Manuscripts
Petitions and meeting minutes of the Duarte-Monrovia Citrus Association
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Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange records
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, documents, letter books, ledgers, account books, cash books, market books, picking crew records, time books, and orange ledgers; this material made up the business records of the Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange. The records document the processing and marketing of citrus fruit in Southern California from 1892 until 1937.
mssDuarte
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Early citrus industry: picking, packing, and marketing
Manuscripts
Emmett B. Norman's history of the citrus industry in Duarte, California, from the 1880s through 1938, combined with reminiscences of his own and his father's experiences with citrus growing and selling. Topics covered include a history of orange picking and pickers, orange washing, orange packing, orange shipping, and citrus marketing, as well as citrus diseases and the impact of the weather on crops. Norman focuses on the Duarte-Monrovia Citrus Association, the Duarte-Foothill Citrus Association, and the Duarte Fruit Exchange. Includes 15 photographs (c.1890-1938) showing orchards (mainly those of E.D. Northrup and the Norman Ranch), packing house exteriors and interiors (including the Duarte-Foothill Citrus Association, the West Duarte Packing House, the Duarte Southern Pacific Railway Station with the Duarte-Monrovia Citrus association in the background, and the Earl Fruit Company), the F.M. Shrode horse-shoeing building, and pesticide machinery. Also includes a sketch of a citrus packer by Edna A. Chess, several diagrams demonstrating ways of packing oranges, and selected meeting minutes of the Duarte-Monrovia Citrus Association (1893-1922; mainly 1890s).
mssHM 72909
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Covina Citrus Association, 1941-1949; Covina Orange Growers Association, undated and 1949; Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange, 1909-1910 [4 items]
Visual Materials
Consists of 4 pamphlets: 1941 Covina Citrus Association annual report; Covina Orange Growers Association undated by-laws and "Fifty Years of Achievement From 1899 to 1949"; and 1909-1910 Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange annual report.
photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758
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Meeting Minutes
Manuscripts
Folder contains minutes of Times Mirror Board of Directors meetings, 1/1997 through 8/1997, the minutes of the 1997 annual Times Mirror Shareholders Meeting, and related information.
mssLAT
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Hospital Building Association minutes
Manuscripts
The volume contains the meeting minutes (and the By-Laws) of the Hospital Building Association from 1895 to 1904. Although the first several pages consist of handwritten text, the majority of the volume contains items glued into the pages including: typed notes, pieces of correspondence, and clippings. The minutes deal with the activities of the association as well as its finances. The volume also contains the minutes of the Los Angeles College Clinic Association from 1905 to 1923.
mssHM 74858
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Relief association minutes and Red Cross minutes: volume
Manuscripts
The minutes begin on March 31, 1917 when a group of women met "in response to a call for aid from the Wilmington Women's National Defense League." Serena Prettyman was the secretary. The women met and discussed aid issues such as: raising money, the making of garments and surgical dressings, their corporation with the Red Cross, and other miscellaneous relief actions. By 1920, the group was only meeting once a year and the last entry is November 15, 1927. The minutes only take up the first 52 pages of the volume; the rest is blank.
mssHM 80569