Men and women picking strawberries at Benajah Davis' "Truck Farm" at Whitehall (Mystic)

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:2386

Persons

Creator (cre): Newbury, Edward H., 1867-1960

Title

Men and women picking strawberries at Benajah Davis' "Truck Farm" at Whitehall (Mystic)

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1898 (year approximate)

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Photographs (CHI Gender Roles Featured Topic)

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Men and women are picking strawberries in a field at a site identified as Benajah Davis' "Truck Farm" at Whitehall. Two men stand to the right of the people working. A house can be seen in the right background.

Genre

photographs

Subject

Truck farming

Agricultural laborers

Fruit -- Harvesting

Dwellings

Geographic Subject

Mystic (Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : glass negative ; 5 x 7 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	Newbury Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Environment

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. The Whitehall area was on the east side of the Mystic River, just north of where Interstate 95 now runs. The house on the site that bore that name (not the house in the photograph) was moved to the opposite side of what is now Route 27 in the early 1960's to make way for the highway and is now a bed and breakfast inn. Taken by Edward H. Newbury, a Mystic businessman and amateur photographer.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1980.41.807

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Men and women picking strawberries at Benajah Davis' "Truck Farm" at Whitehall (Mystic)

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