Gresham Berry Growers Aerial Photo
1935-1950
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Black and white aerial photograph of the Gresham Berry Growers/Flav-R-Pak Cannery shot from the northwest. Division Street/Section Line fronts the main building and the Mt. Hood Railway extends along the rear of the complex. Countryside in background is east Gresham/Powell Valley. On the back, in pencil: "Gresham Cannery / 8th street in front of the cannery / Gresham co-op in left foreground."
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs20230010141
- Description
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Black and white aerial photograph of the Gresham Berry Growers/Flav-R-Pak Cannery shot from the northwest. Division Street/Section Line fronts the main building and the Mt. Hood Railway extends along the rear of the complex. Countryside in background is east Gresham/Powell Valley.
On the back, in pencil: "Gresham Cannery / 8th street in front of the cannery / Gresham co-op in left foreground." - Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ No Known Copyright
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Date
- 1935-1950
- Names
- Wilson, Elsie
- Subject
- Gresham Berry Growers
- Canneries
- Agriculture
- Fruit industry
- 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.
Likely donated by Elsie Wilson, an early cannery worker whose father was a founding member of the Gresham Berry Growers. - Type
- StillImage
- Medium
- Print, Photographic
