The history, lives, and contribution of female canning workers during Cannery Row’s 20th century sardine boom will be celebrated in a special exhibit at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California, starting November 15-16, 2019. Created in honor of the 75th anniversary of John Steinbeck’s 1945 novel Cannery Row, the exhibit features a donated collection from the Monterey History & Maritime Museum that includes cans and labels from the assembly line, union booklets, and cannery workers’ uniforms, along with an opening event screening of the 1973 cinematic poem Street of the Sardine, by the French physician-filmmaker Eva Lothar. “Cannery Girls” runs through the second week of January 2020.
Photo from Cannery Row workers exhibit courtesy National Steinbeck Center.
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