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Henry P. Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0422
Abstract This collection is currently unavailable for research. This material is undergoing digitization and will be freely accessible in print and digital form in Spring 2024.-This collection consists of the personal papers of researcher Henry P. Anderson. The materials cover to agricultural labor conditions; corporate agriculture and farm economy; pesticide use and effect on workers; agriculture-related legislation; farmer associations; and labor, religious and political...
Dates: 1944-2014

Anne Loftis photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0052
Dates: 1913-1977

Frank Bardacke Watsonville canneries strike records

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Identifier: larc-ms-0093
Abstract The Frank Bardacke Watsonville Canneries Strike Collection consists of materials collected by Bardacke, one of the founders of the Watsonville chapter of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and a resident of that community since the early 1970s, who was actively involved with the support committee for the striking cannery workers. It is largely comprised of newspaper clippings, mainly from the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, leaflets, and newsletters....
Dates: 1984-1989

Tom Dalzell United Farm Workers of America collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0356
Abstract United Farm Workers organizing and boycott material including leaflets (mostly in Spanish, some in Arabic), brochures, pamphlets, clippings, organizers' autobiographical notes, correspondence, a calendar, convention documents, and texts of legislation (1974-1975). Also includes leaflets issued by Teamster Farm Worker Local 1973, and other anti-UFW material created by the Teamsters. In addition, the collection contains a transcription of an oral history of Jim Leap by Sarah Rabkin (2008),...
Dates: 1966 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1976

David F. Selvin United Farm Workers (UFW) collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0167
Scope and Contents

Research files of Selvin related to Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers (UFW).

Dates: 1964 - 1978

Nori Davis United Farm Workers of America (UFW) collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0354
Abstract

Primarily leaflets in Spanish related to the United Farm Workers organizing and contract drives in the Imperial Valley (1977-1978). Subject topics include farm worker organizing (Arakelian, Jack Brothers, Inter-Harvest, Colace Bros., Signal Produce, Gourmet, Sun World/Abatti, C.A.O) The Plan of Delano, and the UFW's 1976 statewide Yes on Proposition 14 campaign. Most leaflets were written and designed by Nori and featured artwork by Alberto Escalante.

Dates: 1974 - 1977

Gayanne Fietinghoff photographs and slides of California farmworkers collection

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Identifier: larc-pho-0068
Abstract This collection of photographs, slides, contact sheets, and negatives by United Farm Workers (UFW) staff photographer Gayanne Fietinghoff documents the work and home lives of California’s Central Valley farmworkers from 1972 to 1977. While employed by the UFW from 1972 to 1975, Fietinghoff trained her lens on the struggles of farmworkers, who were primarily Mexican American and Filipino American, working in the fields and participating in UFW activities and events. Fietinghoff captured UFW...
Dates: 1971-1982; Majority of material found within 1972-1977

Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel photograph collection

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Identifier: larc-pho-0010
Abstract

Collection contains the photographs of Hansel Mieth (1909-1998) and Otto Hagel (1909-1973).

Dates: 1932-1969

Edgar T. Monk scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0198
Abstract Consists of three scrapbooks compiled by Edgar T. Monk; Volumes I and II relate to organizing California farmworkers in the mid 1970s, including the struggle between the Teamsters and the United Farmworkers (UFW), and the Gallo and Lucky Stores boycotts/campaigns. Volume III contains clippings from various mainstream and labor papers, including the East Bay Labor Journal and News and Views (published by the International...
Dates: 1967 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1974

Cathy Murphy United Farm Worker (UFW) photographs

 Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0073
Abstract This collection consists of photographs taken by Cathy Murphy of farm workers in California (and a few in Arizona), and Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement from 1975 through 1979, including a few images of labor activists Fred Ross, Sr. and Dolores Huerta. Murphy documented the plight of workers in the field, Chavez’s fight against child labor, and the 1975 Thousand Mile March from the California/Mexico border to Sacramento and finally back to UFW headquarters in Keene,...
Dates: 1975-2013, bulk 1975-1979

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Agricultural laborers -- California. 9
Agricultural laborers -- California -- Photographs. 4
Audiocassettes. 3
Cannery workers -- California -- Watsonville. 3
Cannery workers -- Labor unions. 3
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Migrant labor -- California. 3
Oral histories. 3
Photographs. 3
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Watsonville. 3
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural processing industries -- California -- Watsonville. 3
Watsonville (Calif.) 3
Agricultural laborers -- California -- History. 2
Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- California. 2
Agricultural laborers' unions -- California. 2
Contact sheets. 2
Demonstrations -- California. 2
Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States. 2
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- California. 2
Migrant labor -- Photographs. 2
Negatives. 2
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California 2
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee 1
Agricultural laborers -- Arizona -- Photographs. 1
Agricultural laborers -- California -- Labor unions. 1
Agricultural laborers -- California -- San Joachin Valley. 1
Agricultural laborers -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) 1
Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History. 1
Cannery workers -- California. 1
Child laborers -- California -- Photographs. 1
Children of agricultural laborers -- California -- Photographs. 1
Church records and registers -- California -- Tulare County. 1
Churches -- California -- Tulare County. 1
Civil rights demonstrations -- Photographs. 1
Cotton Pickers -- Photographs. 1
Demonstrations -- California -- Photographs. 1
Filipino American migrant agricultural laborers -- California. 1
Foreign workers, Mexican 1
Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970. 1
Labor unions -- Organizing -- California -- Photographs. 1
Labor unions -- Organizing -- California. 1
Mexican American women labor union members -- California -- Watsonville. 1
Migrant agricultural laborers 1
Migrant labor -- California -- San Joachin Valley. 1
Photojournalism. 1
Pomo Indians -- California -- Photographs. 1
Slides. 1
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, American. 1
Stevedores -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs. 1
Strikes -- California. 1
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Photographs. 1
Strikes and lockouts -- California. 1
United Farm Workers of America -- Photographs. 1
Women blue collar workers 1
Women cannery workers. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- California. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- California. 1
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United Farm Workers 6
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993. 3
Huerta, Dolores, 1930- 3
Ross, Fred, Sr., 1910-1992. 2
Tejada-Flores, Rick 2