Irving W. Wood Papers, 1934-1937.

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Irving W. Wood Papers, 1934-1937.

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Re the establishment of camps for migratory laborers, mainly in the Marysville area. Include letters and memoranda from Harry Drobish, Paul S. Taylor, Walter Packard and others. Also included: some material re Japanese and Mexican laborers in the Imperial Valley in 1934. Blueprint drawings for some of the camps in portfolio.

1 box (.5 linear ft.) and 1 oversize folder.

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Taylor, Paul S. (Paul Schuster), 1895-1984

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Biography Paul Schuster Taylor (1895-1984), an Iowa-born economist, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1917. He served as a Marine captain with the Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces in France from 1917 to 1919. At the end of his military service, he resumed his studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Masters degree in 1920, and a Ph.D. in 1922. Joining the Department of Economics immediat...

Wood, Irving William.

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Drobish, Harry Everett, 1893-1954

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Agricultural economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, State Director of Rural Rehabilitation in the California Emergency Relief Administration and the Chief of Farm Laborer Projects for the Resettlement Administration, and California state senator for Butte County, 1947-1950. From the description of Harry Everett Drobish papers : additions, 1922-1950. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26598595 Biographical Sketch...

Packard, Walter E. (Walter Eugene), 1884-1966

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Agricultural engineer. Assignments included work as superintendent of University of California's Imperial Valley Experimental Farm, 1907-1917 and Delhi State Land Settlement, 1920-1924; irrigation consultant in Mexico, 1926-1929; work with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Resettlement Administration, Farm Security Administration and Central Valley Project; land consultant to the Governor of Puerto Rico, 1945-1947; work in Greece as irrigation and reclamation expert under the Truman Do...