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Personalities and Activities in the Self-Help Cooperatives of California: Photographs from the Exhibition, 1933-1934
BANC PIC 1905.17139:1-80--A
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Collection Title: Personalities and Activities in the Self-Help Cooperatives of California: Photographs from the Exhibition,
Date: 1933-1934
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.17139:1-80--A
Extent:
80 mounted photographic prints : black and white ; various sizes
72 digital objects
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Original photographs are restricted. Use viewing prints with call number BANC PIC 1905.17139:1-80--PIC.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to reproduce photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
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 reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item],
Personalities and Activities in the Self-Help Cooperatives of California: Photographs from the Exhibition, BANC PIC 1905.17139:1-80--A, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were
copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and
the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC:
Title: Farm Security Administration Collection
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-R 1:
Title: Paul Schuster Taylor Papers
The Personalities and Activities of the Self-Help Cooperatives of California photographs were given to The Bancroft Library
by Paul Schuster Taylor in 1957.
The Personalities and Activities of the Self-Help Cooperatives of California collection contains 80 mounted silver gelatin
prints taken from 1933-34. The prints were originally included in the "Exhibition of Photographs and Etchings of Personalities
and Activities in the Self-Help Cooperatives of California," held in 1934 at The University of California at Berkeley. The
exhibition was organized by University of California Professor of Economics Paul Schuster Taylor, following his study of the
self-help cooperative organizations formed in California during the early years of the Great Depression. The intent of the
exhibition was to document the diverse range of individuals (often referred to as "cooperators"), activities, and challenges
which characterized the cooperative effort. Among the organizations represented in the exhibition were the Unemployed Exchange
Association, the Pacific Cooperative League, the Orange County Cooperatives, the Unemployed Citizens' League, and the Unemployed
Cooperative Relief Association. The exhibition photographs were provided by the California State Emergency Relief Administration
and by the photographers. Also featured in the exhibition were etchings by Dayton Brown of Los Angeles.
The collection includes the work of such notable California photographers as Dorothea Lange, Willard Van Dyke, Blanding Sloan,
and Imogen Cunningham. Other photographers featured in the collection include Mary Jeanette Edwards, C.F. Adam, and Professor
Taylor.