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
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Email: speccoll@ucdavis.edu
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.
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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

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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

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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.
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.
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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.
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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

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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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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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

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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.
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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

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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.