Drawings; Education; Fruit; Mission Santa Clara; Poetry; Prunes; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; University of Santa Clara
Poem by Santa Clara University English professor Henry Louis Walsh called "The Prune." Walsh was a Catholic priest who wrote the forty-one quatrain poem in 1935. It is comprised of nine pages.
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; 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; 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.
Brochures; Drawings; Fruit; Leaflets; Prunes; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
"The California Prune" brochure issued by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce in 1940. The brochure is composed of four pages, which contain the beginnings of the prune industry as well as facts about Santa Clara County.
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,...
Photographs; Canned fruit industry; The Alameda (San Jose, Calif.)
When Dr. James M. Dawson and his wife set up shop in a 12 x 16 foot shed behind their home on The Alameda in 1871, they founded Santa Clara County's canning industry. Their venture grew into the San Jose Fruit Packing Co. and was followed by many...
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.
