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Women are leaving the cannery and/or fruit packing facilities of the G. W. Hume Company, circa 1930. The facility was begun in Turlock, California in 1910. George W. Hume began the business in 1864 on the Sacramento River, canning salmon at a time when the only way to preserve fish was by smoking or salting it. He subsequently built salmon canneries on the Columbia River and in Alaska. The facility at Turlock canned peaches, pears, apricots, apples, spinach and other vegetables.
Agriculture--California--Central Valley (Valley)--History Canneries--California--Turlock Cannery workers Peach industry--California--Turlock G. W. Hume Company (Turlock, Calif.)
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