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
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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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Manuscripts
The record books include two Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, 1899 and 1936; Audit report, 1943; Membership certificate book, 1936; two Minute books, from 1904 to 1936; Re-appraisal of Covina Orange Growers Association, 1949; Stock certificate book, 1934; Stockholders record book, from 1900 to 1935; and five Time books from 1933 to 1938. There are some loose items in the Stockholders record book regarding stockholder losses and the Time book for 1933 to 1936 has a typed letter in the inside front cover regarding laws for "Minimum Wage for Women and Minors."
mssCovina
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Visual Materials
6 items consisting of five 1-page annual statements of the Association (1893, 1896-1899) and a 1901 wall calendar with an image of the inside of the packing department.
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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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Visual Materials
Chiefly snapshots, with larger 8 x 10 inch views, documenting the interiors and exteriors of the California Fruit Growers Exchange Building (Sunkist Building) during construction. The building was located at Fifth Street and Hope Street on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. in 1934 and 1935. Pages 1-9 have images of an older building on the site prior and during demolishing. Pages 7-9 have photographs by photographer Dick Whittington.
photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758
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Visual Materials
37 photographs of the Santiago Orange Growers Association packing house and operations. Title transcribed from cover.
photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758