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Title: Crates of canned apricots
Contributor: Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Wooden crates filled with cans of apricots travel down a gravity conveyer. Stamped on the crates: "2 doz. no. 2 [illegible] cans; Sun-Tint brand apricots, packed by Geo. E Hyde & Co., Campbell, California." This cannery remained in business until 1929.
According to the Bancroft collection, this is an image of "Gravity conveyers." Wooden crates on a conveyer belt. Stamped on crates: "2 doz. no. 2 (unintelligible) cans; Sun-Tint brand apricots, packed by Geo. E Hyde & Co., Campbell, California." Note: a collection of images of Geo. E. Hyde Co. cannery are available at the Bancroft Library at UC-Berkeley. Cannery remained in business until 1929.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:78_1308
filename: jcg_fruit_process_018.jpg
oclc: 694063472
islandora: 78_1308
Language: English
Subject: Canneries
Cans
Conveying systems
Apricot
Canned fruit industry
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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