Finding aid for the California Migrant, Transient, and Homeless Populations collection
0449
Finding aid prepared by Jane Adler, Clay Stalls
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu
2000 February 15
Title: California Migrant, Transient, and Homeless Populations collection
Collection number: 0449
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.63 linear ft.
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1930-1992
Abstract: The California Migrant, Transient, and Homeless Populations collection consists of article offprints, booklets, unpublished
papers, transcripts of hearings, newspaper clippings, one book, and twenty-two photographs spanning the years 1930-1992. All
items in this collection (in one form or another) concern the rootless in society; especially prominent in these holdings
are materials concerning migrant farm workers principally in California, but also in other parts of the nation. Other areas
of interest are the homeless and transient youths. The "Cotton Survey" (1938) examined the living conditions of migrant farm
workers and contains invaluable black-and-white photographs of farmers' camps in such places as Kern County. Also noteworthy
are transcripts of testimony from Carey McWilliams, the famous editor of The Nation and authority on California ethnic groups,
before state hearings on the migrant worker. The collection also contains an assembly of reports and papers from various private
and public agencies on the homeless problem of the 80s and the 90s.
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Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.The use of archival materials for on-site
research does not constitute permission from the California Social Welfare Archives to publish them. Copyright has not been
assigned to the California Social Welfare Archives, and the researcher is instructed to obtain permission to quote from or
publish manuscripts in the CSWA's collections from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], California Migrant, Transient, and Homeless Populations collection, Collection no. 0449, California
Social Welfare Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Scope and Content
The California Migrant, Transient, and Homeless Populations collection consists of article offprints, booklets, unpublished
papers, transcripts of hearings, newspaper clippings, one book, and twenty-two photographs spanning the years 1930-1992. All
items in this collection (in one form or another) concern the rootless in society; especially prominent in these holdings
are materials concerning migrant farm workers principally in California, but also in other parts of the nation. Other areas
of interest are the homeless and transient youths. The holdings on migrant farm workers in California have special value for
research on their plight in the California of the Depression. The "Cotton Survey" (1938) examined the living conditions of
migrant farm workers and contains invaluable black-and-white photographs of farmers' camps in such places as Kern County.
Also noteworthy are transcripts of testimony from Carey McWilliams, the famous editor of The Nation and authority on California
ethnic groups, before state hearings on the migrant worker. The collection also contains an assembly of reports and papers
from various private and public agencies on the homeless problem of the 80s and the 90s. This material is invaluable for describing
how social service groups fought this problem on the local scene as it became a national issue. This collection contains some
material that can be found in the USC Libraries; this has been noted.
Custodial history
This collection did not originate from holdings that were gathered or created by an individual or organization; rather, it
is a mixture of materials acquired by the CSWA and then housed together because of their subject matter. Some of this material
possibly was once in the possession of Gertrude Wilson and Gladys Ryland, or the United Way Library.
Organization
The collection has been organized into two series: Migrants/Homeless Youth (Box 1) and Los Angeles Homeless (Box 2).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Clippings
Homeless persons--California--Archival resources
Homeless youth--California--Archival resources
Migrant agricultural laborers--California--Archival resources
Migrant agricultural laborers--Housing--California--Archival resources
Pamphlets
Reports
Reprints
Box 1, Folder 1
Pamphlets
1955, 1992, undated
Scope and Content
California Federation of Young Democrats.
The Seasonal Farm Labor Force in California. Research Papers. undated.
Jerry Stanley.
Children of the Dust Bowl. The True Story of the School at the Weedpatch Camp. New York: Crown Publishers, 1992. Publisher’s blurb.
Federal Interdepartmental Committee on Children and Youth.
When the Migrant Families Come Again. A Guide for Better Community Living. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955. Bears signature of Gladys Ryland.
Florence Wyckoff.
The Citizen’s Role in Community Planning for Group Work Services to Migrants. The San Joaquin Valley Health Project. Cleveland: The National Consumers’ Committee for Research and Education, undated. Bears signature of Gertrude Wilson.
Box 1, Folder 2
S. Smith Griswold.
A Proposed Plan for the Care of Indigent Single Men in County of Los Angeles-California. Los Angeles: Department of Budget and Research of Los Angeles County
1937 January
Box 1, Folder 3
Transient Youth in California. A National, State and Local Problem. Report and Recommendations of the California Committee
for the Study of Transient Youth
.
1948
General note
Available at USC Libraries, 331.796.C1533T
Box 1, Folder 4
State Relief Administration of California.
