Finding aid to the California Wool Growers Association photograph collection, 1909-1984, PC 014

Finding aid prepared by Jaime Henderson

California Historical Society

678 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014

(415) 357-1848

reference@calhist.org

2012

Title: California Wool Growers Association photograph collection

Date (bulk): 1950-1970

Date (inclusive): 1909-1984

Collection Identifier: PC 014

Creator: California Wool Growers Association.

Extent: 34 boxes, 2 oversize box (20 linear ft.)

Repository: California Historical Society

678 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA, 94105

415-357-1848

reference@calhist.org

URL:http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/

Location of Materials: Collection is stored onsite.

Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.

Abstract: 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.

Access

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Publication Rights

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of Library and Archives, North Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], California Wool Growers Association photograph collection, PC 014, California Historical Society.

Acquisition Information

The collection was given to the California Historical Society by the California Wool Growers Association in 1988.

Accruals

No additions are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Jaime Henderson in 2012.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically by folder, with most folders retaining their original folder heading.

Organizational History

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.

The inaugural California Wool Growers Association (CWGA) officers included General Alfred Redington of Sacramento (president), Senator Thomas Flint of Monterey (vice president), and James E. Perkins of San Francisco (secretary). Early records of the CWGA from 1860 to 1906 are presumed to have been destroyed in the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The CWGA offices were based in various locations in San Francisco until 1946 when construction of their headquarters at 151 Mission Street commenced. The CWGA moved their headquarters to Sacramento in 1966.

Scope and Contents

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. The collection includes images from the early 1900s to the mid-1980s, although the bulk of the photographs are from the 1950s through 1970s. 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 photographs and other materials were collected to accompany articles in California Livestock News which kept CWGA members informed of the various issues, events, and happenings in the sheep and wool industries. The photographs are a mix of professional photography and photographs taken by CWGA members and associates. The collection covers many issues affecting the sheep industry including livestock disease, predator damage and control, and brush management.

The photograph collection demonstrates CWGA’s outreach and connection with their members and auxiliary associations such as the American Lamb Council, the 4-H Club, and Future Farmers of America. It also captures important agricultural events such as the California Ram Sale (1951-1985) and the Grand National Livestock Exposition (1928-1984) and illustrates the CWGA’s creative promotional events such as Miss Wool California, Miss Wool America, and Make It Yourself with Wool contests.

Indexing Term

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog:

Sheep industry--United States.

Wool industry.

Wool.

Wool--Marketing.

Lamb (Meat)--United States--Marketing.

Livestock exhibitions.

Sheep.

Sheep ranchers.

Cattle.

Banquet camera photographs.

Contact sheets.

Correspondence.

Ephemera.

Negatives (photographic).

Newsletters.

Photographs.

Press releases.

Promotional materials.

Slides.

Transparencies.

