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| This photograph shows part of the workforce at a cannery in the Fruitvale district, the H. G. Prince Co. The Prince Co. started out in San Francisco in 1868. H. G. Prince, the founder, had trained with Crosse & Blackwell in the making of jams and jellies. After the 1906 fire and earthquake, the company moved from San Francisco to larger quarters in Oakland. In 1918 at the time of this photograph, the H. G. Prince Co. was located on the corner of East 11th and 29th Avenue in Oakland. Oakland’s location, where rail and water transportation meet, made it an ideal site for canneries. Produce was brought in from all over California for canning at several large plants including the Josiah Lusk Canning Company, the Oakland Preserving Company, which developed the Del Monte brand, and the California Packing Company which took over the H. G. Prince Company between 1925 and 1930. In 1943, the Oakland Tribune reported that the $100,000,000 canning industry in Oakland ranked second only to shipbuilding in value. (See Oakland, The Story of a City, by Beth Bagwell, Presidio Press) |
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