05. Melons
Melons of all sorts were grown in Chandler as a cash crop. National companies offered Chandler farmers lucrative deals for planting melons, with more money at harvest. Above, unidentified farm workers pose with a pile of watermelons on the Sossaman farm. On it is written “’our bread + butter’ 1918.” In a photograph taken from a Chandler Improvement Company promotional booklet, laborers pick and pack a bountiful crop of cantaloupe melons.
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