Archives of Maryland Polonia ( AMP)
Series II. Agriculture & Seafood Industry
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Box 1.
Canneries:
Alvarez, Rafel, "Cannery Rows," 1992 [see Oversize Drawer 1]
Burton, R. Lee, Jr. - Canneries of the Eastern Shore, 1986
Hill, Douglas R. - "Canton s Cannery Row," 1994
Keuchel, Edward F. - "Masters of the Art of Canning: Baltimore, 1860-1900"
"Oyster Cannery Workers in Maryland"
Sheffield, David A. When Biloxi was the Seafood Capital of the World, 1979
"Wennersten, John R. - "The Almighty Oyster: A Saga of Old Somerset and the Eastern Shore, 1850-1920"
"Women s Employment in Vegetable Canneries in Delaware" - 1927
Cannery Workers
General
Farm Workers:
Commission of Labor & Statistics - "Berry & Vegetable Pickers in
Maryland Fields," 1929
Farm Labor in Wartime, 1943-1947 - 1948
Lauer, Pamela-"Going to the Country: An Overview of the Polish Migrant
Worker Experience in Maryland, 1880-1937" (2000)
Plitt, Bertha (aka Pluczinski)
Plitt, Eleanore (aka Pluczinski)
Plitt, Eleanor - Work books
Plucinski Family
Sandler, Gilbert - "Picker Checks: Currency of the Crops"
Schwartz, Harry - "Seasonal Farm Labor in the United States," 1945
Shopes, Linda - "Children of Toil," 1989
Farmers