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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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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...

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TitleCarl Holm, Seabrook Farms

Date Created1952

DescriptionCarl Holm of the Timekeeping department at Seabrook Farms is pictured here checking time sheets of Seabrook employees.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleRuth Murray, Seabrook Farms

Date Created1950-1960

DescriptionRuth Murray was a plant timekeeper at Seabrook Farms. She is affectionately remembered as the 'plant timekeeper with personality.' Plant timekeepers manned various stations around the Farms, and...

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TitleJack Keefe at Seabrook Farms

Date Created1953

DescriptionJack Keefe, supervisor of Cumberland Warehouse, conducts a tour for visitors to Seabrook. In the photo, he points out the Amerio plate freezers.

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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)

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TitleTraditional dress and Ikebana

Date Created1958

DescriptionPictured are Dorothy Chapman of the Seabrook Community House, and Yo Yeya, an Ikebana teacher. Both women are dressed in Japanese kimonos. Ikebana is a Japanese art involving the arrangement of...

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TitleCarton marathon line

Date Created1940-1960

DescriptionMs. Martin controls the conveyor belt machine that is responsible for filling cartons with produce, and then automatically closing the carton lids. The woman in the background of the photo is working...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleMichi Nishiura's apartment

Date Created1945

DescriptionThis photo of Michi Nishiura's apartment was taken during the spring of 1945. Michi was the music disc jockey at the plant on Seabrook Farms. She also attended college, and then worked as the...