While searching through some of my grandpa's old photos, a handful of negatives of Colorado canneries came up. Take a look at Western Colorado workers grinding away back in 1947.
Whenever possible, I root through some of my grandpas Bob Grant's negatives from the 1940s and 50s. From time to time negatives come together to form a theme. Here are a handful of shots of local cannery workers.
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All are shots from Palisade, Colorado
All show cannery workers at their jobs
All were taken in September 1947
Grand Junction's Kuner-Empson Cannery
The Museum of Western Colorado's webpage timeline states this facility was running at capacity in 1941, six years before some of these photos were taken.