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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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.
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Manuscripts
Notebook kept by George Harold Powell while he was general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Includes detailed statistics from approximately 1893-1920 on the California citrus industry, including citrus shipments, crop yields, acreage, frost damage, imports, costs, supply, consumption, railroad freight rates, profit sharing, sales, international imports and exports, as well as data about Chinese workers. Some statistics are also included on citrus growers in Australia, Cuba, and Canada. Statistics primarily relate to oranges and lemons.
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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.
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Consists of: "Proposed Marketing Order: Regulating the Handling in Intrastate Commerce of Oranges Grown in the State of California" (California Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Markets, 1941) "License Regulating the Handling in Intrastate Commerce of Oranges and Grapefruit Grown in the State of California, as Amended" (California Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Markets, 1938) "Some Phases of the Citrus By-Product Industry in California" by R. T. Will (Journal of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry reprint, January 1916) "Terminal Fruit Auctions as Marketing Agencies for Farmers' Cooperatives" by Kelsey B. Gardner (Farm Credit Administration, Bulletin No. 29, November 1938) "Early History of Co-operative Marketing of Citrus Fruit" by P. J. Dreher (California Citrograph reprint, October 1916) "Beginnings of Cooperative Fruit and Vegetable Marketing: A Preliminary Report" (United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Division of Cooperative Marketing, July 1928) "Some Aspects of the Financing of Cooperatives" by E. A. Stokdyk (Berkeley Bank for Cooperatives, ca. 1934) "A Uniform Accounting System for Citrus Associations" (ca. 1934) "Pacific Freight Tariff Bureau: Circular No. 16-A ... Rules and Regulations Governing Loading and Bracing Carload Shipments of Citrus Fruit, Deciduous Fruit, Melons, and Vegetables ..." (November 28, 1927) 1941 Navel Production Costs : Los Angeles County" (Agricultural Extension Service, University of California, United States Department of Agriculture, ca. 1941)
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Consists of: "Sunkist Growers: Tangerines from California-Arizona" (booklet, November 1962) "Dietetic Lesson Number 22: Diets for Acidosis, High Blood Pressure and Anesthesia" (Sunkist Bulletin, ca. 1920s) "Sunkist Pest Control Circular" (March 1954, No. 196) "Fifty Golden Years, 1893-1943" "Citrus Fruit Industry Statistical Bulletin" (Sunkist Growers, Information Systems Department, 1988)
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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.
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