Title: Agriculture
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Agriculture, Manpower - Labor,
Condition: Good
Description: Strawberry Loading Platform [Several workers load crates of strawberries onto a covered platform.]
Source of Description: Front of photo [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Houghton County MSU Extension
Date of Photo: 1938-1939
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 8.8 cm x 11.4 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: No Neg 2007-06-25-010
Collection Name: Houghton County MSU Extension Office Digital Collection
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This is the strawberry dock for the Copper Country Strawberry Growers Association and was located on Chassell Bay. The strawberries were shipped by train in the early years and later by truck to markets in Chicago, Milwaukee,and Green Bay.
3/25/2015 8:03:37 PM by Anonymous