Truck Gardening Under Glass,New Jersey, Early Underwood & Underwood News Photo wax stick of butter or wrestler

or wrestler

Hand-painted and finely made

There is clipped newspaper text glued ( and shellacked over) to the piece on one side

Michael at right

with some wartime propaganda directly geared to school aged children encouraging them to do exactly that

Truck Gardening Under Glass,New Jersey, Early Underwood & Underwood News Photo wax stick of butter or wrestlerHaving spent a few years full time vegetable farming, including lots of harvesting of lettuces, this old press photo showing three men hard at work "truck gardening under glass" in New Jersey spoke to me and beyond that I just think it's a beautiful image, the mens heads bowed in concentration, harvested soil behind them, densely planted field of soft lettuces in front of them, crates being filled, and with the architecture of the greenhouse lending a