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1. Reclamation, water and land issues 1850-1984 and undated
1.1 U.S. Department of the Interior-Bureau of Reclamation projects
1.1.1 1902 Reclamation Act
1.1.1.1 Legislation, hearings, appeals and reform
Early reclamation law 1862, 1877, 1902, 1926, 1930, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1959-1960, 1970-1972, 1975 and undated
Bonadelle case (first case against reclamation law violators)
Indictment 1973-1977
Land sales charts and documents undated
Related incorporation papers 1960, 1972-1975
1975 legislation 1975
1976 legislation 1976
Reclamation hearings 1977
1977 legislation 1977
1978 legislation 1978
1979 S14 legislation
Legislation, hearings, and amendments 1979
NLP analysis and information 1979
S14 Andrus testimony 1979
S14 news clippings 1979
1979 legislation (non S14) 1979
George Ballis statement before the House Subcommittee on Water and Power 1980
1980 legislation March-May 1980
Bound, organized house bills 1980
General 1980
Rulemaking suit: NLP vs. Bureau of Reclamation 1980
House bills articles/clippings 1980
1982 legislation 1982
1983 legislation 1983
1.1.1.2 General history of reclamation rules
General reclamation
General 1970, 1976-1977, 1979 and undated
Phil LeVeen papers on reclamation 1978-1979
160 acre limitation/1902 Reclamation Act - NLP-collected materials 1958-1982 and undated
160 acre violations 1973-1975, 1977, 1980
NLP statements and Paul Taylor on 1902 Reclamation Act
NLP statements and articles 1977, 1981-1982
Paul Taylor reports 1950, 1958-1967, 1970, 1973-1975, 1980 and undated
Paul Taylor photographs undated
Articles on Paul Taylor and wife Dorothea Lange 1973-1974, 1976, 1978-1980 and undated
Paul Taylor correspondence 1951, 1974-1977, 1980
Paul Taylor symposium information 1975-1976, 1980 and undated
Paul Taylor general 1959, 1976-1978, 1980, 1984 and undated
1.1.1.3 Residency and lottery
Residency reports and clippings 1967, 1979 and undated
Lottery clippings 1978-1980
1.1.1.4 Pacific Legal Foundation 1975-1982
1.1.2 Central Valley Project
1.1.2.1 Central Valley Project general
General 1945-1946, 1950-1957, 1959-1964, 1966-1972, 1974-1980 and undated
1.1.2.2 San Luis Unit
San Luis Unit general
San Luis Project general 1954-1968, 1972-1973, 1975-1981, 1984 and undated
San Luis dam repair 1981-1982 and undated
San Luis correspondence and memoranda 1945-1947, 1951-1952, 1965-1968 and undated
San Luis debates 1959-1960, 1966
Westlands Water District
Westlands Water District general
Reports 1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1982 and undated
Printed material, maps and general information 1963, 1975-1977, 1981
Hearings and legislation 1964, 1966-1967, 1976, 1981, 1986
Contracts
1963 contract 1963
1964 contracts 1964
1965 contract 1965-1966, 1972-1976 and undated
NLP collected Bureau of Reclamation information 1977-1979
WWD allocation and pricing of agricultural water 1979-1980
WWD recordable contract information 1976
WWD Water Contract 1981
WWD proposed contract 1975-1977
Contracts general 1964, 1972-1978
WWD correspondence 1965-1968, 1975-1978, 1980-1981
WWD clippings 1971-1981 and undated
WWD general assorted undated
WWD other
Cooperative agreement with California and Interior Department 1976-1977
WWD water rates 1977-1980
WWD wells 1976-1977
Conference on Rural Development 1981
WWD land ownership and water deliveries 1962, 1965-1979, 1981
Illegal water deliveries 1979
WWD farm ownership and connections 1971-1976
WWD pipeline ownership 1970-1972, 1975
WWD unfinished research undated
Hearings 1964, 1976-1977
