Inventory of the Floyd Halleck Higgins Photographs of Mexican Sugar Beet
Workers
Patricia C. Inouye
Department of Special Collections
General Library
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616-5292
Phone: (530) 752-1621
Fax: (530) 754-5758
Email: speccoll@ucdavis.edu
© 2009
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Creator:
Higgins, Floyd Halleck, 1886-1975.
Title: Floyd Halleck Higgins Photographs of Mexican Sugar Beet Workers
Date: 1942
Extent:
0.8 linear feet; 196 prints and negatives
135 digital images
Abstract: Floyd Halleck Higgins was born on May 15, 1886, in Keokuk, Iowa. After graduating
from Iowa State College in Ames, he moved to Chicago and western Canada to work in a variety of public
relations positions including Director of Public Relations, National Association of Farm Equipment
Manufacturers (1922-1926). Higgins moved to California in 1927 where he became the News Editor for
Caterpillar Tractor Company. In 1933, when Caterpillar moved its corporate headquarters to Peoria,
Illinois, Higgins chose to stay in California where he worked as a free-lance writer. His articles
appeared in Pacific Rural Press, Farm Implement News, Diesel Progress, Rice Journal, and other
agricultural journals. In 1942, Higgins took photographs of Mexican workers entering the United States "brought
in for the [sugar] beet harvest" for California Fields Crops, Inc. and as Higgins explains in a letter
that he tried "to catch a lot of the social side in pictures." The photographs were taken mainly in the
agricultural areas of the California communities of Woodland, Pleasanton, Manteca, and
Salinas.
Physical location: Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as
many are stored offsite.
Repository:
University of California, Davis. General Library. Dept. of Special
Collections.
Davis, California 95616-5292
Collection number: D-494
Language of Material: Collection materials in English.
Biography
Floyd Halleck Higgins was born on May 15, 1886, in Keokuk, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State College
in Ames, he moved to Chicago and western Canada to work in a variety of public relations positions
including Director of Public Relations, National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers
(1922-1926). Higgins moved to California in 1927 where he became the News Editor for Caterpillar Tractor
Company. He immediately found that farm machinery history "was gathered by each company's ad men when
they needed to get up something for a 'special number' of some publication in which its ads appeared."
In self defense, Higgins began collecting materials relating to the origins of combines and tractors but
his interests expanded to include all forms of farm mechanization.
In 1933, Caterpillar moved its corporate headquarters to Peoria, Illinois. Higgins chose to stay in
California where he worked as a free-lance writer. His articles appeared in
Pacific Rural
Press
,
Farm Implement News,
Diesel Progress,
Rice
Journal
, and other agricultural journals. He used every opportunity to interview "the men
who were there" and create an historical record supported by material in his ever-growing
collection.
In 1959, Higgins sold his collection of more than ninety file cabinet drawers of research materials, to
the University of California, Davis. The University Library hired him to remain the curator of the
collection, a position he held until 1972 when ill health forced him to retire. He died on February 28,
1975.
Scope and Content
This finding aid is for the portion of the collection that is images of Mexican sugar beet workers in
California.
In 1942, F. Hal Higgins, a free-lance journalist and Safeway Farm Reporter, was given the job of
providing publicity for the Mexican workers coming into California to harvest sugar beets. This was a special,
informal program funded by the United States government under the Farm Security Administration. It is
considered the beginning of what is now called the Bracero System.
"The spontaneous and irregular migration that prevailed gave way abruptly to one that was supervised and
regulated by government." (
Merchants of Labor; the Mexican Bracero Story, Ernesto
Galarza, 1964). The 3000 Mexican men were carefully selected by the Mexican Government, the United
States Government, and California Field Crops, Inc. to harvest the sugar beet crop. The sugar beet crop
was especially large and there was a shortage of farm workers due to World War II. Also called Stoop
Laborers, or Good Neighbor workers by Higgins, the Mexican workers came to top and harvest sugar
beets.
Mexican Nationals in California Agriculture 1942-1959, California Department of
Employment, 1959, states, "World War II created conditions and demands which seriously depleted
California's farm manpower resources at a time when farmers were being called upon to augment production
of food and fiber to maintain civilian and military life...Early in 1942, California farmers faced a
critical labor shortage…Sugar beet growers made the first World War II request for Mexican labor..."
