National Land for People Collection csf.1987.001

Finding aid prepared by Jessi Fishman and Adam Wallace
Processing of this collection was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program.
Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno
5200 North Barton Avenue, M/S ML 34
Fresno, CA, 93740-8014
(559) 278-2595
specialc@listserv.csufresno.edu
12/23/2011


Title: National Land for People collection
Identifier/Call Number: csf.1987.001
Contributing Institution: Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 25.0 Linear feet
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1972-1983
Date (inclusive): 1850-1991
Abstract: National Land for People, founded primarily by George Ballis and Berge Bulbulian, was a grassroots organization most active in California in the 1970s and 1980s, concerned with a number of environmental factors, most notably federal irrigation water use restrictions and the 160-acre limitation provision of the reclamation law as it applied to the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, California. The National Land for People collection measures 25 linear feet and dates from 1850 to 1991, with the bulk from 1972 to 1983. The collection is comprised of legislation and legal papers, land sales documentation, correspondence, financial statements and contracts, reports, scholastic papers, historical and background information, press releases, printed material including newsletters, brochures, propaganda, and campaign materials, maps,charts, newspaper and magazine issues and clippings, notes, photographs, books and journals, ledgers, and other assorted materials pertaining to the history and activities of the organization and some of its founding members.
creator: Ballis, George Elfie, 1925-2010
creator: Ballis, Maia

Scope and Contents

The National Land for People (NLP) Collection measures 25 linear feet and dates from 1850 to 1991 (bulk 1972 to 1983). The collection is comprised of legislation and legal papers, land sales documentation, correspondence, financial statements and contracts, reports, scholastic papers, historical and background information, press releases, printed material including newsletters, brochures, propaganda, and campaign materials, maps, charts, newspaper and magazine issues and clippings, notes, photographs, books and journals, ledgers, and other assorted materials pertaining to the history and activities of the organization and some of its founding members. The collection is arranged in seven series, as described below.
The Reclamation, water and land issues series (1850-1984) represents the majority of the collection, measuring 16.4 linear feet, and is divided into five main sub-series, two of which can be further divided into sub-sub-series. The first sub-series is comprised of materials related to the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation projects and can be divided into three sub-sub-series: The first, the 1902 Reclamation Act, includes legislation, historical information, violations, NLP opinions, residency information, and materials from the Pacific Legal Foundation. The second, the Central Valley Project, including general information, materials regarding the San Luis Unit and its Westlands Water District land sales and land transactions, and materials regarding the Kings River and Kern County areas of California as well as other projects throughout the state. The third sub-sub series, the Bureau of Reclamation general includes the history and general use of water in California, and Bureau of Reclamation projects in cities in California not found in the Central Valley and in other states. The second sub-series is comprised of materials related to the Imperial Irrigation District within the Bureau of Reclamation of California. The third sub-series represents the Panoche Water District, also within the jurisdiction of California's Bureau of Reclamation. The fourth sub-series is comprised of land transactions and land sales that took place outside the Westlands Water District, including railroad company land grants and land sales; and the fifth sub-series pertains to other states' reclamation and water issues and assorted other water and land issues.
The Family versus corporate farms series (1947-1981) measures 20.5 inches and can be divided into three sub-series. The first pertains to legislation and family farm acts, the second to general information and economics of small versus large farm enterprises, and the third to corporate farms and scandals that took place in California and the United States between 1962 and 1981.
The Legislation and politics series (1865-1981) is composed of 12.5 inches of materials relating to hearings, testimonies, and legislation (one sub-series) as well as information pertaining to political figures and their viewpoints and opinions in California, Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States.
The fourth series, entitled Other National Land for People issues (1891-1991), is comprised of fourteen sub-series in alphabetical order, all of which pertain to activities undertaken by NLP throughout its existence. The series measures 5.25 linear feet, and its subseries are: air quality; activism and community organizing; agriculture in general and agribusiness; appropriate technology; associations and organizations; California projects; chemical farming and pesticides; co-ops and cooperative farms and funds; education; farm labor and farm mechanization; land issues including land ownership, reform, trusts, use planning, and farmland preservation; NLP general and historical information as well as materials pertaining to contacts made throughout the country and world; NLP's creations and printed material developed throughout its existence; and power and energy.
The Rural community development series (1972-1982) represents 6.5 inches of the collection and includes reports, printed material, and correspondence pertaining to community ownership, economics of agricultural development, and other related topics.
The sixth series, International materials (1965-1980), measures 1.5 inches and corresponds to foreign ownership of California and United States land as well as to Mexican agribusiness and legislation.
Finally, the seventh series, Maps (1973-1985) spans the remainder of the collection, and is housed in six map tubes. This series consists of maps related to land sales and purchases, as well as assessors and land classification maps.

Related Materials

See also:
The Giffen Inc. collection,1911-1983, Special Collections Research Center, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno
The John Krebs collection, part of the Central Valley Political Archive, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.
The Kenneth L. Maddy papers, 1970-1998, bulk 1987-1995, part of the Central Valley Political Archive, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, online at http://www.cvparchive.org/pdf/maddy_finding_aid.pdf
The Charles (Chip) Pashayan, Jr. papers, 1977-1990, part of the Central Valley Political Archive, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.
The B. F. (Bernie) Sisk papers, 1955-1978, part of the Central Valley Political Archive, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.
The San Joaquin Valley farm labor collection, 1947-1974, online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7199n8d8
The Shimeall (Eleanor) California water collection, 1972-1995 at the University of the Pacific, online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7t1nb5z3
The Paul Schuster Taylor papers, 1660-1997, bulk 1895-1984 at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7489n98b
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) collection, 1965-2004, online at http://scrc.lib.csufresno.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/WILPF.pdf
The Ben Yellen / Charles L. Smith correspondence at the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt287024rm
The Yellen Versus Imperial Irrigation District collection at the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt738nf3p3
The Ben Yellen papers, 1945-1994 at the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0r29n721

