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Sam Hinton Papers

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Collection
Extent

412 digital objects.

Description

Sam Hinton (1917-2009) was a professional folksinger, aquarist, illustrator, and teacher of literature and folklore at UC San Diego. Selected materials from his papers have been digitized. Digitized items include photographs from the University of California Division of War Research, Hinton’s caricatures and sketches of Scripps Institution of Oceanography faculty, and many original drawings of ocean plants and animals created for Hinton’s newspaper column “The Ocean World.”

Creation Date
  • 1937-2006
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Location Of Originals

From the Sam Hinton Papers. MSS 683. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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Language
  • English
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Local Attribution

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)