Higgins explained in a letter that he tried "to catch a lot of the social side in pictures." In
Photographing Farmworkers in California, author Richard Steven Street states that
"Higgins followed the braceros out into the countryside, creating a highly original essay on the
vanguard of a labor program that would eventually entice one out of every nine Mexican men north." The
photographs show many aspects of the workers lives: arriving by train, building of the labor camps,
dining and entertainment, and working in the fields. The photographs were taken mainly in the
agricultural areas of the California communities of Woodland, Clarksburg, Manteca, Pleasanton, and
Salinas. The descriptions contained in some entries were made by F. Hal Higgins.
Arrangement of the Collection
Arrangement of the collection is in 4 series, Mexican workers arrive in the United States, Labor camp
construction, Life in the labor camps, and Harvesting the sugar beets.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online
public access catalog.
Higgins, Floyd Halleck, 1886-1975--Archives.
Migrant Agricultural Laborers--California--Pictorial
works
Sugar beet industry --California--History--20th
Century
Historic Buildings--California--Spreckels--Pictorial
works
Documentary Photography--California
Spreckels Sugar Company
Access
Collection is open for research.
Processing Information
Patricia C. Inouye processed this collection and created and encoded this finding aid.
Acquisition Information
Acquired from F. Hal Higgins with generous assistance from the International Harvester Company, Deere
& Company, and Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, 1959.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Floyd Halleck Higgins Photographs of Mexican Sugar Beet Workers, D-494,
Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.
Publication Rights
Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to
publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, General Library,
University of California, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or
imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Series 1.
Mexican workers arrive in the United States
1942
Physical Description:
25 prints and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Mexican workers began arriving in 1942, by informal agreement with the Mexican and United State
Government. They arrived by train and were bused to their labor camps.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0001
Southern Pacific train, SP1275, at station with Mexican workers looking out of
window
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0003
Mexican workers standing in front of bus. The bus, in background, is labeled Pacific
Greyhound Line
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0004
Mexican workers standing in front of bus. The bus, in background, is labeled Pacific
Greyhound Line
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 6 x 13 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican national laborers arrive at Salinas, California." Description by Hal Higgins. (Photo is cropped. The bus, in the
background, does not appear.)
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0007
A large group of Mexican workers walking down a street with a police escort
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0011
Mexican workers entering Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin County], view from
left of Center
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0012
Mexican workers entering Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin County], view from
front of Center
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 16 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Hot lunch for the newly-arrived Mexicans helps the Good Neighbor idea as they arrive to work
at beet topping and loading in California. Mexican officials and U.S. Government men as well
as leaders in the beet sugar industry welcomed them on their Mexican workers arrival." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0013
Mexican workers entering Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin County], view from
left of Center
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 15 x 13 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0014
Mexican workers getting out of truck at Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin
County]
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 16 cm.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0015
Two men with a group of Mexican workers standing near Southern Pacific
train
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 16 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0016
Ten Mexican workers standing near trucks
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0017
One Mexican worker getting into truck
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0018
One Mexican worker getting into truck
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0019
Mexican workers standing in front of a bus with some men on right moving away from
photographer
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0020
Mexican workers getting off train
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0022
Mexican workers with Government Officials by Railway Express Agency station, Salinas,
California
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0023
Mexican workers departing from train station by bus, Salinas, California
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0024
Last group of Mexican workers departing from train station by bus, Salinas,
California
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0026
Government Official with Mexican workers
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0071
Mexican workers in Galt Unified School District school bus
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 16 cm.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0110
Three men standing outside the Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin
County]
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 16 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Chief Agriculturalist of the Holly Sugar Corp., Charles Lavis, center, with Mexican officials
as they talk over the Good Neighbor policies involved in handling the 3,000 imported Mexican
workers as the first trainload arrives at Stockton, Calif. On Sept 29." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0111
Mexican workers outside the Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin
County]
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 17 cm.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0112
Three men, one of them, Chief Agriculturalist of the Holly Sugar Corp., Charles
Lavis, center standing outside the Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin
County]
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 16 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0113
Three men, one of them, Chief Agriculturalist of the Holly Sugar Corp., Charles
Lavis, center standing outside the Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin
County]
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 17 cm.
Box 1:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0114
Three men standing next to two Holly Sugar Corp. trucks
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 17 cm.
