Ed Castillo, 12, left, and Kent Bradshaw, 13, from Salem, walking with strawberry carriers. Ed picked 18 carriers and Kent 16 in one six hour day, at 42 cents per carrier. L.W. Scoggin Farm, Grand Island district of Yamhill County.
Joan Renner, 15 years old, from West Linn, is transferring blackcaps from her picking carrier to a crate on the John Phillips farm in the Carus community of Clackamas County.
Jerry Routson harvests his fine crop of D'Anjou pears. He has a large crew of men working in various parts of the orchard. Full boxes of pears were scattered throughout the orchard waiting to be hauled to packing sheds.
Marilyn Pease, Salem, Oregon, emptying apron into box of gooseberries, Carl Vogt's 5 acre patch of Oregon Champions, May 30, 1951. 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.
Close up of strawberry pickers, Elgin Lucas patch, Hubbard, Oregon, May 30, 1951. 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.
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.
Strawberry pickers on 18 acre field of Marshall berries, L. B. Dobbins, Star Route, Silverton, Oregon; requires 28 regular pickers & Dobbins provides housing, June 14, 1951. 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.
Wayne Handley stepping from wagon to truck, loading cherries on Ammon Grice Farm, Salem, Oregon. 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.
Loading cherries from wagon to truck, Ammon Grice Orchard (35 acres of Royal Ann) Salem, Oregon. 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.