One of the Big Vats is being filled with Royal Ann cherries to be made into the marichino. These vats are filled with an acid bleach. Boys dump the boxes as they come from the conveyors, while another stirs, since they have a tendency to come to the top. This is only one vat that extends in long rows to the left of the picture. This image was taken at the Willamette Growers Cherry Co-op. in Salem, 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.
