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California cluster raisins

Description: Image of a Supreme Brand raisin label from the Union Packing Company of Fresno, California; roses and other flowers clustered with Supreme Brand Seal at bottom left.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1883-1899
Call number: priJLC_FOOD_FtVeg_001949
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

California Sun-Maid imperial cluster muscat raisins

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Image of a Sun-Maid raisin brand fruit label for the California Associated Raisin Company of Fresno, California; women workers in red bonnets labor in a vineyard with fields and mountains beyond in background; large bunch of grapes and grape vines surround the center vignette.

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Fresno Raisin & Fruit Packing Co. Geo. W. Meade & Co. agents. Fresno and San Francisco. California

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Image of a fruit label for Fresno Raisin & Fruit Packing Company of Fresno, California; woman with a parasol in Spanish ethnic costume with mantilla carrying a basket of grapes.

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Balloon brand packed by the Hanford Raisin & Dried Fruit Packing Co. Hanford, Cal

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Image of a Balloon Brand raisin label from the Hanford Raisin & Dried Fruit Packing Company of Hanford, California; a bunch of grapes stands in for helium balloons lifting a hot air balloon basket filled with people over a river landscape with sail boats and steamboats visible below.

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Packed by the Fresno Raisin & Fruit Packing Co. Fresno, Cal

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Image of fruit labels from the Fresno Raisin & Fruit Packing Company of Fresno, California; images of Half Dome, Glacier Point, and Cascade Falls in Yosemite National Park are edged with lace borders.

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The Griffin & Skelley Company raisin packers California

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Image of a raisin label from the Griffin & Skelley Company of Riverside, California, with a man in doublet and hose with slashed sleeves playing a lute.

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McPherson brand. California raisins

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Image of a label for McPherson Brand raisins; an elevated view of the town of McPherson, California, created by the McPherson Brothers packing company in the 1880s (now Orange, California) surrounded by fields full of grape vines with mountains in background; decorative border of grapes and vines.

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