Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Group portrait of workers at a camp in Barstow, California. A dog sits at center, among the men, with tents in the background. Appears to be related to another image of workers laying water pipe in Barstow (see related images).
photCL_555_01_1983
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Water shooting from pipe - possibly hydraulic mining operation.
photCL 56 (249)
Image not available
Visual Materials
A group of eight press photographs of chiefly Latino agricultural workers, their children, and their living conditions in California, dating between 1958 and 1989. There is one photograph taken near Las Vegas, Nevada in 1959 showing children fetching polluted water from an irrigation ditch; it is captioned "children of jobless migrant workers." The unrelated photographs are credited to the Associated Press, the New York Times, and others, and were published in various newspapers, with detailed captions attached. Subjects include workers' shacks in Mendota, Central Valley; a field worker in Salinas carrying a short-handled hoe, which was later banned in California; tomato picking; a female picker; and a white woman, identified as Mrs. Henry Pennington, comforting her disheveled child in a dusty, rural area.
photPF 26031
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Image of a man in an orange grove in Riverside, California, tilling the soil next to a concrete irrigation ditch with water.
photCL 555
Image not available
Manuscripts
This manuscript deals with the thirty-year history of the Barstow Women's Club and includes details about their activities, members, awards won, and fundraising. The manuscript includes several photographs. Included with the item is a two-page history of the women's club of Needles, California, written by Mrs. George G. Curry.
mssHM 68419
Visual Materials
Workers lay pipe for the Southern California Gas Company in Woodland Hills in Los Angeles. One man stands on the left with surveying equipment, another leans against a parked automobile, and six men with shovels and pick axes stand in a narrow trench on the right. Long pieces of pipe lay on the ground parallel to the trench. There is a domed church in the background.
photCL Whitt 1981 ; Whitt neg. 0017