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Photo, Print, Drawing Family operation cranberry harvest (wet harvest method), Chatsworth, New Jersey

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About this Item

Title

  • Family operation cranberry harvest (wet harvest method), Chatsworth, New Jersey

Names

  • Cartwright, Christine A., 1955-1983 (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Chatsworth, New Jersey, September 29, 1983

Headings

  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Chatsworth
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Documentary photographs

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Photographs
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: G-Chatsworth; 27GT; 2-5, Francis Mick demonstrates the use of the cranberry scoop; 6, Francis Mick and two young helpers corral the last of the berries from a bog, using small pieces of cedar board to sweep them over the surface of the water; 7, The elevator being cleaned. Its conveyor belt is being allowed to run empty, so that bits of grass and leaves caught on its rough surface can falI to the ground before it is moved to the next bog; 8, Using the cranberry scoop, hauled out to the bog in the back of the truck to show Christine Cartwright, to get the last of the berries up onto the conveyor belt; 9, Overexposed; 10, The elevator being cleaned, longer shot; 11-13, Throwing a boom out of the corral after detaching it from the others to make the circle smaller; 14-18, Removing booms from the bog and moving them to the shore of the next one to be harvested; 19, Mr. Henry Mick checking the motor on the elevator and adding gasoline; 20-22, Dismantling the corral; 23-27, Mr. Francis Mick and a young helper take the last sections of the corral from the bog; 28-29, A young helper pulIing stakes from the bog near a gate, which had been used to mark the location of the ditches so that people would not slip into deeper water while harvesting; 30-31, Booms lying stacked by the next bog, ready to be assembled into a new corral; 32, The supply truck, loaded with a cooler of cold water and cans of soda, lunches, black rubber gloves and waders, ropes for hauling the corral around, and other necessities; 33-34, a mossy bank by the Wading River, which feeds the Micks' bogs; 35, Overexposed; 36, Mr. Francis Mick opens a gate to let the water out of a harvested bog and into the next one to be harvested.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/023: 216422-09

Source Collection

  • Pinelands Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/023)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Pinelands Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/023), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Cartwright, Christine A. Family operation cranberry harvest wet harvest method, Chatsworth, New Jersey. United States New Jersey Chatsworth, 1983. Chatsworth, New Jersey. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991023_216422_09/.

APA citation style:

Cartwright, C. A. (1983) Family operation cranberry harvest wet harvest method, Chatsworth, New Jersey. United States New Jersey Chatsworth, 1983. Chatsworth, New Jersey. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991023_216422_09/.

MLA citation style:

Cartwright, Christine A. Family operation cranberry harvest wet harvest method, Chatsworth, New Jersey. Chatsworth, New Jersey. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991023_216422_09/>.