Cannery Women at Work

Preface

Introduction

Cannery Women at Work

Getting to Work

On the Cannery Floor

Leadership & Labor

CANNERY PHOTO GALLERY

Community

San Pedro & the Harbor

Free Harbor Fight

Cannery History

Newcomers

Fishing & Culture

Celebration!

Consumer & Kitchen

A Taste for Tuna

Changes in the Kitchen

PROMO LITERATURE GALLERY

Resources

Ernestine "Tina" Ursich

Goldeen Kaloper

Margie Falcone

Mary Oreb

Cannery Women in History

Bibliography

Author Bio



Between Catch & Can:
Tuna Cannery Women of San Pedro, CA
&
the Los Angeles Harbor, 1930-1960
work ~ culture ~ community

 
At the heart of the canning process, women clean and fillet tuna at the French Sardine Cannery. Founded in 1917, the cannery became Star-Kist and grew to be the largest fish cannery in the world. ~ Bogdanovich Family Collection, permission pending
An Invitation & About the Exhibit

THIS EXHIBIT IS AN INVITATION to see women, particularly from recent immigrant families, as integral parts of a successful western American commercial endeavor.

THE CANNERY WOMEN AT WORK EXHIBIT is separated into four sections with excerpts from oral histories included throughout: 

CANNERY WOMEN AT WORK invites the viewer into the canneries;

COMMUNITY offers history of the area and places the canneries into a community;

CONSUMER & KITCHEN briefly discusses the impact of prepared food in post-World War II America; and

RESOURCES offers further reading, a classroom exercise, and introduces four former cannery employees.



Forward to
→  INTRODUCTION 


to the Matich Family,
Thank you for so generously sharing your private collection.


This project is dedicated to
Goldie, Margie, Mary, and Tina
and to all the cannery women of the Los Angeles Harbor.
Their dedicated labor powered the Terminal Island Fish Canning Industry.

San Pedro History Project

Between Catch & Can:
The Cannery Women of the Los Angeles Harbor, 1930-1960

Taran Schindler
San Pedro, CA
2008


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