Box 1, Folders 1-2

Advertising 1967-1972, undated

Box 1, Folder 3

Advertising photographs 1977-1978, undated

Box 1, Folder 4

[Agricultural] Industry Advisory Committee 1966

Box 1, Folder 5

All-American Suffolk Ladies Lead Class 1975

Box 1, Folder 6

American Angus Association 1958-1966, undated

Box 1, Folder 7

American Hereford Association 1968-1969

Box 1, Folder 8

American Lamb Council (Wool Week) 1972

Box 33, Folder 1

American Lamb Council (Wool Week), slides 1972

Box 1, Folder 9

American Sheep Producers Council 1955-1972, undated

Box 2, Folder 1

American Wool Council 1960, 1965

Box 2, Folder 2

Animal feeding 1934-1966, undated

Box 2, Folder 3

Auxiliary wool festivals undated

Box 2, Folder 4

Bands of sheep [flocks] 1919, 1969-1971, undated

Box 2, Folder 5

Barbecues and picnics 1927-1972, undated

Box 2, Folder 6

Basque sheep ranchers 1947-1971, undated

Box 2, Folder 7

Branch associations, meetings 1949-1958, undated

Box 3, Folders 1-2

Branch associations, picnics and barbeques 1940-1959, undated

Box 33, Folder 2

Branch associations, picnics and barbeques, negatives 1940-1959, undated

Box 3, Folder 3

Broadmead Farms (Amity, Oregon) 1952-1953

Box 3, Folder 4

Brush control and range improvement 1950-1965, undated

Box 4, Folder 1

C photographs, general 1980, undated

Box 4, Folder 2

C. M. Volkman and Company (Dekalb corn seeds) 1955-1957

Box 4, Folder 3

C and O Sheep Company (Famosa, California) undated

Box 4, Folder 4

California Annual Farm Labor Report 1950

Box 4, Folder 5

California Beef Council 1959-1965, undated

Box 4, Folder 6

California Cattlemen's Association Women's Auxiliary (Cow Belles) 1964

Box 4, Folder 7

California Farm Bureau Marketing Association 1963-1965

Box 4, Folder 8

California Hereford Association and American Hereford Association 1949-1980, undated

Box 4, Folder 9

California Livestock News photographs 1965-1971, undated

Box 33, Folder 3

California Livestock News photographs, negatives 1965-1971, undated

Box 4, Folder 10

California Livestock Producers Credit Corporation 1966

Box 4, Folder 11

California Livestock Symposium 1970-1973, undated

Box 33, Folder 4

California Livestock Symposium, negatives and slides 1970-1972, undated

Box 4, Folder 12

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1949-1966, undated

Box 5, Folder 1

California Ram Sale 1926-1951, undated

Boxes 5-8

California Ram Sale 1952-1978, 1982-1985

Box 33, Folders 5-11

California Ram Sale, negatives, slides, and contact sheets 1970-1973, 1978, 1982-1983, undated

Box 9, Folder 1

California Range Association 1959, undated

Box 9, Folder 2

California Sheep Improvement Association 1963-1965, undated

Box 9, Folder 3

California Spring Fair 1961, undated

Box 9, Folder 4

California State Fair 1975, undated

Box 9, Folder 5

California State University, Chico 1964, 1975, undated

Box 9, Folder 6

California State University, Fresno 1968,1980

Box 9, Folder 7

California State Wildlife Conservation Board 1949

Box 9, Folder 8

California Wool Growers Association, board of directors and officers 1938-1976, undated

Box 9, Folder 9

California Wool Growers Association, general 1945-1969, undated

Box 33, Folder 12

California Wool Growers Association, general, negatives and slides undated

Box 9, Folder 10

[California Wool Growers Association], trademark undated

Box 34, OV Box 1, Folders 1-5

California Wool Growers Association annual convention 1922-1924, 1926, 1928

Box 9, Folders 11-13

California Wool Growers Association annual convention 1933, 1940, 1949

Box 10, Folders 1-12, Box 11, Folders 1-5

California Wool Growers Association annual convention 1951-1962, 1963-1967

Box 11, Folders 6-8

California Wool Growers Association annual convention 1969-1970, 1974

Box 11, Folder 9

California Wool Growers Association annual convention guests 1961-1965, undated

Box 33, Folders 13-14

California Wool Growers Association annual convention, negatives and slides 1967, 1969

Box 11, Folder 10

California Wool Growers Association Women's Auxiliary group (Bo-Peeps) 1959-1971, undated

Box 33, Folder 15

California Wool Growers Association Women's Auxiliary groups (Bo-Peeps), negatives 1967

