Gonzalez (Gilbert G.) Interviews, 1975-2004, bulk Bulk, 1975-1990

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Summary

Title:
Gilbert G. Gonzalez interviews
Dates:
1975-2004, bulk Bulk, 1975-1990
Creators:
Gonzalez, Gilbert G., 1941-
Abstract:
This collection contains sixty-three audio tapes of interviews by Gilbert G. Gonzalez with individuals associated with the citrus industry in Orange County in the first half of the twentieth century. These interviews were conducted for Gonzalez's monograph, Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1994).
Extent:
2.6 linear feet (7 boxes)
Language:
Collection materials are in English and Spanish .

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains sixty-three audio tapes of interviews by Gilbert G. Gonzalez with individuals associated with the citrus industry in Orange County in the first half of the twentieth century. These interviews were conducted for Gonzalez's monograph, Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1994). The collection includes an interview with Felicitas Mendez, one of the parents involved in the United States federal court case Mendez v. Westminster School District, which challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools.

Processing information:

The recordings were reformatted and copied onto compact discs (CDs) in 2011 for preservation and access purposes.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Carole McEwan; Audra Eagle Yun
Date Prepared:
© 2013
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-08-26T15:42-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Contents have been reformatted and have digital preservation copies. Access to original audio tapes is restricted; researchers may request listening copies. The copies may only be used in the UC Irvine Libraries Special Collections and Archives Reading Room and may not be duplicated.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. Due to privacy and copyright concerns, these materials may not be duplicated or published.

Location of this collection:
P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA , US
Contact:
(949) 824-3947
spcoll@uci.libanswers.com
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