San Joaquin Valley History
Developed by Connie Fly,
Librarian
August, 2002
Websites - General | Websites - Water & Agricultural Issues | Subject Headings, Keyword & Phrases to use to locate books & magazine articles | A sampling book located in the COS Library about the "San Joaquin Valley", Visalia, Tulare & Fresno | Local Museums & Libraries | Searching for Magazine Articles
A sampling of websites about some aspect of the San Joaquin Valley
- The Great Valley Center - This organization's mission is to support the economic, social and environmental well-being of California's Great Central Valley.
- The State of the Great Central Valley of California [.pdf] - Several documents on five indicators that track and measure the changing economic, demographic, social, and political conditions of the 19-county Central Valley
- Azoreans to California - A History of Migration and Settlement
- California Historical Museums
- Ceres: Historical and Cultural Resources Tulare County
- Challenge Dairy History
- Citrus and Avocado Program
- Citrus Research Board
- CSUFresno Madden Library Special Collections- San Joaquin Valley and California
- Fruits and Nuts - Research and Information
- Kern Junction Railway Webpage
- Migrant Labor Camp Photographs from the Harry Everett Drobish Papers, 1935-1936 - - Migrant Labor Camp Photographs from the Harry Everett Drobish Papers, 1935-1936 "This collection of 63 photographic prints of migrant labor camps in California. Included are photographs of groups and buildings at the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp and other camps in Kern County, California.
- National Register of Historic Places: Tulare County
- Rescuing the San Joaquin River: A Fresno Bee Special Report
- San Joaquin Valley: Selected Statistics on Population, Economy and Environment - This report is a statistical overview of the eight counties of the San Joaquin Valley, based on data published by sate and federal agencies. The report shows that the San Joaquin Valley is a region of rich and diverse agriculture and of a varied economy with a growing population in every county. The San Joaquin Valley counties, although diverse in many ways, tend to fall below state averages on measures of education, income, and health/medical care. The report includes many charts and tables summarizing selected data. It also cites published sources of current and historic data about California and the characteristics of its counties and their populations.
- San Joaquin Valley & Sierra Foothills Photo Heritage - This growing collection of thousands of historic photographs from the nine libraries of the San Joaquin Valley Library System (SJVLS) in California is browse able by subject or participating library, or searchable by keyword. Some images are annotated with information such as photographer, date, and description. Site includes contact information for questions about particular images.
- Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
- San Joaquin Valley: Selected Statistics on Population, Economy, and Environment - This report is a statistical overview of the eight counties of the San Joaquin Valley, based on data published by sate and federal agencies. The report shows that the San Joaquin Valley is a region of rich and diverse agriculture. The report includes many charts and tables summarizing selected data. It also cites published sources of current and historic data about California and the characteristics of its counties and their populations.
- A Statistical Tour of California's Great Central Valley, 1997
- Tachi Yokut Tribe
- Tulare County Index to Federal Land Records
- Virtual San Joaquin Valley
- Weedpatch Camp - Published in 1939, John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath drew attention to the hardships faced by the "Okies": poor farmers who moved from the Dust Bowl area to California in search of work. While writing the book, John Steinbeck visited Bakersfield, California and based his book on Arvin Federal Government Camp which he portrayed as "Weedpatch Camp."
Books (Examples)
- Central Valley Basin: A comprehensive Report on the Development of the Water and Related Resources of the Central Valley Basin for Irrigation, Power Production and other Beneficial Uses in California, 1949... - Call # O 631.7 Un83
- Salt Dreams: land and water in low-down California - Call # 333.9164 D289
- Water and the Shaping of California - Call # 331.91 M128
Web Sites (Examples)
- Association of California Water Agencies/Water Facts
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California Agriculture - This is a journal that is in print in the Periodicals room and is also online. It allows you to search past articles and bring them up full text. - California Department of Water Resources
- California Rivers Assessment - Search for watershed information by County, Basin, Assembly or Congressional District. Includes number of dams, river miles, number of special status animal and plant species and much more.
