Photograph
Man Picking Vegetables in Wisconsin Steel Works Community Garden
| Man picking vegetables in the Wisconsin Steel Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harvester's "garden project." The gardens were intended to aid unemployed and underemployed workers from the company's factories. Employees with at least five years service were eligible for garden plots. |
| Image ID: | 11645 |
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| Creation Date: | 08 1932 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Chicago |
| County: | |
| State: | Illinois |
| Collection Name: | Agricultural Extension Department photograph albums, 1902-1935 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 13Z, Album 22, Box 12, Folder 1 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8.5 x 6.5 inches |
| Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department.
Folder: Gardening For more information see "It's Harvest Time for Chicago's New Army of City Farmers" in the Chicago Sunday Times, October 9, 1932. See also Image IDs: 8584, 11633, 11635, 11637, 11638, 11647. |
| Vegetables |
| Plants |
| Clothing and dress |
| Hats |
| Gardens |
| Unemployment |
| Agricultural machinery industry |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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