Monrovia CA Fruit Crate Labels, c 1920's
Scope and Contents note
Black and White slide hand tinted depicting 5 fruit crate labels as follows cw from top left: JASMINE Brand, Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange Duarte Calif featuring a sprig of several flowering Jasmine branches. IRIS Brand, Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange Duarte Calif Los Angeles County, Sunkist, featuring several stems of flowering Iris. GOLDEN CENTER BRAND, Grown in the U.S.A., E.F. Spence Fruit Company, Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., California, featuring a single orange surrounded by a diamond shaped border. Printed by Schmidt Litho Co. Los Angeles Calif. VIOLET BRAND, Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange Duarte Cal, and Sunkist printed on what appears to be a paper wrapped orange, featuring a sprig of flowering violet stems. Printed by Schmidt Litho Co. Los Angeles Cal. GOLDEN HARP BRAND, Selected from the Finest Foothill Groves in Monrovia and Duarte, Grown in the U.S.A., E.F. Spence Fruit Company, Independent Shippers, Monrovia, California, featuring a golden harp. This slide has a small round label on the exterior with the number 26 written in pencil. This slide features a black paper border with a decorative silver stripe around the perimiter to reduce the image size to approximately 7.5 x 6.5 cm. This slide is one of 4 similarly mounted slides depicting Monrovia.
Dates
- Creation: c 1920's
Creator
- From the Collection: Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Extent
From the Collection: 146.01 Linear Feet (143 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
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