Series Scope and Content Summary

The series contains most of the visual documentation of the functions and activities of the Forestry and Vegetation Management Branch. Many of the slides, photographs, and negatives have been funneled out of their respective series placed into their own subseries within Series VII. Some of the visual material has been dated and titled, but most of it is unlabeled.

Scope and Contents Ralph H. Anderson was a Yosemite National Park Ranger and served as the official photographer from 1930 to 1952. Starting in 1953 to 1964, Ralph H. Anderson become the official Photographer for the Nation Parks Services. Anderson first started to work for Yosemite as a seasonal ranger for the summer of 1929. During this period, an older park ranger Billy Nelson encouraged Ralph H. Anderson to apply for a permit...

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...