Pasadena Orange Growers Association Records mssPasaOra
Gayle Richardson
The Huntington Library
July 2020
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
reference@huntington.org
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Pasadena Orange Growers Association records
Creator:
Pasadena Orange Growers
Association (Pasadena, Calif.)
Identifier/Call Number: mssPasaOra
Physical Description:
44.2 Linear Feet
(26 boxes, 74 volumes)
Date (inclusive): 1893-1939
Abstract: A collection of the business records of
the Pasadena Orange Growers Association, California.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Pasadena Orange Growers Association records, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Pasadena Orange Growers Association, 1938.
Biographical / Historical
The Pasadena Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1893 to provide centralized marketing
for the produce of the members of the organization. The name was changed to the Pasadena
Orange Growers Association in 1898. The first packing plant was located on California Street
in Pasadena, California, until 1913, when a new building was erected on South Marengo
Avenue. The organization prospered, realizing a profit of $200,000 in the years 1916 to
1917.
Scope and Contents
A collection of approximately 3,500 items from 1893 to 1938, it consists of the business
records of the Pasadena Orange Growers Association. These records deal with the company's
organization and operation, consisting chiefly of correspondence and accounts with members
of the organization; it includes information about: stockholder's meetings; tax information;
daily picking records; pest control; marketing; and shipping. The collection also includes
bound volumes of annual reports, stock certificates, various accounts, cash books, and
receipts.
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 in the following series: 1. Organization of the Association; 2. Business papers;
3. Correspondence; 4. Operation of the Association.
General
Former call number: mssPasadenaOrange.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Citrus fruit industry -- California, Southern
Orange industry -- California -- Pasadena
Pasadena (Calif.) -- Agriculture -- Citrus fruit
Pasadena (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Pasadena (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Accounts -- California -- Pasadena
Business records -- California -- Pasadena
Letters (correspondence) -- California -- Pasadena
Payroll records -- California -- Pasadena
Box 1
By-Laws, membership of Stockholders and Growers
1906-1937
Box 2
Records of Meetings, Annual Meetings of Stockholders, Monthly Meetings of Board
of Directors
1919-1938
Box 3
Annual Reports, System of Accounting, Assets and Liabilities, Auditors'
Reports
1912-1938
Box 4
Growers' Trial Balance, General Accounts
1908-1938
Box 5
Growers' Accounts - Credits
1921-1930
Box 6
Receipts and Disbursements, Refunds, Retain, Revenue and Costs, Revolving Fund
with Recapitulation
1909-1938
Box 7
Stockholders' Accounts, Claims, Fruit Growers' Supply Company, Insurance,
Inventories, Labor and Pay Roll, Federal Taxes
1907-1938
Box 13B
Telegrams, Daily Fruit Records, Daily Picking and Hauling
1919-1938
Box 14
Daily Picking and Inspection
1920
Box 15
Growers' Distribution Sheets
1921-1929
Box 16
Growers' Distribution Sheets
1921-1929
Box 17
Growers' Distribution Sheets
1930-1939
Box 18
Growers' Reports
1914-1924
Box 19
Growers' Reports
1924-1938
Box 20
Statements to Growers, Growers Tickets of Picked Fruit, Fertilizer, Pest
Control
1908-1938
Box 22
Marketing, California-Arizona Grapefruit Agency, California Fruit Growers
Exchange, Sales
1910-1938
Box 23
Exchange Orange Products Company
Box 24
Semi-Tropic Fruit Exchange
1917-1938
Box 26
Shipping, Reports
1910-1938
Volume 1-74
Bound volumes: Certificates of Stocks, Stockholders' Meetings, Auditors'
Reports, Trial Balance Association, Account Books, Cash Books, Receipts and
Disbursements, Credit and Debit, Labor Accounts, Daily Picking and Hauling, Growers' Box
Receipts, Sales, Fruit Disposal, Scrapbook
1893-1938
