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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Annual report of the State Board of Horticulture of the State of California
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The San Antonio Fruit Exchange records contains 46 items from 1893 to 1947, including annual reports, minutes, stock books and by-laws. The annual reports from 1894 to 1923 of the exchange contain information on the business practices of the exchange and its members along with comments that refer more generally to the citrus industry as a whole. The minutes from 1894 to 1924 are from Board of Director and stockholder meetings and contain information on the Exchange's day-to-day operations. The stock books from 1893 to 1926 contain information on the group's stockholders, including lists of names and actual stock certificates. The by-laws portion of the collection from 1893 to 1947 contains both the group's original bylaws as well as their subsequent revisions. Issues of prominence within the collection include the history of the California citrus fruit industry; the cooperative marketing of citrus fruits; the California Fruit Growers Exchange; the San Antonio Fruit Exchange; the Southern California Fruit Exchange; and Sunkist Growers, Inc.
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Consists of: The Monthly Bulletin of the State Commission of Horticulture: vol. II, no. 5 (May 1913) and vol. II, no. 7 (July 1913) "The Doom of Existing California Orchards is Written in a Deplorable Horticultural Error" by R. R. Snowden (Nitrate Bulletin No. 87, Chilean Nitrate of Soda Educational Bureau, [1926]) Fifth Annual Report of the California Soil Improvement Committee, 1931 "Root-Stocks Influence in Citrus" by H. J. Webber and J. T. Barrett (Royal Horticultural Society, Report and Proceedings of the IXth International Horticultural Congress reprint, 1931) "Influence of Rootstock Strains on Yield and Size of Lemon Trees" by H. J. Webber (Proceedings of the American Society for Horticultural Science reprint, vol. 31, 1934) Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Fruit Growers' Convention of the State of California (November 10-14, 1914)
photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758
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Rare Books
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Manuscripts
5 items: 35-pp. "Annual Report and Estimate of the Union Citrus Orchards for the Fiscal Year 1937 - 1938. Related items: a balance sheet ; 24-pp. booklet, "15th Annual Report of the General Manager - Calavo Growers of California... year ending (9/30/1938)" ; 10-pp. (stapled) "24th Annual Report - Whittier Select Citrus Association, Season 1937 - 1938" ; 30-pp. (stapled on pink backing) "Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Placentia Mutual Orange Association for the Season Ended (10/31/1938)."
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Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: cover letters and copies of annual reports headed "SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ENTERPRISES, INC. - REPORT ON EXAMINATION FOR THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDED (with date)." ; booklets, dated between 1942 and 1949, "Hollywood Palladium...Annual Report" (These reports were released in late February or early March each year) ; 5-pp. report, "Analytical report on property known as the "Palladium," 7/16/1948.
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Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last Collection of Horticulture Prints and Ephemera contains approximately 1,425 printed items from 1840 to 1933, with the majority of material dating from 1865 to 1920. The collection consists of advertising prints and ephemera promoting businesses whose products and services relate to growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables. This includes the tools, equipment, and supplies used for planting and cultivating gardens, orchards, and lawns for commercial and noncommercial purposes by nurseries, florists, fruit growers, and home gardeners. Seed companies are most prominently represented. Materials are arranged in two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or less) and large-size items (bigger than 11 x 14 inches). Small-size items are described broadly at the series level; large-size items and selected small-size items between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches are fully inventoried, and all printers, artists, and publishers are indexed by name. The collection has more than 50 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographs and engravings, including seed advertisements, decorative floral prints, and promotional materials related to fruit, vegetable, and floral products. Small-size items in the collection number almost 1,400 items and are comprised mainly of trade cards, stationery, handbills, and seed packets from various businesses. Approximately 285 ephemeral items featuring images of anthropomorphic fruit, vegetables, flowers, and other plants are also contained here, even though the products they promote do not always relate to horticulture. The collection's prints and ephemera are primarily promotional in nature and provide information about American fruit, vegetable, seed, and flower-related industries, as well as the evolution of advertising strategies employed by these businesses in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Materials in this collection also provide a perspective on American aesthetic sensibilities during this period, as many of these prints were offered as decorative items as well as advertisements. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of printmaking techniques and trends, as well as information about the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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