"Battle of the Westlands" documentary on PBS 1980
WWD groundwater integration 1962-1963, 1976-1977 and undated
WWD co-mingling documents 1967, 1970-1977
WWD farm budgets 1979
WWD crop production report 1978
Drainage and land phasing 1958-1959 and undated
WWD drainage 1965, 1975-1982
WWD-state treasurer 1973-1976
WWD maps 1952, 1976-1977 and undated
WWD meetings 1963, 1975-1978 and undated
Excess land sales and land transactions
Background, contracts, correspondence and applications 1964-1966, 1971-1981 and undated
Individual corporations' land sales and land transactions
ACCO (Anderson, Clayton, and Company)
General 1962, 1966, 1976-1977
ACCO sales 1975
ACCO/Telles/Carr 1955, 1961, 1968-1977 and undated
Telles
Sales documents originals 1971, 1977-1978
Telles-Giffen sales 1974
Telles other sales 1973, 1975-1977
Air-Way Farms 1973-1977 and undated
Borba Bros Farms 1976
Clayton Brown 1976 and undated
Brucker Trust 1977
Cal-Ag Farms 1968, 1972-1977 and undated
California Farm Management 1977
Calplans/California Security Plans 1967, 1972, 1975 and undated
Campbell 1972, 1974, 1976-1977
Cantua Agricultural Partners I-VI 1973-1974, 1979
Cinco Farms 1974, 1977
Coelho Bros. 1932, 1946, 1963, 1976-1977
Coit 1958, 1971, 1974-1977 and undated
Cory sale 1975
D. H. Farms Inc. 1974-1976
Deal 1975-1976 and undated
Diener
General 1953-1958, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974-1978
Octavia Diener campaign 1978-1980
DiGiorgio 1963-1969 and undated
Eaton/Buckingham 1976
Giffen 1946, 1952, 1969, 1971-1979 and undated
Golden Vineyard (not SP) 1971
Gragnani Bros. 1976
Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold 1965, 1971, 1972, 1974
Harnish 1976
O. L. Harrel 1976
Harris Farms 1947, 1961, 1964-1965, 1968-1980 and undated
Jubil Farms, Inc. 1974-1975, 1980-1981
Kings County Development Company 1977
Kriesant Operating Company, Inc. 1976
Lara Farms, Inc. 1961, 1974, 1976-1977
Lopez Land 1974-1975, 1977
Jim Lowe, Inc. 1974, 1977
M and M Farms 1979
A. H. Martin, Inc. 1975-1977
McCarthy-Southdown 1969-1975, 1977 and undated
Molsen Cotton Company 1976
Mouren Farming 1977
Murietta Farms 1961, 1964
Old West Ranch Co. 1976-1977
J. E. O'Neill, Inc. 1961, 1975-1977, 1980, 1982
O'Neill-Westlands-Mauz Trust (Edwin R. O'Neill) 1976-1978
Pacific Metzler Farms 1972-1975
Sumner Peck Ranch 1949, 1968-1971, 1974-1977, 1979
Pilibos Bros, Inc. 1953, 1955-1956, 1974, 1975, 1979 and undated
Marguerite Pratt 1977
Pucheu Properties 1976
Rabb Brothers 1977-1978
Reece sales to Bennett, Gordon 1976-1977
Rusconi 1976-1977
Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific appraisal report and correspondence 1975-1976
Southern Pacific water stealing case 1976-1977
Southern Pacific well and maps 1971, 1974, 1976-1977
Southern Pacific proposed sales to Chavarria Farms 1972, 1976
Southern Pacific sales to Giovannetti/Groefsema 1973-1976, 1978
Southern Pacific sales to Combs 1976-1977
Southern Pacific proposed sale to James L. Marshall 1976
Southern Pacific sales to Ronald Nunn Farms 1975-1976
Southern Pacific sales to Von Flue Bros Inc. 1976-1977
Southern Pacific proposed sale to James Renton 1974, 1976
Southern Pacific sales to James and Gail McKinney 1976
South Lake Farms (Bangor Punta) 1959, 1977, 1979-1980
Standard Oil/Chevron Land Deal 1976, 1978-1980
Jack Stone 1976-1977
Sherman Thomas Ranch 1958, 1959, 1965, 1972-1974, 1976-1977
Timco-Murietta Farms Division 1975
Vasto Valle Farms, Inc. 1973-1974
Western Farmlands 1977
Westside Land Co. 1976
Westward Farms 1974-1980 and undated
Jack Woolf/Woolf Farming Co. of California, Inc. 1974, 1977-1978
