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  • Subject is exactly "Sperry Flour Company"
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Window of the Sperry Flour Company on the N.W. corner of Chestnut and Laurel Streets. The manager, Eugene M. Van Antwerp, would travel up the San Lorenzo Valley to take orders. He used carrier pigeons to send the orders back to the store in Santa…

Date: ca. 1930's
Type: PHOTO

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Shops on Pacific Avenue. ( J.E. O'Conner Gun and Locksmith, Stikeman and Pierce Groceries and Fruits, and F.W. Woolworth). The truck belongs to the Sperry Flour Company. The two men standing on the back of the truck are holding a pigeon. It may have…

Date: ca. 1930's
Type: PHOTO

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A man (Eugene M. Van Antwerp?) holding a pigeon in front of the Sperry Air Service Loft 1. Carrier pigeons were used by Mr. Van Antwerp, manager of the Sperry Flour Company, to send orders from the San Lorenzo Valley back to the store in Santa Cruz.

Date: ca. 1930's
Type: PHOTO

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Unidentified group of people posed with pigeons. The man on the left is Eugene M. Van Antwerp, manager of the Sperry Flour Company store. He used carrier pigeons to send orders from the San Lorenzo Valley back to the store in Santa Cruz.

Date: ca. 1930's
Type: PHOTO

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