Image / Crate label for Hewes' Transcontinental Brand, El Modena, California, ca. 1930

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Title: Crate label for Hewes' Transcontinental Brand, El Modena, California, ca. 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1930
Publication Information: Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection: Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information: For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description: Crate label for Hewes' Transcontinental Brand, El Modena, California, ca. 1930. Label illustration shows train engine pulling boxcars along coastal landscape. Text on label reads "HEWES' TRANSCONTINENTAL / BRAND" across the top and "GROWN & PACKED BY / DAVID HEWES REALTY CORPORATION / EL MODENA, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A." in lower left corner. Boxcars are labelled "PACIFIC / FRUIT EXPRESS" "VENTILATED / REFRIGERATION." A Sunkist logo with a lemon in a Sunkist wrapper is in the lower right corner. David Hewes (1822-1915) was a capitalist, philanthropist and land developer, and had a special interest in trains, having helped drive the golden spike that completed the Central Pacific Railroad. His Hewes packing house was in operation from 1903 until 1939.
Lithograph
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22.4 x 31.8 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4h4nc5h8
CL028
10512359
Language: English
Subject: Fruit crate labels
Citrus fruit industry--El Modena (Calif.)
Hewes' Transcontinental Brand--El Modena (Calif.)

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