Historical Note

National Land for People (NLP), founded under the leadership of George and Maia Ballis, Berge Bulbulian, and a handful of others, started in the 1950s under several different names, including Western Water Resources Council, before being incorporated as the National Land for People Foundation in 1974. George Ballis, a self-described "news reporter, news editor, community and union organizer, still photographer, film maker, organic gardener-farmer, shamanic guide, and teacher," from Faribault, Minnesota, lived in Chicago and San Francisco before accepting a position as labor editor for the Valley Labor Citizen newspaper in Fresno in 1953. In this position Ballis focused on covering the issues of farm labor and farm workers of the time. In 1965 Ballis worked as a part-time labor organizer for the AFL-CIO Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), which worked with the National Farm Workers Union, led by Cesar Chavez. It was also during this time that Ballis and Berge Bulbulian became active in community organizing and that Ballis became the office manager for B. F. Sisk, who was subsequently elected to the House of Representatives to represent Fresno. Ballis was soon put in contact with Paul Taylor in Berkeley, and they began organizing around the state's water and farm labor issues. They produced maps showing the land ownership trends in the new Westlands Water District, which included many farms of surprisingly large size, including one over 110,000 acres owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
This was important because the Newlands Reclamation Act, passed in 1902 to fund large irrigation projects for 16 states in the American west, stipulated that federally funded water could only be used by landholders who owned 160 acres of land or less. However, for decades, large, corporate farming enterprises, as well as the Bureau of Reclamation charged with enforcing the law, were ignoring this restriction. National Land for People used the information they had gathered and maps they had produced to bring a bill to the Senate to force the Bureau to enforce the Reclamation Act's excess land law and break up the large farms and sell them in small parcels to farm workers.
George and Maia Ballis and National Land for People were organizing and gathering information in order to gain equality for working class people. At the same time, George Ballis was photographing farm worker conditions. He then started working with the Fresno Democratic Association, became president, and organized it into the second largest Democratic club in the state of California. When National Land for People became incorporated in 1974, Ballis and the others took their advocacy to Washington, D.C., trying court cases in an attempt to fight the injustices present in California farm labor and publicly-subsidized agriculture water. They succeeded in closing some of the loopholes in Reclamation law that allowed the Westlands Water District to remain exempt from the acreage limitations, but President Reagan thwarted National Land for People, promising that the excess land law would never be enforced. In the middle of the water fight, National Land for People started working with the University of California, Los Angeles, on a study about how the West side could be developed with small communities and small farms and succeed, and they organized farmer co-ops, consumer co-ops, and organic farm experiments. After the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 raised the acreage limitation to 960, they realized that they would never win the big fight against the government and large, corporate farms, and so instead re-focused their energies on other initiatives. National Land for People converted over the course of the late 1970s and 1980s into Sun Mountain, George and Maia Ballis's artistic and environmental endeavor stressing eco-friendly technology, food and energy alternatives, organic gardening, community activism and organizing, and other related issues. George Ballis died in 2010. Maia Ballis continues the legacy of Sun Mountain in Tollhouse, California.

Processing information note

Processing of the National Land for People collection was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno, was awarded a Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from 2010-2012, "Uncovering California's Environmental Collections," in collaboration with eight additional special collections and archival repositories throughout the state and the California Digital Library (CDL). Grant objectives included processing of over 33 hidden collections related to the state's environment and environmental history. The collections document an array of important sub-topics such as irrigation, mining, forestry, agriculture, industry, land use, activism and research. Together they form a multifaceted picture of the natural world and the way it was probed, altered, exploited and protected in California over the twentieth century. Finding aids are made available through the Online Archive of California (OAC).

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property.

Preferred Citation

National Land for People collection, Special Collections Research Center, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The collection was donated by George and Maia Ballis in 1987.

Summary Contents List

Reclamation, water and land issues, 1850-1984 Boxes 1-19
Family vs. corporate farms, 1947-1981 Boxes 19-20
Legislation and politics, 1865-1981 Boxes 21-22
Other National Land for People issues, 1891-1991 Boxes 22-28
Rural community development, 1972-1982 Box 28
International materials, 1965-1980 Box 28
Maps, 1973-1985 Tubes 1-6

