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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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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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TitlePea sampling at Seabrook Farms

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionJohn Fuyuume, the man pictured in the straw hat, is inspecting samples of peas as they are gathered from the fields. This process was part of the raw material grading and quality assurance of produce...

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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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TitleKazuo 'Kaz' Kobayashi, Seabrook Farms

Date Created1953

DescriptionPictured is Kazuo 'Kaz' Kobayashi, a Seabrook Farms employee in the Quality Control Department. Kaz worked behind the front platform. He further inspected produce after it passed initial sample...

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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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TitleYohei Masatani, Seabrook Farms

Date Created1952

DescriptionYohei Masatani, the man wearing the baseball cap, is waiting for a tub to fill with harvested peas. Once the tub is filled, it is rolled over to the beginning of the marathon line in the plant.

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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...