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Forest green label with 3/4" red border at top and bottom. Red tomato pictured on right, two soldiers outside a tent on left. "Front Line" above both picture. "Tomatoes with Puree-from trimmings-net wgt. 6 lb, 4 oz" under tomato. "Richmond-Chase Company, Main Office, San Jose, California" under image of soldiers. In 1919, Elmer E. Chase and Edmund N. Richmond joined in founding the Richmond-Chase Company which operated as an independent cannery until 1958. Richmond served as president of the company until 1957 and Chase was vice-president until his death in 1939. Richmond started in the cannery business in 1897, at the age of 17, working for J. K. Armsby Company in San Jose. In 1916 he purchased a dried fruit plant in Edenvale and three years later merged his interests with Chase. Chase, a native of Minnesota, worked for the Golden Gate Packing Company. He was plant manager from the time of his arrival in Santa Clara County until 1917 when Golden Gate was acquired by Hunt Brothers. 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 the Company became a division of the California Canners and Growers. It was closed in 1982.
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