Description
This collection consists of an album of 44 photographic prints, plus ephemera, of the guayule rubber industry in Salinas,
California, circa 1942. The photographer is unknown. Included in the photographs are images of workers planting, harvesting
and manufacturing the guayule; views of agricultural equipment; guayule fields; guayule plants; mills and mill machinery at
Salinas; and Senator Sheridan Downey, Major Evan W. Kelley of the U.S. Forest Service, rubber chemist Dr. David Spence, and
members of the "Truman Committee," which investigated Salinas' guayule industry.
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish 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.