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- Japanese Men and Women in the Strawberry Fields, California, 1921-1922 - This seemingly innocuous photograph was taken to support an article in <em>The Dearborn Independent</em> attacking Japanese farmers' supposed control of the fruit-growing industry in California. Comments on the back expose its true purpose. Harry H. Dunn, a freelance writer, penned the article. With the support of the paper's editors, he also wrote some of the defamatory anti-Jewish articles for Henry Ford's weekly.
- 1921-1922
- Collections - Artifact
Japanese Men and Women in the Strawberry Fields, California, 1921-1922
This seemingly innocuous photograph was taken to support an article in The Dearborn Independent attacking Japanese farmers' supposed control of the fruit-growing industry in California. Comments on the back expose its true purpose. Harry H. Dunn, a freelance writer, penned the article. With the support of the paper's editors, he also wrote some of the defamatory anti-Jewish articles for Henry Ford's weekly.