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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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   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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   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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   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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   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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   Border Art Workshop/Tallér de Arte Fronterízo Records: Selections

   • A selection of digital and digitized files from the Border Art Workshop/Tallér de Arte Fronterízo Records, collected by artist and organizer Michael Schnorr.
   • Access: Some items restricted
   • Date: 1915, 1985-2007
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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