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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)
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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)
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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)
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Date Created1950-1960
DescriptionThis steam stack is one example of the self-sufficient operations at Seabrook Farms. The Farms produced its own utilities, such as electricity and clean water. Steam was used for cooking and...
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Date Created1950-1960
DescriptionWilliam J. Scheffer was the plant manager at Seabrook Farms. He was also a former Hungarian cavalry officer.
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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...
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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)
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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...
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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...
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Date Created1920-1960
DescriptionRalph Clark, of the Seabrook Farms Contract Department, is pictured. Mr. Clark helped contract private farmers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, to grow product for Seabrook Farms.