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People Planting Crops in New York City

Original caption: 6/2/1917-

02 Jun 1917 — Original caption: “Somewhere in New York City,” just a few blocks from the upper boundary, to be exact, the Inwood Community Garden Association is cultivating a stretch of ground, composed of 60 lots, each 20 by 40 feet, in pursuance of president Wilson’s recent call to the people to raise their own food. The ground is situated amid tall apartment houses and the surface cars family in the association cultivate one lot. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

New York Herald, August 9, 1917
1920 Federal Census, Yamaguchi family highlighted (click on image to enlarge)