George Haushalter Repairs Lettuce Crate c. 1942
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- Title
- George Haushalter Repairs Lettuce Crate c. 1942
- Description
- In the war years of the early 1940s, George Haushalter stands before the farm's ice house, mending the wooden crates that carried the season's lettuce to market. At nearly ninety, the patriarch remains a visible presence in the Water Valley landscape, captured here in a moment of quiet, manual maintenance. While the image shows George engaged in the essential labors of the farm, his role in the family's history was defined more by his scholarly and civic contributions—as a postmaster, a school clerk, and a community reader—than by the rigors of agricultural management. By this time, the farm had long since moved past its earlier periods of volatility; the stability and continuity of the Haushalter holdings were the result of the steady, decades-long stewardship of his son, Charles, who had been at the helm since he came back from Idaho about 1907.
- Date
- 1942
- Subject
- George Heinrich Haushalter
- Spatial Coverage
- The Fifty Acres
- Creator
- Unidentified
- Format
- silver gelatin print
- Rights
- Courtesy of the Haushalter-Casler Family Archive
- Referenced By
- The Fifty Acres George Heinrich Haushalter
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