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  1. Collection

    Peveril Meigs Baja California Research Materials

    • Photographs, journals, and an album documenting Peveril Meigs's field research in northern Baja California, Mexico, between 1925 and 1936.
    • Date: between 1925 and 1936
  2. Collection

    Kelco Aerial Photograph Collection

    • A selection of Kelco's scanned black and white, color, and infrared aerial photographs and slides. The images document kelp beds and coastline primarily from Central and Southern California, and the Channel Islands.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: circa 1931-1992
  3. Collection

    Eugene Cecil LaFond Papers

    • Photographs from the Eugene Cecil LaFond Papers, documenting early Scripps Institution of Oceanography personnel, equipment and the campus in the 1930s.
    • Date: 1934-1940
  4. Collection

    California Historic Landmark Project Collection

    • Historical essays, research notes, and a small number of photographs created between 1936 and 1940 on California landmarks, monuments and state parks.
    • Date: 1936-1940
  5. Collection

    H. Lee Hansen Collection

    • Travel films by traveler and filmmaker, H. Lee Hansen.
    • Date: 1936-1980
  6. Collection

    Milo Woodbridge Williams Photographs

    • Photographs from the collection of Milo Woodbridge Williams, a professional photographer who attended the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a graduate student between 1947 and 1948.
    • Date: between 1936 and 1980
  7. Collection

    Roger Revelle Papers

    • A selection of photographs and slides from the Roger Revelle Papers, including portraits and images documenting scientific expeditions and Scripps Institution of Oceanography colleagues.
    • Date: 1936-1976
  8. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Collection

    • Collection of propaganda posters, newspaper photographs, postcards, drawings made by Spanish children in colonias, and more.
    • Date: 1936-1940
  9. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Communist Ephemera

    • Ephemera printed by the Communist Party of Spain, Partido Comunista de España (PCE), or groups affiliated with the PCE in Madrid during the years of the Spanish Civil War.
    • Date: circa 1936-1939
  10. Collection

    Spanish Civil War News Photos

    • Photographs, taken for various news agencies, documenting events during the Spanish Civil War.
    • Date: 1936-1940
  11. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Postage Stamps

    • Collection of different adhesive stamps issued by a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations throughout Republican Spain.
    • Date: 1936-1939
  12. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Posters

    • Propaganda posters produced during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) by a variety of Spanish political parties and labor organizations.
    • Date: 1936-1940
  13. Collection

    Travelogue Collection

    • Collection of home movies and travel films shot mainly in the United States. Includes extensive footage of Europe and Asia as well.
    • Date: 1936-1980
  14. Collection

    Leo Szilard Letters to Gertrud Weiss

    • The Leo Szilard Letters to Gertrud Weiss contains documents written between 1937 and 1959 from Szilard to Weiss.
    • Date: 1937-1959
  15. Collection

    Pauline Oliveros Papers

    • Papers of Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016), American experimental musician, composer and key figure in the development of contemporary electronic music.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1937-1983
  16. Collection

    Sam Hinton Papers

    • Images from the University of California Division of War Research, Sam Hinton’s caricatures and sketches of SIO faculty, and original drawings of ocean plants and animals.
    • Date: 1937-2006
  17. Collection

    Baja California

    • Images of Baja California digitized from original photographs held by UC San Diego Library. Includes landscapes, missions, the built environment, and ranch life.
    • Date: 1938-1997
  18. Collection

    Howard E. Gulick Photographs

    • Color photographs of Baja California and Nayarit, taken by author and cartographer Howard Gulick.
    • Date: 1938-1962
  19. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Children's Drawings

    • A collection of over 600 drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by Spanish school children, both in Spain and in refugee centers in France, rendered in pencil, crayon, ink, and watercolor.
    • Date: circa 1938
  20. Collection

    Peter Yates Sound Recording Collection

    • Peter Yates was an important radio personality and concert presenter in the Los Angeles avant-garde music scene from 1939 through the mid-1960s.  The collection consists of concerts, interviews with composers, lectures by Yates, and radio broadcasts.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1939 - mid 1960's
  21. Collection

    Dr. Seuss Collection

    • Images by Theodor Seuss Geisel digitized from originals in the UC San Diego collections.
    • Date: 1940-1943
  22. Collection

    Francis P. Shepard Papers: Selections

    • Digitized images selected from the papers of scientist Francis P. Shepard.
    • Date: circa 1940-1960
  23. Collection

    J. Robert Beyster Collection: Selections

    • Selections from the collection of Dr. J. Robert Beyster (1924-2014), a scientist and entrepreneur who was the founder, former chairman and CEO of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), an employee-owned San Diego research and development firm founded in 1969.
    • Date: 1940-2016
  24. Collection

    SIO Archive Film Collection

    • This collection contains films documenting Scripps Institution of Oceanography research, expeditions, and campus history. The collection also includes training and introductory science films created by the U.S. Navy.
    • Date: 1940-1983
  25. Collection

    Dr. Seuss Political Cartoons

    • Political cartoons drawn for the New York newspaper PM by author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel.
    • Date: 1941-1943
  26. Collection

    Selected Newsreels

    • Yearly highlights including, but limited to major national and international news, important events and major public figures.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1941-1969
  27. Collection

    Robert S. Arthur Slides and Survival Charts

    • Slides and World War II-era cloth survival charts from the collection of physical oceanographer Robert S. Arthur.
    • Date: 1943-1973
  28. Collection

