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Description
Everybody's Brand Yellow Free Peaches label reads, "Below U.S. Standard Low Quality But Not Illegal." Presumably this was an inexpensive brand and thus appropriate for "everybody." In the 1930s, the federal government started requiring a statement of quality on canned and tinned foods. The quality designations were general, including "standard," "above standard," and "below standard." Founded in 1919 by Elmer E. Chase and Edmund N. Richmond, the Richmond-Chase Company operated as an independent cannery until 1958. The Richmond-Chase Company operated a 27-acre plant in San Jose and 21-acre plant in Stockton. Hundreds were employed at the peak of each season. In 1958 Richmond-Chase became a division of the California Canners and Growers, which closed in 1982.
Type
image
Identifier
9F49D7B6-52C0-404F-87C9-068080428555 1985-95-84
Subject
Peaches Fruit industry Fruit can labels Canneries Canned foods industry (LCSH) Nineteen thirties (LCSH) Richmond-Chase Company
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