Mr. and Mrs H.L. Worley, from Longview, Washington, are picking hops at the Mitoma Hop Yard near Independence. He is a Texan; she is a Minnesotan. He was a Marine private during the war and saw service at Bremerton, Washington. Presently, he is a second rigger in the woods and is picking hops while the woods are closed as a fire precaution. $8.13 one day--August 21
Walter and Martha Hemrich picking hops. Walter (b.1903) and Martha (b.1904) lived in Portland with their parents Adam Hemrich and Charlotte “Lottie” Schink-Hemrich. Walter and Martha picked hops routinely with their father and extended family.
Close up of cherry picker Leo McDonnald in the Otto J. Murllhaupt Orchard (19 acres of Royal Ann). Photographs made by Gifford studio in late spring and early summer of 1951 that depict growing and harvesting of fruit crops in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.