California Westside Farmers 1977-1981 and undated
1.1.2.3 Kings River, Tulare Lake and Pine Flat Dam
Kings River 1940-1964, 1968-1972, 1974, 1976-1983 and undated
Tulare Lake basin and canal 1955, 1969, 1973, 1975-1976, 1978-1980, 1983 and undated
Pine Flat Dam/Reservoir 1940-1950, 1956, 1958-1962, 1971-1972, 1976-1980 and undated
1.1.2.4 Kern County, Delano and Earlimart
Kern County general 1961-1962, 1978-1980
Kern Water Agency 1970, 1978
Bowker vs. Morton and Kern County Water Agency 1975
Kern River 1961
Kern Land Company 1959, 1960-1962, 1964-1970, 1973-1976, 1979
Kern Lake Farms land sales 1974-1980
Delano-Earlimart Irrigation District general 1964
DiGiorgio land sales 1964-1968 and undated
1.1.2.5 Central Valley Project - other
San Joaquin Valley 1974, 1978-1979
Mid-Valley Canal 1977-1980
Auburn Dam 1961-1962, 1965, 1977-1981 and undated
New Melones 1974, 1977-1980, 1982-1983 and undated
Contra Costa 1982
Shasta Dam 1964, 1969, 1978-1979, 1982
1.1.3 Bureau of Reclamation and California water
1.1.3.1 Bureau of Reclamation general
General 1970-1972, 1975-1977, 1981-1982
Basic solicitor's opinions 1974-1976
Land ownership survey on federal reclamation projects 1946
Task force report on water marketing 1975
NLP correspondence with Bureau of Reclamation 1975, 1979-1981
Annual reports 1973, 1975-1982
Assessment records 1915, 1921-1928 and undated
Repayment of reclamation projects 1972
1.1.3.2 California water general 1945, 1953, 1958-1962, 1966-1968, 1972-1982 and undated
1.1.3.3 Bureau of Reclamation projects in other California cities
Sacramento, San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay 1969, 1975-1980
Sacramento diverters 1964, 1974
Ivanhoe Irrigation District 1926, 1949, 1957, 1958 and undated
San Felipe 1977, 1979
Hetch Hetchy 1978
Delta Water Plan 1978-1980
Buttonwillow Improvement District 1981
Dams 1975-1977
California Aqueduct 1976, 1980
Water litigation-Buttes Gas-McFarland 1979
Allen Camp undated
Owens Valley 1950, 1976-1979
1.1.3.4 Bureau of Reclamation projects in other states
Columbia River Basin, Washington state
Holland and Young reports on economics of Columbia Basin 1979
Kezis report on economies of size and net revenues on Columbia Basin farms 1978
Clippings 1975, 1978, 1982 and undated
Washington state (other) 1977-1978
Arizona 1977-1979 and undated
Colorado River 1961-1965, 1969 and undated
Dakotas 1974-1977
Montana 1961, 1976-1977
New Mexico 1975-1976, 1979, 1982 and undated
Wyoming 1977, 1981
1.2 Imperial Irrigation District
General 1930, 1964-1965, 1967, 1971, 1977, 1980 and undated
Domestic service rates, amendment 1964, 1967, 1970
Imperial Resources Agency, Inc. periodic report 1978-1979
Statistics 1968-1971, 1974, 1978-1979 and undated
Maps 1958, 1968 and undated
Correspondence 1965-1966, 1978-1979
Reports 1932, 1960, 1964-1970, 1974, 1976-1980 and undated
Publications 1969, 1974 and undated
Hearings 1933, 1967-1968, 1970-1973, 1977-1981
Ben Yellen-related clippings 1977-1980 and undated
Imperial Valley Fairness Campaign 1977 and undated
Clippings 1958, 1964-1971, 1975, 1977-1982 and undated
1.3 Panoche Water District
General 1959-1960, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1978-1980 and undated
Hammonds Ranch
Hammonds Ranch general 1975-1977 and undated
Hammonds sales to Nieman Family 1975-1976
Hammonds sales to Germino family, De Francesco family 1976-1978
Hammonds sales to McBee and Barger 1977
Hammonds sales to Tim Hall, et al 1977
1.4 Non-Westlands land transactions
1.4.1 Railroad land grants
General 1922, 1945, 1959, 1971-1973, 1975-1979 and undated
Southern Pacific Railroad case 1970-1972
Southern Pacific administrative complaint 1972
Debates on railroad resolutions 1943-1947
Other railroad legislation 1879, 1887, 1890, 1912, 1915-1917, 1972
Collected cases and statistics 1972
1.4.2 Non-Westlands, non-railroad land transactions
Department of the Interior report 1972
Indart 1950-1951, 1953, 1956, 1964-1967, 1974-1978
Diener 1954, 1980 and undated
Western International Soils Corporation 1977-1978 and undated
Domengine 1968, 1971-1974, 1978-1979 and undated
Donagy 1968, 1974-1976
F.A.T.--Brazilian Land and Cattle Company 1977-1979
El Dorado Farms 1977
Roberts Farms 1958, 1979-1980
Boston Ranch/Boswell 1977-1978 and undated
Britz 1977, 1983
Other non-Westlands land transactions 1975-1977
1.5 Assorted reclamation and water issues
Los Angeles water 1957, 1960, 1969-1970, 1974, 1977-1979 and undated
Small Reclamations Projects Act 1956, 1968, 1978-1981
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway 1976-1977
Water policies 1970, 1982 and undated
Correspondence 1974-1976 and undated
US General Accounting Office reports 1975, 1981
Peripheral Canal 1940s, 1971, 1977-1982 and undated
Critical Water Problems Facing the Eleven Western States 1975
Department of the Interior reports 1963-1964
State water-rights laws 1972
2. Family vs. corporate farms 1947-1981 and undated
2.1 Legislation/family farm acts
Family Farm Act 1972-1977
Family Farm Development Act 1976-1980 and undated
Young Farmers Homestead Act 1976-1977
National Family Farm Coalition 1978, 1981 and undated
Family Farm Antitrust Act 1979
1981 farm bill 1981
2.2 General information and economics of small vs. large farms
General 1970-1971, 1973-1981 and undated
Agribusiness Accountability Project 1970-1973, 1977 and undated
American Farm Bureau Federation 1972, 1977-1980 and undated
Getting bigger-large scale farming reports 1978-1980
Farmers Home Administration 1973-1982 and undated
Westside Planning/Cal-Rural 1976-1980 and undated
Agricultural financing 1971-1973, 1977-1978 and undated
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago--Ag-Land-Fund 1976-1980 and undated
Land banks 1976, 1979 and undated
Land trusts 1974-1983
Small farm viability 1971-1980
Agricultural economic planning 1965, 1976-1979 and undated
Farm size reports 1973-1976 and undated
Economics of Southern farmers 1977-1978 and undated
Bargain sales 1974 and undated
Goldschmidt papers on large-scale farming and the rural social structure 1978 and undated
Farm-buying how-to report 1976
Government aid to small farms 1975, 1979
2.3 Corporate farms and scandals
Kern subsidy scandal 1962, 1971-1973, 1979-1980 and undated
Cotton disaster assistance 1979
Cotton, Inc. probe 1979-1981
Del Monte Corporation 1970, 1976 and undated
Sunmaid Raisin Growers of California 1975-1978
United States v. Frito-Lay, Inc., et al. 1970
DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation 1950, 1960-1961, 1964 and undated
Control Data Corporation 1974, 1977-1981 and undated
Boswell 1947, 1971-1973, 1979-1980 and undated
Irvine 1962, 1965-1971, 1977 and undated
Corporate studies 1970-1973, 1977, 1980 and undated
3. Legislation and politics 1865-1981 and undated
3.1 Hearings, testimonies, and legislation
Harris hearings 1971-1972
Hathaway hearings 1975
Hearings before the Select Committee on Small Business 1977
38th Congress-mineral lands report 1865 and undated
Ballis testimony drafts on land reform, "Reform the Land, Reform Our Lives" 1982
Ballis testimony before California Water Commission, George Ballis Speaks article from "Grassroots" newspaper 1978, 1982