Box 11, Folder 11

The California Wool Grower, newsletter 1937

Box 11, Folder 12

Camp Beale, [California] 1952

Box 12, Folder 1

Campbell Ranch (Dixon, California) 1953, undated

Box 12, Folder 2

Cattle, Aberdeen-Angus 1958-1962, undated

Box 12, Folder 3

Cattle, Charbray and Charolais undated

Box 12, Folder 4

Cattle, dairy 1952-1957, undated

Box 12, Folder 5

Cattle, feeder 1955-1963, undated

Box 12, Folder 6

Cattle, herd sires 1953-1963, undated

Box 12, Folder 7

Cattle, Hereford and Polled Hereford 1949-1980, undated

Box 12, Folder 8

Cattle, Santa Gertrudis 1952-1953, undated

Box 13, Folder 1

Cattle, Shorthorns 1954-1966, undated

Box 13, Folder 2

Cattle, miscellaneous 1953-1962, undated

Box 13, Folder 3

Cattle scenes 1936-1963, undated

Box 13, Folder 4

Cattlemen's Associations 1953-1965, undated

Box 13, Folder 5

Cloverdale Ram Sale 1965, 1967, 1972

Box 13, Folder 6

County fairs 1965-1986, undated

Box 13, Folder 7

Cover photographs 1917-1965, undated

Box 13, Folder 8

Cow Palace, San Francisco undated

Box 13, Folder 9

Dekalb Corn Seeds undated

Box 13, Folder 10

Disease, sheep and cattle 1951-1969, undated

Box 13, Folder 11

Ducks, damage to crops 1949-1953

Box 14, Folder 1

Equipment 1950-1980

Box 14, Folder 2

Far Western Columbia Show and Sale undated

Box 14, Folders 3-4

Fashions 1966-1973

Box 14, Folder 5

Future Farmers of America and 4-H Club 1961-1970, undated

Box 33, Folder 16

Future Farmers of America and 4-H Club, negatives undated

Box 15, Folder 1

Goats 1961-1963

Box 15, Folders 2-5

Grand National Livestock Exposition 1949-1984, undated

Box 33, Folder 17

Grand National Livestock Exposition, negatives undated

Box 15, Folder 6

Group photographs 1947-1981, undated

Box 16, Folder 1

Historic photographs 1918-1952, undated

Box 16, Folder 2

Hogs 1947-1965, undated

Box 16, Folder 3

Hopland Field Station (University of California) 1951

Box 16, Folder 4

Horses 1956-1968, undated

Box 16, Folder 5

Hormone treatment experiments 1950, undated

Box 16, Folder 6

Howard Vaughn's Suffolk sheep 1952-1954

Box 16, Folder 7

Importation of sheep 1951-1960

Boxes 16-20

Individuals, A-Z 1900s-1980s

Box 20, Folders 5-6

Individuals, unidentified 1969-1981, undated

Box 33, Folder 18

Individuals, A-Z and unidentified, negatives 1923-1978, undated

Box 21, Folder 1

International Livestock Exposition 1968

Box 21, Folder 2

International Wool Secretariat 1947-1948

Box 21, Folder 3

Irrigation undated

Box 21, Folder 4

Klamath weed (St. John's wort) 1945, undated

Box 21, Folder 5

Kern County Land Company undated

Box 21, Folder 6

Lamb carcasses 1953-1965, undated

Box 21, Folder 7

Lamb carcass contests 1960-1965

Box 21, Folder 8

Lamb dishes 1956-1967, undated

Box 21, Folder 9

Lamb promotion 1928, 1954-1964, undated

OV Box 2, Folder 1

Lamb Week 1970

Box 21, Folder 10

Les Sutfin Ranch (Tehama County) 1980

Box 33, Folder 19

Les Sutfin Ranch (Tehama County), negatives 1980

Box 22, Folder 1

Livestock shows and sales 1963, undated

Box 22, Folder 2

Livestock tours 1952

Box 22, Folder 3

Lost River Ranch (Klamath Falls, Oregon) 1952-1960

Box 22, Folder 4

Lucy Vassar Ranch (Dixon, California) 1980

Box 33, Folder 20

Lucy Vassar Ranch (Dixon, California), negatives 1980

Box 22, Folder 5

Lucky Hereford Ranch (Gilroy, California) 1954-1964, undated

Box 22, Folders 6-7

Make It Yourself with Wool contests 1951-1980, undated

Box 33, Folder 21

Make It Yourself with Wool contests, negatives 1980

Box 23, Folder 1

Marie Painter Ranch (Modesto, California) undated

Box 23, Folder 2

Meat promotion 1949-1961

Box 23, Folder 3

Miscellaneous ram sales 1952, 1954, undated

Box 23, Folder 4, Box 24, Folder 1

