A recent post featured an image of a strawberry festival in Wallace, North Carolina (read about it here). While I was working on that post, I found the image above, which has the supplied title “Picking Strawberries in Columbus County.”
The original of the image is in the NC Collection’s Photographic Archives (P1-24-S913; 83-672).
It’s a long time until strawberries are in season in North Carolina…
In 1907 the Columbus County town of Chadbourn claimed a world record for a one-day shipment of strawberries. Between sunrise and sunset, workers harvested more than 1.1 million quarts, which filled 180 railroad boxcars…. Can you match THAT, Wallace?