Spreckels Sugar Company Collection, 1897-1980

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Summary

Creators:
Spreckels Sugar Company
Abstract:
Annual agricultural reports and reports of the experiment station of a sugar beet refiner formerly located in Salinas, California. Also includes United States Sugar Manufacturers' Association leaflets and reports; USDA reports on the beet-sugar industry; and one twentieth-century pamphlet on the beet sugar industry.
Extent:
1 linear foot
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Spreckels Sugar Company Collection, D-322, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes: annual reports of the Spreckels Sugar Company's experiment station (1909-1912); company agricultural reports (1919); United States Sugar Manufacturers' Association leaflets and reports (1916-1931); USDA reports on the beet-sugar industry (1897); and one twentieth-century pamphlet on the beet sugar industry.

Biographical / historical:

In 1881, businessman Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) founded Spreckels Sugar Company in California's San Joaquin Valley. Spreckels had already been involved in sugar refining for some years; his California Sugar Refinery processed sugar cane imported from Hawaii, the Philippines, China, Java. The company he founded in the San Joaquin Valley, however, focused on refining sugar beets. Claus Spreckels founded the company town of Spreckels just south of Salinas, California, where the company's factory was located. At first, many of the sugar beets came from farms in Woodland, California, but later came from company-founded farms in King City, Soledad, and Hollister.

After Claus Spreckels' death in 1908, his son Adolph B. Spreckels took on the management of the company. In 1963, the family ultimately sold the company to the American Refining Company (AMSTAR). Today, Spreckels Sugar Company is a subsidiary of Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative.

Sources:

Spreckels Sugar Company History

http://www.spreckelssugar.com/history.php

(Accessed 19 November 2009)

Collins, Allen. "The Spreckels Era in Rio Del Mar, 1872-1922."

http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/407/

(Accessed 19 November 2009)

Spreckels Sugar Company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreckels_Sugar_Company

(Accessed 19 November 2009)

Processing information:

Elizabeth Phillips, Manuscript Archivist, processed the collection and created the finding aid.

Physical location:
Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, University of California, Library, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Spreckels Sugar Company Collection, D-322, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292, US
Contact:
(530) 752-1621
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
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