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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
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.
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 ...
Sacramento’s vibrant food scene is epitomized by beloved establishments like Club Pheasant, which etched a remarkable history before closing in 2022. These elements reveal the capital city’s ...
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 ...
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 ]