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...

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 series consists of photograph negatives belonging to Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

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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.