UC Davis

Selections of photographs, proofs, transparencies, and negatives of Milton "Hal" Halberstadt commericial and artistic photography.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

Paul L. Henchey worked for the Southern Pacific Company. He enjoyed taking photographs of old mills, mines and buildings in rural areas in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. The collection consists of 1350 negatives.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

In 1942, Higgins took photographs of Mexican workers entering the United States "brought in for the [sugar] beet harvest" for California Fields Crops, Inc. and as Higgins explains in a letter that he tried "to catch a lot of the social side in pictures." The photographs were taken mainly in the agricultural areas of the California communities of Woodland, Pleasanton, Manteca, and Salinas.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1862-1927) served as Professor of Agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley and Dean of the College of Agriculture (now the University of California, Davis). His Papers contain a comparative study of the agriculture of Caribbean countries and a collection of photographs depicting agricultural methods in Jamaica, Hawaii, Haiti, Cuba, El Salvador, Panama, and Costa Rica, circa 1924-1925.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

Contains court records and correspondence documenting Chol Soo Lee murder case and appeals. Also include digitized issues of Koreatown Newspaper.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

The Linda Mabalot papers are organized into four series: Oral Histories, 1978; Photographs, 1930-1994; Publications, 1979-1994; Artifacts, 1930-1950; Scripts, 1991-1992. The Oral History Interviews feature one of the most significant items in the collection, particularly with material regarding Filipino American Farmworkers and laborers in the mid-20th century. The Oral History accounts feature various interviews conducted by Mabalot, including interviews with Philip Vera Cruz and Willie Barrientos. The oral history accounts detail Filipino immigration into the United States, the Delano Grape Strikes (1965-1970) and Filipino-Mexican relations in the United Farm Workers. The Scripts series include various drafts regarding Filipino-American documentaries worked ...

Institution: UC Davis, Welga Project, Filipino American Archive and Repository

The Lorraine Agtang papers spans from 1930 to 1980. The records are organized into two series: Photographs, 1930-1980; and Documents, 1973- 1994. The Photographs are the bulk of her collection and features a strong emphasis on the creation of Agbayani Village and the elderly Filipino workers of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers. Additional accruals are expected.

Institution: UC Davis, Welga Project, Filipino American Archive and Repository

The Photographs of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition collection contains photographic glass negatives of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition taken by the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Exposition.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

This is the full repository for the Pioneering Punjabi Digital Archive, the most extensive collection of archival material documenting the first significant South Asian community in the United States. The collection includes over 1,300 photographs, rare archival films, letters, newspaper articles, songs, and audio interviews of South Asians who arrived in California from the Punjab region of north India beginning in the 1890s. The collection is curated by Dr. Nicole Ranganath, a historian, filmmaker, and faculty member in the UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program. The materials were contributed by Yuba City’s Punjabi American Heritage Society, Mrs. Manjeet Sibia, ...

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

Ellen Isham Schutt (1873-1955) was an illustrator with the United States Department of Agriculture who was active from 1904-1914. This collection contains 286 original watercolors of fruits, mostly apples, rendered by Schutt for the University of California.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections