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Full title:Tetsuo Yamamoto stops his weeding for a moment to have his picture taken on the Heston farm in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Tets, with his three sisters and older brother, is spending the summer helping his father, George Yamamoto, to grow vegetables on land which Mr. Yamamoto has leased from Herman Heston, for whom he worked before relocating his family from Gila River. This year, with the help of the Bucks County Board of Assistance, Mr. Yamamoto is sharecropping, growing vegetables and selling his crops to the nearby Campbell Soup Company. The Yamamotos share a large farmhouse with the Heston family. Two other Gila residents are also working at Heston's, Tamekichi Fujiwara and Sadao Ono. Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen Newtown, Pennsylvania.
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