Article Guidelines for Packing Houses of Santa Clara County
Guidelines for Articles in Packing Houses of Santa Clara County
This blog exists to collect and record the history of the dried, fresh, and canned fruit industry in San Jose. It's ok to stretch outside these boundaries to related business - other local businesses in San Jose at the time, or connections to companies in other places.
Provide citations so others can find the original documents. Provide links to web pages where you find information, or cite the books where the information is published. Someone else may want to read the original documents; giving them pointers will help immensely.
Give publication name and date whenever providing a link to a web page with old newspapers or books. There's no guarantee that Google or Newspaper Archive will still be showing old newspapers in three or four years; if you name the source ("March 20, 1920 California Fruit News"), a future reader can always search for other places with copies of the same material.
Businesses
Every business should have an infobox - the key details of the business. An infobox looks like this before formatting:
{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Francisco
| primary_dates = 1908-1946
| brands = Pansy, Rosedale, Daphne, Carnation Pink, Heliotrope
| aliases=Guggenhime
| predecessors =
| successors = [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company]]
}}
If you go to the page for Guggenhime and Company, you can see what it looks like after formatting.
"Primary business" should list the main business the company was known for. Common choices include "Dried Fruit Packer", "Cannery", "Manufacturer", or "Broker".
Person
Pages describing a person involved in the fruit industry should have a quick bio and links to any companies that person worked for. Highlight the stories that make that person interesting.
Categories
Every page can have category tags that allow finding all pages related to a specific place, industry, or era. Adding a category only requires putting in a single tag for that category:
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]