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  2. History of the Sacramento cannery industry - Wikipedia

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    Sacramento, California, United States, has been an important location in the history of canning thanks to its situation on the intersection of major transportation routes and proximity to large fertile growing areas. Sacramento’s canning industry has prepared a large variety of agricultural products, but is best known for canned tomatoes ...

  3. List of canneries - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Libby, McNeill and Libby Cannery - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Lew Hing - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Salmon cannery - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union - Wikipedia

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    The strike wave culminated with the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike, the largest strike in the history of American agriculture. More than 47,500 farmworkers participated in the 1933 strikes. Twenty-four of these strikes, involving approximately 37,500 workers, were under the leadership of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union ...

  8. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  9. History of Sacramento, California - Wikipedia

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    Sacramento: An Illustrated History: 1839 to 1874. California Historical Society. ISBN 0-910312-22-2. Various, Authors (1973). Old Sacramento and Downtown. Sacramento, California: California Historical Society. ISBN 0-7385-3123-5. Flynn, Dan (1994). Inside Guide to Sacramento: The Hidden Gold of California's Capital.