Box 2:1
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0115
Mexican workers standing outside the Roberts Union Farm Center [San Joaquin
County]
1942 Sept.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Series 2.
Labor camp construction
1942
Physical Description:
31 prints and negatives
Scope and Content Note
"Labor camps construction and refurbishing was completed before the first workers arrived. Some
labor camps were old Japanese Relocation camps. There were wash houses, dining halls, and
sleeping quarters." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0075
Four workers entering camp building
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 19 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican Sugar Beet Laborers, Weyl-Zuckerman Ranch, Stockton, Cal. Labor Camp Construction" Description by Hall Higgins.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0076
Four workers entering camp building
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19
cm.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0077
Carpenters building a camp building
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Camp Construction for Mexican Sugar Beet Workers, Rindge Tract, Weyl-Zuckerman Ranch,
Stockton, California." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0078
Carpenters building a camp building, two men looking on
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0079
View of labor camp buildings from afar
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0080
View of labor camp construction of buildings with scrap wood pile
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0081
View of labor camp construction of buildings with scrap wood pile
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 19 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Camp Construction for Mexican Sugar Beet Workers, Rindge Tract, Weyl-Zuckerman Ranch,
Stockton, California." Description by Hall Higgins.
c.1
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0082
Seven Carpenters working on a building in labor camp
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0083
Two labor camp buildings with a man standing in front of the buildings
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0084
One man in front of labor camp buildings
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0085
Several Mexican workers at wash basin in labor camp
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0086
One labor camp building with a man standing nearby
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0091
View of labor camp construction of buildings with scrap wood pile
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 19 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Old Jap[anese] labor camp all cleaned up, whitewashed and new carpentering to enclose wash
stands and more showers with hot water at a beet labor camp in the San Joaquin Valley of
California." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.2
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0092
Mexican worker washing himself
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Hot water for baths is important in the housing plans for Mexican workers. Here is a typical
Mexican of the new Mexican workers arrivals enjoying his bath just before dinner immediately
on Mexican workers arrival at his camp. Many camps have enlarged and improved their bathing
and washing facilities for their beet field workers. Spreckels Sugar Company, Mexican
workers, Spreckels, California." Description by Hall Higgins.
c.1
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0093
Mexican worker washing himself
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Spreckels Sugar Company, Mexican workers, Spreckels, California." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.2
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0094
Mexican worker washing himself
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0119
Housing at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
Nov., 1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 10 x 14 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0120
Housing at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
Nov., 1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0121
Cookhouse at Spreckels Sugar Company, Salinas Valley, California
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"More than $100,000 in new buildings, carpentry, screens, paint, whitewash and plumbing went
into Mexican beet field labor camps up and down the state to make the Good Neighbor workers
more comfortable. Here is scene at the cookhouse of the Spreckels Sugar Company, Spreckels,
Salinas Valley." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.1
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0122
Cookhouse at Spreckels Sugar Company, Salinas Valley, California
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Carpenters at work rehabilitating the old Spreckels Sugar Company labor camp dining hall near
the world's largest sigar [sic] beet factory in the Salinas Valley. New screening, paint,
electric lights, plumbing, etc. were installed, checked or put in good working order for the
workers arriving from Mexico City." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.2
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0123
Five Mexican workers standing in front of labor camp buildings, Salinas,
California
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"At Spreckels where the largest beet sugar factory in the world is located, arriving beet
field workers from Mexico found everything whitewashed and cleaned up with new screens on
the cookhouse and much carpentering and painting being done to improve housing and food
sanitation." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0124
One man working on labor camp building at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland
California
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 11 x 17 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0125
One man working on labor camp building at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland
California
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0126
One man walking among the labor camp buildings at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland
California
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 11 x 16 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0154
Five labor camp buildings at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0155
Man with wheelbarrow in front of labor camp buildings
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0156
Labor camp buildings at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0157
Three men building a small building at a labor camp, Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland
California
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 9 x 15 cm.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0158
Three men building a small building at a labor camp, Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland
California
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0159
Labor camp buildings at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California with fields in
foreground
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland [California] Building new housing for Mexican sugar beet
workers 11-42." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 2:2
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0160
Labor camp buildings at Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California with fields in
foreground
1942 Nov. 24
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm
Series 3.
Life in the labor camps
1942
Physical Description:
57 prints and negatives
Scope and Content Note
Mexican workers were housed in labor camps, some of which were located near Spreckels Sugar
Plants in Woodland, and Salinas. There were washing facilities, cooking facilities,
entertainment and church services.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0002
Mexican workers standing in front of church.
