Comprises photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, banquet camera photographs, transparencies, ephemera, correspondence, promotional materials, press releases, and newsletters collected by the California Wool Growers Association for use in publication or possible publication in the association's journal California Livestock News. Photographs depict the promotion of the wool and sheep industries and the marketing of lamb meat and wool. Also includes images of various cattle and sheep breeds, sheep ranchers, California Wool Growers Association members, agricultural professionals, and livestock shows and sales.

The California Wool Growers Association was organized on September 18, 1860, when fifty sheep ranchers gathered in the pavilion of the State Agricultural Society in Sacramento to address the concerns of West Coast sheep producers. The ranchers’ objectives were access to markets on the East Coast, to resist efforts to establish a monopoly in the wool market, and to foster better sheep breeding and wool quality. At the conclusion of the meeting eighteen ranchers became members of what was originally known as the California Sheep Raisers and Wool Growers Association.

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