Manuscripts

Mark Moore letter to Clay Stalls regarding farm workers in California

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Description: A letter describing work on the Grether Farms of Ventura County; farm labor, especially by Mexican and Mexican American farm workers; and the provenance of the Alvarado family letters in the Huntington Library.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 2020 October 20.
Call number: mssHM 84145
Creator: Moore, Mark(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mark Moore, August 2023.
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Panoramic photograph of farm workers in Orange County, California

Visual Materials

A panoramic photograph documenting about 100 agricultural workers, including men, women, and children, of an unidentified farm in Orange County, California, taken between approximately 1900 and 1920. The photograph features mostly white workers, but there are several Latino men, possibly Mexican migrant workers, and about fifteen women and girls. Some workers are holding tools or equipment, wearing slings for picking fruit, or handling horses. Behind the two rows of people are stacks of wooden crates labeled "F Co.," along with a wagon of hay and a two-story wooden building. The photograph is not captioned, but has a small photographer's label crediting commercial photographer F. D. Leonard of Santa Ana, California.

photPAN 155

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Labor - Mexican Farm Labor

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: collection of LAT editorials and news articles--1942 - 1970--on Mexican farm workers, labor leader Cesar Chavez, union tactics, union-business relations, boycotts, strikes, etc.

mssLAT

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Frank W. Poole farm ledgers

Manuscripts

Two business ledgers used by Frank W. Poole in the running of his peach orchard during the years of the Great Depression, World War II, into the early 1950s; the ledgers document the persons of farm labor in Yuba City, California, their wages and expenses. The first ledger is a monthly time book for the years 1936 to 1941, which contains the pay records for the employees of the peach orchard, who were Sikh, Chinese, Japanese, white, and Mexican. The second ledger is a journal of expenses for the years 1942 to 1955, which records household, personal, and some farm expenses.

mssHM 84120

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Rancho San Miguel grant also known as Immediacion á Los Serritos : case file for land granted by Juan Bautista Alvarado to Raymundo Olivas and Felipe Lorenzana

Manuscripts

An expediente or case file for land granted by Juan Bautista Alvarado to Raymundo Olivas and Felipe Lorenzana, known as Immediacion á Los Serritos (later named Rancho San Miguel) encompassing the present day City of Ventura not within Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura, with the Santa Clara River marking its southern boundary. Includes signed statements by Raymundo Olivas, Fernando Fico, Rafael Gonzalez, Santiago Arguello, and a grant by the Governor of Mexican Alta California, Juan Bautista Alvarado.

mssHM 31519

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Charles L. Moore correspondence

Manuscripts

These letters by Charles L. Moore, which were written to his cousin Edmund H. Tindall in Illinois, include details about Moore's life on a farm in Compton, California. He talks about the weather, his family's crops, gold miners in Mammoth, and his personal life and social activities. Two of the letters were written by Moore's sister Jennie.

mssHM 68395-68405

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Bert Mark letters from the shaft and trail: typescript

Manuscripts

This typescript is made up a series of letters Bert Mark wrote back to his family from a ranch in Gunnison, Colorado. He talks about life on the ranch including taking part in a cattle drive. Mark also went to the Citizen's Mine in Timberline, near Pitkin, Colorado and worked for a little while. He talks about the hard work, life in the mining camp, trips to Pitkin, dances he attends and some women he met; he also visited some other mining camps in Colorado. The typescript includes some handwritten notes by the author. Also with this typescript is another manuscript entitled "Twelve Thousand Miles on One Hundred Dollars: Describing a Unique Trip through Europe," by C. H. Mark. This manuscript talks about a trip to Scotland and Germany.

mssHM 75691-75692

Mark Moore letter to Clay Stalls regarding farm workers in California

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