California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The personal papers of Alice Martin, a civic-minded African-American woman known for her charitable nature and community service, consists primarily of correspondence, employment and war records, photographs, and realia.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Architectural drawings by San Joaquin Valley architect Allen Collins and the Taylor-Wheeler firm. Includes records related to projects in Fresno.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Contains records related to the life and career of California landscape architect Arthur G. Barton, FASLA (1907-1980). Barton designed landscapes for many structures and sites such as Camp Pendleton, Dodger Stadium, and the San Gabriel River Wildlife Sanctuary. The records consist of job files documenting client projects with correspondence, change orders, requests for payment, shop drawings, sketches, and other documents.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Collection consists of blue print sets, preliminary plans and drawings, and brown line prints, related to Ms. Shloss' work as an architectural draftsman at several architectural and engineering firms in Los Angeles. Those firms include Pereira & Luckman Associates, William R. Stephenson, and Victor Gruen and Associates.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The Fairs Collection contains archival and printed material created in three separate offices: Western Fairs Association, a non-profit trade association; Division of Fairs and Expositions, an agency of the California Department of Food and Agriculture; and the Joint Committee on Fairs Allocations and Classification, a legislative group comprised of seven senators and seven assembly members. In addition, material collected through the years by Louis S. Merrill, director of Western Fairs Association from 1945-1972, has been added to the collection.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

This collection contains approximately 225 landscape sketches by English muralist and ceramist Camille Solon. Items in the collection include re-worked pencil sketches of rural locations and landscapes in Britain and northern California, where he lived most of his adult years.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

This collection contains the correspondence, photographs, project files, and drawings of architect Carleton Winslow, Sr., who is known for his work on the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, the Los Angeles Public Library headquarters building, as well as churches and residences in Southern California and Santa Barbara.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Photograph album containing late 19th century and early 20th century photographs, spanning from Banff, Canada southward to San Diego, CA, and many point in between.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection contains materials relating to migrant farm workers on the Central Coast of California, including oral histories, reports, correspondence, strike ephemera, and secondary sources. Photographs taken by Manuel Echavarria documenting the United Farm Worker movement and used in the exhibit "iViva la Causa! A Decade of Farm Labor Organizing on the Central Coast" are included in the collection.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo