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Description
Multi-color jar label. Illustration of assorted fruits in oval frame. "Gooseberry Jelly. J.M. Dawson & Co., San Jose, California." According to "Passing Farms, Enduring Valleys," by Yvonne Jacobson, the Dawsons started the first commercial canning operation in Santa Clara County. Dr. and Mrs. James M. Dawson, who lived at 1370 The Alameda, in San Jose, gathered fruit and vegetables from their neighbors' kitchen gardens and put up three hundred cases in 1871. The canning was done on a wood stove in a 12-by-16-foot shed at the back of their modest house. From these beginnings the San Jose Fruit Packing Company developed in 1873. In 1879, Dr. Dawson retired from San Jose Fruit Packing and, in 1879, opened the J. M. Dawson Packing Company in partnership with his son E. L. Dawson. Dr. Dawson's wife, Eloise Jones Dawson, took his place when he died in 1885.
Type
image
Identifier
B36665C0-3C75-4BC7-985C-467048348399 1997-209-7
Subject
Labels Canneries Canned foods Food industry Fruit industry
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