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...

Series Description This series consists of negatives from Ernest Lowe’s body of works. The negatives come in a variety of formats, the bulk of the negatives are 35-millimeter and medium-format negatives. There is a small selection of medium and large-format negatives. Lowe generates his own identifier numbers based off his contact sheets, which use a constructed by subject heading number and then adds a two-digit number in sequential order to...

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...

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This series consists of photograph negatives belonging to Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The University of California Cooperative Extension Records for Humboldt County span the years of 1914-2000. Records include reports and information on wildfire management, the 1955 and 1964 floods, disaster response, farm management, soil and timber surveys, floriculture, and plant management. A large portion of the records are related to livestock and animal husbandry in Humboldt County, Del Norte County, the North Coast, and...

Scope and Contents This series consists of film negatives by George Ballis. The negative primary comes in 35 millimeters, although medium and large format negatives are found intercuts within the series. This series is arranged to mirror the arrangement created in “Contact Sheet, 1957-1980”. Some of the subjects depicted in the photographs include, but are not limited to, Grape Strike, March to Sacramento, AWOC & NFWA, US Senate Hearing, and El Teatro Campesino. An item level index is available upon...

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This collection consists of negatives depicting Yosemite National Park. The negatives were created during 1975-1980. Arranged as given. An Item level index is available upon request.

Scope and Contents The University of California Cooperative Extension Records for Ventura County span the years of 1916-2000. Records include reports and information on storm districts, irrigation and water management, farm management including information on farm labor and migrant workers, integrated pest management including information on pesticides and fertilizers, floriculture including information on gardens and landscaping, nutrition including information on food preservation, and youth developing...