Scope and Contents This collection consists of photographic materials by Ernest Lowe, who documented farmworker communities in the San Joaquin Valley and Salinas Valley between 1960 and 1966 while working for the KPFA-FM radio station. His subjects include field and orchard work, farm worker communities and camps, family life, portraits, agribusiness infrastructure, and early unionization by Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the National Farm Workers Association/United Farm Workers. Lowe...

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...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The University of California Cooperative Extension Records for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) span the years 1943-2003. Records are comprised of two central components: state annual reports and audiovisual materials. The reports (1943-1966) combine data collected annually from each of the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) county offices. They record the number of instances that extension workers carried out activities...

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This series consists of color slides maintained by Ruth Dahlquist. Ruth Dahlquist was one of the Fresno office’s Farm Advisor who specialized as a small farms and Specialty Crop Advisor. These slides are maintained by Ruth Dahlquist but created and used by her predecessor. Arranged as found.

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This series consists of color photograph slides in plastic mounts. George Ballis organized the slides to subject heading. Some of the topics depicted in the photographs include but are not limited to Grape Strike, March to Sacramento, AWOC & NFWA, US Senate Hearing, and El Teatro Campesino. Included in this series is a presentation called “Discovering America” which has a corresponding script and music that goes along with the slides. An item level index is available upon request.

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This series consists of photographs and audiovisual records produced by the Fresno Office. The photographs were used to document the various programs run by the Fresno Office, communication efforts, and presentations. Photographs depict topics including but not limited to crops, livestock, farmland practices, and public programs. This series is arranged into four subseries organized by format type.