Inventory of the Floyd Halleck Higgins Photographs of Mexican Sugar Beet Workers

Jump to Content

Contributing Institutions Collection Guides Browse Map About OAC

What are Collection Guides?

> Home > UC Davis > Special Collections

Collection Guide

∞ https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt309nf08j/

Collection Title:

Collection Number:

Get Items:

Inventory of the Floyd Halleck Higgins Photographs of Mexican Sugar Beet Workers

D-494

Online items available Request items ↗

Contact UC Davis::Special Collections

View entire collection guide

Printable Guide [HTML]

Search this collection

Online Items

Table of contents

1 - 20 of 135 results

Mexican workers arrive in the United States

Southern Pacific train, SP1275, at station with Mexican workers looking out of window

Mexican workers standing in front of bus. The bus, in background, is labeled Pacific Greyhound Line

A large group of Mexican workers walking down a street with a police escort

Mexican workers entering Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin County], view from front of Center

Mexican workers entering Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin County], view from left of Center

Mexican workers getting out of truck at Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin County]

Two men with a group of Mexican workers standing near Southern Pacific train

Ten Mexican workers standing near trucks

One Mexican worker getting into truck

Mexican workers standing in front of a bus with some men on right moving away from photographer

Mexican workers getting off train

Mexican workers with Government Officials by Railway Express Agency station, Salinas, California

Mexican workers departing from train station by bus, Salinas, California

Last group of Mexican workers departing from train station by bus, Salinas, California

Government Official with Mexican workers

Mexican workers in Galt Unified School District school bus

Three men standing outside the Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin County]

Mexican workers outside the Roberts Union Farm Center, [San Joaquin County]

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]

Three men standing next to two Holly Sugar Corp. trucks

1 - 20 of 135 results

Collection Contents

Mexican workers arrive in the United States

Labor camp construction

Life in the labor camps

Harvesting the sugar beets