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Mexican Broadsides

This collection comprises broadsides (single and double-sided, one-sheet documents) produced in Mexico between the early 1600s and 1899.
Date: Early 1600s to 1899

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Pablo Macedo Collection of Mexican Notarial, Mining and Colonial Documents

Mexican colonial documents written in Spanish, relating to land tenure, legal matters and mining interests in the Itzmiquilpa region of Mexico.
Date: 1600-1908

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American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection

Selected materials from the American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection.
Date: 1610-1985

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Hall Family Papers and Sugar Plantation Records

Family papers and sugar plantation records (1709-1835) of the Hall family of England and Jamaica. The collection contains primary source material on 18th and early 19th century Jamaican plantation economy and culture.
Date: 1709-1892

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Millerd Family Documents

Documents of the Millerd family, 1740-1900, including records that document birth and death dates for family members, debts, military service, and a set of manuscript sermons attributed to Squire Millerd.
Date: 1740-1900

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William Bond Papers

Papers of William Bond (d. 1776), a Revolutionary Army officer from Massachusetts. Includes correspondence, orders, resolutions of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, lists of officers and soldiers, and other documents related to Bond's regiment.
Date: 1768-1883, bulk 1775-1776

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Chapman Family Correspondence and Other Documents

A small collection of family papers of American painter John Gadsby Chapman, consisting mostly of letters to Chapman from colleagues and associates, and correspondence with his son, Conrad Wise Chapman, who served in the Confederate army in the Civil War.
Date: 1791-1898, bulk 1861-1865

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San Diego History

Selected materials documenting San Diego county, digitized from original postcards, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets and other materials held by UC San Diego Library.
Date: circa 1800-1950

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Hubon Family Papers

The Hubon Family Papers contain the correspondence of San Diego early settler Frederick Hubon (1827-1882), and include letters from three generations of Hubons, in addition to transcriptions, genealogical notes, and a carte-de-visite portrait.
Date: circa 1801-1966

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José Villegas Collection on Mining

Documents and photographs relating to silver mining operations in Mexico, principally Real del Monte and Pachuca during the periods of British (1824-1849) and Mexican (1849-1906) capitalization and management.
Date: circa 1825-1983

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Baja California Government Documents Collection

Municipal and government documents relating to official policies, civil matters, contracts, litigation, war, and state infrastructure development in Baja California, including Santo Tomas, Rosarito, Mexicali, Tecate, Tijuana, and other towns and cities.
Date: 1831-1982 (bulk 1900-1925)

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Alfred North Correspondence and Other Documents

Correspondence and a journal from the papers of Alfred North (1807-1869), an American Presbyterian minister who served on international and domestic missions.
Date: 1832-1869

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Ephraim W. Morse Family Papers

The Ephraim W. Morse Family Papers includes correspondence documenting 19th century life in New England and California. It includes letters from many promient San Diegians, including: Alonzo Horton, Joseph Judson Ames, Manuelito Cota, Rufus King Porter, Judge James Robinson, Jonathan T. Warner, and Thomas Whaley, as well as family members.
Date: 1838-1907

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Ephraim Morse Papers

Documents from the Ephraim W. Morse Papers, San Diego pioneer, businessman, and civic leader. Materials include financial records for Morse's Old Town and New Town stores; correspondence; cased daguerreotypes and an ambrotype; and scrapbooks.
Date: 1839-1884

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Elisha Oscar Crosby Papers

Autobiographical essays, documents, and correspondence regarding Elisha Oscar Crosby, an early (1849-1895) California settler, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and civil servant.
Date: 1849-1895

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History of Oceanography and Marine Science

Selections from archival collections held by the UC San Diego Library that document the history and activities of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: circa 1850 to 2010

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Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana

The Turner Collection comprises more than 300 items that help document the lives and contributions of American Blacks, largely through original photographic images.
Access: Some items restricted
Date: 1850-1979

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George Fearing Hollis Papers

Papers of George Fearing Hollis, Union Naval officer and United States Consul to Cape Town, South Africa from 1888-1893. The collection consists mainly of Civil War-era correspondence, manuscript memoirs, and documents regarding Hollis's tenure in Cape Town.
Date: 1852-1903

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Ex-Mission of Santa Catarina Legal File

Correspondence, legal documents, expense statements, and sales agreements compiled to demonstrate rightful ownership of the lands deriving from the Ex-Mission of Santa Catarina, a large tract of land in northern Baja California originally the possession of the Catholic Church.
Date: 1856 - 1916

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New Rosario Silver Mining Company Records

Records of the New Rosario Silver Mining Company, including business correspondence, articles of agreement, receipts, and reports meant to entice potential stockholders. Includes articles of agreement for other ventures, including the Morro da Gloria Gold Mining Company.
Date: between 1858 and 1870

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Richard Dering Letters

Letters from Richard Dering, which provide a detailed account of his activities and travels in Sonora, Baja California, the islands of the Gulf of California, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. The letters are primarily written from Isla Elide, Georges Island, Guaymas, Magdalena Bay, and San Francisco.
Date: 1858-1879

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California Explores the Ocean

A collection of diverse resources about the ocean and ocean exploration.
Date: circa 1860 to 2008

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Charles Atwood Kofoid Papers

Photographs taken and collected by the University of California, Berkeley zoologist Charles Atwood Kofoid and his wife, Carrie Winter Kofoid. Subjects include the Kofoids; their families, friends and colleagues; travel; the 1904-1905 Albatross Expedition; and many freshwater and marine biological research stations.
Date: circa 1860-1936

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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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Cuyamaca Water Company Records

Records of the Cuyamaca Water Company, including typescript reports, contracts, water rights documents, technical drawings, and maps used for San Diego land and water development from the late 1800s to the mid-1930s.
Date: 1867-1938

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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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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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Scripps Institution of Oceanography Letters, Clippings, Ships' Logs

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

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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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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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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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The Missions of Alta California

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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