Transients. Special Surveys and Studies Progress Report 7
1936 February 28
Box 1, Folder 5
Kenneth Carlson. "Transient Boys of the Road." Boys' Work Division, First Methodist E. Church
undated
Box 1, Folder 6
Reports and addresses on migrant workers
1939, 1940, undated
Scope and Content
William Dickie, Director of California State Department of Health. "Statement on Health Problems among Migratory Agricultural
Workers Made at Request of LaFollette Committee on Civil Liberties. March 1940."
Carey McWilliams, Chief Division of Immigration and Housing. "Memorandum on Housing Conditions Among Migratory Workers in
California." State of California. Division of Immigration and Housing. State Building Los Angeles, Calif. 1939.
James Mussatti. "California’s Migrant Problem." Address Before Annual Convention of California Association of Commercial Secretaries,
Santa Barbara [CA], January 19, 1940.
Paul S. Taylor. "Synopsis of Survey of Migratory Labor Problems in California." undated
"Testimony of Carey McWilliams Chief, California State Division of Immigration and Housing Before Tolan Committee at San Francisco,
Calif. September 24, 1940."
Box 1, Folder 7
Articles by Madeleine R. Stoner
1983
Scope and Content
"An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Provisions for Homeless People." Article submitted to Urban and Social Change Review
(1983).
"The Plight of Homeless Women." The Social Service Review 57, no. 4 (December 1983): 565-81. Offprint.
Box 1, Folder 8-9
The Cotton Survey
1938
Scope and Content
Multiple copies, includes introduction by Lola Selby, and photographs of migrant living conditions.
Box 1, Folder 10
California Migration, 1955-1960. Sacramento, Dept. of Finance, Budget Division, Financial and Population Research Section
1964
General note
Available at USC Libraries, HB1985.C2A5
Box 1, Folder 11
Dr. George Gleason.
The Fifth Migration. Report on the California Migratory Agricultural Workers prepared by Dr. George Gleason, Executive Secretary,
County Committee for Church and Community Cooperation, Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles: Committee for Church and Community Cooperation
circa 1940
General note
With clipping: Ronald B. Taylor. "California’s Okies Look Back on Pain of the ‘30s." Los Angeles Times, Sunday October 5,
1980. Section I, pp. 1, 3, 22
Box 1, Folder 12
Sister M. Bernadine Rusting, O.P. and Sister M. Isabel Espinosa, O.P.
Missionaries in Migrant Camps. San Gabriel, California
1973
Box 1, Folder 13
Los Angeles Community Chest Manual
1930-1931
Box 1, Folder 14
Crime Commission on Social and Economic Causes. Held in Fresno California
1948 December 10
General note
Transcript. With Unemployed Federationist, Week of January 1, 1936 (Volume 1, no. 1). Newspaper of the "Public Works and Unemployed
Unions and the California State Federation of Unemployed and Allied Organizations."
Box 1, Folder 15
Article, report, pamphlet
1948, 1953, undated
Scope and Content
Mary Perry. "California Committee Studies Transient Young People."
The Child, 13, no. 5 (November 1948). Reprint.
Claire L. Peterson. "When the Migrant Laborer Settles Down. A Report of the Findings of a Project on Value Assimilation among
Immigrant Laborers." undated
Fred Ross.
Get Out if You Can. The Saga of Sal si Puedes. San Francisco: California Federation for Civic Unity, 1953.
Box 1
William T. Cross and Dorothy E. Cross.
Newcomers and Nomads in California. Stanford University Press
1937
General note
Available at USC Libraries, 361.6.C951N, HV4506.C2C7 1937
Box 2, Folder 1
City and County of Los Angeles reports and summaries re homeless problem
Box 2, Folder 2
Richard Ropers and Marjorie Robertson.
The Inner City Homeless of Los Angeles: An Empirical Assessment. Basic Shelter Document No. 1. Los Angeles: UCLA School of Public Health, Psychiatric Epidemology Program
1984
Box 2, Folder 3
The Shelter Workers Handbook. A Guide for Identifying and Meeting the Health Needs of Homeless People. A Project by the Health
Committee of the Coalition for the Homeless
. Edited by Margaret Rafferty, et al.
1983
Box 2, Folder 4
Rob Waters.
Trickle Down Tragedy: Homelessness in California
1984 January
Box 2, Folder 5
City of Los Angeles Shelter Ordinance Interpretive Memorandum. Prepared by Shelter Partnership, Inc.
1987
Box 2, Folder 6
"Confronting Homelessness: What Should be Done? Strategic Planning Data and Policy for the greater Los Angeles Partnership
for the Homeless." Paper prepared by Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler
1988 December
Box 2, Folder 7
"Homelessness in the SCAG Region. A White Paper Report Prepared for the SCAG Regional Advisory Council."
1985 August