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Ghirardelli Co. Photograph Album of Chocolate Manufacturing Process, ca. 1919

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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The D. Ghirardelli Co. Photograph Album of Chocolate Manufacturing Process contains 56 photographic prints taken of the D. Ghirardelli Company chocolate factory in San Francisco circa 1919. The album features views of the factory grounds, machinery, packaging areas, stock rooms, and delivery vehicles, as well as scenes of unidentified factory workers involved in various stages of the chocolate manufacturing process. The album also contains a photograph presumably of Lyle Ghirardelli, and a scene of a company truck at the San Francisco waterfront picturing the Ferry Building in the background.... View collection guide.

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56 items found in this collection

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1882. [D. Ghirardelli & Sons Eagle Chocolate Factory.]
[D. Ghirardelli Company horse wagon outside factory.]
[D. Ghirardelli Company truck outside factory.]
[D. Lyle Ghirardelli, company president 1922-1944. Son of Domingo Ghirardelli, Jr. (Identified …
[Factory buildings, seen from south.]
[Factory buildings, south facades.]
[Factory buildings with "Ghirardelli" sign across rooftops. South facade.]
[Factory grounds.]
[Factory grounds.]
[Factory grounds.]
[Factory grounds, seen from south.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory machinery.]
[Factory worker and machinery.]
[Factory worker at cocoa table.]
[Factory worker at table.]
[Factory worker loading barrels.]
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