    Papua New Guinea Highlands Dissertations

    • Dissertations and theses, written between 1946 and 2001, documenting social life, customs, history and other topics pertaining to the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea.
    • Date: 1946-2001
  29. Collection

    Taiwanese American Archives' Photo Albums

    • The Taiwanese American Archives' Photo Albums  include documents and images covering a broad range of topics including sports, news events, concerts, festivals and conferences spanning the 1940s to the present decade.
    • Date: 2014 to 2021
  30. Collection

    Robert Erickson Sound Recording Collection

    • Robert Erickson was a co-founder of the UCSD Music Department.  This collection includes his sound recordings of his own works, much of it recorded under his direction, also rare or unique recordings of particular interest to him, from ethnic music to works and lectures by his contemporaries and some student projects.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1947 to 1984
  31. Collection

    Data from: Autumn precipitation: the competition with Santa Ana winds in determining fire outcomes in southern California

    • This dataset includes two versions of the Santa Ana Wind Regional Index (SAWRI) and Livneh precipitation data from 1948-2018.
    • Date: Compiled: 1948 to 2018
  32. Collection

    Leo Szilard and Aaron Novick Research Files

    • The Leo Szilard and Aaron Novick Research Files document experiments on bacterial populations performed jointly by Szilard and Novick at the Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics, University of Chicago.
    • Date: 1948-1964
  33. Collection

    Marquis McDonald Photographs

    • Photographs by Marquis McDonald during a 1949-1950 overland trip down the Baja California Peninsula.
    • Date: 1949-1950
  34. Collection

    Historical Catalog of Winter Weather Regimes Impacting California, 1949-2017

    • This dataset contains a historical catalog of daily atmospheric winter weather regimes observed over the North Pacific and western North America spanning 1949-2017. These weather regimes have been identified as important drivers of atmospheric river landfalls, Santa Ana winds, floods, and wildfires in California.
    • Date: November-February 1949 to 2017
  35. Collection

    Archive for New Poetry: Selections

    • A selection of reformatted, scanned, and born-digital materials from the Archive for New Poetry at the UC San Diego Library's Special Collections & Archives.
    • Date: circa 1955 - Present
  36. Collection

    dataMares: Fisheries

    • This collection contains robust, high-quality scientific information related to Mexico-specific ocean fisheries and their relationship to marine reserves, coastal and marine ecosystems, and climate change. It also contains datasets with information on fishing activities collected with the participation of local fishermen.
    • Date: 1950-01-01 to present
  37. Collection

    Edward Sheldon Barr Papers

    • Photographs from collection of Edward Sheldon Barr, who accompanied the MidPac and Capricorn Expeditions.
    • Date: 1950-1952
  38. Collection

    George A. Shumway Jr. Photographs

    • Photographs from the collection of George A. Shumway Jr, Ph.D, former Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) researcher.
    • Date: 1950-1959
  39. Collection

    Music Collection

    • Collection of Music-related materials from UC San Diego students and faculty, as well as prominent figures of the contemporary music scene in Southern California.
    • Date: 1950 -
  40. Collection

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Geological Collections

    • A growing archive of sea-floor samples and associated data supporting a diverse variety of scientific research.
    • Date: 1950 to 2006
  41. Collection

    James Stewart Papers

    • A selection of images from the James Stewart Papers, including portraits, group photos and photographs from diving and research expeditions.
    • Date: 1951-1994
  42. Collection

    Capricorn Expedition Photographs

    • The Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953) was part of a series of oceanic expeditions in the Pacific conducted by the US Navy and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
    • Date: 1952-1953
  43. Collection

    Data from Scripps Research Expeditions 1953-2005

    • Data and documents from Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel expeditions from 1953-2005, including geophysical, water column, and sea surface measurements.
    • Date: 1953 to 2005
  44. Collection

    Theodore Schwartz Recordings

    • A collection of sound and video recordings from Theodore Schwartz, Melanesian anthropologist, UC San Diego Professor and specialist on the Manus people of Papua New Guinea. Includes interviews, ceremonies, lectures, songs and linguistic studies relating to his expeditions to the Admiralty Islands.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1953 - 1998
  45. Collection

    Jackson Mac Low: Selections

    • A selection of content from the Jackson Mac Low papers, focused on reformatted sound recordings and a presentation of the digital files captured off the poet's collection of floppy disks and zip drives.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: circa 1955-2005
  46. Collection

    Joanne Kyger Papers: Digital selections

    • Digitized and born-digital selections from the papers of poet Joanne Kyger.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1955-2017
  47. Collection

    UC San Diego History

    • Photographs, student newspapers, oral histories, campus news releases, news clippings, and publications that document the development and history of the campus.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1956-
  48. Collection

    University Communications & Public Relations Materials: News Releases

    • News releases of UC San Diego adminstrators and faculty, campus events, major campus buildings, and aerial views of campus.
    • Date: 1956-2023
  49. Collection

    University Communications & Public Relations Materials: Photographs

    • Photographs of UC San Diego administrators and faculty, campus events, major campus buildings, and aerial views of campus.
    • Date: 1956-2001
  50. Collection

    San Diego History Center Oral Histories

    • The San Diego Historical Society owns dozens of oral histories that document the rise and decline of the California fishing industry. Over 50 oral history transcripts on topics of popular interest such as tuna fishing, lobster harvesting, agar processing, and whaling, have been made available here.
    • Date: 1957-1999