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Visual Arts and Architecture

Images, films, audio, and documentation of Southern California and Border Region art, architecture, and urban development.
Date: 1961-2015

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David Bromige Papers: Selections

Audiovisual recordings from the collection of poet David Bromige.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1960-2009

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Paul Blackburn Audio Collection

A collection of sound recordings featuring poetry readings, conversations, lectures, and taped correspondence recorded by Paul Blackburn to create an oral history of the New York poetry scene between 1960 and 1971.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1960-1971

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Roy Rappaport Collection

Photographs taken by anthropologist Roy A. Rappaport during fieldwork with the Tsembaga Maring people of Madang Province in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The images document aspects of Maring culture.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1960-1963

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Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive

The UC San Diego Library created a “living archive” as an alternative way to highlight awareness, provide a space for dialogue, preserve and document the events related to student activism at UC San Diego.
Date: 1960-2017

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Tell Us How UC It: History of Student Activism Timeline

The Tell Us How UC It: History of Student Activism Timeline presents events and incidents from UC San Diego’s history that affected the campus climate for students in such a way that they were compelled to act or react.
Date: 1960-2016

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UCSD Student Newspapers

Scans of students newspapers, other than the UCSD Guardian. Includes Black Voices, California Review, New Indicator, Revellations, Third World, and Ujima, among others.
Date: 1960-

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Will Forman Navy submersible film collection

Forty-five films digitally reformatted films from the collection of Will Forman on U.S. Navy submersibles, particularly the development of Deep Jeep at the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) at China Lake, California.
Date: between 1960 and 1971

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Ben Yellen Papers

The Ben Yellen Papers document grassroots social and political activism on the subjects of farm labor, commercial agriculture, and western water policy in Southern California.
Date: 1959-1991

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Anthony Forge Films and Recordings

Films and sound recordings taken by British anthropologist, Anthony Forge (1929-1991), during his research with the Abelam and neighboring peoples of the Sepik River region in Papua New Guinea. The films depict Abelam life, particularly ritual and artistic aspects, such as the building of ‘haus tambaran’ (spirit cult houses).
Access: Restricted View
Date: 1958-1995

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Harold Scheffler Collection

Photographs and sound recordings taken by anthropologist Harold Scheffler during field research with peoples of Choiseul, Rendova, Simbo and other islands of the Solomon Islands.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1958-1968

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Meet the Scientist Lecture Recordings

Sound recordings and a small selection of typed presentations from a science lecture series sponsored by the Theatre and Arts Foundation of San Diego County.
Date: 1958-1963

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Scripps CO2 Program Data

This collection contains measurements of atmospheric CO2 concentration and isotopic abundances at an array of stations, from the Arctic to Antarctica.
Date: 1957 to present

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Joanne Kyger Papers: Selections

Digitized and born-digital selections from the papers of poet Joanne Kyger.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1955-2017

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Robert Crosson Papers: Selections

Audiovisual recordings from the collection of poet and actor Robert Crosson.
Date: 1955-1991

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UC Academic Senate. San Diego Division Records

The University of California Academic Senate, San Diego Division digital records contain meeting materials and reports created by the San Diego Division, the Representative Assembly, and various committees.
Date: 1955-

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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

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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

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Anti-Confucian Book Collection

The Anti-Confucius Book Collection consists of 747 titles donated by UCSD PhD alumnus Matthew Wills. They were largely political propagandas produced during 1960s-1970s, also known as the Cultural Revolution period in China.
Date: Between 1952 and 1982

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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

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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

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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-

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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.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: circa 1955 - Present

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Data from: Spatial and temporal structure of the fog life cycle over Atlantic Canada and the Grand Banks

This collection contains the ocean and atmospheric data collected over 71 years over Atlantic Canada and the Grand Banks that was used to generate the figures from Formby-Fernandez et. al (2024).
Date: 1950 to 2020

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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 to 2023

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Edward Sheldon Barr Papers

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

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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

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Henry W. Menard Papers: Selections

Photographs from collection of marine geologist Henry W. Menard.
Date: approximately 1950-1984

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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 -

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Geological Collections

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

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Communications Office Records

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Communications Office Records contain public relations materials collected, created, and distributed by that office. The records document the history, research, and the other activities of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1950-2009

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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

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Marquis McDonald Photographs

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dr. Seuss Political Cartoons

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

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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

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Dr. Seuss Collection

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

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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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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Physical Laboratory Records

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Physical Laboratory records document the activities of the research unit; including instruments, vessels, cruises and expeditions, personnel, and events.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1940-2011

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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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Harold Clayton Urey Papers: Selections

A selection of documents of the Nobel Prize winning chemist Harold Clayton Urey.
Date: 1928-1981

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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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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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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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Edna Watson Bailey Photographs

Photographs collected by Edna Watson Bailey, a graduate student at the Marine Biological Association of San Diego. Subjects include Bailey and members of her family, work colleagues, La Jolla, early Scripps laboratory facilities, and the July 25, 1906 wreck of the research vessel Loma.
Date: 1905-1940

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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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Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection

Digitized pressed seaweed specimens and associated metadata.
Date: 1904 to 2025-07

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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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Data from: The 1991 California "Miracle March": Precipitation Myth or Miracle?

This collection contains the data and code necessary to reproduce the plots and analysis for "The 1991 California “Miracle March”: Precipitation Myth or Miracle?", published in Environmental Research Communications by Poulsen et al. (2025).
Date: 1900 to 2023

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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.
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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