Hop Crew

Hop crew. There are five men standing behind a basket of picked hops and three women and one man are sitting or kneeling on the ground in front of the basket. Most of the work crew members in the picture are wearing overalls, all the men are wearing hats, as are two of the three women. The man with the pole is the "Wire Man" who unhooked the wires to lower the hop vines so they could be picke, Courtesy of Oregon State Library
Abstract/Description: Hop crew. There are five men standing behind a basket of picked hops and three women and one man are sitting or kneeling on the ground in front of the basket. Most of the work crew members in the picture are wearing overalls, all the men are wearing hats, as are two of the three women. The man with the pole is the "Wire Man" who unhooked the wires to lower the hop vines so they could be picke
Subject(s): Hops--Harvesting
Agricultural laborers
Oregon--Willamette River Valley