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Finding Aid to the American Seedless Raisin Company Records, 1894-1956
BANC MSS C-G 181
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Collection Title: American Seedless Raisin Company records
Date (inclusive): 1894-1956
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-G 181
Creator:
American Seedless Raisin Company
Extent:
Number of containers: 29 boxes, 4 cartons, 1 oversize box, 4 oversize folders, 1 oversize scrapbook, 2 volumes.
Linear feet: 17
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract:
The American Seedless Raisin Company Records (formerly the Franklin P. Nutting Papers), 1894-1956, contain materials related
to the raisin industry in California during the first half of the 20th century. The collection includes administrative correspondence,
legal documents, and material related to lawsuits and the Federal Trade Commission investigation of Sun-Maid Raisin Growers
of California.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in
writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94270-6000.
Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to
include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted toresearch
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], American Seedless Raisin Company Records, BANC MSS C-G 181, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
An Interview with Franklin P. Nutting, BANC MSS C-D 4015
Objects have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Nutting, W. R. (William R.)
California Raisin Growers' Association
Sun Maid Growers of California
California Associated Raisin Company
American Seedless Raisin Company
Agriculture--California
Raisin industry--California
Dried fruit industry
Agriculture--California--Fresno County
Scrapbooks.
Nutting, Franklin P. (Franklin Porter), 1876-1957
The American Seedless Raisin Company Records (formerly the Franklin P. Nutting Papers) were given to The Bancroft Library
by Henry E. Erdman on March 18, 1955. Additions were made by Franklin P. Nutting, Jr. in 1957.
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processed E. Stephens in 2004.
Franklin P. Nutting, born October 18, 1876 in Worcester, Massachusetts, moved to Berkeley when he was seven years old. His
father, W. R. Nutting, in 1894 founded the American Vineyard Company headquartered in Boston to commercialize the Thompson
seedless raisin. Franklin, attorney for the company from 1901-1911, purchased control of the business in 1911 and moved the
headquarters from Boston, MA to San Francisco, where he practiced law. The company's name was changed to American Seedless
Raisin Company in 1917. His father went on to found the California Associated Raisin Growers which eventually became the
Sun-Maid Corporation.
Scope and Content of Collection
The American Seedless Raisin Company Records (formerly the Franklin P. Nutting Papers), 1894-1956, contain materials related
to the raisin industry in California during the first half of the 20th century. The collection includes administrative correspondence,
legal documents, and material related to lawsuits and the Federal Trade Commission investigation of Sun-Maid Raisin Growers
of California.