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Alinsky, Saul David, 1909-1972
American Agri-Women.
American Farm Bureau Federation.
Anderson, Jack
Andrus, Cecil D., 1931-
Baillie, Jack T.
Baldoni, Kathleen
Barnes, Peter, 1942-
Barry, Frank J.
Bonadelle, John
Boswell, James Griffin
Bowker, Victor
Brazilian Land and Cattle Company.
Brody, Ralph M., 1912-
Brown, Clayton
Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999
Brown, Jerry, 1938-
Brown, Willie L., 1934-
Bulbulian, Berge
Burns, Hugh M., 1902-
Burton, John, 1932-
Burton, Phillip, 1926-1983
Bush, George, 1924-
California Women for Agriculture.
California. Bureau of Reclamation.
California. Office of Appropriate Technology.
Carr family
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Chapman, Oscar J., (Oscar James), 1907-1994
Chavarria family
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993
Church, F. Forrester
Clark, Allen W.
Clark, Norman
Cochran, Dwight M.
Coelho, Tony, 1942-
Cole, Bert L., 1910-
Combs family
Control Data Corporation.
Cranston, Alan MacGregor
De La Cruz, Jessie Lopez, 1919-
Del Monte Corporation.
Denton, John H.
Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation.
Di Giorgio, Joseph
Diener, Frank C.
Diener, Octavia
Diener, Paul Ernst
DiMare family
Dixon, Barbara
Donaghy family
Donna Martin
E. F. Schumacher Society.
Ecklund, James
Enos, Larry J.
Environmental Action Foundation.
Eu, March Fong
Farm/Water Alliance.
Findley, Paul, 1921-
Fisher, Hugo B.
Fortune family
Frampton, Mary Louise
Fresno bee. (Fresno, Calif.)
Frito-Lay, Inc.
Giovannetti family
Goldschmidt, Walter, 1913-2010
Greene, Sheldon
Griswold, Erwin N., (Erwin Nathaniel), 1904-1994
Groefsema family
Haley, James Andrew, 1899-1981
Hammonds family
Hammonds Ranch.
Haskell, Floyd K., 1916-1998
Hernandez, Gloria
Hess, Karl, 1923-1994
Hickel, Walter J., 1919-2010
Holland, David W., agricultural economist
Houlding family
Jackson, Henry M., (Henry Martin), 1912-1983
Jansen, Robert B., 1922-
Jiminez, Ray
Johnson, James P., 1930-
Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Kirihara, Jake
Kirshner, Edward M.
Kline, Allan
Krebs, Albert, 1932-2007
Krebs, John Hans, 1926-
Kuchel, Thomas H.
Lange, Dorothea
Lara family
Lasher, Marc
Lee, Clifford
Lehman, Richard, 1948-
Lowe, Jim
Lynch, William B.
MacDiarmid, John MacLeod
Maddy, Kenneth L.
Magneson, Charles
Martin, Arnold
McAfee, Rodger
McCloskey, Michael
McGovern, George S., (George Stanley), 1922-
Meeds, Lloyd, 1927-2005
Mendelsohn, Robert H., 1938-
Metzler family
Mexican American Political Association. (Calif.)
Michalowski, Judy
Miller, George, 1945-
Milliman, Jerome W.
Mink, Patsy T., 1927-2002
Moore, Charles V.
Morton, Rogers C.B., (Rogers Clark Ballard), 1914-1979
National Family Farm Coalition. (U.S.)
National Land for People.
Nesmith, David
Nieman family
O'Neill family
Pashayan, Charles "Chip", 1941-
Pasnick, Vic
Perkins, Robert M.
Pilibos family
Planet Drum Foundation.
Plaza family
Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998
Reagan, Ronald
Reed, A. Doyle
Ritchie, Mark
Rominger, Richard Elmer, 1927-
San Francisco Examiner.
Schild, Neil W.
Schulz, Orissa M.
Seaton, Fred A., (Fred Andrew), 1909-1974
Shafer, Mark
Sharp, Margaret
Shelley, John Francis, 1905-1974
Smith, Charles L.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Stamenson, Gus
Stamm, Gilbert G., 1911-
Steiner, Wesley E.
Stone, Jack
Sun Maid Growers of California.
Sun Mountain.
Sunkist Growers, inc.
Taylor, Paul Schuster, 1895-1984
Telles family
Temple, Betsy
Thurman, John E.
Udall, Morris K.
Udall, Stewart L.
United Farm Workers Union.
United States. Bureau of Reclamation.
United States. Congress. House.
United States. Congress. Senate.
United States. Department of Justice.
United States. Department of the Interior.
United States. Farmers Home Administration.
United States. General Accounting Office.
United States. Western Area Power Administration.
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Davis.
University of California, Santa Cruz. Agroecology Program.
Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987
Valley labor citizen. (Fresno, Calif.)
Vanik, Charles A., 1913-2007
Villarejo, Don
Von Flue family
Watt, James G., 1938-
Watts, Raymond D.
Weaver, James H., 1927-
Weidert, John
Westlands Water District.
Westlands Water District.
Westside Planning Group.
White, Byron R., 1917-2002
Whitehurst, Dan, 1948-
Williams, Joe
Williamson, Ann
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Woodring, Harry Hines, 1887-1967
Woolf, Jack
Yellen, Ben, 1907-1994
Young Democrats of America.
Young, Douglas Leonard
Activists--California
Agricultural laborers--California
Agricultural laborers--California --Economic conditions
Agricultural laborers--Mexico
Agricultural laborers--United States
Agriculture--California--Central Valley (Valley)
Agriculture--California--Fresno County
Agriculture--California--History--Bibliography
Agriculture--California--Imperial Valley
Agriculture--California--Maps
Agriculture--Economic aspects--California
Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States
Air quality--California
Alabama
Alaska
Appropriate technology--United States
Arizona
Arkansas
Berkeley (Calif.)
Caruthers (Calif.)
Chico (Calif.)
Colorado
Cooperative societies--California
Crops--California
Davis (Calif.)
Del Rio (Calif.)
Drought relief--California
Education--California--Berkeley
Education--California--Fresno
Education--United States--Caricatures and cartoons
Education--United States--Information resources
Family farms--California
Farm corporations--California
Farm mechanization--California
Freedom of information--United States
Fresno (Calif.)
Grass Valley (Calif.)
Huron (Calif.)
Kings County (Calif.)
Lanare (Calif.)
Land grants--California--History
Land grants--United States
Land ownership--California--Maps
Land reform--United States
Land reform--United States--History--Congresses
Land titles--Registration and transfer--California
Land trusts--California
Land trusts--United States
Land use--Planning
Lemoore (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Mendota (Calif.)
Mexico
Oregon
Organizing and managing public services
Palo Alto (Calif.)
Parlier (Calif.)
Pesticides
Power resources--California
Public records--Law and legislation--California
Public records--Research--United States--Directories
Railroads--California--History
Reclamation of land--California
Reclamation of land--United States--Congresses
Reclamation of land--United States--History
Sacramento (Calif.)
San Diego (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)
San Jose (Calif.)
Santa Cruz (Calif.)
Tennessee
Three Rocks (Calif.)
Tulare (Calif.)
Uncovering California's Environmental Collections Project
Washington
Washington (D.C.)
Water districts--California
Water rights--California
Water rights--California--San Joaquin Valley--History
Water use--California
Water use--California--Central Valley (Valley)
Water use--California--San Joaquin Valley
Water--California--Management
Water--Law and legislation--California
Water--Law and legislation--United States
Water--United States
Westlands Water District
Whitesbridge (Calif.)

 

1. Reclamation, water and land issues 1850-1984 and undated

General Physical Description note: Boxes 1-19
 

1.1 U.S. Department of the Interior-Bureau of Reclamation projects

General Physical Description note: Boxes 1-15, Box 16, Folders 1-19
 

1.1.1 1902 Reclamation Act

General Physical Description note: Boxes 1-2
 

1.1.1.1 Legislation, hearings, appeals and reform

 

Early reclamation law 1862, 1877, 1902, 1926, 1930, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1959-1960, 1970-1972, 1975 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 1
 

Bonadelle case (first case against reclamation law violators)

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folders 2-4
 

Indictment 1973-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 2
 

Land sales charts and documents undated

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 3
 

Related incorporation papers 1960, 1972-1975

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 4
 

1975 legislation 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 5
 

1976 legislation 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 6
 

Reclamation hearings 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 7
 

1977 legislation 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 8
 

1978 legislation 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 9
 

1979 S14 legislation

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folders 10-13
 

Legislation, hearings, and amendments 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 10
 

NLP analysis and information 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 11
 

S14 Andrus testimony 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 12
 

S14 news clippings 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 13
 

1979 legislation (non S14) 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 14
 

George Ballis statement before the House Subcommittee on Water and Power 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 15
 

1980 legislation March-May 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folders 16-18
 

Bound, organized house bills 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 16
 

General 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folders 17-18
 

Rulemaking suit: NLP vs. Bureau of Reclamation 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 19
 

House bills articles/clippings 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folders 20-21
 

1982 legislation 1982

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 22
 

1983 legislation 1983

General Physical Description note: Box 1, Folder 23
 

1.1.1.2 General history of reclamation rules

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folders 1-15
 

General reclamation

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folders 1-2
 

General 1970, 1976-1977, 1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 1
 

Phil LeVeen papers on reclamation 1978-1979

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 2
 

160 acre limitation/1902 Reclamation Act - NLP-collected materials 1958-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folders 3-7
 

160 acre violations 1973-1975, 1977, 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 8
 

NLP statements and Paul Taylor on 1902 Reclamation Act

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folders 9-15
 

NLP statements and articles 1977, 1981-1982

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 9
 

Paul Taylor reports 1950, 1958-1967, 1970, 1973-1975, 1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 10
 

Paul Taylor photographs undated

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 11
 

Articles on Paul Taylor and wife Dorothea Lange 1973-1974, 1976, 1978-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 12
 

Paul Taylor correspondence 1951, 1974-1977, 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 13
 

Paul Taylor symposium information 1975-1976, 1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 14
 

Paul Taylor general 1959, 1976-1978, 1980, 1984 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 15
 

1.1.1.3 Residency and lottery

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folders 16-17
 

Residency reports and clippings 1967, 1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 16
 

Lottery clippings 1978-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 17
 

1.1.1.4 Pacific Legal Foundation 1975-1982

General Physical Description note: Box 2, Folder 18
 

1.1.2 Central Valley Project

General Physical Description note: Boxes 3-13
 

1.1.2.1 Central Valley Project general

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folders 1-3
 

General 1945-1946, 1950-1957, 1959-1964, 1966-1972, 1974-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folders 1-3
 

1.1.2.2 San Luis Unit

General Physical Description note: Boxes 3-11
 

San Luis Unit general

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folders 4-11
 

San Luis Project general 1954-1968, 1972-1973, 1975-1981, 1984 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folders 4-8
 

San Luis dam repair 1981-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folder 9
 

San Luis correspondence and memoranda 1945-1947, 1951-1952, 1965-1968 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folder 10
 

San Luis debates 1959-1960, 1966

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folder 11
 

Westlands Water District

General Physical Description note: Boxes 3-11
 

Westlands Water District general

General Physical Description note: Boxes 3-6
 

Reports 1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folders 12-15
 

Printed material, maps and general information 1963, 1975-1977, 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 3, Folder 16
 

Hearings and legislation 1964, 1966-1967, 1976, 1981, 1986

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 1
 

Contracts

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folders 2-12
 

1963 contract 1963

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 2
 

1964 contracts 1964

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 3
 

1965 contract 1965-1966, 1972-1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 4
 

NLP collected Bureau of Reclamation information 1977-1979

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 5
 

WWD allocation and pricing of agricultural water 1979-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 6
 

WWD recordable contract information 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 7
 

WWD Water Contract 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 8
 

WWD proposed contract 1975-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folders 9-11
 

Contracts general 1964, 1972-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 12
 

WWD correspondence 1965-1968, 1975-1978, 1980-1981

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 13
 

WWD clippings 1971-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 14
 

WWD general assorted undated

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 15
 

WWD other

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folders 16-24 Box 5, Folders 1-15
 

Cooperative agreement with California and Interior Department 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 16
 

WWD water rates 1977-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 17
 

WWD wells 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 18
 

Conference on Rural Development 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 19
 

WWD land ownership and water deliveries 1962, 1965-1979, 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 20
 

Illegal water deliveries 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 21
 

WWD farm ownership and connections 1971-1976

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 22
 

WWD pipeline ownership 1970-1972, 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 23
 

WWD unfinished research undated

General Physical Description note: Box 4, Folder 24
 

Hearings 1964, 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 1
 

"Battle of the Westlands" documentary on PBS 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 2
 

WWD groundwater integration 1962-1963, 1976-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 3
 

WWD co-mingling documents 1967, 1970-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 4
 

WWD farm budgets 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 5
 

WWD crop production report 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 6
 

Drainage and land phasing 1958-1959 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 7
 

WWD drainage 1965, 1975-1982

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 8
 

WWD-state treasurer 1973-1976

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 9
 

WWD maps 1952, 1976-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folder 10
 

WWD meetings 1963, 1975-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folders 11-13
 

Excess land sales and land transactions

General Physical Description note: Boxes 5-11
 

Background, contracts, correspondence and applications 1964-1966, 1971-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 5, Folders 14-18
 

Individual corporations' land sales and land transactions

General Physical Description note: Boxes 6-11
 

ACCO (Anderson, Clayton, and Company)

General Physical Description note: Box 6, Folders 1-3
 

General 1962, 1966, 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 6, Folder 1
 

ACCO sales 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 6, Folders 2-3
 

ACCO/Telles/Carr 1955, 1961, 1968-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 6, Folders 4-14
 

Telles

General Physical Description note: Box 6, Folders 15-17 Box 7, Folders 1-3
 

Sales documents originals 1971, 1977-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 6, Folder 15
 

Telles-Giffen sales 1974

General Physical Description note: Box 6, Folders 16-17, Box 7, Folder 1
 

Telles other sales 1973, 1975-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folders 2-3
 

Air-Way Farms 1973-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folders 4-5
 

Borba Bros Farms 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 6
 

Clayton Brown 1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 7
 

Brucker Trust 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 8
 

Cal-Ag Farms 1968, 1972-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folders 9-11
 

California Farm Management 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 12
 

