Women Preparing Boxes in Gresham Berry Growers' Packing Plant
by Vail, Charles Wallace 6/2/1939
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Photograph of women working inside the Gresham Berry Growers' packing plant, preparing boxes. The photo is a different angle of #2203, and is damaged on the right side.
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- Description
- Photograph of women working inside the Gresham Berry Growers' packing plant, preparing boxes. The photo is a different angle of #2203, and is damaged on the right side.
- Provenance
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Found in collections. A note written on the back in pencil says "June 1939." A stamp on the back reads Wallace Vail - 421 N.E. Cedar St - Camas, WA. Charles Wallace Vail Jr. was a Camas resident listed in the membership directory of the Photographers' Association of America in 1948; none of his photographs or detailed biographical information seem to be online.
The Gresham Berry Growers was a cooperative association of berry farmers in eastern Multnomah County and northern Clackamas County. The association began in 1919, and became the largest employer in Gresham through its cannery and packing plant, shipping millions of pounds of frozen produce across the country during its peak production years. In 1965, facing supply issues caused by Gresham's increasing urbanization, the association's board voted to merge with the United Growers of Salem under the Flav-R-Pac label, moving the cannery business to Salem. - Date
- 6/2/1939
- Creator
- Vail, Charles Wallace
- Subject
- Boxes
- Gresham Berry Growers
- Packaging
- Packing plants
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs2204
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
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