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0005
Mexican workers crossing street to enter church
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0006
Mexican workers walking away from church
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0008
Mexican workers seated in an assembly room
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.1
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0009
Mexican workers seated in an assembly room
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.2
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0010
Mexican workers seated in an assembly room
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.3
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0021
Government officials standing in front of church with police escort
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0025
Mexican workers entering church with priest at door
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0027
Mexican workers leaving church
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0028
Two women holding Mexican and American flags with audience
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0029
Two women holding Mexican and American flags with audience
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 12 x 16 cm.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0030
Two women holding Mexican and American flags
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0031
Two women holding Mexican and American flags
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0032
Woman dancing on a Mexican hat
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0033
Woman dancing on a Mexican hat
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican nationals imported to U.S. for sugar beet harvest in World War II were entertained in
public theaters by artists of their own nationality in programs prepared and put on by the
sugar beet industry." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 2:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0034
Woman singing at microphone
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0035
Woman singing at microphone
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0036
Two women dancing, one on a Mexican hat
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0037
Two women dancing, one on a Mexican hat
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0038
Three women entertainers facing camera
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.1
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0039
Three women entertainers facing camera
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.2
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0040
Three women entertainers facing camera
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.3
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0041
Three women entertainers facing camera
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.4
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0042
Three women entertainers facing camera
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0043
Five women entertainers facing camera
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican-American artists ready for a show put on by U.S. sugar beet industry for the imported
Mexican National harvest labor." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0044
Five women entertainers facing camera
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0045
Two women singing at microphone
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican-American entertainers ready for their act at a theater in California where the
Mexican Nationals imported for sugar beet harvest are brough [brought] from camps after work
hours. Description by Hal Higgins.
c.1
Box 1:3
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0046
Two women singing at microphone
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 10 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.2
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0047
Two women singing at microphone
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0048
Man playing piano
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.1
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0049
Man playing piano
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Sugar beet Mexican Labor entertainment. World War II. Spreckels, Woodland [California]
area." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.2
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0050
Man playing piano
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.3
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0051
Man playing piano
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.4
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0052
Man playing piano
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0061
Three Mexican workers, holding hoes, looking at camera, near a building in
Clarksburg, California
1942 Nov. 5
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0064
Six Mexican workers standing beside building with hoes
1942 Nov. 5
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0074
Group of Mexican workers with church in background
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0087
Six Mexican workers standing beside building with hoes
1942 Nov. 5
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Camp Construction for Mexican Sugar Beet Workers, Rindge Tract, Weyl-Zuckerman Ranch,
Stockton, California." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0088
Two Mexican workers sitting in dining hall surrounded by other Mexican
workers
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm
Scope and Content Note
"In the dining room, a pair of Mexican hand ball players relax at Pleasanton, California over
hot Mexican food cooked and served by Mexicans at a beet field labor camp. Better housing,
better food, electric lights, clean dry and warm sleeping quarters, buses to mass on Sunday,
trips to night baseball games, and night schools, where wanted, are some of the Good
Neighbor innovations for Mexican workers announced by Manager J.E. Coke of California Fields
Crops, Inc. in handling 3,000 imported Mexicans arriving to harvest the record beet crop in
California this fall." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0089
Dining hall with long tables and newly arrived Mexican workers standing at the
chairs
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0090
Six men eating in dining hall, cook in background
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0095
Two Mexican workers signing a book
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 11 x 11 cm.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0096
Two Mexican workers signing a book
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0097
Four Mexican workers eating in dining hall
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0098
Woman and young man wearing cook's aprons beside camp building
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0099
Woman and young man wearing cook's aprons beside camp building
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0100
Woman and young man, who is holding a dog, wearing cook's aprons beside camp
building
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Even the Mexican boy waiter's dog is Mexican at this camp near Pleasanton. Cook and waiter
pose outside the dining room as they get ready a hot dinner of nutritious Mexican dishes for
the beet field hands." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0101
Woman and young man who is holding a dog wearing cook's aprons beside camp
building
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0102
Young Mexican man and cook at a serving area
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Happy Mexican cook and waiter ready to serve the hungry Mexican beet field workers as they
arrive for dinner after a day's work and a hot shower." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0103
Five men standing in front of a microphone, one man bowing
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.1
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0104
Five men standing in front of a microphone, one man bowing
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.2
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0105
Five men standing in front of a microphone, one man bowing
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.3
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0106
Five men standing in front of a microphone, one man bowing
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 6 x 10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.4
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0107
Five men standing in front of a microphone, one man bowing
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0108
Five men standing in front of a microphone
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0109
Five men standing in front of a microphone
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:4
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0175
Five Mexican workers in front of camp building, one worker holding a baby doll.
