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Audiovisual, text, and image material relating to topics of incarceration in California. Material includes jail registers from Madera County, as well as moving images of Folsom and San Quentin Prison.

Audiovisual and image material relating to California labor history. Content includes recorded oral interviews about the preservation of the Manzanar National Historic Site and its relation to themes of labor. Other material consists of political posters, agriculture, and information about the United Farm Workers of Union.

Audiovisual material relating to Mexican folk music. A majority of the themed collection contains rehearsal and performance recordings of the Mexican Players at the Padua Hills Theatre. Other material includes recorded oral interviews and histories of Mexican players and hostesses at the Padua Hills Theatre, such as Michaela Jimenez, Gilberto Flores, and Casilda Amador Thoreson. 

Audiovisual material relating to topics about the California homefront during World War II, 1939-1945. A majority of the content consists of recorded oral interviews from workers of the Marinship Coorporation, a shipbuilding company founded in 1942 in Sausalito, California.

Image material relating to the Natomas Water & Mining Company, founded in 1853. A majority of the themed collections consists of maps mining property and irrigation lines along the American and Feather Rivers.