UC Davis

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

Sherry-Lehmann Wine & Spirits is a fine wine and spirits retailer based in New York City. The company was established in 1934 by Jack Aaron, who was joined by his brother Sam in 1935. Their business, Sherry Wine & Spirits, was named after its first home, the Louis Sherry building on Madison Avenue. In 1965, the Aaron brothers purchased a competing business founded by Morris Lehmann, thus becoming Sherry-Lehmann Wine & Spirits.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

Colby E. " Babe" Slater (1896-1965) graduated from the University Farm School (now the University of California, Davis) in 1917. He served with the United States Army Medical Corps in France during the First World War. An outstanding athlete, Slater won Olympic gold medals for rugby in 1920 and 1924. Around 1927, he bought land in Clarksburg, California where he farmed for many years. Slater was active in organizations associated with athletics; agriculture; the University of California, Davis; and Yolo County, California. The Colby E. " Babe" Slater Collection (1906-2001, bulk 1917-1957) contains correspondence, diaries, publications, ephemera, photographic material, and ...

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

These slides are part of a slide show that Stumpf assembled to illustrate the "then and now" images of the University of California, Davis campus. Buildings represented in the collection include: the Memorial Union, Kerr Hall, Wellman Hall, Olson Hall, Sproul Hall, the Law School (King Hall), the Engineering complex, the Chemistry complex, Storer Hall, and Briggs Hall, among others. Stumpf took photographs of these construction sites before, during, and after construction. Several images of the city of Davis are present. Scripts and audiocassettes of the slide show are included.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

The collection contains photographic prints and negatives, and depicts buildings and grounds, faculty and staff, annual events such as Picnic Day, campus events, classes and classrooms, student clubs and activities, departments, and sporting events.

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, University Archives