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Series 4.
Harvesting the sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
83 prints and negatives
Scope and Content Note
The sugar beet harvest in 1942 was a bumper crop with no workers to harvest it because of World
War II. California farmers asked the United States government to invite Mexico to send Mexican
workers to California to help harvest the estimated 8 million hundred-pound bags of sugar beets.
Three thousand workers were used to harvest the crop, topping and harvesting the sugar
beets.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0053
Two Mexican workers harvesting sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0054
Four Mexican workers harvesting sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0055
Four Mexican workers topping sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Topping sugar beets after they are plowed out was one of the tough stoop labor jobs that the
sugar beet harvester has eliminated." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0056
Seven Mexican workers harvesting sugar beets beside a truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0057
Three Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0058
Four Mexican workers picking up sugar beets to toss into truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0059
Three Mexican workers picking up sugar beets to toss into truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0060
Three Mexican workers topping sugar beets in Clarksburg, California
1942 Nov. 5
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0062
Eight Mexican workers topping sugar beets in Clarksburg,
California
1942 Nov. 5
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0063
One Mexican worker topping sugar beets in Clarksburg,
California
1942 Nov. 5
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0065
Four Mexican workers harvesting sugar beets
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0066
Four Mexican workers harvesting sugar beets
1942 Oct.
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0067
Four Mexican workers loading truck with sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 2:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0068
Four Mexican workers loading truck with sugar beets, one workers on top of truck.
View from back of truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0069
Four Mexican workers loading truck with sugar beets, one workers on top of truck.
View from front of truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0070
Three Mexican workers loading truck with sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0072
Fourteen Mexican workers sitting on back of flatbed truck holding hoes
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0073
Fourteen Mexican workers sitting on back of flatbed truck waving hoes
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0116
Five Mexican workers harvesting sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0117
Four Mexican workers harvesting sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0118
Three trucks loaded with sugar beets entering Spreckels Sugar Company refinery,
Woodland, California.
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 8 x 14 cm
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0127
Four Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into a truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0128
Many Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into a truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 16 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0129
Four Mexican workers harvesting sugar beets beside a truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0130
Three Mexican workers starting to toss sugar beets into a truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0131
Two stooping Mexican workers and one standing Mexican worker tossing sugar beets into
truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0132
Max Baer leaning on a door of a truck loaded with sugar beets, business man looking
on
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 8 x 13 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.1
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0133
Max Baer leaning on a door of a truck loaded with sugar beets, business man looking
on
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 8 x 10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.2
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0134
Max Baer leaning on a door of a truck loaded with sugar beets, business man looking
on
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0135
Max Baer and Little Max sitting on a Mack truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 12 x 10 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California. Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0136
Max Baer waving while leaning on a Mack truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0137
Max Baer standing next to a Mack truck, obtaining a receipt from the Spreckels Sugar
Company
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0138
Max Baer standing next to a Mack truck, obtaining a receipt from the Spreckels Sugar
Company Refinery
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 8 x 9 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0139
Max Baer talking with Spreckels Sugar Company executives
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 9 x 14 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0140
Max Baer talking with Spreckels Sugar Company executives
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0141
Max Baer unloading a truck full of sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 11 x 14 cm.
Box 3:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0142
Max Baer unloading a truck full of sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0143
Max Baer Standing on runner of Mack truck , with business man looking on.
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.1
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0144
Max Baer Standing on runner of Mack Truck , with business man looking on.
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.2
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0145
Max Baer Standing on runner of Mack Truck , with business man looking on
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0146
Five Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into a truck at Robert Barr's
fields
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican beet workers topping and loading sugar beets on Robert Barr's fields, Woodland,
Calif., 4-42." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0147
Five Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into a truck at Robert Barr's
fields
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0148
Many Mexican workers tossing sugar beets into a truck at Robert Barr's
fields
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0149
Robert Barr standing on the back of a truck with Mexican workers tossing sugar beets
into the truck.
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"President Robert Barr of the Central California Beet Growers' Assoc. And his crew of Mexicans
recently imported into California to save the record crop. Mr. Barr likes the Mexican labor
above all other for beet field work and says his crew had no trouble learning to top and
load beets under his leadership, as they averaged 3 1/2 tons the first week and went up to 4
tons the second week." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.1
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0150
Robert Barr standing on the back of a truck with Mexican workers tossing sugar beets
into the truck.