Miss Wool America 1960-1968, 1970-1972

Box 33, Folder 22

Miss Wool America, negatives 1967

Box 23, Folder 5

Miss Wool America (Mary Smiley) 1968

Box 23, Folder 6

Miss Wool America (Frances Elizabeth Mitchell) 1969

Box 24, Folders 2-3

Miss Wool California 1959-1973, undated

Box 33, Folder 23

Miss Wool California, negatives 1967-1969

Box 24, Folder 4

Monterey peninsula undated

Box 33, Folder 24

Monterey peninsula (cypress tree), negative undated

Box 33, Folder 25

Mules, negatives 1950

Box 24, Folder 5

National Animal Disease Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture (Ames, Iowa) 1961

Box 24, Folder 6

National Bank of Agriculture undated

Box 24, Folder 7

National Lamb Feeders Association 1967

Box 24, Folder 8

National Ram Sale 1951-1968, undated

Box 24, Folder 9

National Western Stock Show 1969, 1970

Box 24, Folder 10

National Wool Growers Association 1954-1965, undated

Box 24, Folder 11

National Wool Growers Association, conventions 1939-1965

Box 25, Folder 1

New Mexico Livestock Markets Association 1966

Box 33, Folder 26

New Years Eve party, negatives undated

Box 25, Folder 2

North Bay Wool Growers [Association] undated

Box 33, Folder 27

North Bay Wool Growers [Association], negatives undated

Box 25, Folder 3

Northfork Cattle Company (Alturas, California) undated

Box 25, Folder 4

Oddities 1948-1960, undated

Box 25, Folder 5

Oklahoma State University (Oklahoma Agriculture and Mechanical College) undated

Box 25, Folder 6

Oliva Ranch (Silvio and Louise Oliva) 1952

Box 25, Folder 7

Olsen Brothers sheep 1971-1979

Box 25, Folder 8

Oregon Purebred Sheep breeders Association 1949

Box 25, Folder 9

Ospital Brothers Ranch (Linden, California) 1952-1955

Box 25, Folder 10

Overacker Ranch (Alameda County) 1951

Box 25, Folder 11

Paasch family sheep 1969-1974

Box 25, Folder 12

Purple Circle Dinner 1951

Box 25, Folder 13

Predators, predator damage, predator control 1923-1971, undated

Box 33, Folder 28

Predators, predator damage, predator control, negatives and slides 1972, undated

Box 25, Folder 14

Raleigh Williams Ranch (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1967-1974, undated

Box 25, Folder 15

Ranches 1924-1953, undated

Box 33, Folder 29

Ranches, negatives undated

Box 26, Folder 1

Red Bluff Bull Sale 1956-1963

Box 26, Folder 2

Red Bluff, California 1954-1959, undated

Box 26, Folder 13

Sacramento District Farm Credit Banks undated

Box 26, Folder 4

San Francisco Wool Exchange 1868

OV Box 1, Folder 6

San Francisco Wool Trade Association, 4th Annual Picnic 1929

Box 26, Folder 5, OV Box 2, Folder 2

Sheep, Blackfaced 1975-1980, undated

Box 26, Folder 6

Sheep, Cheviots undated

Box 26, Folder 7

Sheep, Corriedale 1949, 1965, undated

Box 26, Folder 8

Sheep, exotic breeds 1949-1970, undated

Box 26, Folder 9

Sheep, Hampshires 1952-1965, undated

Box 33, Folder 30

Sheep, Hampshires, negatives 1952

Box 26, Folder 10

Sheep, Merino undated

Box 26, Folder 11

Sheep, Rambouillet 1925-1957, undated

Box 26, Folder 12

Sheep, Romeldale 1926-1948, undated

Box 26, Folder 13

Sheep, Romney 1929-1964, undated

Box 26, Folder 14

Sheep, Shropshire 1928-1968, undated

Box 26, Folder 15

Sheep, Southdown 1945-1963, undated

Box 27, Folders 1-5

Sheep, Suffolk 1926-1980, undated

Box 33, Folder 31

Sheep, Suffolk, negatives undated

Box 28, Folder 1

Sheep, Whitefaced 1937-1976, undated

Box 33, Folder 32

Sheep, Whitefaced, negatives and slides undated

Box 28, Folder 2

Sheep, miscellaneous 1951-1980, undated

Box 33, Folder 33

Sheep, miscellaneous, negatives and slides undated

OV Box 1, Folder 7

Sheep Breeders and Shepherds Convention, Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco 1915