- Irrigation Districts - Lower Tule River, Fresno, Kings,
U.S. Geological Survey, National Water Quality Assessment Program National assessment of pesticides in the streams, rivers, and ground water of the United States: Pesticide National Synthesis Project. To search for information locally type in such key words indicating the region such as: "San Joaquin Valley", Tulare, Fresno or the name of the river or canal such as Friant, Kern, etc - Water Fact Book: California Agriculture and Its Use of Water - (.PDF Format) A 68-page comprehensive guide to agriculture's use of water including information on irrigation technology, irrigation efficiency, water projects, agriculture and the economy and agriculture and the environment.
- Water Education Foundation - California issues.
- Water Quality Information Center - Electronic access to information about water and agriculture
- Water Resources Center Archives UC Berkeley Archives - Use their search engine and search for "San Joaquin Valley," or Tulare or Fresno, etc.
Some Suggested Subject Headings, Key WORDS and Phrases to use to locate books and Magazine articles are:
Agriculture, Farming, Water
Agriculture --Economic aspects --California;
Agricultural laborers --California; Chavez, Cesar; Cortez (Calif.) --Social life
and customs; Farm life --California --Del Rey; Fruit-culture --California
--History --20th century; Fruit industry --California; Nuts --California
--History --20th century; Labor camps --California; Trade-unions
--Agricultural laborers --California --History Water, Mexican American migrant
agricultural laborers --History; Underground --California --San Joaquin River basin; United
Farm Workers of America; Agricultural ecology --California --San Joaquin River
basin --Handbooks, manuals, etc; Water resources development --California
--History; Water-supply --California --Management --History
Great Depression/Dust Bowl
Depressions--1929--California; Fruit trade --West (U.S.) --Employees.; Labor camps --California.; Migrant agricultural laborers --California --Social conditions; Migrant agricultural laborers --West (U.S.); Migration, Internal --United States --History --20th century.
Ethnic Groups
Armenians --California --Fresno --History; Azoreans; California--Emigration and immigration; California--Ethnic relations; Chinese Americans --California; Indians of California; Japanese Americans --Civil rights; Japanese Americans --Education --History --20th century; Japanese Americans --Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Portuguese Americans --History; World War, 1939-1945; --Japanese Americans; Mexican Americans --California; Chavez, Cesar; Indians of North America--California--History; Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers --History; Miwok Indians; Yokut Indians
Geographic Areas
Subject Headings: Tulare County, Fresno County, Kings County,
Kern County, Visalia, Tulare, Fresno, Bakersfield, Hanford, etc.
Phrases/Keywords: "San Joaquin Valley," "Central Valley", "Great Valley"
Social Issues
Abused Women-alcohol use; Abusive men-alcohol use; Battered Women; Battered Women's Shelters; Domestic Violence; Family Violence; Drinking of Alcoholic Beverages; Spouse/Spousal Abuse; Wife Abuse; Women, Battered; Post-traumatic stress
Books in the College of the Sequoias Library
This is just a sample listing of books you will find in the COS Library
Keyword Search "San Joaquin Valley"
| A rocky road : the pilgrimage of the grape / by Charles W. Bonner ; edited by John G. Taylor ; illustration and book design by Doug Hansen. | ||||||
| Author: Bonner, Charles W. | ||||||
| Call Number: 634.8 B716 | ||||||
| Agricultural labor in the San Joaquin Valley; final report and recommendations. | ||||||
| Call Number: 331.7 C153 | ||||||
| Profile analysis of the San Joaquin Valley [by] Robert A. Carr, Sarah G. Bedrosian [and] Charles B. Titus, Jr. | ||||||
| Author: Carr, Robert A. | ||||||
| Call Number: 338 C312 | ||||||
