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Photograph album of various packing houses


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    Photograph Album: Packing House Operations, 1962, Santiago Orange Growers Assn., Orange California

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    37 photographs of the Santiago Orange Growers Association packing house and operations. Title transcribed from cover.

    photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758

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    F.A. Little Ranch, Riverside, California, and various views

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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.

    photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758

  • San Fernando Heights Packing House, Los Angeles County. 1938

    San Fernando Heights Packing House, Los Angeles County. 1938

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    A young man watches oranges on a conveyor belt at the San Fernando Heights Packing House. The oranges, in crates stamped with "S.F.Hts. Orange Assn.", are raised along a vertical conveyor system and poured out onto the conveyor belt.

    photCL Whitt 1611 ; Whitt neg. 1030

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    United States Department of Agriculture. Various technical publications, 1915-1936

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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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    Loose prints from album. 10 photos

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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

    photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758

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    Photographs of the Southern California Packing Company

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    A collection of 36 photographs related to the Southern California Packing Company of Los Angeles, California, and its secretary manager Marion Welsh (or Welch) and his family. Photographs include views of the interior and exterior of the plant located at the corner of Macy Street (now East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue) and Anderson Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood; male, female, and child workers, including two group portraits; various food processing departments depicting fruit, canning, packing, syrup and jelly making and one montage of various departments; railroad freight cars along the Los Angeles River, identified as a special shipment sent east on October 6, 1892; and views of houses occupied by the Welsh family at 930 Macy Street and 114 Anderson Street. There is also single photograph of a row of soldiers standing at attention with rifles (item 28) and a studio portrait of Clyde Welsh as a young man (item 36). Removed mounts for some of the photographs bear printed labels for Putnam, Cromwell & Westervelt, and Coules Palace Studio.

    photCL 150