Code-Portwood Canning Company

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Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

Oakland
Active

1868-1930
Brands

Cuckoo, Cruiser[1].
Aliases

Cole-Portwood Canning Company
Successors

H.G. Prince

Cole-Portwood Canning Company was a San Francisco and Oakland-based canner, supposedly started in 1868 as a jam maker. The company opened a plant in Oakland after the 1906 San Francisco Great Earthquake and Fire. It later became the H.G. Prince company.

References

  1. Mida's Trade-Mark Register of Canned Goods, 1906, Criterion Publishing Company, Chicago