Workers in Tents at Gresham Berry Growers Cannery
1919-1929
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Black and white photograph of a row of large tents set up in a field beside the Gresham Berry Growers Cannery. Seven tents are visible set up next to each other on the right side of the photograph, another one tent is visible outside of the line, further toward the center of the photograph. In front of the tents are seven people are visible in the photograph: five women gather around the fronts of the tents in groups of two and three, and two men stand in the center of the photo, near a truck.
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs20230010136
- Description
- Black and white photograph of a row of large tents set up in a field beside the Gresham Berry Growers Cannery. Seven tents are visible set up next to each other on the right side of the photograph, another one tent is visible outside of the line, further toward the center of the photograph. In front of the tents are seven people are visible in the photograph: five women gather around the fronts of the tents in groups of two and three, and two men stand in the center of the photo, near a truck.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ No Copyright
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Date
- 1919-1929
- Names
- Wilson, Elsie
- Subject
- Gresham Berry Growers
- Canneries
- Tents
- Provenance
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The Gresham Berry Growers was a farmers' cooperative cannery that operated from 1919 to 1965. Located at Hood and 8th Street just south of Division, the cannery employed a large seasonal staff to sort, hull, process, and pack the annual harvest of strawberries and raspberries. Later the cannery expanded and adapted to process vegetables including beans, broccoli, corn, and cauliflower. At its peak in the early 1960s, the cannery processed 18 million pounds of produce annually from farms all over East Multnomah and North Clackamas counties, but due to zoning changes and urban growth, it left Gresham to merge with the United Growers of Salem in 1965.
This picture shows the tents that served as temporary lodging for seasonal cannery workers in the 1920s.
This photo likely donated by Elsie Wilson, a former cannery worker. - Type
- StillImage
- Medium
- Print, Photographic
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
