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Pioneer [graphic] : Berkeley Girls' Harvest Camp, summer 1943.
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Title:

Pioneer: Berkeley Girls' Harvest Camp, summer 1943

Creator/Contributor:

Kramer, Julia Wood, 1927-, creator

Abstract:

Album documents and commemorates the Berkeley Girls' Harvest Camp of the summer of 1943, one of many war-time California Student Harvest Camps organized to bolster the state's agricultural output. Photographs primarily illustrate leisure time and fruit packing activities of Berkeley-area high school students who were housed at Placer High School (which shared the campus of Placer Junior College) in Auburn, Placer County, Calif.

Date:

1943 (issued)

Subject:

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Placer High School (Auburn, Calif.) -- Photographs
Placer Junior College (Auburn, Calif.) -- Photographs
California Student Harvest Camps -- Photographs
Fruit -- Packaging -- California -- Placer County -- Photographs
Students -- California -- Auburn -- Photographs
World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply -- United States -- Photographs
High school girls -- California -- Berkeley -- Photographs
Camps -- California -- Placer County -- Photographs

Note:

Album collected by Julia Wood Kramer, who attended the camp as a student in 1943.
Title on front cover of album. Album includes both letterpress printed pages and ms annotations in addition to snapshots. Printed credits list California Baker as editor.
Accompanied by typescript memoir of Julia Wood Kramer (2 p.).

Type:

graphic
Photograph albums.

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
1 album (22 photographic prints) : b&w ; album 28 x 21 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California