Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Haslam, Gerald W., 1938- Kinkead, David Haslam, Gerald Haslam, Gerald W.
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 9 linear feet
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Dust Bowl migration archive. Sonoma State University Library
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection is comprised of nine linear feet. Correspondence to Gerald Haslam, stories, music, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs and camp diaries, correspondence and reports of Charles L. Todd, document the history and experiences of the "Okies" who migrated to California in the 1930s. Box 10 includes a subset, the David Kinkead materials, about a camp manager’s experience in multiple Dust Bowl migration camps.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated by Gerald Haslam, 1994 and B.J. Blanchard, 2016.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Dust Bowl migration.
Migrant labor.
Migrant agricultural laborers – California History.
Labor camps.
Dust storms – History – 20th century.
Depressions – 1929.
Droughts – History – 20th century.
Migration, Internal – California – History – 20th century.
Migration, Internal – Oklahoma – History – 20th century.
Migrant agricultural workers.
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Haslam, Gerald.
Todd, Charles L.
Kinkead, David.
Dust Bowl migration
Migrant labor
Migrant agricultural workers
Labor camps
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment.
- Terms of access:
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The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property.
- Preferred citation:
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Dust Bowl migration archive. Sonoma State University Library
- Location of this collection:
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Special Collections1801 E. Cotati AvenueRohnert Park, CA 94928, US
- Contact:
- (707) 664-4152