Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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37 photographs of the Santiago Orange Growers Association packing house and operations. Title transcribed from cover.
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Unlabeled photograph album with snapshots chiefly of individual trees planted in a grove. With typescript descriptions of Items 80-271 in accompanying envelope. Date range based on index and dates visible on the backs of some photograph versos.
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This collection contains photographs, documents, and ephemera related to the history of the citrus industry, chiefly in Southern California. The materials were donated at the request of the Lemon Men's Club for "historical documents covering the California-Arizona citrus industry." A letter to the Huntington Library from H. W. Nixon, chairman of the Lemon Men's Club Citrus Historical Committee, references their cooperative project to collect citrus historical materials beginning in 1958 (see Box 18, Folder 12). The 880 photographs in the collection include loose prints, some film negatives, and albums with photographs of citrus orchards, citrus fruit (lemons and oranges), workers in the field, packing houses, and citrus fairs, chiefly in Southern California. Several companies show up in the photographs including the California Fruit Growers Exchange, San Dimas Lemon Association, Santa Barbara Lemon Growers Exchange, and the Covina Citrus Association. The papers, publications, and ephemera date chiefly from the 1890s to the 1950s and include scrapbooks, ledgers, reports, minutes, pamphlets, clippings, promotional materials, and ephemera. These documents relate to a variety of Southern California fruit exchanges and growers and include materials related to the development of the industry including financial ledgers, by-laws and constitutions, minute books, annual reports, circulars and miscellaneous correspondence and financial statements of individual organizations. There are also pamphlets and technical reports related to citrus production, citrus culture, cost analysis, packaging, pest control, and advertising and marketing. Many of the technical documents in the collection were produced by the University of California College of Agriculture Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley, California, and the United States Department of Agriculture. There are also typescript oral histories from the late 1920s (Box 17, Folder 4). Within the collection there are papers and photographs related to Frederick Arthur Little, a citrus grower who helped organize the first Fruit Exchanges, as well as a scrapbook of T. H. Powell, a Sunkist sales manager.
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Consists of: "The Relation of Washing to Decay in Washington Navel Oranges; Season of 1914-15" by C. W. Mann (circular, 1915) "Mottle-Leaf of Citrus Trees in Relation to Soil Conditions" by Lyman J. Briggs, C. A. Jensen, and J. W. McLane, Journal of Agricultural Research reprint (Vol. VI, No. 19, August 7, 1916) "Australia and New Zealand as Markets for American Fruit," by Samuel B. Moomaw and Caroline B. Sherman (Circular 145, February 1921) "Bud Selection as Related to Quantity Production in the Washington Navel Orange" by A. D. Shamel, et al (Journal of Agricultural Research reprint, November 17, 1923) "Bud Selection in the Washington Navel Orange: Progeny Tests of Limb Variations" by A. D. Shamel, Carl S. Pomeroy, and R. E. Caryl (Technical Bulletin No. 123, October 1929) "New Citrus Hybrids" by Walter T. Swingle, T. Ralph Robinson, and E. M. Savage (Circular no. 181, August 1931) "A New Feature of Bud Variation in Citrus" by Tyozaburo Tanaka (Circular 206, January 1922) "The Citrus Program under the Agricultural Adjustment Administration" by E. W. Braun (March 1934) "The Agricultural Outlook for 1933" (Miscellaneous Publication No. 156, February 1933) "Refrigeration of Oranges in Transit from California" by C. W. Mann and William C. Cooper (Technical Bulletin No. 505, January 1936) "Bud Selection in Eureka and Lisbon Lemons and Progeny Tests of Bud Variations" by A. D. Shamel et al (Technical Bulletin No. 531, November 1936)
photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758
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Includes enlarged duplicate of image on page 56 and nine loose images no longer attached for: Pages 60, 63-64: Exterior of building Pages 65.1-65.5: Model of building with stamp of architect George D. Haight on verso Page 66: Photograph of drawing of building by L. B. Clapp
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Images depict citrus packing houses and their operations in Southern California including College Heights Orange and Lemon Association, Claremont; El Camino Citrus Association, Claremont; Claremont Ice and Pre-Cooling Plant; Indian Hill Citrus Association, North Pomona; Pomona Fruit Growers Exchange; West Ontario Citrus Association; Walnut Fruit Growers Association. Views of the packing house exteriors as well as employees at work sorting and packing fruit. Crate labels visible in the photographs include the following brands: Athlete, Campus, Hawk, Hercules, King, Parrot, Stork, and Volunteer. Included are one image of Sunkist representatives on a trip in Europe, and a portrait of P. J. Dreher, father of cooperative citrus marketing. In addition, there are two pictures of railroad refrigeration cars. Identified photographers include Black'd Photo Service, Boye Portrait, Cooper's Foto Shop of Claremont, California, and Frasher's of Pomona, Cal. There is also one picture of the Sunkist representatives in a tour car on a visit to Europe in the 1920s (photPF 25047).
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