Berry cart with wheel
name: label: maker
content: Tsukamoto, Samuel
notes: label: Description
content: "Near the end of the strawberry growing history in Florin, after the devestation of Executive Order 9066 when other communities where climate, soil and financial backing boosted a more productive strawberry farming, innovative ideas were tried. Sam Tsukamoto heard about it and immediately applied these ideas. Thus a carrier with one wheel was made to the surprise, ease and delight of those who had to labor long hours in the berry patch.
label: Description
content: These were made and used by Sam Tsukamoto and his wife Arlene, who were the very last of the Niseis to grow strawberries in Florin, where once Florin had more than 500 growers in an area nearly 10 mile radius of Florin town, the shipping center and the strawberry capitol of the country around 1920 to 1942."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
title: label: Title
content: Berry cart with wheel
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. William and Mrs. Sam Tsukamoto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3151.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3151
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3151.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Berry Cart
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in x 33 in; 41.91 cm x 39.37 cm x 83.82 cm