Imperial (228 page)

At the end of this bibliography, every work is cited in short form, together with the category in which its full citation appears (for example, “Tout,
The First Thirty Years
, H”).

NOTE ON RESTRICTED FILES
C

As will be mentioned below in appropriate spots, the identity of some anonymous informants and details concerning certain restricted files has been noted in a document now at the California State Archives. This document (itself a restricted file) is catalogued under the following heading: “Vollmann, William T. Confidential sources and restricted files cited in
Imperial
.” I might have preferred to leave a copy of this document with Ohio State University, which is the repository of most of my papers; however, many of the restricted files I cite come from the California State Archives themselves, so confidentiality would have been breached had I left this information anywhere else. Should the CSA give me permission to do so in future, I will leave an additional copy of this document at OSU.

A . ARCHIVAL SOURCES

1. Archivo Histórico del Municipio de Mexicali.

a. Albums of mostly uncoded photographs.

b. Maps as cited.

c. Chata Angulo collection (about a dozen boxes). Historical documents relating mostly to land and the Colorado River Land Company.

2. California State Archives. Obviously, all departments cited here are state, not federal.

a. Agricultural Labor Relations Board, restricted files. Hearing and litigation documents, 1978-1984.

b. Accession #1999-10-13, catalogue #s [which the CSA sometimes also refers to as “locations”] B8096-2 (Box 1), B8096-3 (Box 2), B8097-1 (Box 3), B8097-3 (Box 5), B8098-1 (Box 6), B8099-1 (Box 9).

c. Accession #1999-10-9, catalogue #s B8101 (Boxes 2, 3). The cataloguing system from (a) to (b) was inconsistent.

d. Accession #1999-07-08 catalogue #s B7949-7955. Boxes 1-2 of 27. Specific location number not indicated on these boxes. Written on box: “EBR.”

(1) Court cases, being public documents, are referred to by name. Hearing files are private. I have prepared a list of the codes which I have used in this book, and in that list each code matches up with the hearing case numbers. This code list, which is
restricted,
obviously, has been placed on file at the California State Archives under the following heading: Vollmann, William T. Confidential sources and restricted files cited in
Imperial
.

e. Department of Food and Agriculture. Bureau of Marketing. Marketing order files, 1941-1971, arranged by commodity and chronology. Boxes 1, 3, 4, 6, 7. Accession #88-97, catalogue #B2130-32. [Bound type-scripts.]

f. Margaret C. Felts papers, 1881-2002. Accession #2003-148. Boxes 1, 7, 12 and 17 of 17. Location: B4380- 86. Primary and secondary source material on California groundwater contamination.

g. Legislative papers. Statement on number of aliens, 1939, 2 files. Catalogue #P14.43.44, D10, Box 1. [Part of a survey required of all California counties.]

h. Maps as cited. [Imperial County and adjacent areas of Mexico 1900-1920.]

i. Microfilmed Imperial County records, 1851-1919. Location: MF4:4.

j. Microfilm roll #1433101. Imperial County. Index to Grantors, 1851-1907. Index to Grantees, 1851-1907. Index to Marriages, Men, v. 1-2, 1903-1923. Index to Marriages, Women, v. 1-2, 1903-1923. Marriage Licenses, v. 1-6, 1907-1914.

(1) Microfilm roll #1433102. Imperial County. Marriage Licenses, 1912-1919.

(2) Microfilm roll #1433103. Imperial County. Marriage Licenses, 1917-1919.

k. Olson Photo Collection. Stock photographs, c. 1930-1970. Accession #94-06-27. Catalogue #C 5266. Boxes 1 through 4 of 7.

l. Victor V. Vesey, oral history; interview by Enid H. Douglas (July & September 1988), for the California State Archives State Government Oral History Program. [Bound typescript volume.]

3. Imperial County Agricultural Commission papers (El Centro), 1915-2002.

a. Yearly crop yields. Sent by Stephen L. Birdsall, the Agricultural Commissioner, to my researcher Kara Platoni in 2004. Upon completion of this book I gave these papers to the California State Archives since many were originals. How they will be catalogued is unknown to me, but they should be easy to locate in the archives’s finding aids.

4. Imperial County Historical Society Pioneers Museum, city of Imperial.
[Cited: ICHSPM]

a. Photograph collection. Includes many Hetzel pictures. These images usually, but not always, bear unique codes; sometimes each member of a series within an envelope or photo is identically labeled. Fortunately, the number of prints within a series is small—usually half a dozen or less—so it will not be much of a chore for any researcher to locate the images cited here.

b. Document collection. Letters, certificates, pamphlets, advertising circulars, almanacs, yearbooks, etc. Catalogued analogously to the photo collection. Cited sources include:

(1) Ball Advertising Co., “Visitors’ Recreation Guide Book to Imperial County California: 36 Pages of Information,”
ca.
1964. Pamphlet. ICHSPM document cat. #A2002.154.2

(2) Colorado River Association (1952). Colorado River Association, pamphlet “California and the Colorado River” (Los Angeles, 1952. Pamphlet. ICHSPM document cat. #A2002.581.1.

(3) [Hostess Reference Book (1936).] “Hostess Reference Book, Signal Chapter, No. 276, Order of the Eastern Star, El Centro, California,” n.d.;
ca.
1936. Pamphlet. ICHSPM doc. cat. #A2000.31.11.

(4) William E. Warne, Water Resources Consultant, Sacramento, California, “The Stormy Past and Clouded Future of Desalting in the Colorado River Basin,” repr. from WSIA Journal—July 1984. ICHSPM doc. cat. #A84.48.1

(5) W. E. Wilsie, “How It Feels to Be Broke at Sixty, or, High Finance in Imperial Valley.” Five-p. typescript, dated June 1, 2001, but evidently originally written in, or set in, 1916; with a later attachment which could well have been written in 2000. ICHSPM doc. cat. #A2110.17.1.

5. National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel, California).
[Cited: N.A.R.A.L.]

a. Record Group 36. Records of the U.S. Customs Service. Calexico Customs Office.

(1) Calexico Customs Office. Incoming Official Correspondence (9L-60). October 15, 1902-March 23, 1916. 5 boxes.

(2) Calexico Customs Office. Incoming Correspondence Regarding Smuggling (9L-61). July 25, 1914- May 23, 1922. 2 boxes.

(3) Port of Campo. General Correspondence 1919-1965. 1 box.

(4) Tiajuana [
sic
] Customs Office. Letters Received from San Diego and Los Angeles (9L-62). February 6, 1894-July 29, 1922. 1 box.

6. State of California. Department of Transportation. Transportation Library, Sacramento.
[Cited: CA DOT.]

a. Imperial folder. Miscellaneous maps, highway reports, periodical clippings, one photograph.

b. Maps. These very large items were brought out to me singly, without any codes on them that I know of.

7. University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library.

a. [Governor] Hiram Warren Johnson correspondence and papers. Subject files (excepting Alien Land Law). Carton #C-B 581, Part II, Box 42. Mexican border incidents. Telegrams to Johnson from G. Gordon Whitnell, Rev. Edwards Burger, H. S. Utley, M. D. Witter, D. K. Adams, Edward Berger, Milbank Johnson. Letter from official of Klauber Wagenheim Co. to Sen. Edgar Luce. Letter from C. R. Rockwood to Adjutant General Thomas.

b. Farm labor situation 1933-34. [Mostly notes written by, correspondence to, or items gathered by or for Dean Hutchinson.] Carton #C-R 84. Folders:

(1) Miscellany A-Z correspondence.

(2) Associated Farmers of California, Inc.

(3) California Dept. of Agriculture.

(4) Circulars, handbills.

(5) Reports: C. B. Hutchinson, W. C. Jacobsen, John Phillips, “The Imperial Valley Farm Labor Situation: Report of the Special Investigating Committee appointed at the request of the California State Board for Agriculture, the California Farm Bureau Federation, and the Agricultural Department of the California State Chamber of Commerce,” submitted to the Executive Committee representing the three above groups, Sacramento, California, April 16, 1934 (32 pp.).

(6) Notes.

(7) Miscellany.

c. Powell Studio album. Cotton Strike, Calif. 1933. Transferred from Paul [S.] Taylor papers (C-R-#). Cat. #1945.7 PIC. Miscatalogued online as 1945.002 PIC. Photographs.

d. [Paul S. Taylor papers.] Bancroft Library Manuscripts Collection. Paul Schuster Taylor, 1895-. Papers, 1895-1984. BANC MSS 84/38. Cartons 3, 4 and 5. Drafts of published and unpublished articles on agriculture, water, migrant labor, the Imperial Valley, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans; correspondents; monographs, reprints.

8. University of California, Davis, General Library, Department of Special Collections.

a. California Local History and Related Materials Collection. [Formerly and more appropriately entitled “California Promotional Materials Collection.”] No accession number; container CAL Box 60; uncatalogued at time of research due to changeover from card to computer. Various pamphlets and brochures as follows:

(1) Pamphlet, “Artistic Series, Views of Los Angeles and Vicinity,”
ca.
1910.

(2) Pamphlet, “1901-1915: Imperial Valley,” n.d., unnumbered.

(3) Don C. Bitler, ed., published by Charles E. Miller, issued by the Board of Supervisors of Imperial County, pamphlet, “The Imperial Valley California 1920.”

(4) Imperial Valley Department, California Land and Water Co., brochure, “Imperial Valley: Brawley: 20,000 in 1920”, 1913.

(5) Imperial Valley Farm Lands Owners Association, Schader and Beach, General Sales Agents, California Land and Water Co., Special Agents, brochure, “Nile-Lands Farms, Imperial Valley,” 1913.

(6) California Development Association brochure, “Come to EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA,”
ca.
1925.

(7) Imperial Valley Board of Trade brochure, ed. and comp. B. A. Harrigan, County Horticultural Commissioner, “Sunny Imperial Valley, America’s Winter Garden,” 1927. Unnumbered. Bears the admonition: “Build Boulder Dam!”

(8) Imperial Valley Board of Trade brochure, “Imperial Valley: America’s Winter Garden,”
ca.
1934, with pictorial colored map. Across bottom of front cover: “ALL AMERICAN CANAL GIVES IMPERIAL VALLEY AN ASSURED WATER SUPPLY UNDER CONTROL.”

(9) Imperial County Board of Trade pamphlet, “Imperial County, California: America’s Winter Garden,”
ca.
1955 (gives population of 75,000).

b. Austin C. Chiles papers. Accession #D133; container MC133. “The Coachella Valley Part II: Agriculture and Flood and Earthquake Hazards,” Austin C. Chiles, Appraiser, Appraisal Dept., Los Angeles Headquarters [of unnamed bank], August 1953-April 1954. Approx. 300-p. bound typescript. First vol. missing. On lower righthand corner of cover sheet is a number 14, so this may part of a series of assessments of various places.

c. David Shank papers. Accession #D139. “Theodore Benjamin Shank and his Early Years in the Imperial Valley, California,” by David Shank. Three unnumbered typescript pp., 1994.

B. EPHEMERAL AND UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

1. —, handmade flyer about the disappeared
pollo
Serafín Ramírez Hernández. Given to me in the Park of Child Heroes, Mexicali, 1999.