Rick Tejada-Flores United Farm Workers (UFW) negative and contact sheet collection, 1972-1975

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Summary

Creators:
Tejada-Flores, Rick
Abstract:
This is a collection of negatives and contact sheets of photos shot from 1972 through 1975 by Rick Tejada-Flores, who was on staff of the United Farm Workers (UFW) at the time. The collection contains images of UFW events and activities, including campaigns, pickets, boycotts, marches, meetings, picnics, elections, and the opening of a health clinic, all of which took place in Coachella, Salinas, Selma, Bakersfield and other Central Valley locales, and Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Berkeley. Demonstrations include those against E. & J. Gallo Winery, Kovacevich Farms, and Proposition 22, and some images show police arrests of members of the UFW and the Teamsters. Images also consist of workers, mostly Mexican Americans, in the field, migrant labor camps, and UFW headquarters (La Paz) in Keene, California. A major portion of the collection contains images of Cesar Chavez and other UFW figures, including Dolores Huerta, Richard Chavez, Fred Ross, Sr., and Wayne "Chris" Hartmire.
Extent:
0.4 Cubic Feet (1 box)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Rick Tejada-Flores United Farm Worker Negative and Contact Sheet Collection, larc.pho.0059, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University.

Background

Scope and content:

This is a collection of negatives and contact sheets of photos shot from 1972 through 1975 by Rick Tejada-Flores, who was on staff of the United Farm Workers (UFW) at the time. The collection contains images of UFW events and activities, including campaigns, pickets, boycotts, marches, meetings, picnics, elections, and the opening of a health clinic, all of which took place in Coachella, Salinas, Selma, Bakersfield and other Central Valley locales, and Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Berkeley. Demonstrations include those against E. & J. Gallo Winery, Kovacevich Farms, and Proposition 22, and some images show police arrests of members of the UFW and the Teamsters. Images also consist of workers, mostly Mexican Americans, in the field, migrant labor camps, and UFW headquarters (La Paz) in Keene, California. A major portion of the collection contains images of Cesar Chavez and other UFW figures, including Dolores Huerta, Richard Chavez, Fred Ross, Sr., and Wayne "Chris" Hartmire. Images show Cesar Chavez engaged in speaking, demonstrating, marching, working in his office, and walking the grounds at La Paz. Rick Tejada-Flores and LeRoy Chatfield, a top aide to Cesar Chavez, supplied the identification of people, events, and locations in these photographs.

Biographical / historical:

Rick Tejada-Flores is a documentary filmmaker who was on the staff of the United Farm Workers when he took the photographs in this collection. His first film, ¡Si Se Puede!, was made for the United Farm Workers in 1973.

Arrangement:

Arranged as received. Some negative strips filed out of sequence.

Physical location:
Collection available onsite.
Physical facet:
1,730 black and white negatives and 44 contact sheets
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Labor Archives and Research Center (LARC), J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Rick Tejada-Flores United Farm Worker Negative and Contact Sheet Collection, larc.pho.0059, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University.

Location of this collection:
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722, US
Contact:
(415) 405-5549
specialcollections@sfsu.edu
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