Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange Records: Finding Aid
mssDuarte
Gayle Richardson
The Huntington Library
April 2020
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Business Number: (626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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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Preferred Citation
[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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Processing Information
Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1945. In 2020, Gayle Richardson created the
finding aid derived from a legacy summary report.
Arrangement
Arranged by subject and format.
General
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
Box 1A-1F
Correspondence: Pool Growers, Shareholders, A-Z
1899-1919
Box 2A-2F
Business correspondence and papers: A-C
1900-1919
Box 3A-3E
Business correspondence and papers: D-K
1900-1922
Box 4A-4E
Business correspondence and papers: L-Z
1900-1922
Box 5A-5D
Early records; Miscellaneous; Reports
1898-1919
Box 6A-6E
Reports; Account Sales; Disbursements; Pools, Picking Records,
Remittances
1921-1926
Box 7A-7E
Reports; Account Sales; Disbursements; Pools, Picking Records,
Remittances
1927-1929
Box 9A-9G
Records; Account Sales; Pools
1931-1934
Box 10A-10E
Shipping Records, Nos. 1-785
1910-1911
Box 11A-11F
Shipping Records, Nos. 1-413, Nos. 1-331
1911-1913
Box 12A-12G
Shipping Records
1913-1915
Box 14(1)-14(3)
Business and Legal records
Volume 1-177
Letter books, Picking crews, Cash books, Records, Time books, Orange Ledgers,
Payments, Market books, Accounts
1895-1920
Envelope 757-785
Season records: reports, auction sales, receipts, orders
1910-1911
Roll 1-3
Maps and business documents