UC Davis
UC Davis
- Location: Davis, CA
- Phone: (530) 752-1621
- Email: speccoll@ucdavis.edu
- Website: https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/special-collections/
Collections at UC Davis
Linda Mabalot papers
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
47 Items
Lorraine Agtang collection
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
72 Items
Lug and Can Label Collection
The Lug and Can Label collection consists of more than 4,800 labels created for containers of fruits, vegetables, and other produce and food goods. These labels record packaging and marketing innovations between circa 1890-1970. Producers and distributors began using paper labels to identify the brand name and packing location of boxes of fresh fruit in Southern California in the 1880s, replacing the earlier methods of identifying shipments of fruit: stencilling, stamping, or burning the brand information on the wooden crates. The completion of the transcontinental railroad and establishing a national transportation network expanded the potential market for California fruit all ...
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
3,479 Items
McKinnon and Ruble Families Papers
The McKinnon and Ruble Families collection includes records of a physician and rancher in the California Delta region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aloysius John McKinnon (1870-1933) was born in San Francisco to Daniel A. and Catherine MacDonald McKinnon. Aloysius had three older siblings: Louise (Sister Mary Emerentiana), Augustine (Brother V. Leo), and William Bernard. Circa 1890, Aloysius joined his family's well-established San Francisco lumber and shipping business, MacDonald and McKinnon. In 1900, while studying medicine at the University of California, Medical Department in San Francisco, Aloysius married Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ruble (1875-1916). The couple had been ...
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
27 Items
Panama Pacific International Exposition Collection
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
340 Items
Picnic Day Collection
Picnic Day, the University of California, Davis annual Open House, has been a tradition on campus since 1909. The digital collection includes programs from nearly every year between 1909-2019. The physical collection also includes newspaper clippings, and memorabilia from the Picnic Day celebrations. Funding for the digitization was provided by the Richard H. and Marilyn (Slater) McCapes Family Trust Gift Fund.
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
101 Items
Pierce Family Papers
The Pierce Family Papers (1841-1940) were created or collected by this prominent, pioneering Davisville, California (Davis) family. George W. Pierce, Jr. is played a significant role in the founding of the University of California, Davis by energetically campaigning to have the University Farm located in his hometown of Davisville. The portion of the collection presented here consists of photographs (1878-1929) of the Pierce Family; Yolo County and Sacramento Valley sites; agricultural activities on the Pierce Ranch near Davisville and other Yolo County locations; the California Almond Growers' Exchange; the University of California; and other topics.
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
50 Items
Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive
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
1,298 Items
Roth (Raymond F.) Papers
Raymond F. Roth (1915-1991) spent much of his career working for farm labor programs. After a brief stint from 1941 to 1942 working for the Farm Security Administration, Roth joined the U.S. Navy during World War II. After his return to civilian life, Roth worked in different capacities for the California Department of Employment, Farm Labor Service. His work included the administration of migrant labor and housing programs for U.S. citizens as well as Mexican Nationals in the Bracero Program. Photographs document the Farm Labor Service's processing of the Braceros. Also included are images of Farm Labor Service staff members ...
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
38 Items
Schutt (Ellen I.) Pomological Watercolors
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
286 Items