Analysis of the 6618 Patterson Bill; Bert L. Cole testimony on Water and Power Resources HR 9706, HJR 633 1970, 1978 and undated
Clippings and magazine articles 1979-1981 and undated
3.2 Political figures and their viewpoints
Tony Coelho 1976-1982
John Krebs 1975-1977
Charles "Chip" Pashayan 1978-1980 and undated
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown 1960
Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. 1976-1980 and undated
Alan Cranston
General 1977-1980 and undated
Petitions from NLP and responses 1979
Cranston for Senate Committee 1979
Dan Whitehurst 1975
John E. Thurman 1979
Kenneth L. Maddy 1978-1981 and undated
Hugh M. Burns 1965-1969 and undated
Phillip Burton and John L. Burton 1975, 1978-1980 and undated
James Watt-U.S. Secretary of Interior under Reagan 1980-1981 and undated
Morris Udall-U.S. Representative from Arizona 1976, 1979-1980
Richard Rominger-CA Agriculture Chief 1977-1979
George Miller 1978-1981 and undated
Robert Mendelsohn 1973, 1977-1978 and undated
Ronald Reagan 1968, 1974-1977, 1980 and undated
George H. W. Bush 1980
Paul Findley-Illinois Republican State Representative 1980 and undated
Margaret Sharp-candidate for Fresno County Supervisor undated
Willie Brown undated
Richard Lehman 1977
Jim Weaver-Democratic Congressman from Oregon 1980
Tax loopholes/tax shelters 1971-1973, 1976-1977, 1981 and undated
4. Other National Land for People issues 1891-1991 and undated
4.1 Air quality 1974-1976 and undated
4.2 Activism and community organizing
General 1961-1966, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1980-1982 and undated
Saul Alinsky papers 1957, 1962, 1965-1967 and undated
Other reports 1963-1970 and undated
4.3 Agriculture and agribusiness general
General 1962, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1980
Sustainability 1980-1983 and undated
Crops 1968, 1978 and undated
Agroecology newsletters 1983
4.4 Appropriate technology
General 1973-1980 and undated
Office of Appropriate Technology and National Center for Appropriate Technology 1976-1980
Bartering projects 1978-1981 and undated
4.5 Associations
General 1978
California Women for Agriculture 1976-1978 and undated
American Agri-Women 1978-1982 and undated
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1979-1985
4.6 California projects
Coalinga Cargo Port 1974-1980 and undated
Collected material of California cities
Fresno County general 1980-1981 and undated
Caruthers, Del Rio and Huron clippings 1979-1980
Kings County general 1967, 1971, 1974, 1977 and undated
Lanare clippings 1976-1977
Lemoore agricultural leasing at the naval air station 1976
Los Angeles aqueduct bombing clippings 1976
Mendota flood clippings 1976-1978 and undated
Parlier clippings 1977 and undated
San Jose depression/history report undated
Three Rocks clippings 1964, 1976-1981 and undated
Whitesbridge clippings 1972, 1976 and undated
4.7 Chemical farming and pesticides
General 1971, 1979-1984 and undated
Reports 1963, 1967, 1974-75, 1979-1982 and undated
Fact sheets 1980-1982 and undated
Clippings 1971, 1976-1983 and undated
DBCP (di-bromochloropropane) 1977-1983 and undated
4.8 Co-ops and cooperative farms/funds
General 1974-1981 and undated
Industry reports 1973-1975
Co-op related clippings 1973, 1976-1981 and undated
4.9 Education
Food education 1981-1983
Children's Gardens info packet undated
Water education 1974-1979 and undated
Energy education 1968, 1981
Other education 1977
4.10 Farm labor and mechanization
Farm labor 1960, 1970-1973, 1977, 1981
Mechanization 1974, 1977-1980 and undated
4.11 Land issues (non-transactions)
