Gresham Berry Growers Cold Storage Warehouse
1935-1960
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Black and white photograph of the Gresham Berry Growers' cold storage facility, a large concrete warehouse with a covered roll-up door. On the top corner of the building, a sign for Otness Construction Co. is visible. On the back, in pencil: "G.B.G. Freezer" and "Cold Storage for Gresham Cannery"
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs20230010237
- Description
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Black and white photograph of the Gresham Berry Growers' cold storage facility, a large concrete warehouse with a covered roll-up door. On the top corner of the building, a sign for Otness Construction Co. is visible.
On the back, in pencil: "G.B.G. Freezer" and "Cold Storage for Gresham Cannery" - Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ Copyright Not Evaluated
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Date
- 1935-1960
- Names
- Wilson, Elsie
- Subject
- Gresham Berry Growers
- Warehouses
- Agriculture
- Storage facilities
- 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 cold storage facility built in the late 1930s used to store the cannery's product prior to shipping. It also included food storage lockers for public use prior to the widespread availability of home freezers.
Likely donated by Elsie Wilson, an early employee of Gresham Berry Growers whose father was a founding member. - Type
- StillImage
- Medium
- Print, Photographic
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