Calplans/California Security Plans 1967, 1972, 1975 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 13
 

Campbell 1972, 1974, 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 14
 

Cantua Agricultural Partners I-VI 1973-1974, 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folders 15-16
 

Cinco Farms 1974, 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 17
 

Coelho Bros. 1932, 1946, 1963, 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 18
 

Coit 1958, 1971, 1974-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 19
 

Cory sale 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 20
 

D. H. Farms Inc. 1974-1976

General Physical Description note: Box 7, Folder 21
 

Deal 1975-1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 1
 

Diener

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folders 2-3
 

General 1953-1958, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 2
 

Octavia Diener campaign 1978-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 3
 

DiGiorgio 1963-1969 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 4
 

Eaton/Buckingham 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 5
 

Giffen 1946, 1952, 1969, 1971-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folders 6-9
 

Golden Vineyard (not SP) 1971

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 10
 

Gragnani Bros. 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 11
 

Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold 1965, 1971, 1972, 1974

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 12
 

Harnish 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 13
 

O. L. Harrel 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folder 14
 

Harris Farms 1947, 1961, 1964-1965, 1968-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 8, Folders 15-16 Box 9, Folders 1-3
 

Jubil Farms, Inc. 1974-1975, 1980-1981

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folders 4-5
 

Kings County Development Company 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 6
 

Kriesant Operating Company, Inc. 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folders 7-8
 

Lara Farms, Inc. 1961, 1974, 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 9
 

Lopez Land 1974-1975, 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 10
 

Jim Lowe, Inc. 1974, 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 11
 

M and M Farms 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 12
 

A. H. Martin, Inc. 1975-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 13
 

McCarthy-Southdown 1969-1975, 1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folders 14-15
 

Molsen Cotton Company 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 16
 

Mouren Farming 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 17
 

Murietta Farms 1961, 1964

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 18
 

Old West Ranch Co. 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 19
 

J. E. O'Neill, Inc. 1961, 1975-1977, 1980, 1982

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 20
 

O'Neill-Westlands-Mauz Trust (Edwin R. O'Neill) 1976-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folders 21-22
 

Pacific Metzler Farms 1972-1975

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 23
 

Sumner Peck Ranch 1949, 1968-1971, 1974-1977, 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 9, Folder 24
 

Pilibos Bros, Inc. 1953, 1955-1956, 1974, 1975, 1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 1
 

Marguerite Pratt 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 2
 

Pucheu Properties 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 3
 

Rabb Brothers 1977-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 4
 

Reece sales to Bennett, Gordon 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 5
 

Rusconi 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 6
 

Southern Pacific

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folders 7-19
 

Southern Pacific appraisal report and correspondence 1975-1976

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 7
 

Southern Pacific water stealing case 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folders 8-9
 

Southern Pacific well and maps 1971, 1974, 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 10
 

Southern Pacific proposed sales to Chavarria Farms 1972, 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 11
 

Southern Pacific sales to Giovannetti/Groefsema 1973-1976, 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folders 12-13
 

Southern Pacific sales to Combs 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 14
 

Southern Pacific proposed sale to James L. Marshall 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 15
 

Southern Pacific sales to Ronald Nunn Farms 1975-1976

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 16
 

Southern Pacific sales to Von Flue Bros Inc. 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 17
 

Southern Pacific proposed sale to James Renton 1974, 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 18
 

Southern Pacific sales to James and Gail McKinney 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 19
 

South Lake Farms (Bangor Punta) 1959, 1977, 1979-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 20
 

Standard Oil/Chevron Land Deal 1976, 1978-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 21
 

Jack Stone 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 22
 

Sherman Thomas Ranch 1958, 1959, 1965, 1972-1974, 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 23
 

Timco-Murietta Farms Division 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 24
 

Vasto Valle Farms, Inc. 1973-1974

General Physical Description note: Box 10, Folder 25
 

Western Farmlands 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 11, Folders 1-2
 

Westside Land Co. 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 11, Folder 3
 

Westward Farms 1974-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 11, Folders 4-8
 

Jack Woolf/Woolf Farming Co. of California, Inc. 1974, 1977-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 11, Folder 9
 

California Westside Farmers 1977-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 11, Folders 10-13
 

1.1.2.3 Kings River, Tulare Lake and Pine Flat Dam

General Physical Description note: Box 11, Folders 14-16; Box 12, Folders 1-15
 

Kings River 1940-1964, 1968-1972, 1974, 1976-1983 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 11, Folders 14-16; Box 12, Folders 1-7
 

Tulare Lake basin and canal 1955, 1969, 1973, 1975-1976, 1978-1980, 1983 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folders 8-12
 

Pine Flat Dam/Reservoir 1940-1950, 1956, 1958-1962, 1971-1972, 1976-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folders 13-15
 

1.1.2.4 Kern County, Delano and Earlimart

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folders 16-25
 

Kern County general 1961-1962, 1978-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folder 16
 

Kern Water Agency 1970, 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folder 17
 

Bowker vs. Morton and Kern County Water Agency 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folder 18
 

Kern River 1961

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folder 19
 

Kern Land Company 1959, 1960-1962, 1964-1970, 1973-1976, 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folders 20-21
 

Kern Lake Farms land sales 1974-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folders 22-23
 

Delano-Earlimart Irrigation District general 1964

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folder 24
 

DiGiorgio land sales 1964-1968 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 12, Folder 25
 

1.1.2.5 Central Valley Project - other

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folders 1-6
 

San Joaquin Valley 1974, 1978-1979

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 1
 

Mid-Valley Canal 1977-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 2
 

Auburn Dam 1961-1962, 1965, 1977-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 3
 

New Melones 1974, 1977-1980, 1982-1983 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 4
 

Contra Costa 1982

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 5
 

Shasta Dam 1964, 1969, 1978-1979, 1982

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 6
 

1.1.3 Bureau of Reclamation and California water

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folders 7-18; Boxes 14-15; Box 16, Folders 1-19
 

1.1.3.1 Bureau of Reclamation general

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folders 7-12; Box 14
 

General 1970-1972, 1975-1977, 1981-1982

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 7
 

Basic solicitor's opinions 1974-1976

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 8
 

Land ownership survey on federal reclamation projects 1946

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 9
 

Task force report on water marketing 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 10
 

