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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
D3007-7
Date(s)
- 1937 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
ca. 1937. This picture, taken in 1937 at the Puyallup Cooperative Hatchery shows a unidentified young girl gently holding a chick. A number of other baby chicks are in the lid of a box in front of her. Poultry were big business in Pierce County in the 1930s. In 1936 there were over 800 commercial poultry growers in the county, some with immense flocks of birds. Ordered by Joe Cornish.
Puyallup Cooperative Hatchery (Puyallup); Chickens--Puyallup; Chicken industry--Puyallup; Children & animals--Puyallup;