Mary A. Sears collection of photographs pertaining to the Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association in California [graphic], 1935-1944

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Mary A. Sears collection of photographs pertaining to the Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association in California [graphic], 1935-1944

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Photographs depict efforts of the Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association in California, including health care facilities, medical staff, and patients. Many images document conditions at migratory labor camps at such California locations as Brawley, Porterville, Indio, Marysville, Shafter, Woodville, Visalia, as well as Yuma, Arizona and locations in other states. Also includes personal snapshots pertaining to Mary A. Sears' tenure as a nurse for the AWHMA. Includes two World War II-era letters to Sears from her friend Yoshi, a Japanese-American nurse, in part describing Yoshi's experiences as an internee in a relocation camp. Most photographs (folders 2-14) are loosely grouped and arranged to correspond with the narrative of Sears' memoir (folder 1). The memoir includes references to Tom Collins, to whom John Steinbeck dedicated a portion of Grapes of wrath. Two snapshots of Collins are present (folder 3).

1 box (ca. 315 photographic prints) : b&w ; various sizes + 50 p. typescript memoir.

University of California, Berkeley. Library

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Collins, Tom, 1897-

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Tom Collins is particularly noted for his time as the Federal Government Camp Manager of the Arvin/ Weedpatch camp in California from 1935-1937 which housed dust bowl agricultural migrants during the great depression. His association with and aid in background research for author John Steinbeck significantly influenced the novel The Grapes of Wrath and led to him being one of the two indidividuals the book was dedicated to. Born out of wedlock, raised in a Catholic orphanage, and drawn at on...