Finding Aid to the Rick Tejada-Flores United Farm Workers (UFW) Negative and Contact Sheet Collection
Finding aid prepared by Wendy Welker
Labor Archives and Research Center
2019
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722
larc@sfsu.edu
Contributing Institution:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Title: Rick Tejada-Flores United Farm Workers (UFW) negative and contact sheet collection
Creator:
Tejada-Flores, Rick
Collection number: larc.pho.0059
Accession number: 2008-013
Identifier/Call Number: 826
Extent:
0.4 Cubic Feet
(1 box)
1,730 black and white negatives and 44 contact sheets
Date (inclusive): 1972-1975
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.
Physical Location: Collection available onsite.
Language of Material:
English
.
Collection is open for research.
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Corresponding contact sheets accompany most sleeves of negatives, but not all.
[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.
Arranged as received. Some negative strips filed out of sequence.
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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United Farm Workers
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Agricultural laborers' unions -- California.
Labor unions -- Organizing -- California.
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- California.
Agricultural laborers -- California.
Demonstrations -- California.
Strikes -- California.
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993.
Huerta, Dolores, 1930-
Ross, Fred, Sr., 1910-1992.
Hartmire, Wayne C.
Negatives.
Contact sheets.