| Processes affecting the distribution of selenium in shallow ground water of agricultural areas, western San Joaquin Valley, California / by S.J. Deverel and Roger Fujii ; prepared in cooperation with the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program. | ||||||
| Author: Deverel, S. J. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 363.794 D491 | ||||||
| Organochlorine pesticide residues in bed sediments of the San Joaquin River and its tributary streams, California/ by Robert J. Gilliom and Daphne G. Clifton ; prepared in cooperation with the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program. | ||||||
| Author: Gilliom, Robert J. | ||||||
| Call Number: R 363.7394 G481 | ||||||
| The wild young land ; a story of the San Joaquin Valley in California / by Brooks D. Gist. | ||||||
| Author: Gist, Brooks Dewitt, 1893- | ||||||
| Call Number: Fiction | ||||||
| Tales by the campfire / by Brooks D. Gist. | ||||||
| Author: Gist, Brooks Dewitt, 1893- | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.45 G535 | ||||||
| A shepherd watches, a shepherd sings / by Louis Irigaray and Theodore Taylor. | ||||||
| Author: Irigaray, Louis. | ||||||
| Call Number: 636.301 Ir68 | ||||||
| Saga of Rancho El Tejón / by Frank F. Latta. | ||||||
| Author: Latta, Frank Forrest, 1892- | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 L364 | ||||||
| Apostle of the valley, the life of Daniel Francis Dade, pioneer priest of the San Joaquin valley. by Sister Mary Thomas, O.P. | ||||||
| Author: Mary Thomas, Sister. | ||||||
| Call Number: 922.2794 D121t | ||||||
| Tailholt tales / by Frank F. Latta. | ||||||
| Author: Mayfield, Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1843-1928. | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 L364 | ||||||
| Indian summer : traditional life among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley / Thomas Jefferson Mayfield ; introduction by Malcolm Margolin. | ||||||
| Author: Mayfield, Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1843-1928. | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.4004 M468 | ||||||
| The red coffee can; poems and stories of the unique spirit of a San Joaquin Valley people. | ||||||
| Author: McDaniel, Wilma Elizabeth. | ||||||
| Call Number: 811.54 M134 | ||||||
| Delta West; the land and people of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Photos. by Roger Minick. Historical essay by Dave Bohn. | ||||||
| Author: Minick, Roger. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 917.94 M665 | ||||||
| Jim Savage and the Tulareno Indians. | ||||||
| Author: Mitchell, Annie Rosalind, 1906- | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 M | ||||||
| King of the Tulares, and other tales from the San Joaquin valley, 1772-1852, by Annie R. Mitchell, with original block prints cut by Alice G. Rouleau. | ||||||
| Author: Mitchell, Annie Rosalind, 1906- | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 M681 | ||||||
| A mountain never too high : the story of J. E. O'Neill / by Bill O'Neill. | ||||||
| Author: O'Neill, Bill. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 338.763 On58 | ||||||
| Report on phase I : West side San Joaquin Valley project (W 187) May 22, 1970 / West side San Joaquin Valley Coordinating Council of the University of California Water Resources Center (Principal investigator: Henry Fagin) prepared by the Public Policy Research Organization, University of California, Irvine. | ||||||
| Call Number: 631.7 Un58 | ||||||
| The San Joaquin Valley / Nick Zachreson ; photographs, Richard Hammond. | ||||||
| Author: Zachreson, Nick. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 917.94 H227 | ||||||
| Water resources management in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California : a study of the physical and institutional management practices for surface and ground water utilization / Bookman-Edmonston Engineering, Inc. | ||||||
| Call Number: 333.91 S195 | ||||||
| SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (PAMPHLET FILE) | ||||||
| SOUTHEAST ASIA-SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY (PAMPHLET FILE) | ||||||
| Endangered and sensitive species of the San Joaquin Valley, California : their biology, management, and conservation / edited by Daniel F. Williams, Sheila Byrne, Theodore A. Rado. | ||||||
| Call Number: R 639.9 En56 | ||||||
| The Central San Joaquin Valley atlas : Southern Sierra Nevada Mountain atlas / [chief cartographer and publisher: Donald H. Clayton]. | ||||||
| Call Number: R 912.7945 C397 | ||||||
Keyword Search - Visalia
| Visalia's fabulous Fox: a theater story; history of the Visalia Fox Theatre, 1928-2000 / Text by Newell G. Bringhurst; foreword by Annie R. Mitchell. | ||||||
| Author: Bringhurst, Newell G., 1942- | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.486 B858 | ||||||
| Visalia : her first fifty years / by Annie R. Mitchell. | ||||||
| Author: Mitchell, Annie Rosalind, 1906- | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 M681 | ||||||
| Visalia's heritage : buildings, people, history / by Visalia Heritage Incorporated. | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 V822 | ||||||
| Visalia's heritage : buildings, people, history / by Visalia Heritage Incorporated. | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 V822 | ||||||
Keyword Search - Tulare
| Evans and Sontag, the famous bandits of California / by Hu Maxwell ; supplemental material by Charles W. Clough. | ||||||
| Author: Maxwell, Hu, 1860-1927. | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.4009 M465 | ||||||
| A few facts about Tulare County, California, "Garden of the sun." | ||||||
| Call Number: R 979.4 F432 | ||||||
| History of Tulare county, California, by Kathleen Edwards Small. ... | ||||||
| Author: Small, Kathleen Edwards | ||||||
| Call Number: R 979.48 S635 | ||||||
| A memorial and biographical history of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California illustrated : Containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period ... and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and also of prominent citizens of to-day. | ||||||
| Call Number: R 979.48 M533 | ||||||
| History of Tulare County, California : ... with biographical sketches. | ||||||
| Call Number: R 979.48 H673 | ||||||
| The way it was : the colorful history of Tulare County / by Annie R. Mitchell. | ||||||
| Author: Mitchell, Annie Rosalind, 1906- | ||||||
| Call Number: O 979.48 M681 | ||||||
| TULARE COUNTY HISTORY (PAMPHLET FILE) | ||||||
| A history of the Azores Islands / [James H. Guill] | ||||||
| Author: Guill, James H., 1924- | ||||||
| Call Number: 946.99 G957 | ||||||
| Contributions to Tulare Lake archaeology I : background to a study of Tulare Lake's archaeological past / William J. Wallace and Francis A. Riddell, editors. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 979.485 C764 | ||||||
| A history of the Jack Ranch : including its family and friends / by Emmett Berry. | ||||||
| Author: Berry, Emmett R. | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 B534 | ||||||
| Land of the Tules / by Annie R. Mitchell ; with original pen and ink drawings by Adele Bradley. | ||||||
| Author: Mitchell, Annie Rosalind, 1906- | ||||||
| Call Number: O 979.48 M681 | ||||||
| The silver rush at Mineral King, California, 1873-1882 / by Samuel Thomas Porter. | ||||||
| Author: Porter, Samuel Thomas. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 979.486 P848 | ||||||
| The men of Mammoth Forest; a hundred-year history of a Sequoia forest and its people in Tulare County, California. | ||||||
| Author: Otter, Floyd Leslie. | ||||||
| Call Number: 919.79486 Ot89 | ||||||
| Wheelers, pointers, and leaders. Edited by Joseph E. Doctor and Annie R. Mitchell. | ||||||
| Author: Griggs, Monroe Christopher, 1867- | ||||||
| Call Number: 923.9794 G857g | ||||||
| Visalia : her first fifty years / by Annie R. Mitchell. | ||||||
