Earl Fruit Company

Summary

Business Details
Primary Business	Dried Fruit Packer,Fresh Fruit Packer

Locations

Location	Years	Address	Details
San Jose	1892, 1900	Bassett near San Pedro
San Jose	1893, 1896, 1902, 1906, 1907	Bassett Street at Terraine Street	Northeast Corner.
San Jose	1936, 1938	395a North First Street

Photos

Earl Fruit Company, Walnut Grove California State Library, California History Section

Photocopy of photograph (original print in New Almaden Museum) Circa 1885, photographer unknown WEST FLANK AFTER SECOND ADDITION
HABS CAL,43-ALMA,5-5&displayProfile=0 Mine Hill School, Englishtown (with panorama) Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress

Details

Started by Edwin Tobias Earl who invented a ventilated refrigerator car. Got the Armour company to buy the company. In 1910, the Supreme Court forced the meat packers to divest their refrigerator cars because of their monopoly power. Joseph Di Giorgio of the Di Giorgio fruit brokerage business in Baltimore bought the company for access to the fresh fruit market.

1892, 1902: Edwin K. Collins is manager. "Packers and shippers of green fruit." August 29, 1903 San Jose Evening News gives details of their sales in the season.

Capsule history Interview with DiGiorgio family