NLP correspondence with Bureau of Reclamation 1975, 1979-1981

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folder 11
 

Annual reports 1973, 1975-1982

General Physical Description note: Box 13, Folders 12-16; Box 14, Folders 1-3
 

Assessment records 1915, 1921-1928 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 14, Folder 4
 

Repayment of reclamation projects 1972

General Physical Description note: Box 15, Folder 1
 

1.1.3.2 California water general 1945, 1953, 1958-1962, 1966-1968, 1972-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 15, Folders 1-4
 

1.1.3.3 Bureau of Reclamation projects in other California cities

General Physical Description note: Box 15, Folders 5-6; Box 16, Folders 1-10
 

Sacramento, San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay 1969, 1975-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 15, Folder 5
 

Sacramento diverters 1964, 1974

General Physical Description note: Box 15, Folder 6
 

Ivanhoe Irrigation District 1926, 1949, 1957, 1958 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 1
 

San Felipe 1977, 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 2
 

Hetch Hetchy 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 3
 

Delta Water Plan 1978-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 4
 

Buttonwillow Improvement District 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 5
 

Dams 1975-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 6
 

California Aqueduct 1976, 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 7
 

Water litigation-Buttes Gas-McFarland 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 8
 

Allen Camp undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 9
 

Owens Valley 1950, 1976-1979

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 10
 

1.1.3.4 Bureau of Reclamation projects in other states

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folders 11-19
 

Columbia River Basin, Washington state

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folders 11-12
 

Holland and Young reports on economics of Columbia Basin 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 11
 

Kezis report on economies of size and net revenues on Columbia Basin farms 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 12
 

Clippings 1975, 1978, 1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 13
 

Washington state (other) 1977-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 14
 

Arizona 1977-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 15
 

Colorado River 1961-1965, 1969 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 16
 

Dakotas 1974-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 17
 

Montana 1961, 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 18
 

New Mexico 1975-1976, 1979, 1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 19
 

Wyoming 1977, 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 20
 

1.2 Imperial Irrigation District

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folders 21-30; Box 17, Folders 1-5
 

General 1930, 1964-1965, 1967, 1971, 1977, 1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folders 21-22
 

Domestic service rates, amendment 1964, 1967, 1970

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 23
 

Imperial Resources Agency, Inc. periodic report 1978-1979

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 24
 

Statistics 1968-1971, 1974, 1978-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 25
 

Maps 1958, 1968 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 26
 

Correspondence 1965-1966, 1978-1979

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 27
 

Reports 1932, 1960, 1964-1970, 1974, 1976-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folders 28-29
 

Publications 1969, 1974 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 16, Folder 30
 

Hearings 1933, 1967-1968, 1970-1973, 1977-1981

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folders 1-2
 

Ben Yellen-related clippings 1977-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folder 3
 

Imperial Valley Fairness Campaign 1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folder 4
 

Clippings 1958, 1964-1971, 1975, 1977-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folder 5
 

1.3 Panoche Water District

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folders 5-12
 

General 1959-1960, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1978-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folder 6
 

Hammonds Ranch

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folders 7-14
 

Hammonds Ranch general 1975-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folders 7-10
 

Hammonds sales to Nieman Family 1975-1976

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folder 11
 

Hammonds sales to Germino family, De Francesco family 1976-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folder 12
 

Hammonds sales to McBee and Barger 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folder 13
 

Hammonds sales to Tim Hall, et al 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folder 14
 

1.4 Non-Westlands land transactions

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folders 15-17; Box 18, Folders 1-14; Box 19, Folders 1-10
 

1.4.1 Railroad land grants

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folders 15-17; Box 18, Folders 1-11
 

General 1922, 1945, 1959, 1971-1973, 1975-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 17, Folders 15-17; Box 18, Folder 1-2
 

Southern Pacific Railroad case 1970-1972

General Physical Description note: Box 18, Folder 3
 

Southern Pacific administrative complaint 1972

General Physical Description note: Box 18, Folders 4-5
 

Debates on railroad resolutions 1943-1947

General Physical Description note: Box 18, Folder 6
 

Other railroad legislation 1879, 1887, 1890, 1912, 1915-1917, 1972

General Physical Description note: Box 18, Folder 7
 

Collected cases and statistics 1972

General Physical Description note: Box 18, Folders 8-11
 

1.4.2 Non-Westlands, non-railroad land transactions

General Physical Description note: Box 18, Folders 12-14; Box 19, Folders 1-10
 

Department of the Interior report 1972

General Physical Description note: Box 18, Folder 12
 

Indart 1950-1951, 1953, 1956, 1964-1967, 1974-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 18, Folders 13-14
 

Diener 1954, 1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 1
 

Western International Soils Corporation 1977-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 2
 

Domengine 1968, 1971-1974, 1978-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 3
 

Donagy 1968, 1974-1976

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 4
 

F.A.T.--Brazilian Land and Cattle Company 1977-1979

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 5
 

El Dorado Farms 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 6
 

Roberts Farms 1958, 1979-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 7
 

Boston Ranch/Boswell 1977-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 8
 

Britz 1977, 1983

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 9
 

Other non-Westlands land transactions 1975-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 10
 

1.5 Assorted reclamation and water issues

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folders 11-18
 

Los Angeles water 1957, 1960, 1969-1970, 1974, 1977-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 11
 

Small Reclamations Projects Act 1956, 1968, 1978-1981

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 12
 

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 13
 

Water policies 1970, 1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 14
 

Correspondence 1974-1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 15
 

US General Accounting Office reports 1975, 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 16
 

Peripheral Canal 1940s, 1971, 1977-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folders 17-18
 

Critical Water Problems Facing the Eleven Western States 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 19
 

Department of the Interior reports 1963-1964

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 20
 

State water-rights laws 1972

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 21
 

2. Family vs. corporate farms 1947-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folders 22-23; Box 20, Folders 1-20; Box 21, Folders 1-12
 

2.1 Legislation/family farm acts

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folders 22-23, Box 20
 

Family Farm Act 1972-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 22
 

Family Farm Development Act 1976-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 19, Folder 23
 

