Collection Number: D-494

Extent

0.8 linear feet

Biography

News editor for Caterpillar Tractor Company (1927-1933); freelance agricultural journalist (1933-1971).

Description

In 1942, Higgins took photographs of Mexicans entering the United States "brought in for the [sugar] beet harvest" for California Fields Crops, Inc. and as Higgins explains in a letter that he tried "to catch a lot of the social side in pictures." The photographs were taken mainly in the agricultural areas of the California communities of Woodland, Pleasanton, Manteca, and Salinas.

Inclusive Dates

1942.

Subject

Ethnic Studies

Finding Aid on the Online Archive of California (http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt309nf08j)

Additional Collection Information

Digitized images from this collection are available on Calisphere (http://content.cdlib.org/search?facet=type-tab&relation=calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu&style=cui&keyword=floyd+halleck+higgins)

Access

Many collections are stored offsite and need to be retrieved for your research visit. To begin the request process, researchers should e-mail speccoll@ucdavis.edu at least five business days before visiting. Please wait for confirmation that the collection is available before visiting.