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Francis P. Shepard Papers: Selections

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Howard E. Gulick Photographs

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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H. Lee Hansen Collection

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

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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

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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

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Spanish Civil War Collection

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

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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

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Spanish Civil War News Photos

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dr. Seuss Advertising Artwork

Advertising artwork created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, author and illustrator known internationally as Dr. Seuss.
Date: 1920s-1950s

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J. Edward Hoffmeister Films

Sixteen films documenting the cultural life in Fiji and Tonga by geologist J.E. Hoffmeister.
Date: 1920-1939

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Walter Munk Papers: Selections

A selection of still images, slides, and reformatted sound and moving image recordings from the papers of oceanographer Walter Munk.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: between 1920 and 2003

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Oceania

Photographs, films and dissertations, documenting aspects of the cultures and peoples of the Pacific Islands, with a strong emphasis on Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Date: 1919-1989

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Sylvester M. Lambert Photographs

Photographs of Pacific Islanders taken by American physician Sylvester Maxwell Lambert. Many images taken in Papua New Guinea, Solomn Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1919-1939

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Swope Family Correspondence

Letters written by Charles Byron Swope to his wife Gretchen while he was stationed at Fort McDowell on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, and other family correspondence.
Date: 1917-1918

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Fish Catch Statistics. California Department of Fish and Game

Amounts and values of marine resources caught/landed by California's commercial fisheries.
Date: 1916-1986

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Shore Stations Program Data Archive: Current and historical coastal ocean temperature and salinity measurements from California stations

Data from the Shore Stations Program consists of current and historical daily, manual measurements of surface temperature and salinity from the nine active stations located on the California coastline.
Date: 1916 to present

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Papua New Guinea Patrol Reports

Reports from government patrols are a major source of primary information on Papua New Guinea’s colonial-era history. Patrol officers and other officials wrote detailed documents reporting on all aspects of the work carried out by the patrols. The reports give first-hand accounts on many topics, from first contact with remote Highland villages, to census counts, tax collection, health care, justice, labor recruiting, plantations, missionaries, anthropological descriptions, tribal warfare, languages, and more. The reports in this collection date primarily from the post-World War II era of Papua New Guinea, up through 1975, when PNG gained independence from Australia; a few pre-War reports are also included.
Date: 1912-1976

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Middlebrook Photographs of San Diego & Arizona Railway Locomotives

Images of locomotives, trains, and sections of track from the San Diego & Arizona and San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway companies.
Date: 1910-1948

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography Lantern Slide Collection

A selection of slides from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Lantern Slide Collection, including images of local cliffs and beaches, the development of the campus, scientists, and research vessels.
Date: 1908-1940

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Tijuana Photograph Postcard Collection

A small collection of postcards documenting tourism in Tijuana, Mexico. The majority depict tourists in automobiles near the U.S.-Mexico border, including many Panama California Exposition visitors from the San Diego area in 1915.
Date: between 1907 and 1960

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Pacific Basin Nautical Charts

Charts of the Pacific Ocean
Date: circa 1910-1960

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SIO Photographic Laboratory Collection: Selections

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Photographic Laboratory was established in 1949 to provide photographic services to the SIO community. Subjects included aerial views of La Jolla and the Scripps campus, artifacts, campus buildings and events, faculty and staff at work, marine specimens, research ships, and scientific instruments.
Date: 1905-2003

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Baja California and the West Postcard Collection

Postcards depicting California, Baja California, and the Southwest, mostly from the early 1900s. Images of Tijuana, Ensenada, Balboa Park, and the California missions are well-represented in this collection.
Date: 1900-1989

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SIO Photographs Collection

A diverse assortment of photographic images acquired by the former SIO Archives and collated into one collection. Images include SIO staff and faculty, the campus, and scientific expeditions.
Date: between 1900 and 2006

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Leo Szilard Papers

A selection of documents, photos, and audio-visual materials of the nuclear physicist and inventor Leo Szilard.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1898-1998

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Alaska Commercial Company Records

A small collection of business correspondence and records from the Alaska Commercial Company, a San Francisco trading firm concerned with the Alaskan fur trade in the late 19th century.
Date: 1895-1897

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Carl L. Hubbs Papers

Images from the collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography icthyologist Carl L. Hubbs.
Date: 1889-1976

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The Missions of Alta California

Albumen photographs of California missions taken by William Henry Jackson.
Date: 1885-1890

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James Howard Collection

Photographs and documents from the collection of James Howard, a mining foreman with the Amparo Mining Company who lived in Guadalajara, Mexico and worked in the Bolaños region starting in 1889.
Date: circa 1882-1939

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Scientific Voyages & Expedition Reports

This collection contains 90 oceanographic voyages and scientific expedition reports from various countries and institution from around the world dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. They were collected by the former Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library.
Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
Date: 1881-1971

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San Diego History Center Photographs

Over 3,000 images from the San Diego History Center that document the rise and decline of the California fishing industry. These historical photographs from the 1870s to the 1980s represent the work of many important San Diego photographers.
Date: 1880-1980

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography Letters, Clippings, Ships' Logs

Images of historical documents about Scripps expeditions.
Date: 1873-1987

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Topolobampo Collection

Business records and promotional materials by Albert Kimsey Owen, related to the colony and railroad enterprise established on Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa, Mexico between 1871 and 1910.
Date: 1872 to 1910

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Ed Fletcher Papers

The papers of Ed Fletcher a noted San Diego land developer, civic leader, and member of the California State Senate.
Date: 1870-1955, bulk 1920-1950

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Vermilion Family Correspondence

Correspondence of William F. Vermilion, a captain in the 36th Infantry Regiment of Iowa Volunteers during the American Civil War, and his wife, Mary Vermilion.
Date: 1862-1865

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