Workers at the Birds Eye plant
Title
Workers at the Birds Eye plant
Description
Black and white image of workers, mostly women, working at conveyors sorting fruit or produce for processing. Electric lights hang over each conveyor belt in addition to fluorescent lights overhead. Empty buckets are stacked about, and there are six visible work stations. The cannery was built in 1919 by a two local businessmen who were expanding from hops production into canning, Harold W. Ray and Bertrand E. Maling. They converted the plant to process frozen foods in the early 1930s, and the plant was sold in later years to Birds Eye Foods. The plant was demolished in the 1980s, its site near downtown Hillsboro now occupied by the Washington County Jail.
Creator
McMullen, Herbert E., photographer, Hillsboro Studio, Hillsboro, Oregon
Date Created
circa 1950s-1960s
Subject
Food processing plants
Agriculture
Women--Employment
Frozen foods industry
Work
Economic History
Place
Hillsboro, Oregon
Medium
gelatin silver prints
Identifier
WCMpic_013830
Rights
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Source
Robert L. Benson Research Library, Five Oaks Museum
Type
Still Image