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'''Curtis Packing''' was a northern California dried fruit packer operating around the beginning of the 20th century.  The company had offices in San Francisco, and ran packing houses in Los Gatos in the Santa Clara Valley and Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley.  The company sold 22,000 cases of raisins in 1886<ref>Steven Stoll, [http://books.google.com/books?id=rGlkqqlPNZkC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=kW58e-OdP9&sig=10kD6biH65IGYdvXxyX63SJ8a_s&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California], University of California Press, 1998.</ref>.
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The Los Gatos location lasted at least until 1917, and was mentioned as the drop-off location for the [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] that year<ref>Cot Growers Asked By Association to Cull Out All Smut: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19170721&id=AwkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AuMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2036,814768 article] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19170721&id=AwkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AuMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2036,814768 July 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News].
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Curtis had packing house in Fresno. (Also worked for Inderrieden)
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==Locations==
 
==Locations==
 
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| Fresno || 1885<ref>James Hartigan Biography: [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/biographies/h/hartigan-james.txt History of Fresno County, California], 1919, Historic Record Co.  Cites Curtis Fruit packing house in Fresno in 1885.</ref>  ||  ||
 
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| Los Gatos || 1900 || ||  
 
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==Details==
 
==Details==
 
 
[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19170721&id=AwkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AuMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2036,814768 article] [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19170721&id=AwkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AuMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2036,814768 article]
 
Curtis had packing house in Fresno. (Also worked for Inderrieden)
 
 
[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/biographies/h/hartigan-james.txt article]
 
[http://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/22/3419645/sacramentos-railroad-museum-exhibits.html article]
 
"So they commissioned artists---many of whom were German immigrants who worked in anonymity in
 
San Francisco
 
and
 
Los Angeles
 
to create distinctive, eye-catching labels."
 
  
 
VP and Superintendent in 1888 was John Wesley North, 1841 grad of Wellseley, lawyer:
 
VP and Superintendent in 1888 was John Wesley North, 1841 grad of Wellseley, lawyer:
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Sold 22,000 boxes of raisins in 1886.
 
  
[http://books.google.com/books?id=rGlkqqlPNZkC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=kW58e-OdP9&sig=10kD6biH65IGYdvXxyX63SJ8a_s&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false article]
 
 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=rGlkqqlPNZkC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=kW58e-OdP9&sig=10kD6biH65IGYdvXxyX63SJ8a_s&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false article]  
 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=rGlkqqlPNZkC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=kW58e-OdP9&sig=10kD6biH65IGYdvXxyX63SJ8a_s&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false article]  
  

Revision as of 02:30, 9 July 2014

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Los Gatos
Active

1885 - 1917

Curtis Packing was a northern California dried fruit packer operating around the beginning of the 20th century. The company had offices in San Francisco, and ran packing houses in Los Gatos in the Santa Clara Valley and Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley. The company sold 22,000 cases of raisins in 1886[1].

The Los Gatos location lasted at least until 1917, and was mentioned as the drop-off location for the California Prune and Apricot Growers that year[2]

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Fresno 1885[3]
Los Gatos 1900

Sunsweet book list of 1900 packing houses.

Details

VP and Superintendent in 1888 was John Wesley North, 1841 grad of Wellseley, lawyer:


article "article":http://books.google.com/books?id=A4RPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA612&lpg=PA612&dq=%2522Curtis+Fruit%2522+Fresno&source=bl&ots=R_cL1472-9&sig=92IEDEID7lDUGxlQXukv1iTvT60&hl=en&ei=WoHKTsKbDJKPigLV8PjcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg%23v=onepage&q=%2522Curtis%2520Fruit%2522%2520Fresno&f=false"


article

President in 1892: John K. Curtis. Based in San Francisco.

Morning Call, 8-14-1892 Became associated with California Prune and Apricot Growers in 1917, packer for 1917 season.

"article":http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/1892-08-14/ed-1/seq-14/"

Location in Paonia, Colorado?

  1. Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California, University of California Press, 1998.
  2. Cot Growers Asked By Association to Cull Out All Smut: article July 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News. Curtis had packing house in Fresno. (Also worked for Inderrieden)
  3. James Hartigan Biography: History of Fresno County, California, 1919, Historic Record Co. Cites Curtis Fruit packing house in Fresno in 1885.