Agriculture; Apricot; Canned fruit industry; Dried fruit; Fruit; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Stone fruit;
Black-and-white photograph of apricots being weighed. "Canners usually differentiate prices depending on the number of apricots required to make a pound. Fruit as small as 16 to the pound is ordinarily canned. Even 18s have been put up. 14s...
Agriculture; Apricot; Canned fruit industry; Fruit; Fruit crate labels; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Sunsweet Growers, Inc.;
Printed on upper left of fruit label, "Sunsweet Trade Mark California Prune and Apricot Growers Inc." On upper right of label: "Net weight 25 lbs." At bottom of label: "Prepared with sulphur dioxide. Grown and packed by...
Agriculture; Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Berryessa District; Canned fruit industry; Dutard Ranch; Fruit; People; Photographs; Piedmont Road; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of fruit drying at Dutard Ranch. On verso: "Dutard Ranch -- (Berryessa District) Piedmont Road. Courtland Sims, Manager."
Agriculture; Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Canned fruit industry; Cherries; Difiore's Cherry Orchard; Fruit; Italian Americans; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of nine cherry packers (seven women and two men) at Difiore's Cherry Orchard.
Agriculture; Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Canned fruit industry; Fruit; People; Photographs; Prunes; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of men and women sorting prunes. On verso of photo: "A sorting crew is at work in a dry shed. The prunes shown here are dry and on their way via the packing house to commercial destinations far beyond the Santa Clara...
Agriculture; Automobiles; Bisceglia Bros. Canning Co.; Buildings; Canned fruit industry; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation; Trucks;
Black-and-white panoramic photograph of Bisceglia Bros. Canning Co., located at South 1st Street, San Jose, Calif.
Agriculture; Berryessa District; Canned fruit industry; Cannery workers--Labor unions; Fruit; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of members of the Berryessa Fruit Growers Union posed in front of piles of fruit boxes.
Agriculture; Canned fruit industry; Canned tomatoes; Fruit; Fruit crate labels; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Richmond-Chase Company fruit label. From top left straight down: "Front Line Brand, Richmond-Chase Company, Main Office San Jose, California." At bottom towards middle: "Net weight 6 lb. 4 oz."
Agriculture; Canned fruit industry; Canned vegetables industry; Education; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Textbooks;
Canning fruits and vegetables (Excerpted from a 1936 California State textbook titled, "California: Life Resources and Industries of the Golden State," Calif. Dept. of Education). Note the caption on Fig. A., page 50. Includes pages 3, 6,...
Agriculture; Canned fruit industry; Cannery workers; Cupertino (Calif.); Fruit; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation;
On text accompanying black-and-white photograph, "Loading a Giant refrigerator car -- Goods are being trucked into the 50 ton refrigerator car on the siding. Very few cars of this size have been built. The standard refer is about 80% of this...
Agriculture; Canned fruit industry; Cannery workers; Diversity; Mexican Americans; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of cutters lined up to get cutting equipment.
Agriculture; Canned fruit industry; Cannery workers; Fruit; People; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
On bottom left of black-and-white photograph: "1943 run of sulphured & steam blanched cots -- Home Plant. This proved a moneysaver. E. S. suggeted [sic] 1944 Plan is based on what we learned in this operation." On text accompanying...
Agriculture; Canned fruit industry; Fruit; Fruit crate labels; Lick Observatory; Pear; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Printed on upper right of fruit label, "Lick Observatory Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County California." Also on label: "U.S. No.1, Grown and packed by Sweetbrier Orchards, San Jose, Calif., U.S.A. Contents 4/5 bushel."
Agriculture; Canned fruit industry; Fruit; Fruit crate labels; Prunes; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History
In June 1960, Duffy-Mott purchased all of the processing equipment of the Pratt-Low Preserving Corporation from Thriftimart Inc. Pratt-Low was founded in 1905 in Santa Clara Valley as a packer of California fruits and vegetables.