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Several Japanese Americans are shown working in an asparagus canning plant operated by the Illinois Mushroom Company at Naperville, Illinois. In this picture the asparagus is receiving its final inspection before the cans are sealed. The company employs approximately 60 Americans of Japanese descent, chiefly in cutting the asparagus on contracts with various farmers in the vicinity of Naperville, but also in certain steps in the canning operation. Most of the cannery help is made up of local Naperville girls and women, one of whom is shown here in a striped sweater, her face obscured by a part of the gravity feed carrying washed and cut asparagus from another part of the cannery on the floor above. -- Naperville, Illinois. 6/15/44

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.