H.G. Prince
| 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
Photos of employees from Oakland Museum.
References
- ↑ Panorama of employees caption, Oakland Museum.
- ↑ H. G. Prince. OaklandWiki.
- ↑ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer
- ↑ 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
- ↑ June 1921 Canning Age