The navel of California and other oranges: images of California and the orange crate

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 28: 1-41

Notes

Oranges in California have always been more than just fruit. For better than sixty years, from the 1870's through the 1940's, orange groves distilled the uniqueness of California into a powerful living symbol. Where the Gold Rush had been a rural phenomenon, ephemeral and boisterous, orange growing was permanent, city-based, and demonstrably cultured. William A. Spalding and other boosters of nineteenth-century California offered remarks which proved more prophecy than hucksterism. "There is that about the cultivation of the orange," insisted Spalding in an 1885 treatise, "which attracts people." An unmuted admiration developed between Californians and orange growing, an admiration that found its fullest expression in the zincography-produced, ten-by-eleven-inch, multi-colored orange crate labels printed in California between 1877 and 1950. These labels were a remarkable symbol of widespread changes in California, changes tallied in this geographical biography of California orange culture.

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The navel of California and other oranges: images of California and the orange crate