his memoir, 'I remember summers at...