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D13064-10
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- 1942-07-09 (Creation)
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Eight Girl Reserves from the YWCA, an agency of Tacoma's War Chest, lived in the berry pickers quarters on the Hesketh Farm in July of 1942, helping to harvest the raspberry crop and having the time of their life. The girls picked berries, swam in the river, purchased and cooked their own food and generally enjoyed their independence. Beverly Skaugset (left) and Marie Reynolds are pictured hanging wet bathing suits on a clothes line strung along the cottage porch. The girls were paid one dollar per crate for the berries. Publicity for the Community Chest.
Teenagers; Girls; Fruit industry; Young Women's Christian Association (Tacoma); Farms--Puyallup; Bathing suits; Domestic life--Puyallup; Clotheslines--Puyallup; Berry pickers; Girl Reserves (Tacoma); Skaugset, Beverly; Reynolds, Marie;