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TitleCrop dusting plane over Seabrook Farms
Date Created1950-1955
DescriptionA plane doing the job of dusting fields with pesticides. In order to prevent insects and diseases that run rampant, the fields were sprayed and constantly watched with the use of airplanes,...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleTruckload of french fried potatoes ready for the market
Date Created1953
DescriptionPhotograph capturing the Seabrook Farms plant/ factory showing specifically the loading of french fried potatoes. The little inscription on the photograph points to the dehydration building.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleFile photo of Frank Hemenway.
Date Created1950-1955
DescriptionFrank Hemenway was a Production Manager at Seabrook Farms. He was involved with shift timekeeping and acted as a checker supervisor.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleFront platform for produce at Seabrook Farms
Date Created1950-1959
DescriptionAfter crops were picked from the fields, they were brought to the front platform pictured here at Seabrook Farms. At the platform, they were inspected, and then trucked to the processing plant. John...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleWrapping machines at Seabrook Farms
Date Created1950-1959
DescriptionThe forelady - the woman in the foreground with the dark sweater and dark cap - is feeding packaged produce into a wrapping machine at Seabrook Farms. After packages are shrink-wrapped, they are...
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TitleProduce freezing facilities at Seabrook
Date Created1950-1959
DescriptionPictured is John Nakamura loading packaged produce into the giant Amerio freezers at Seabrook Farms. Freezing was so important at the Farms, that the entire process capacity of the plant depended on...
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TitleJosie Ikeda, Office Secretary at Seabrook Farms
Date Created1953
DescriptionJosie Ikeda, a Seabrook Farms office secretary, is pictured while reading the newspaper funnies. Josie also manned the radio station that communicated with plant facilities, private farmers in the...
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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...
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TitleRichard Nishimura on the front platform at Seabrook Farms
Date Created1950-1959
DescriptionRichard Nishimura is supervising the scale located at the front platform. This was the area at Seabrook Farms where newly harvested crops were first delivered for inspection and cleaning, before...
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TitleOpening the doors to the sub-zero warehouse at Seabrook Farms
Date Created1950-1959
DescriptionDoor 14 was the door to the sub-zero cold storage at Seabrook Farms. Finished products were kept there until it was time to sell them. Because the temperature was dangerous, the cord to open the...