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Photograph of O. Takayama's seed rice farm

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Description: This black and white photograph depicts five Japanese farm workers on O. Takayama's Seed Rice Farm in Deepwater, Texas. The O. Takayama Seed Rice Farm was founded and run by former Japanese military officer Oshimaru Takayama between 1906-1908. Four farm workers stand in the foreground, harvesting rice crops, as the fifth farm worker can be seen standing in the background, left of the farm's sign banner: "O. Takayama's Seed Farm. Farm No. 3 Transplanting System. Deepwater, Tex." Stamp on verso: "Credit Brown Brothers Sterling, PA. 18403."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1906.
Call number: photPF 26054
Creator: Brown Brothers (New York, N.Y.)(Opens in new tab)

Clark Kinsey photograph of Japanese lumber camp workers and their families in Washington

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A group portrait of lumber camp workers of Japanese heritage, and their families, in front of a camp building with railroad tracks at the doorstep. The gelatin silver photograph, 11 x 14 inches, depicts 31 men, three women, several young children and babies, and a dog. A few men are holding babies and one man is posed holding a watering can above a flowering planter box. Handwriting at the bottom of the print reads: "This is All Japanese Boys at Camp" and the photographer's credit is in the negative: # 65 Kinsey Photo. These loggers worked for the Manley-Moore Lumber Company, which operated approximately 1910 to 1934 on a tract of old growth timber in Pierce County, Washington. (Source: Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection, University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.)

photPF 26026

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Panoramic photograph of farm workers in Orange County, California

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A panoramic photograph documenting about 100 agricultural workers, including men, women, and children, of an unidentified farm in Orange County, California, taken between approximately 1900 and 1920. The photograph features mostly white workers, but there are several Latino men, possibly Mexican migrant workers, and about fifteen women and girls. Some workers are holding tools or equipment, wearing slings for picking fruit, or handling horses. Behind the two rows of people are stacks of wooden crates labeled "F Co.," along with a wagon of hay and a two-story wooden building. The photograph is not captioned, but has a small photographer's label crediting commercial photographer F. D. Leonard of Santa Ana, California.

photPAN 155

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Photograph album of Japanese American residents of California

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A photograph album dating from the early 1920s reflecting the life of an unidentified Japanese American family based in or near the agricultural community of Brawley, in Imperial County, California. "Brawley Bottling Works" crates are seen in an image of Japanese American farm workers, and other images include the interior of a canned goods store, agricultural workers and crops, farm trucks, and a man with plants in a greenhouse. The album contains snapshots of many different Japanese American men, women, and children, almost always dressed in fine Western clothing, seen in social gatherings in mostly rural settings, with some images of other locations. The album doesn't have any identifications, though recognizable locations in California are: the Sacramento Capitol building; the beach in Venice; a bookstore with a crate marked First Street, Los Angeles; and men posing with automobiles with license plates that say "CAL." Notable images are a group portrait of men clowning around while drinking beer, and ceremonial outdoor gatherings with American and Japanese flags flying. Photographs taken in Japan include a Christian church and school in the Tadanoumi area of Hiroshima Prefecture, and family groups with people wearing both Japanese and Western clothing.

photCL 647

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Photograph of women suffragists in Mexico City

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A black-and-white group photograph of nearly 100 women representing Mexico's women's political organizations as they rallied at the Mexican Congress on July 8, 1938. According to the caption adhered to the back, the gathering was on the day Congress voted unanimously to grant women in Mexico the right to vote and other political privileges (though it was not implemented for another 15 years). Some women are holding banners in the photograph.

photPF 26030

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Photographic Views of Kern County, California

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The 39 photographs in this album illustrate the agricultural industry of Kern County, California, and were made by Watkins on multiple trips to the area between 1881 and 1889. The album itself is not dated, but based on the dates of the photographs, it was most likely assembled in the early 1890s. Views include landscapes of agricultural crops, details of irrigation dams built on a river, livestock, farm workers in the field, farming company ranch houses, and farm owners. Some views depict everyday farm work, such as men harvesting wheat and alfalfa with the aid of horses, tools, and large machinery. Other photographs of note are a detail view of peaches in a crate, and men posed with a steam locomotive built at the Southern Pacific Railroad Shops in Kern County. The first two photographs in the album are interior views of promotional displays of Kern County produce and grains, exhibited in San Francisco in 1889.

137500; 137501; 137502; 137503

Photographic Views of Kern County, California

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An album of 39 mammoth plate photographs by Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) illustrating the agricultural industry of Kern County, California. The photographs were made by Watkins on multiple trips to the area between 1881 and 1889. The album itself is not dated, but based on the dates of the photographs, it was most likely assembled in the early 1890s. Views include landscapes of agricultural crops, details of irrigation dams built on a river, livestock, farm workers in the field, farming company ranch houses, and farm owners. Some views depict everyday farm work, such as men harvesting wheat and alfalfa with the aid of horses, tools, and large machinery. Other photographs of note are a detail view of peaches in a crate, and men posed with a steam locomotive built at the Southern Pacific Railroad Shops in Kern County. The first two photographs in the album are interior views of promotional displays of Kern County produce and grains, exhibited in San Francisco in 1889.

RB 137500

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