Code-Portwood Canning Company
| Business |
Cannery |
|---|---|
| Main Location |
Oakland |
| Active |
1868-1914 |
| Brands |
Cuckoo, Cruiser[1], All Gold, Premium, Fruitvale, May Sweet, Alvarado, Claremont[2]. |
| Aliases |
Cole-Portwood Canning Company |
| Successors |
H.G. Prince |
Code-Portwood Canning Company was a San Francisco and Oakland-based canner, supposedly started in 1867[3]. In 1902, Philip D. Code was the president of the company, with offices at 101 Front St. in San Francisco and the factory at the corner of 10th and Bryant in San Francisco[4]. In 1899, Code-Portwood apparently considered joining the California Fruit Canners Association combine[5].
Philip D. Code was born in England in 1842, naturalized in 1876, and was living in San Francisco in 1880, listing his occupation as "canning fruit".
The company opened a plant in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland after the 1906 San Francisco Great Earthquake and Fire[6]. In 1913, the company requested better wharf facilities on Oakland so it could load its products into ships on the east side of the bay[7]. It later became the H.G. Prince company. By 1913, they listed themselves as headquartered in Fruitvale, Oakland[8].
The company became H.G. Prince & Co. by 1914[9].
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fruitvale | 1912 | ||
| San Francisco | 1902 | 101 Front Street | offices, warehouse? |
| San Francisco | 1902 | 10th and Bryant | factory |
References
- ↑ Mida's Trade-Mark Register of Canned Goods, 1906, Criterion Publishing Company, Chicago
- ↑ Advertisement: Official Year Book of the California State Federation of Labor, 1913.
- ↑ San Francisco: Her Great Manufacturing, Commercial, and Financial Institutions..., 1904, Pacific Arts Co. "Founded in 1867 as P. D. Code & Co, incorporated in 1898. H. G. Prince was a director in 1904.
- ↑ Code-Portwood Canning Co.: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanfranciscodirectory/1902/1902_360.pdf 1902 Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory
- ↑ Few Canned Fruit Sales: July 12, 1899 Boston Evening Transcript.
- ↑ Help Wanted: Women and Girls to Work On Fruit: August 12, 1906 San Francisco Call. Lists "new cannery at Fruitvale, a summer outing".
- ↑ Canning Company May Get Wharf Facilities: July 15, 1913 San Francisco Call.
- ↑ Advertisement: Official Year Book of the California State Federation of Labor, 1913.
- ↑ Canned Foods: January 24, 1914: "A contrivance has been invented by Arthur Duncan, manager of H. G. Prince & Co., successor to Code Portwood Canning Co....