Visual Materials

Orange industry packing house, Covina Citrus Association

Description: Group photo of men and women in the interior of the Covina Citrus Association packing house.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1900
Call number: photCL Pierce 06791
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Packing house interior, Covina Citrus Association

Visual Materials

Group photo of men and women around the sorting table in the interior of the Covina Citrus Association packing house.

photCL Pierce 06792

Packing house, Covina Citrus Association

Visual Materials

Interior of the Covina Citrus Association packing house with people at work.

photCL Pierce 06793

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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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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