Agriculture--California--San Joaquin County--History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George Ballis Social Change Collection
Collection
Identifier: RA-0011
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of George Ballis’s photographic materials of migrant workers, their living conditions, and farm labor activism in the Central Valley. George Ballis started his career as a journalist photographer, who focused on photographing migrant workers, their labor, and their living conditions. George Ballis moved to Fresno in 1953 to become the editor of Valley Labor Citizen. While Ballis was doing work for Valley Labor...
Dates:
1953 - 2010
Found in:
University of California, Merced Library
Two Years of Heat and COVID in the San Joaquin Valley Photographs by David Bacon
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RA-0008
Collection Description
The sixty-seven digital photographic prints in this collection by David Bacon document the daily lives of farmworkers and their families during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-2022. The photographs were produced as an exhibition highlighting the conditions of farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley during the heat domes of the period, the conditions of rural housing, and campaigns for immigrant and...
Dates:
2020 - 2023
Found in:
University of California, Merced Library