Ernest Lowe Photography Collection, 1957-2023 RA.007

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Ernest Lowe's Contact Sheet 1960-1966

Physical Description: 0.63 Linear Feet

Access:

The collection is open for research use.

Reproduction Permission:

Copyright is retained by Ernest Lowe. The artist has granted the University of California permission to transmit the works under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Series Description:

This series consists predominately of contact sheets for Ernest Lowe's photographs. A contact sheet is a method of printing all frames from a given film roll on a single photographic paper. This allows the photographer to review all pictures taken from the roll at once and evaluate which ones to enlarge. Lowe generates his own identifier numbers based off his contact sheets, which use a constructed subject heading number and then adds a two-digit number in sequential order to create an identity number for each contact sheet. A small selection of slides and prints can be found within the series. The photographs depict the early formation of Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), living conditions of farm workers, depictions of labor on the farms, and protests undertaken by the AWOC. Arrangement as given by the creator. An item level listing is available upon request.

Box 1

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680-Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC)

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681- AWOC Organizing Conference

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682-Communities, Camps & Homes

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683-Field & Orchard work

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684-Handpicking of cotton in a field near Pixley, mechanical cotton pickers, cotton gin

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685-Agribusiness images: equipment, packing sheds, offices etc.

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686-Coit Ranch (10K acres) in Fresno County: braceros in dorm, picking melons

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687-National Farm Worker Association organizing, Cesar Chavez, Delores Huerta, Luis Valdez, Teatro de Campesinos, union office, Delano-Sacto march, Rally at Capitol, smaller union meetings

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688-Senate Labor Relations committee hearings on farm labor with Senator Robert Kennedy in hearing and outside conversing with Cesar Chavez

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689-The Wilson Family with five kids, self-identified fruit tramps picking salvage grapes and in their small trailer.

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690-Teviston, a Black community on Hwy 99, between Tulare and Delano

Box 2

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Senior Center, Photograph Serial Number 58-11-24A

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Vintage Prints

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Color Positive Slide

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SF Poets

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4 by 6 Contact Sheet

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Miscellaneous

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Ernest Lowe's Negatives 1958-1966

Physical Description: 4.59 Linear Feet

Reproduction Permission:

Copyright is retained by Ernest Lowe. The artist has granted the University of California permission to transmit the works under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Series Description

This series consists of negatives from Ernest Lowe's body of works. The negatives come in a variety of formats, the bulk of the negatives are 35-millimeter and medium-format negatives. There is a small selection of medium and large-format negatives. Lowe generates his own identifier numbers based off his contact sheets, which use a constructed by subject heading number and then adds a two-digit number in sequential order to create an identity number for each contact sheet. To identify the film negative strip, Lowe uses the Contact sheet identifier as the base number and then adds an additional two-digit number for a given row of photograph's found on the contact sheet to signal a negative film roll. An item level listing is available upon request.

Box 1

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680 AWOC Activities 1-6 [Folder 1 of 3]

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680 AWOC Activities 7-12 [Folder 2 of 3]

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680 AWOC Activities 13-18 [Folder 3 of 3]

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681 AWOC Organizing Conference [Folder 1 of 3]

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681 AWOC Organizing Conference [Folder 2 of 3]

Box 2

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681-AWOC Organizing Conference [Folder 3 of 3]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 1 of 10]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 2 of 10]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 3 of 10]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 4 of 10]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 5 of 10]

Box 3

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 6 of 10]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 7 of 10]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 8 of 10]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 9 of 10]

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682-Farm Work Camp and Town [Folder 10 of 10]

Box 4

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683- Field & orchard work [Folder 1 of 8]

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683- Field & orchard work [Folder 2 of 8]

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683- Field & orchard work [Folder 3 of 8]

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683- Field & orchard work [Folder 4 of 8]

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683- Field & orchard work [Folder 5 of 8]

Box 5

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683- Field & orchard work [Folder 6 of 8]

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683- Field & orchard work [Folder 7 of 8]

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683- Field & orchard work [Folder 8 of 8]

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684-Cotton [Folder 1 of 4]

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684-Cotton [Folder 2 of 4]

Box 6

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684-Cotton [Folder 3 of 4]

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684-Cotton [Folder 3 of 4]

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685- Coit Ranch [Folder 1 of 2]

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685-Coit Ranch [Folder 2 of 2]

Box 7

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686-Coit Ranch [Folder 1 of 3]

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686-Coit Ranch [Folder 2 of 3]

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686-Coit Ranch [Folder 3 of 3]

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687-NFWA Organizing [Folder 1 of 5]

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687-NFWA Organizing [Folder 2 of 5]

Box 8

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687-NFWA Organizing [Folder 3 of 5]

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687-NFWA Organizing [Folder 4 of 5]

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687-NFWA Organizing [Folder 5 of 5]

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688-Senate Hearing [Folder 1 of 3]

Box 9

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688-Senate Hearing [Folder 2 of 3]

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688-Senate Hearing [Folder 3 of 3]

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689- Migrant Family Profile [Folder 1 of 3]

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689- Migrant Family Profile [Folder 2 of 3]

Box 10

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689- Migrant Family Profile [Folder 3 of 3]

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691- HUAC

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Don't Cry for Me-De Young Museum, 1961

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Senior Center, Photograph Serial Number: 58-11-24

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Altro Trip

Box 11

item 1

Ernest Lowe's Hard drive 2013-2023

Physical Description: 114 Gigabytes

Series Description

This series consists of Ernest Lowe's hard drive. This hard drive contains digitized photographs, exhibits, projects, and original digital photographs. A one-page document created by Ernest Lowe explaining the hierarchy of the hard drive is available upon request. Some of the content includes but not limited to photographs of past exhibits by Ernest Lowe, Photograph projects of returning to communities from past photograph projects, videos of family reunions, church services, and interviews of residents of Teviston and South Dos Palos recorded in 2015. Arranged by the creator. A file manifest is available upon request.