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1. Filbert pickers
Filbert pickers
Description
The filbert pickers are coeds from Benton County, Oregon.
2. German prisoners of war picking beans
German prisoners of war picking beans
3. Cranberry harvesting
Cranberry harvesting
Description
The rubber vacuum tube in Jim Olson's hands carries a powerful suction generated by a motor-driven fan. As the end of the tube is moved rapidly back and forth among the vines, the cranberries are knocked loose and drawn into the machine through the vacuum.
4. German POWs operating a potato bulker
German POWs operating a potato bulker
Description
A crew of 7 German prisoner's of war are operating the potato bulker on the Frank Bell farm just across the state line in Tulelake, California.
5. Two boys with strawberry carriers
Two boys with strawberry carriers
Description
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.
6. Older farm laborers
Older farm laborers
Description
Mr. and Mrs. William Rick, Baker, picking at the Mitoma hopyard near Independence. They are old timers and have been picking each season for 30 years. He is 77; she, 72; $12 per day.
7. Boys of Warrenton School harvesting cranberries
Boys of Warrenton School harvesting cranberries
Description
Photo was used in the Clatsop Annual Report, 1942, page 28.
8. Cranberry picking machine
Cranberry picking machine
Description
One type of cranberry harvesting machines becoming popular in Coos County bogs is a vacuum. Jim Olson, Bandon grower, foreground, used two of these machines when harvesting his 2 1/2 acre bog. Olson's bog yielded around 800 quarter-barrel boxes per acre.
9. Shirley Gamble and Haroldine DeBord
Shirley Gamble and Haroldine DeBord
Description
Shirley Gamble, 17, left and Haroldine DeBord, 16, are picking up a crate of raspberries near Boring, Oregon.
10. Dorothy and Olgo Brutke picking hops
Dorothy and Olgo Brutke picking hops
Description
Hop pickers Dorothy & Olgo Brutke of Amity are seen at the Fred Viesko hop yard west of Gervais, Oregon. They averaged better than $11.00 a day picking hops.
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