Young Farmers Homestead Act 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 1
 

National Family Farm Coalition 1978, 1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 2
 

Family Farm Antitrust Act 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 3
 

1981 farm bill 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 4
 

2.2 General information and economics of small vs. large farms

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folders 3-18, Box 21, Folders 1-7
 

General 1970-1971, 1973-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folders 5-8
 

Agribusiness Accountability Project 1970-1973, 1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 9
 

American Farm Bureau Federation 1972, 1977-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 10
 

Getting bigger-large scale farming reports 1978-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 11
 

Farmers Home Administration 1973-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 12
 

Westside Planning/Cal-Rural 1976-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 13
 

Agricultural financing 1971-1973, 1977-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 14
 

Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago--Ag-Land-Fund 1976-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 15
 

Land banks 1976, 1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 16
 

Land trusts 1974-1983

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 17
 

Small farm viability 1971-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 20, Folder 18
 

Agricultural economic planning 1965, 1976-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 1
 

Farm size reports 1973-1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 2
 

Economics of Southern farmers 1977-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 3
 

Bargain sales 1974 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 4
 

Goldschmidt papers on large-scale farming and the rural social structure 1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 5
 

Farm-buying how-to report 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 6
 

Government aid to small farms 1975, 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 7
 

2.3 Corporate farms and scandals

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folders 8-19
 

Kern subsidy scandal 1962, 1971-1973, 1979-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 8
 

Cotton disaster assistance 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 9
 

Cotton, Inc. probe 1979-1981

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 10
 

Del Monte Corporation 1970, 1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 11
 

Sunmaid Raisin Growers of California 1975-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 12
 

United States v. Frito-Lay, Inc., et al. 1970

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 13
 

DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation 1950, 1960-1961, 1964 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 14
 

Control Data Corporation 1974, 1977-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 15
 

Boswell 1947, 1971-1973, 1979-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 16
 

Irvine 1962, 1965-1971, 1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 17
 

Corporate studies 1970-1973, 1977, 1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 18
 

3. Legislation and politics 1865-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folders 20-28; Box 22, Folders 1-27
 

3.1 Hearings, testimonies, and legislation

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folders 20-27
 

Harris hearings 1971-1972

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 20
 

Hathaway hearings 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 21
 

Hearings before the Select Committee on Small Business 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 22
 

38th Congress-mineral lands report 1865 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 23
 

Ballis testimony drafts on land reform, "Reform the Land, Reform Our Lives" 1982

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 24
 

Ballis testimony before California Water Commission, George Ballis Speaks article from "Grassroots" newspaper 1978, 1982

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 25
 

Analysis of the 6618 Patterson Bill; Bert L. Cole testimony on Water and Power Resources HR 9706, HJR 633 1970, 1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 26
 

Clippings and magazine articles 1979-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 27
 

3.2 Political figures and their viewpoints

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 28; Box 22, Folders 1-27
 

Tony Coelho 1976-1982

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 28
 

John Krebs 1975-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 1
 

Charles "Chip" Pashayan 1978-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folders 2-3
 

Edmund G. "Pat" Brown 1960

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 4
 

Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. 1976-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 5
 

Alan Cranston

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folders 6-8
 

General 1977-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 6
 

Petitions from NLP and responses 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 7
 

Cranston for Senate Committee 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 8
 

Dan Whitehurst 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 9
 

John E. Thurman 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 10
 

Kenneth L. Maddy 1978-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folders 11-13
 

Hugh M. Burns 1965-1969 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 14
 

Phillip Burton and John L. Burton 1975, 1978-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 15
 

James Watt-U.S. Secretary of Interior under Reagan 1980-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 16
 

Morris Udall-U.S. Representative from Arizona 1976, 1979-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 17
 

Richard Rominger-CA Agriculture Chief 1977-1979

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 18
 

George Miller 1978-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 19
 

Robert Mendelsohn 1973, 1977-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 20
 

Ronald Reagan 1968, 1974-1977, 1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 21
 

George H. W. Bush 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 22
 

Paul Findley-Illinois Republican State Representative 1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 23
 

Margaret Sharp-candidate for Fresno County Supervisor undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 24
 

Willie Brown undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 25
 

Richard Lehman 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 26
 

Jim Weaver-Democratic Congressman from Oregon 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folder 27
 

Tax loopholes/tax shelters 1971-1973, 1976-1977, 1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 21, Folder 19
 

4. Other National Land for People issues 1891-1991 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folders 28-29; Boxes 23-27; Box 28, Folders 1-10
 

4.1 Air quality 1974-1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 22, Folders 28-29
 

4.2 Activism and community organizing

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folders 1-6
 

General 1961-1966, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1980-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folders 1-3
 

Saul Alinsky papers 1957, 1962, 1965-1967 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folder 4
 

Other reports 1963-1970 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folders 5-6
 

4.3 Agriculture and agribusiness general

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folders 7-10
 

General 1962, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folder 7
 

Sustainability 1980-1983 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folder 8
 

Crops 1968, 1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folder 9
 

Agroecology newsletters 1983

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folder 10
 

4.4 Appropriate technology

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folders 11-15
 

General 1973-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folders 11-12
 

Office of Appropriate Technology and National Center for Appropriate Technology 1976-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folders 13-14
 

Bartering projects 1978-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 23, Folder 15
 

4.5 Associations

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folders 1-4
 

General 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 1
 

California Women for Agriculture 1976-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 2
 

American Agri-Women 1978-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 3
 

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1979-1985

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 4
 

4.6 California projects

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folders 5-17
 

Coalinga Cargo Port 1974-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folders 5-6
 

Collected material of California cities

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folders 7-17
 

Fresno County general 1980-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 7
 

Caruthers, Del Rio and Huron clippings 1979-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 8
 

Kings County general 1967, 1971, 1974, 1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 9
 

Lanare clippings 1976-1977

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 10
 

Lemoore agricultural leasing at the naval air station 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 11
 

Los Angeles aqueduct bombing clippings 1976

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 12
 

Mendota flood clippings 1976-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 13
 

Parlier clippings 1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 14
 

San Jose depression/history report undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 15
 

