Back to ArchivesHenry Washburn, Farm Advisor, Collection
Collection Number: 80.1
This collection contains materials from the records of Henry Washburn. Mr. Washburn was a Farm Advisor in the Santa Cruz area. The records span from the early 1930’s to the mid 1950’s. Included are documents, reports, correspondence, programs from tours, and a vast number of images. The collection is contained in nine boxes, and has been divided into twelve (12) series. The collection covers various topics that were of issues in the time period between the Great Depression and the years after WWII. Many of these issues include: soil erosion, moth control, road repair, repairing storm damage, and spraying chemicals to control insects. Henry Washburn served for thirty seven years at the director of the University of California agricultural extension service in Santa Cruz County. He was greatly admired by both his coworkers and locals. In the Santa Cruz Sentinel, J. Earl Coke stated of Washburn that, “No day has been too long, no trip too difficult, no problem too great for him to devote his thought an physical effort to serve the people of Santa Cruz county” (1955).