Photographs related to Sunkist Growers, Inc. and citrus packing operations in Southern California | Collections | The Huntington

Photographs related to Sunkist Growers, Inc. and citrus packing operations in Southern California | Collections | The Huntington

You might also be interested in

Image not available
Early citrus industry: picking, packing, and marketing
Manuscripts
Emmett B. Norman's history of the citrus industry in Duarte, California, from the 1880s through 1938, combined with reminiscences of his own and his father's experiences with citrus growing and selling. Topics covered include a history of orange picking and pickers, orange washing, orange packing, orange shipping, and citrus marketing, as well as citrus diseases and the impact of the weather on crops. Norman focuses on the Duarte-Monrovia Citrus Association, the Duarte-Foothill Citrus Association, and the Duarte Fruit Exchange. Includes 15 photographs (c.1890-1938) showing orchards (mainly those of E.D. Northrup and the Norman Ranch), packing house exteriors and interiors (including the Duarte-Foothill Citrus Association, the West Duarte Packing House, the Duarte Southern Pacific Railway Station with the Duarte-Monrovia Citrus association in the background, and the Earl Fruit Company), the F.M. Shrode horse-shoeing building, and pesticide machinery. Also includes a sketch of a citrus packer by Edna A. Chess, several diagrams demonstrating ways of packing oranges, and selected meeting minutes of the Duarte-Monrovia Citrus Association (1893-1922; mainly 1890s).
mssHM 72909
Image not available
Photograph Album: Packing House Operations, 1962, Santiago Orange Growers Assn., Orange California
Visual Materials
37 photographs of the Santiago Orange Growers Association packing house and operations. Title transcribed from cover.
photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758
Packing house, Covina Citrus Association
Visual Materials
Interior of the Covina Citrus Association packing house with people at work.
photCL Pierce 06793
Image not available
Cucamonga Citrus Fruit Growers' Association records
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the business records of the Cucamonga Citrus Fruit Growers' Association from 1896 to 1927. It includes journals, ledgers, cash books, time books, letter books, receipts, and other material. There is also some correspondence, most of which is addressed to the Cucamonga Citrus Fruit Growers' Association Secretary, J. A. Beattie, and some information about box labels.
mssCucamonga
Packing house interior, Covina Citrus Association
Visual Materials
Group photo of men and women around the sorting table in the interior of the Covina Citrus Association packing house.
photCL Pierce 06792
Orange industry packing house, Covina Citrus Association
Visual Materials
Group photo of men and women in the interior of the Covina Citrus Association packing house.
photCL Pierce 06791