Three Rocks clippings 1964, 1976-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 16
 

Whitesbridge clippings 1972, 1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 17
 

4.7 Chemical farming and pesticides

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folders 18-22
 

General 1971, 1979-1984 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 18
 

Reports 1963, 1967, 1974-75, 1979-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 19
 

Fact sheets 1980-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 20
 

Clippings 1971, 1976-1983 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 21
 

DBCP (di-bromochloropropane) 1977-1983 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 22
 

4.8 Co-ops and cooperative farms/funds

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folders 23-26
 

General 1974-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folders 23-24
 

Industry reports 1973-1975

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 25
 

Co-op related clippings 1973, 1976-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 24, Folder 26
 

4.9 Education

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 1-6
 

Food education 1981-1983

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 1-2
 

Children's Gardens info packet undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 3
 

Water education 1974-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 4
 

Energy education 1968, 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 5
 

Other education 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 6
 

4.10 Farm labor and mechanization

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 7-8
 

Farm labor 1960, 1970-1973, 1977, 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 7
 

Mechanization 1974, 1977-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 8
 

4.11 Land issues (non-transactions)

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 9-21; Box 26, Folders 1-3
 

Land ownership 1979-1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 9
 

Land reform

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 10-12
 

General 1967-1977, 1979, 1982

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 10-11
 

Land reform in Mexico 1976, 1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 12
 

Land trusts

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 13-16
 

General 1975-1983 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 13-14
 

Printed material 1976, 1979-1984

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 15
 

Private options for land preservation report 1981

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 16
 

Land use planning 1924, 1972, 1976 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 17-18
 

Farmland preservation

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folders 19-21
 

General 1977, 1980-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 19
 

California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Williamson Act) 1965-1967, 1970

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 20
 

Clippings 1971-1977, 1981-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 25, Folder 21
 

Public land use 1974, 1977

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folders 1-3
 

4.12 NLP miscellaneous

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folders 4-26; Box 27, Folders 1-10
 

General 1977-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 4
 

Land applications 1977-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 5
 

Handwritten history and notes 1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 6
 

Fundraisers 1954, 1973-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folders 7-8
 

Pro-NLP materials 1975-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 9
 

Contacts, lists of names and correspondence

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folders 10-26; Box 27, Folders 1-2
 

Fresno area 1975, 1978-1983 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 10
 

California's Central Valley 1975-1976, 1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 11
 

Los Angeles 1975-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 12
 

Los Angeles groups 1963, 1977-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 13
 

San Jose and Palo Alto 1976-1981, 1984 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 14
 

Grass Valley 1979-1982

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 15
 

Chico 1978-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 16
 

Bay Area 1976-1984 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 17
 

Sacramento, Davis and Northern California 1975-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 18
 

Santa Cruz and North coastal areas 1976-1984 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 19
 

Washington, D.C. 1977-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 20
 

Alabama undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 21
 

Alaska 1980

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 22
 

Arizona 1978-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 23
 

Arkansas 1979

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 24
 

Colorado 1979-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 25
 

International 1976-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 26, Folder 26
 

People who wrote letters to the Bureau of Reclamation list undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folder 1
 

Phone tree contacts 1979-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folder 2
 

Original newspaper articles on or about NLP 1965, 1974-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folders 3-4
 

Fresno Bee clippings 1979-1980

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folders 4-5
 

Clippings on drought 1976-1978 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folder 6
 

Drought info 1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folder 7
 

San Francisco Examiner clippings 1976, 1979-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folder 8
 

Assorted NLP correspondence 1976, 1979-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folder 9
 

Assorted clippings 1960-1961, 1966-1968, 1972, 1977-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folder 10
 

4.13 NLP publications

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folders 11-14; Box 28, Folders 1-3
 

Printed material 1976-1982, 1987 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folder 11
 

NLP newsletters 1975-1986

General Physical Description note: Box 27, Folders 12-14
 

Sun Mountain newsletters 1988-1991

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 1
 

NLP and Sun Mountain bulletins 1980, 1983-1987 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 2
 

NLP direct marketing and farmers markets information 1980-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 3
 

4.14 Power and energy

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folders 4-10
 

Central Valley projects 1951, 1974-1978, 1982

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 4
 

Western Area Power Administration 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 5
 

Powerlines 1970, 1972, 1974, 1977-1980, 1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 6
 

Helms hydroelectric project clippings 1981-1983

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 7
 

Assorted materials 1891-1930 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 8
 

Consumers 1981-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 9
 

Alternative energy 1976-1979 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 10
 

5. Rural community development 1972-1982

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folders 11-19
 

General 1972, 1975, 1977, 1980-1982 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folders 11-12
 

Edward M. Kirshner reports

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folders 13-16
 

Community ownership and Community Reinvestment Act 1975, 1981 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 13
 

A rural new town for the west side of the San Joaquin valley 1975

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 14
 

Demographic, economic and fiscal impacts of alternative Westlands agricultural development scenarios 1978

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 15
 

Westlands rural development project 1976-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 16
 

Other reports 1972-1973, 1975-1977 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folders 17-19
 

6. International materials 1965-1969, 1976-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folders 20-21
 

Foreign ownership of California and U.S. land 1977-1978

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 20
 

Mexico agribusiness 1965-1969, 1976-1980 and undated

General Physical Description note: Box 28, Folder 21
 

7. Maps 1973, 1976-1985 and undated

General Physical Description note: Tubes 1-6
 

Central Valley Project-San Luis Unit land classification 1978

General Physical Description note: Tube 1
 

Assessor's map, County of Fresno, CA undated

General Physical Description note: Tube 2
 

Westlands Water District, Fresno, CA, ownership map 1-Southern Pacific pontracts 1976-1985

General Physical Description note: Tube 3
 

Westlands Water District, Fresno, CA, district boundary undated

General Physical Description note: Tube 4
 

Westlands Water District, ownership map 1973

General Physical Description note: Tube 5
 

Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area 1985 traffic prediction 1985

General Physical Description note: Tube 5
 

Grant deed map charts undated

General Physical Description note: Tube 6
 

Questionable land transactions in Westlands Water District undated

General Physical Description note: Tube 6