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 9 x 14 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican beet workers topping and loading sugar beets on Robert Barr's Fields, Woodland,
California, 4-42." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.2
Box 1:5
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0151
Robert Barr standing on the back of a truck with Mexican workers tossing sugar beets
into the truck.
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 19 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican beet workers topping and loading sugar beets on Robert Barr's Fields, Woodland,
California, 4-42." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.3
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0152
Robert Barr standing on the back of a truck with Mexican workers tossing sugar beets
into the truck.
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0153
Spreckels Sugar Company refinery, Salinas, California
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"World's greatest beet sugar processing plant at Spreckels in the Salinas Valley,
[California]." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0161
Truck loaded with sugar beets unloading a sugar factory with sign, "Spreckels
Honey-Dew Sugar", Manteca, California
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0162
Front entrance of Spreckels Sugar Company, Manteca, California
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 14 x 19 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0163
Spreckels Sugar Company, Manteca, California
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 14 x 19 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0164
Spreckels Sugar Company refinery, Woodland, California. View from top of plant
showing piles of sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 14 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0165
Sugar beet pulp being loaded into a truck, Woodland, California
1942 Oct. 22
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 10 x 14 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0166
Sugar beet pulp being loaded into a truck, Woodland, California
1942 Oct. 22
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0167
Line of trucks going to Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
1942 Oct. 22
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.1
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0168
Line of trucks going to Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
1942 Oct. 22
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.2
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0169
Line of trucks going to Spreckels Sugar Company, Woodland California
1942 Oct. 22
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0170
Trucks loaded with sugar beets going down a road (rear facing) to Spreckels Sugar
Company [Woodland, California]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 7 x 13 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0171
Trucks loaded with sugar beets going down a road (rear facing) to Spreckels Sugar
Company [Woodland, California]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0172
Trucks loaded with sugar beets going down a road (front facing) to Spreckels Sugar
Company [Woodland, California]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0173
Three trucks loaded with sugar beets entering Spreckels Sugar Company refinery,
Woodland, California
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:7
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0174
Three trucks loaded with sugar beets entering Spreckels Sugar Company refinery,
Woodland, California [close view]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0176
International Harvester Company crawler with cultivator in a field driven by a worker
[tractor facing forward]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 8 x 14 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0177
International Harvester Company crawler with cultivator in a field driven by a worker
[tractor facing forward]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0178
International Harvester Company crawler with cultivator in a field driven by a
worker [close view]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Damage to center of negative
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0179
International Harvester Company crawler with cultivator in a field driven by a worker
[tractor facing away]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 19 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0180
International Harvester Company crawler with cultivator in a field driven by a worker
[tractor facing away]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0181
Three Mexican workers waving hoes in sugar beet field
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0182
Three Mexican workers hoeing in a sugar beet field
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0183
Two Mexican workers, side by side, hoeing in a sugar beet field
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 10 x 12 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Mexican beet workers Robert Barr Fields, Woodland, California 4-42." Description by Hal Higgins.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0184
Two Mexican workers, side by side, hoeing in a sugar beet field
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0185
Two Mexican workers with back towards camera hoeing in a sugar beet field
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0186
Two Mexican workers with back towards camera hoeing in a sugar beet field
1942 April
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0187
Two Mexican workers hoeing in a sugar beet field
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0188
Two Mexican workers, side by side, hoeing in a sugar beet field [One worker almost
hidden]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0189
Two Mexican workers, side by side, hoeing in a sugar beet field [One worker
hidden]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 14 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
"Stoop labor topping beets." Description by Hal Higgins.
c.1
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0190
Two Mexican workers, side by side, hoeing in a sugar beet field [One worker
hidden]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 18 cm.
Scope and Content Note
c.2
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0191
Two Mexican workers, side by side, hoeing in a sugar beet field [One worker
hidden]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0192
Robert Barr with four Mexican workers behind truck
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 1:6
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0193
Two Mexican workers, one with a stocking cap, hoeing sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: Gelatin Silver Print DOP: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0194
Two Mexican workers, one with a stocking cap, hoeing sugar beets [different
view]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0195
Two Mexican workers, one with a stocking cap, hoeing sugar beets [second different
view ]
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.
Box 3:8
UCD.PIC.D494.2009.0196
One Mexican worker hoeing sugar beets
1942
Physical Description:
1 photograph: acetate negative: 13 x 19 cm.