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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Robert Berry was born in England in 1863. He came to the United States when he was 43 years old and arrived in Sacramento in 1907. He was trained as a boy in the founder’s trade.
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The history of Sacramento, ... Sacramento City College was founded in 1916 as the oldest institute of higher education in Sacramento, ... The local canning industry ...