Home Movie: Koura Collection: 005391 (silent)

Description: 1954 strawberry harvest on the Japanese-American-owned Koura farm on Bainbridge Island, Washington, focusing on the workers and their families. Includes images of Indigenous people from Canada and Washington state who came each year as seasonal workers for the berry harvest, as well as possibly workers of Filipino heritage and other ethnicities.

can notes:
Lucy O.
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1954 Berry Harvest


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Subjects: 1950s, Agriculture, Labor, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Indigenous people , Children

Tags: image extends between perforations; farms; barns; harvest workers in strawberry fields; carrying crates of strawberries; flats of strawberries; child labor; working children; strawberry plants; stacks of crates; straw hats; women smoking; children eating popsicles; children posing next to "Absolutely No Swimming Except when Guard on Duty" sign; paying workers cash; loading trucks; woman waving at camera from upstairs window; girl with arm in sling; people eating strawberries; picking strawberries; woman displaying strawberries on a plant to the camera; woman smoking while picking strawberries; girl showing box of strawberries to camera; children holding hands; close-ups of strawberries; one man carrying 6 flats of strawberries; clotheslines outside farm worker houses; Japanese American people; Asian American people; Indigenous people of North America; possible people of Filipino heritage; seasonal labor; migrant agricultural laborers; farm workers; farmworkers; farmhands

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Koura Family

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Distributor:

Contributor: Center for Asian American Media

Source Collection: Koura Collection PC-0762, Center for Asian American Media Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1954

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Washington; Bainbridge Island, Washington

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 8mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 271