| Author: Mitchell, Annie Rosalind, 1906- | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 M681 | ||||||
| Historic legends of Kern and Tulare counties / by Fred S. Cook. | ||||||
| Author: Cook, Fred S | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.48 C771 | ||||||
| A modern history of Tulare County. | ||||||
| Author: Mitchell, Annie Rosalind, 1906- | ||||||
| Call Number: R 979.48 S642 | ||||||
| Flora of our Sierran parks, Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, including many valley and foothill plants. | ||||||
| Author: Pusateri, Samuel J., 1911- | ||||||
| Call Number: 581.9794 P987 | ||||||
Keyword Search - Fresno
| Toomas, the little Armenian boy : childhood reminiscence of Turkish-Armenia / by Thomas G. Aved ; [ill. by Margaret Pocock]. | ||||||
| Author: Aved, Thomas G. | ||||||
| Call Number: 956.1 A948 | ||||||
| Fresno County in the 20th century : from 1900 to the 1980s : an all new history / by Charles W. Clough and twenty-two co-authors, Helen Clingan ... [et al.] ; editor, Bobbye Sisk Temple. | ||||||
| Author: Clough, Charles W. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 979.4 C647 | ||||||
| Fresno County, the pioneer years : from the beginning to 1900 / by Charles W. Clough and William B. Secrest, Jr. ; editor, Bobbye Sisk Temple. | ||||||
| Author: Clough, Charles W. | ||||||
| The Fresno Armenians : history of a diaspora community / Berge Bulbulian. | ||||||
| Author: Bulbulian, Berge. | ||||||
| Call Number: NEW BOOK DISPLAY 979.486 B933 | ||||||
| Andrew Davidson Firebaugh & Susan Burgess Firebaugh : California pioneers / by Brenda Burnett Preston. | ||||||
| Author: Preston, Brenda Burnett, 1939- | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.482 P937 | ||||||
| FRESNO, CALIFORNIA (PAMPHLET FILE) | ||||||
| Cities & towns of San Joaquin County since 1847 / by Raymond W. Hillman and Leonard A. Covello. | ||||||
| Author: Hillman, Raymond W. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 979.455 H654 | ||||||
| A pictorial history of Allensworth : a unique Black town. | ||||||
| Author: Mikell, Robert S. | ||||||
| Call Number: 979.486 M636 | ||||||
| Report on Kings River project / H.L. Haehl and Chas. L. Kaupke ... S.T. Harding and Roy L. May. | ||||||
| Call Number: 631.7 K | ||||||
| Apostle of the valley, the life of Daniel Francis Dade, pioneer priest of the San Joaquin valley. by Sister Mary Thomas, O.P. | ||||||
| Author: Mary Thomas, Sister. | ||||||
| Call Number: 922.2794 D121t | ||||||
| Vintage Fresno; pictorial recollections of a western city. | ||||||
| Author: Eaton, Edwin M. | ||||||
| Call Number: O 979.48 Ea14 | ||||||
| Miwok means people; the life and fate of the native inhabitants of the California gold rush country [by] Eugene L. Conrotto. | ||||||
| Author: Conrotto, Eugene L. | ||||||
| Call Number: 970.3 C754 | ||||||
Local Museums and Libraries
Annie Mitchell History Room: The Visalia Public
Library has a room that is dedicated to the history of our surrounding area. The
hours are not the same as the rest of the library so be sure to call and find
out when it is open. A wealth of information can be found here.
Tulare Historical Museum: 444 W. Tulare Ave., Tulare Phone number: 686-2074
Hanford Carnegie Museum: 109 E 8th, Hanford Phone number: 584-1367
Porterville Museum: 257 North D, Porterville Phone number: 784-2053
for more museums check in the yellow pages of the phone directory under museums.
Searching for magazine articles
The COS Library subscribes to a number of online periodical databases that can be accessed at: http://www.cos.edu/library/electronic.htm. To use these databases off-campus you will need logins and passwords for each database. This information will be listed on the College of the Sequoias Electronic Resources Handout you received in class.
Databases that will be especially useful for this assignment are: The Fresno Bee, Los Angeles Times, InfoTrac and Academic Abstracts
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