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In Sacramento, the seasonal canning industry was the first industry affected by the Great Depression. In September 1930, the California Cooperative Producers Canning Company (the predecessor operator of Bercut-Richards cannery) laid off 153 cannery workers as demand for canned goods plummeted.
Calpak Plant No. 11 – located in Sacramento, California, [1] it was constructed as a fruit cannery, and is used by Blue Diamond Almonds; Edgett-Burnham Canning Company - former cannery in Camden, New York; Empson Cannery, Longmont, Colorado, NRHP-listed; Hovden Cannery - Monterey, California
The Libby, McNeill and Libby Fruit and Vegetable Cannery was a cannery operated in Sacramento, California by Libby, McNeill, and Libby. The building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Libby, McNeill and Libby built nine brick structures near the corner of Stockton Boulevard and 31st Street (now Alhambra Boulevard) in ...
History of the Sacramento cannery industry; This page is a redirect. The following ...
The first salmon cannery was established in North America in 1864 on a barge in the Sacramento River.. A salmon cannery is a factory that commercially cans salmon.It is a fish-processing industry that became established on the Pacific coast of North America during the 19th century, and subsequently expanded to other parts of the world that had easy access to salmon.
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 is a 1987 monograph by Vicki L. Ruiz published by the University of New Mexico Press. [ 1 ]
Lew Hing (formal married name was Lew Yu-ling; Chinese: 劉興; May 1858–March 7, 1934) was a Chinese-born American industrialist and banker. [1] He was one of the founding fathers of the "New Chinatown" following the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
1600 Smith Street (previously named Continental Center I and also known as Cullen Center Plaza [4]) is a 51-story, 732-foot (223 m) office tower in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It served as the headquarters of Continental Airlines prior to its merger with United Airlines , [ 5 ] and at one point also served as the headquarters of ...