Land ownership 1979-1981 and undated
Land reform
General 1967-1977, 1979, 1982
Land reform in Mexico 1976, 1979 and undated
Land trusts
General 1975-1983 and undated
Printed material 1976, 1979-1984
Private options for land preservation report 1981
Land use planning 1924, 1972, 1976 and undated
Farmland preservation
General 1977, 1980-1982 and undated
California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Williamson Act) 1965-1967, 1970
Clippings 1971-1977, 1981-1982 and undated
Public land use 1974, 1977
4.12 NLP miscellaneous
General 1977-1979 and undated
Land applications 1977-1978 and undated
Handwritten history and notes 1977 and undated
Fundraisers 1954, 1973-1980 and undated
Pro-NLP materials 1975-1979 and undated
Contacts, lists of names and correspondence
Fresno area 1975, 1978-1983 and undated
California's Central Valley 1975-1976, 1979 and undated
Los Angeles 1975-1982 and undated
Los Angeles groups 1963, 1977-1980 and undated
San Jose and Palo Alto 1976-1981, 1984 and undated
Grass Valley 1979-1982
Chico 1978-1979 and undated
Bay Area 1976-1984 and undated
Sacramento, Davis and Northern California 1975-1980 and undated
Santa Cruz and North coastal areas 1976-1984 and undated
Washington, D.C. 1977-1979 and undated
Alabama undated
Alaska 1980
Arizona 1978-1982 and undated
Arkansas 1979
Colorado 1979-1980 and undated
International 1976-1979 and undated
People who wrote letters to the Bureau of Reclamation list undated
Phone tree contacts 1979-1980 and undated
Original newspaper articles on or about NLP 1965, 1974-1982 and undated
Fresno Bee clippings 1979-1980
Clippings on drought 1976-1978 and undated
Drought info 1977 and undated
San Francisco Examiner clippings 1976, 1979-1980 and undated
Assorted NLP correspondence 1976, 1979-1980 and undated
Assorted clippings 1960-1961, 1966-1968, 1972, 1977-1980 and undated
4.13 NLP publications
Printed material 1976-1982, 1987 and undated
NLP newsletters 1975-1986
Sun Mountain newsletters 1988-1991
NLP and Sun Mountain bulletins 1980, 1983-1987 and undated
NLP direct marketing and farmers markets information 1980-1982 and undated
4.14 Power and energy
Central Valley projects 1951, 1974-1978, 1982
Western Area Power Administration 1978
Powerlines 1970, 1972, 1974, 1977-1980, 1982 and undated
Helms hydroelectric project clippings 1981-1983
Assorted materials 1891-1930 and undated
Consumers 1981-1982 and undated
Alternative energy 1976-1979 and undated
5. Rural community development 1972-1982
General 1972, 1975, 1977, 1980-1982 and undated
Edward M. Kirshner reports
Community ownership and Community Reinvestment Act 1975, 1981 and undated
A rural new town for the west side of the San Joaquin valley 1975
Demographic, economic and fiscal impacts of alternative Westlands agricultural development scenarios 1978
Westlands rural development project 1976-1977 and undated
Other reports 1972-1973, 1975-1977 and undated
6. International materials 1965-1969, 1976-1980 and undated
Foreign ownership of California and U.S. land 1977-1978
Mexico agribusiness 1965-1969, 1976-1980 and undated
7. Maps 1973, 1976-1985 and undated
Central Valley Project-San Luis Unit land classification 1978
Assessor's map, County of Fresno, CA undated
Westlands Water District, Fresno, CA, ownership map 1-Southern Pacific pontracts 1976-1985
Westlands Water District, Fresno, CA, district boundary undated
Westlands Water District, ownership map 1973
Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area 1985 traffic prediction 1985
Grant deed map charts undated
Questionable land transactions in Westlands Water District undated