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'''H. G. Prince''' was a jelly maker and later canner in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Mr. Prince had learned the trade working for Crosse and Blackwell in England<ref>[http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/h726118q Panorama of employees caption], Oakland Museum.</ref>.  He started his namesake company in San Francisco as a jelly maker in 1868, moving to Fruitvale after the Great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906<ref>[http://oaklandwiki.org/H._G._Prince_%26_Company H. G. Prince].  OaklandWiki.</ref>, the company expanded to build canneries in Fruitvale and San Leandro.  Their San Leandro plant had formerly been the  [[San Leandro Canning Company]], and was bought in May 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false May 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>  Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] between 1925 and 1930; product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there</ref>.
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'''H. G. Prince''' was a jelly maker and later canner in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Mr. Prince had learned the trade working for Crosse and Blackwell in England<ref>[http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/h726118q Panorama of employees caption], Oakland Museum.</ref>.  He started his namesake company in San Francisco as a jelly maker in 1868, moving to Fruitvale after the Great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906<ref>[http://oaklandwiki.org/H._G._Prince_%26_Company H. G. Prince].  OaklandWiki.</ref>.  The company later expanded with a canner in San Leandro.  Their San Leandro plant had formerly been the  [[San Leandro Canning Company]], and was bought in May 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false May 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>  Prince was sold to [[California Packing Corporation]] between 1925 and 1930; product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's<ref>My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there</ref>.
  
 
H. G. Prince was an early user of trucks rather than the railroad to bring the crops to the cannery<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&pg=RA4-PA29#v=onepage&q=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&f=false June 1921 Canning Age]</ref>.  The cannery found that sending fruit by rail from meant stopping picking by 2:30 to get the crop to the railhead.  With the trucks, crews could be picking til almost 5:00.
 
H. G. Prince was an early user of trucks rather than the railroad to bring the crops to the cannery<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&pg=RA4-PA29#v=onepage&q=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&f=false June 1921 Canning Age]</ref>.  The cannery found that sending fruit by rail from meant stopping picking by 2:30 to get the crop to the railhead.  With the trucks, crews could be picking til almost 5:00.

Revision as of 17:42, 20 January 2014

Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

Oakland
Active

1868-1930
Predecessors

San Leandro Canning Company
Successors

California Packing Corporation

H. G. Prince was a jelly maker and later canner in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Prince had learned the trade working for Crosse and Blackwell in England[1]. He started his namesake company in San Francisco as a jelly maker in 1868, moving to Fruitvale after the Great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906[2]. The company later expanded with a canner in San Leandro. Their San Leandro plant had formerly been the San Leandro Canning Company, and was bought in May 1922[3] Prince was sold to California Packing Corporation between 1925 and 1930; product canned in their plants continued to have the H. G. Prince name on the labels through at least the 1940's[4].

H. G. Prince was an early user of trucks rather than the railroad to bring the crops to the cannery[5]. The cannery found that sending fruit by rail from meant stopping picking by 2:30 to get the crop to the railhead. With the trucks, crews could be picking til almost 5:00.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Fruitvale 1921
San Leandro 1922

Photos

Cannery Buildings

Photos of employees from Oakland Museum.

References

  1. ↑ Panorama of employees caption, Oakland Museum.
  2. ↑ H. G. Prince. OaklandWiki.
  3. ↑ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer
  4. ↑ My father remembers that the Del Monte San Leandro was still canning some grades of fruit with H.G. Prince labels in the 1940's when he held summer jobs there
  5. ↑ June 1921 Canning Age
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