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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: San Antonio Fruit Exchange records
Creator:
San Antonio Fruit Exchange
Identifier/Call Number: mssSanAnt
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
(2 boxes, 7 volumes)
Date (inclusive): 1893-1947
Date (bulk): 1894-1923
Abstract: A collection of the records from 1893
to 1947 for the San Antonio Fruit Exchange, Pomona, California.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. San Antonio Fruit Exchange records, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of P. C. Higginson, March 1959.
The San Antonio Fruit Exchange was founded in 1893 in Pomona, California, as a cooperative
group of local citrus growers and distributors. The exchange contained an assortment of
southern California growers whose fruit was sold at standardized prices to both local and
national entities. The group also participated in the larger collective fruit agencies of
the period such as the California Fruit Growers Exchange and the Southern California Fruit
Exchange. On its own, and as part of the larger fruit agencies, the group sought to combine
high quality fruit at controlled prices throughout the United States and eventually into
parts of Europe.
The San Antonio Fruit Exchange records contains 46 items from 1893 to 1947, including
annual reports, minutes, stock books and bylaws. The annual reports from 1894 to 1923 of the
exchange contain information on the business practices of the exchange and its members along
with comments that refer more generally to the citrus industry as a whole. The minutes from
1894 to 1924 are from Board of Director and stockholder meetings and contain information on
the Exchange's day-to-day operations. The stock books from 1893 to 1926 contain information
on the group's stockholders, including lists of names and actual stock certificates. The
bylaws portion of the collection from 1893 to 1947 contains both the group's original bylaws
as well as their subsequent revisions. Issues of prominence within the collection include
the history of the California citrus fruit industry; the cooperative marketing of citrus
fruits; the California Fruit Growers Exchange; the San Antonio Fruit Exchange; the Southern
California Fruit Exchange; and Sunkist Growers, Inc.
Processed by Marisa E. Diehl in 2001. In 2020, Gayle Richardson created the electronic
finding aid derived from the earlier finding aid.
Organized in the following series: 1. Annual reports, 2. Minutes, 3. Stock books and 4.
Bylaws.
Former call number: mssSan Antonio Fruit.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Citrus fruit industry -- California -- History -- 19th
century
Citrus fruit industry -- California -- History -- 20th
century
Citrus fruit industry -- California -- Pomona
Citrus fruits -- Cooperative marketing -- United States -- Societies,
etc.
Annual reports -- California
Business records -- California
Bylaws -- California
Corporation records -- California
Minutes -- California
Stock certificates -- California
California Fruit Growers
Exchange
Southern California Fruit
Exchange
Sunkist Growers,
Inc.