Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
People sorting fruit on conveyors in a packing plant.
photCL SCE 05 - 55079
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Visual Materials
Consists of: "Co-operative Marketing of California Citrus Fruits by the California Fruit Growers Exchange and Its Predecessor the Southern California Fruit Exchange" (1907) "A Dollar and Sense Appeal for Dealer Interest" by Don Francisco (Advertising & Selling magazine reprint, June 1916) "Cooperative Advertising" by Don Francisco (ca. 1920) "Labels: Suggestions for the Shipper who is Seeking to Give His Pack a Worthy and Effective Mark of Identification" (1918) "Your Business : The Exchange Working for You" (ca. 1945) "The Citrus Industry and the California Fruit Growers Exchange System" by Nephtune Fogelberg and A. W. McKay (Farm Credit Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, June 1940)
photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758
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Manuscripts
The documents provide insight into the business history and practices of the South Riverside Land and Water Company as well as the Jameson Packing House, which shipped citrus fruit, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
mssSouth Riverside Land and Water Company records
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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 bylaws. 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 bylaws 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.
mssSanAnt
Visual Materials
Lemon Exchange [fruit sorting equipment - lemons entering the facility]
photCL SCE 07 - 00511
Visual Materials
Lemon Exchange [fruit sorting equipment - lemons entering the facility]
photCL SCE 07 - 00512