Taking in the tomatoes at the cannery
How the tomatoes were cannedPart 1 of 8
Herman Poisson recalls, in a filmed interview, the tomatoes arriving at the cannery, the weighing that followed, then their handover to the women workers: the first step in the line.
Written in French by Alain Manset, September 6, 2015. Quotations from period documents are left in the original. Lire l’original en français.
Herman Poisson describes how the tomatoes reached the cannery and were weighed before being handed over to the women workers.
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