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2023-04-07 05:09:56 UTC
Lorraine Collett Petersen, the model for the glowing young woman on the Sun-Maid Raisin box, died here Wednesday. She was 90 years old.
While in high school in 1915, she posed in front of a blazing sun as the curly-haired young woman in a red bonnet clutching a basket of grapes.
A San Francisco artist, Fanny Scafford, painted the portrait while the model earned $15 a week, her pay as a part-time seeder and packer with the Griffin & Skelley Packing Company.
The Kansas City, Mo., native later accepted a small movie role in ''Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' but returned to Fresno after her father decided she should not be in Hollywood.
Mrs. Petersen ran a Fresno restaurant for two years, converted a former hospital into nursing home and retired as a nurse. The picture on raisin boxes today has been modernized, but is similar to the original work.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html
While in high school in 1915, she posed in front of a blazing sun as the curly-haired young woman in a red bonnet clutching a basket of grapes.
A San Francisco artist, Fanny Scafford, painted the portrait while the model earned $15 a week, her pay as a part-time seeder and packer with the Griffin & Skelley Packing Company.
The Kansas City, Mo., native later accepted a small movie role in ''Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' but returned to Fresno after her father decided she should not be in Hollywood.
Mrs. Petersen ran a Fresno restaurant for two years, converted a former hospital into nursing home and retired as a nurse. The picture on raisin boxes today has been modernized, but is similar to the original work.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/01/obituaries/sun-maid-on-raisin-box-dies.html