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Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange Records
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange records
Creator:
Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange
Identifier/Call Number: mssDuarte
Physical Description:
57 Linear Feet
(78 boxes, 177 volumes, 29 envelopes, 3 rolls)
Date (inclusive): 1892-1937
Abstract: A collection of business records
related to the Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange of Los Angeles County, California.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange records, The Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange, 1937-1938.
The Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange in Los Angeles County was originally named the Duarte
Fruit Exchange, then the Duarte-Monrovia Citrus Association. The Exchange was one of the
original seven members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange when the latter was formed
in 1893.
The collection consists of letters, documents, letter books, ledgers, account books, cash
books, market books, picking crew records, time books, and orange ledgers; this material
made up the business records of the Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange. The records document the
processing and marketing of citrus fruit in Southern California from 1892 until 1937.
Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1945. In 2020, Gayle Richardson created the
finding aid derived from a legacy summary report.
Arranged by subject and format.
Former call number: mssDuarte Monrovia Fruit Exchange.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Agriculture -- California, Southern
Citrus fruit -- Transportation -- California
Citrus fruit industry -- California -- Employees
Citrus fruit industry -- California -- Los Angeles County --
History
Citrus fruit industry -- Cooperative marketing -- California
Orange industry -- California -- Duarte
Orange industry -- California -- Monrovia
Account books -- California, Southern
Business records -- California, Southern
Letter books -- California, Southern
Letters (correspondence) -- California, Southern