Photo caption: "Familiar Willamette Valley scene is a red barn with row of cupolas indicating stover-type hop kilns. Still in use, this belongs to AJ Ray and sons, south of Newberg." From news article in The Sunday Oregonian Northwest Roto Magazine "Vanishing Valley Landmarks," November 20, 1955. Story and photos by Dr. John R. Goldsborough.
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.