Collection Scope and Content Note

Includes minutes of the New York State Interdepartmental Committee on Farm and Food Processing Labor (1948, 1950-1955); descriptions and reports concerning migrant labor in New York State and various funded projects; requests for information; and other records of Olaf E. Larson at the New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University. Also, reports and bulletins (1920-1955), dept. newsletters (1961-1967), mimeographed proposals, notices, and position papers relating to challenges to governance at Cornell, collected by Harold Capener, 1965-1977 and Capener's correspondence (1963-1977).