MAY CONTAIN NUTS
HOME
 
JUMP TO PAGE   100  >  200  >  300  >  400  >  500  >  600
VINTAGRAPH • WPA • WWII • YOU MEAN A WOMAN CAN OPEN IT?

A Billion Beets: 1939

October 1939. "Sugar beet factory along Snake River. Shows beet dump, beet pile. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon." Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

October 1939. "Sugar beet factory along Snake River. Shows beet dump, beet pile. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon." Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

On Shorpy:
Today’s Top 5

Sabotage

this is the industry where the notion "sabotage" was born. When the laborers in the factories wanted to protest against their working load they threw a sabot (wooden shoe) in the machine.

Closed

This story about the closure of the factory and its impact to the town is heartbreaking.

Beets, Me

Beets figure prominently in the novel Jitterbug Perfume (1984) by Tom Robbins. (“Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.”) I grew up within smelling distance of a sugar beet processing plant in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the odor, while not unpleasant, is certainly distinctive.

Syndicate content  Shorpy.com is a vintage photography site featuring thousands of high-definition images. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago. Contact us | Privacy policy | Accessibility Statement | Site © 2024 Shorpy Inc.