Box 28, Folder 3

Sheep closeups 1958-1965, undated

Box 28, Folders 4-5

Sheep dogs and sheep dog trials 1932-1977, undated

Box 33, Folder 34

Sheep dogs and sheep dog trials, negatives undated

Box 29, Folder 1

Sheep in Mesa County and Eagle County, Colorado undated

Box 29, Folder 2

Sheep ranchers 1958-1977, undated

Box 33, Folder 35

Sheep ranchers, negatives undated

Box 29, Folders 3-4, OV Box 2, Folder 3

Sheep scenes 1934-1961, undated

Box 29, Folder 5

Sheep shearing 1947-1984, undated

Box 33, Folder 36

Sheep shearing, negatives 1980, undated

Box 29, Folder 6

Sheepman of the Year 1972-1985, undated

Box 33, Folder 37

Sheepman of the Year, negatives 1984

Box 29, Folder 7

Sheepmen's meetings 1929, 1938, undated

Box 30, Folder 1

Sheepskins (color) 1971

Box 33, Folder 38

Sheepskins (color), negatives undated

Box 30, Folder 2

Solano County Wool Growers undated

Box 33, Folder 39

Solano County Wool Growers, negatives undated

Box 30, Folder 3

South San Francisco Union Stockyards 1951-1958, undated

OV Box 2, Folder 4

Spinning wool undated

Box 30, Folder 4

Spraying sheep 1957

Box 33, Folder 40

Spraying sheep, negatives 1951

Box 30, Folder 5

Sterling Farms (Todd and Carol Burnett, Lodi, California) undated

Box 30, Folder 6

Stockton AG Exposition 1980-1981

Box 30, Folder 7

Stockyards and meat packers 1935-1963, undated

Box 30, Folder 8

Stony Point Ranch (Petaluma, California) 1980, undated

Box 30, Folder 9

Swift and Company 1950, undated

Box 33, Folder 41

Swift and Company, negatives undated

Box 30, Folder 10

Tehama County Farm Advisors Office (Northern California Woolgrowers Sheep and Wool School) 1956-1961

Box 30, Folder 11

Transportation of livestock 1935-1954, undated

Box 33, Folder 42

Transportation of livestock, negatives undated

Box 30, Folder 12

Transportation of wool 1935, undated

Box 30, Folder 13

Tri-State Hereford Association 1953

Box 30, Folder 14

Tri-State Livestock Credit Corporation 1949-1953

Box 31, Folder 1

Union Pacific Railroad Company undated

Box 31, Folder 2

Union Sheep Company 1954

Box 31, Folder 3

University of California, College of Agriculture 1926

Box 31, Folder 4

University of California, Davis 1925-1966

Box 31, Folder 5

Valley Livestock Marketing Association 1955-1959

Box 31, Folder 6

Vandalism 1965

Box 31, Folder 7

W photograph, general 1954, undated

Box 31, Folder 8

W. S. Orvis and Sons, Snow Ranch (Farmington, California) 1958-1960

Box 31, Folder 9

Weed control 1948-1962

Box 31, Folder 10

Western Range Association 1966, undated

Box 31, Folder 11

Wool 1927-1975, undated

Box 33, Folder 43

Wool, negatives undated

Box 31, Folder 12

Wool and Lamb Promotion News 1970-1971

Box 31, Folder 13

Wool Bureau, Incorporated 1948-1965, undated

Box 32, Folders 1-2

Wool shows 1930-1986, undated

Box 33, Folder 44

Wool shows, negatives 1983

Box 32, Folder 3

Woolknit Associates, Incorporated undated

Box 32, Folder 4

Miscellaneous photographs 1950-1978, undated

Box 33, Folder 45

Miscellaneous, negatives, and contact sheets undated