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Yorba Orange Growers Association Packing House (Historic American Buildings Survey Report on the)
MS.R.145  
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  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Processing History
  • Processing Note
  • Historical Background
  • Collection Scope and Content Summary
  • Collection Arrangement
  • Related Collections

  • Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
    Title: Historic American Buildings Survey report on the Yorba Orange Growers Association Packing House
    Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.145
    Physical Description: 1.8 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1934-2000
    Date (bulk): 2000
    Abstract: This Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) report documents the Yorba Orange Growers Association Packing House in Anaheim, California with machinery in place, an important element for understanding the historical operation of such packing houses.
    Language of Material: English .

    Access

    The collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.

    Preferred Citation

    Yorba Orange Growers Association Packing House Records. MS-R145. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
    For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

    Acquisition Information

    Gift of Roger and Laura Hatheway of Hatheway & Associates and Robert W. Guthrie of Guthrie Development, 2008.

    Processing History

    Processed by Hatheway & Associates and Joanna Lamb, 2008-2009.

    Processing Note

    Prior to their donation to UC Irvine, the materials were compiled and organized by Hatheway and Associates. Hatheway's original arrangement has been retained.

    Historical Background

    The first orange trees were planted in California in 1804 at the San Gabriel Mission, but Californians did not begin to export citrus to the east in significant quantity until 1877, after the opening of the transcontinental railroad. Soon after, citrus fruit became California's chief export and provided a significant economic base for the young state. The earliest California orange crops, Navel and Valencia oranges, were grown and harvested in Riverside and Orange County.
    Distribution complications in the early 1890s resulted in financial hardship for many growers, which led to the emergence of local association packing houses, known as grower's cooperatives, allowing growers to pool their resources and crops for the sole purpose of improving the outcome of sales. The Southern California Fruit Exchange was established in 1893 to unite local grower's associations into one general marketing cooperative, which sought to establish high production standards for both growers and packers in order to obtain the highest sale prices back east. In 1908 at the advice of an advertising agency, the Exchange adopted the Sunkist trademark, and in 1952 the organization officially changed their name to Sunkist Growers, Inc. As part of Sunkist's federated structure, local associations like the Yorba Orange Growers Association were licensed to pack only the fruit of the Sunkist growers belonging to the association.
    The Yorba Orange Growers Association (YOGA) emerged to replace the Associated Anaheim Growers after the AAG packing house was destroyed by fire in July 1943.The AAG board acted swiftly to establish YOGA with the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company and construction progressed rapidly on a new packing house which was operational by October 1944. At that time the YOGA Packing House was a state-of-the-art packing facility, which remained technologically competitive through the next three decades. No significant additions or upgrades were made after 1979. The YOGA Packing House closed on April 28, 2000. By the end of 2001 the packing house had been torn down and a business park had been built on the property.
    The historic significance of the packing house led to a Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) project in 2000 in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. HABS is administered by Heritage Documentation Programs, the Federal Government's oldest preservation program. HABS was created in 1933 to document America's architectural heritage by recording the history of significant built environments prior to their destruction.

    Collection Scope and Content Summary

    This Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) report documents the Yorba Orange Growers Association Packing House in Anaheim, California with machinery in place, an important element for understanding the historical operation of such packing houses. The report includes a collection inventory; photographic prints of the Packing House and its closure; architectural drawings; interviews; photocopies of historical documents, including correspondence, incorporation documentation, telegrams, and other business related documents; and a book.

    Collection Arrangement

    This collection is arranged in general accordance with Historic American Building Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Report (HAER) guidelines.

    Related Collections

    Related materials can be found in the following collections:
    • Irvine Valencia Growers Packing House Records. MS-R114. . Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Slides -- 20th century.
    Architectural drawings -- Californnia -- Orange County
    Photographic prints -- California -- Orange County -- 21st century.
    Film negatives -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century.
    Orange growers -- California -- History
    Photographic prints -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century.
    Packing house workers -- California -- Anaheim -- Interviews
    Citrus fruit industry -- California -- Anaheim -- History -- Sources
    Land use -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources.
    Historic buildings -- California -- Anaheim
    Citrus fruits -- Cooperative marketing -- California -- Anaheim -- History -- Sources
    Yorba Orange Growers Association (Anaheim, Calif.) -- Archives
    Associated Anaheim Growers (Calif.) -- Archives
    Historic American Buildings Survey
    Sunkist Growers, Inc.
    Irvine Valencia Growers -- Archives