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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: October 13, 2008
Caption: Koloa Plantation (Circa early 1900s) / Japanese Woman Plantation Worker
Additional Description: The interpretative sign reads “Oxen were used to plow and drag the sugar fields. Koloa Plantation was the first successful sugar plantation and was used as a blueprint for all other plantations in Hawaii which would follow.” And “Waves of immigration changed the face of the worker in the sugar fields. The women often were assigned the less physical work of stripping the dried sugar cane leaves from the stalks (Holehole is Hawaiian for dried sugar cane leaves). However, a typical day for a woman began before 4:30 am as she prepared breakfast and the lunches to be taken to work and then worked in the fields from 6 am to 4:30 pm. Photographs courtesy of Kauai Museum.”
Submitted: October 26, 2008, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p41258
File Size: 1.340 Megabytes

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