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Title: Dust Bowl migration archive
Dates: 1938-1981
Collection Number: Consult repository
Creator/Collector:
Haslam, Gerald W., 1938-
Extent: 6 linear feet
Repository:
Sonoma State University Library
Abstract: Concerned that the history of the migration of 350,000 "Okies" to California would be lost, Gerald Haslam, Professor of English,
established the Okie Studies Project. Included are examples of the work of Charles L. Todd, a librarian in the U.S. National
Archives, who collected camp songs to add to the folk music collection of the National Archives. The name of the collection
was changed to the Dust Bowl Migration Archive in January, 2008.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research by appointment.
The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary
property.
Dust Bowl migration archive. Sonoma State University Library
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence to Gerald Haslam, stories, music, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs and camp diaries,
correspondence and reports of Charles L. Todd, document the history and experiences of the "Okies" who migrated to California
in the 1930's.
Dust Bowl migration.
Migrant labor.
Migrant agricultural workers.
Labor camps.