Japanese employees cutting and stacking sweet pea seeds at the Floradale Farms, grown by the Burpee Seed Company : 1939 ; mules were used in this operation until the 1950s
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At Floradale Farms, Burpee Seed Company employees work in sweet pea field. Also in the field are mules and a flatbed truck with a sign on truck door, "Burpee Seeds Grow."
W. Atlee Burpee Company Lompoc (Calif.) Floradale Farms (Lompoc, Calif.) Japanese Americans--California--Santa Barbara County Agricultural laborers--Japanese American--California--Lompoc
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CVTB_049.jpg Part of "Historical Photos of Four Ethnicities on California's Central Coast" Collection Originally published as part of Asian/Pacific - Americans on the Central Coast: a photo essay
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