Loretta Sampson Butler (left) and Geraldine Brooks Fenwick at Vita Foods
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Loretta Sampson Butler (left) and Geraldine Brooks Fenwick at Vita Foods

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A 4" x 4" color photo of the VITA Foods quality control girls Loretta Sampson Butler (left) and Geraldine Brooks Fenwick (right) at the plant in Chestertown, Maryland. Their uniforms are pink with a white shirt and hair nets.  All women were required to wear hairnets or hair coverings to maintain a hygienic workplace.  Photo was taken March 27, 1972.
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
March 27 1972
Irene E Moore
English
original photographs
Factory Workers, Vita Foods Corporation
Cannery workers, Women cannery workers, Canneries, Factories, Quality control, Food industry and trade--Employees, Working class African Americans, African American womenMaryland--Chestertown, Maryland--Kent County Chestertown

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