The Barbara O. Schneeman Papers document UC Davis faculty member Barbara Schneeman's career as teacher, administrator, and public servant. The papers date 1934 to 2007, with the bulk of the material falling between 1988 and 2006. The collection includes materials related to Dr. Schneeman's teaching at UC Davis in the Department of Nutrition; her service as Chair of the Department of Nutrition and of Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and her work as Assistant Administrator for Nutrition in the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The collection also includes a small set of photographs.

Cynthia Brantley was the first white female gay professor and first Africanist historian in the History department; designed and taught the first undergraduate course on American women’s history; launched the African history program at UC Davis, designing the first undergraduate courses in the field. This collection contains research materials for Brantley's books, The Giriama and Colonial Resistance in Kenya, 1800-1920 and Feeding Families: African Realities and British Ideas of Nutrition and Development in Early Colonial Africa, as well as materials from the year Brantley spent in Nigeria (1966-1967).

After receiving her Masters of Science in Plant Pathology (1918) from the College of Agriculture, Davis, California, Edith Henrietta Phillips became the first female scientist in the Texas Experiment Station, Texas A and M College. This collection includes photographs of Ms. Phillips, her colleagues, buildings, equipment, and projects at Davis, Riverside, and Texas.

Hub Segur was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1936. He grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut where he graduated from high school and went on to earn an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Connecticut, and a Master's in mathematics from Bowdoin College. Hub taught high school in the East before moving to California in 1961 to teach at The Thacher School in Ojai from 1961 to 1969. From 1969 to 1973 he was active in the United Farm Workers (UFW) and participated as an organizer and leader in the UFW activities and campaigns during those years. From 1973 to 1980 he was a graduate student at University of California, Davis in the department of Agricultural Economics, where he received his Ph.D. and completed his dissertation entitled "Representation Elections for Farm Workers: Voting Power Under Alternative Rules of Eligibility". The collection includes materials related to labor activist and economist Hub Segur's work with the United Farm Workers, including journals, photographs, writings, audio tapes, and memorabilia.

Napa Valley entrepreneur and wine enthusiast Joanne DePuy (1927-) is the founder of Wine Tours International, Wine Adventures, the Napa Valley Docent Council, Tennis Limited, and the Napa Valley Wine Symposium. She has been active in the Napa Valley wine world since 1973, when she launched Wine Tours International with the idea of creating a way for winemakers around the world to meet and learn from one another. This collection includes photographs, business records, correspondence, clippings, and a/v material related to Napa Valley entrepreneur and DePuy's businesses, especially Wine Tours International; the Napa Valley Wine Symposium; and the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 (popularly known as the Judgment of Paris).

Joyce Goldstein (1934 or 1935-) is a chef, author, and consultant to the restaurant and food industries. She was chef/owner of Square One restaurant in San Francisco, California from 1984-1996 and worked for three years as executive chef at Cafe at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. She is the author of twenty-eight cookbooks, including James Beard Award winners Festive Occasions (with Chuck Williams) (1993) and Back to Square One (1992), and one of the first comprehensive cookbooks on Mediterranean cuisine, The Mediterranean Kitchen (1989). Her papers contain interviews she conducted and work related to Inside the California Food Revolution; columns from the San Francisco Chronicle, Sommelier Journal, and Vegetarian Times; and draft chapters of Solo Suppers.

Dr. Juan Fried (born Janos Fried) (1924-2007) was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who went to Venezuela before coming to the United States. He was a doctor of internal medicine for the Veterans Administration in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fried began the wine label collection in retirement circa 1990. Because of his ability in languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Czech, and German), he was able to correspond with many European wineries. Dr. Fried (1924-2007) collected an estimated 50,000 wine labels. The collection contains extensive labels from Europe (France, Italy, and Spain) as well as from the United States.

June McCaskill was curator of the University of California, Davis Herbarium (1953-1991) and founding member of the Davis Herbaria Society, now the Davis Botanical Society. This collection contains materials regarding the Herbarium, biographical material, research notes, correspondence, slides, photographs.

Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis (1933-1950); author of Plant Anatomy (1953), Viruses in Plant Hosts (1968), and The Phloem (1969), among others. The collection includes reprints and reviews of numerous works on botanical anatomy and morphology.

Mary DeDecker was a botanist and conservationist of the Inyo region of California; founder of the Bristlecone Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. The collection includes DeDecker's correspondence, publications, as well as materials related to the Owens Valley Unified School District, the Inyo County Museum, and the Eureka Dunes.

Norma Lang was a professor of plant biology at UC Davis from 1963 to 1991. Her research, which focused on blue-green algae, included describing a new cyanobacterium, Starria zimbabweensis Lang. The Norma Lang Papers include correspondence, articles, teaching materials, and lab notes related to Lang's career in plant biology at UC Davis.

Christine Cheng