Visual Materials
Ephemera. 2 placards from packing houses; Circular advertising The Orange Growers' Protective Union of Southern California, undated
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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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Packing house floor, Santiago Orange Growers Association, Orange, Cal. (1952)
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Packed boxes of Valencia oranges, Santiago Orange Growers Association, Orange, Cal. (1952)
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Packed boxes of Valencia oranges, Rooster brand, Santiago Orange Growers Association, Orange, Cal. (1952)
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Manuscripts
The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
mssShorb papers