Title:
Crate label for Sunflower Brand Valencia oranges, Olive Hillside Groves Inc., Olive, California, 1925
Subject:
Fruit crate labels
Citrus fruit industry--Olive (Calif.)
Olive Hillside Groves Inc.--Olive (Calif.)
Western Litho Co.--Los Angeles (Calif.)
Olive Sunflower Brand--Olive (Calif.)
Description:
Crate label for Sunflower Brand Valencia oranges, Olive Hillside Groves Inc., Olive, California, 1925. The color lithograph
label is illustrated with a large golden sunflower on a black background. The text "VALENCIAS" is in black against a pale
yellow bar across the top. Printed beneath it in light blue is "OLIVE / SUNFLOWER / BRAND." To the left is a medallion-shaped
logo for "PURE GOLD / MUTUAL ORANGE DISTRIBUTORS / CALIFORNIA" and to the right in small text is printed "NOTICE / This fruit
is patented / and licensed under U.S. patent / No. 1529461 dated / March 10, 1925." Printed in lower right corner is, "OLIVE-HILLSIDE
GROVES Inc. / ORANGE COUNTY / OLIVE - CALIFORNIA / GROWN IN U.S.A. / MUTUAL ORANGE DISTRIBUTORS." Printed across lower left
corner is "LITHO IN USA WESTERN LITHO CO. LOS ANGELES 328" Olive Hillside Groves was located on Orange-Olive Road, by the
railroad tracks, and was the first packing house founded in Olive, on September, 1914. In December of 1927, it was completely
destroyed by fire and was later rebuilt on the same site, continuing operation until around 1960.
Lithograph
color
27.6 x 27.8 cm.
Publisher:
Orange Public Library
Date:
1925
Type:
Image
Identifier:
CL035
10512390
Language:
eng
Relation:
Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Citrus Label Collection
Historic Orange Online
Rights:
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