Library Digital Collections

Browse by Collection: Library Digital Collections

View current collections below. Click an image or link for a full description.

Search Results

  1. Collection

    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
  2. Collection

    Posters of the Chinese Independent Film Festivals

    • Posters from Chinese independent film festivals from 2004 to 2016.
    • Date: 2004-2016
  3. Collection

    Live Well, Be Well

    • Live Well, Be Well podcast episodes present candid information about all things wellness! Their goal is to inspire listeners, to help them feel connected, and to discover new ways to live their best life.
    • Date: 2020-2021
  4. Collection

    Triton Tools and Tidbits

    • Triton Tools & Tidbits is a podcast that is focused on discussing topics to engage and enrich student life and education. Produced by the UC San Diego Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
    • Date: 2020-2021
  5. Collection

    Zambian Storytellers

    • Images, video and audio recordings, and images from professor of African and Comparative Literature Robert Cancel's research in Zambia and other regions of Africa.
    • Date: Between 1976 and 1997
  6. 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
  7. Collection

    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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Collection

    Norman Spencer Photographs

    • Norman A. Spencer, Ph.D., professor at SUNY, Nassau, documents artists, writers, directors, actors and other notable personalities in the underground and independent Chinese film and art scenes. His photographs were taken between the years 1999-2019.
    • Date: 1999-2019
  11. Collection

    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
  12. Collection

    Chinese News

    • The Chinese News is a weekly newspaper in San Diego containing local and international news articles written in Chinese in addition to advertising in English and Chinese.
    • Date: 1983-1996
  13. Collection

    Stephen Leavitt Recordings

    • Field recordings created by American anthropologist Stephen Leavitt include interviews and events related to the ethnography of the Bumbita Arapesh people of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1984-1989
  14. Collection

    Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Recordings

    • Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart are a husband and wife research team who carry out long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. The two tapes, recorded in 1967 in Pangia, Papua New Guinea, document Namasu sing-sing, a celebration for an opening of a store, stories of tambaran cults told by local informants, and woman and man stories.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1967
  15. Collection

    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
  16. Collection

    Jane Goodale Recordings

    • Jane C. Goodale was an American anthropologist and photographer who conducted ethnographic research on Kaulong-speaking people of New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea. The sound recordings document the details of the social life, customs, and song performances of the Kaulong recorded by Goodale in Umbi and Angelek.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1963 to 1974
  17. Collection

    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
  18. Collection

    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
  19. Collection

    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
  20. Collection

    California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI): Cruise Images

    • Photographs documenting the tools, processes and people aboard CalCOFI research cruises.
    • Date: 2018 to 2019
  21. Collection

    Gatherings: Event, Agency, and Program

    • Gatherings is a mixed-media performative lecture that studies the nature of events and new forms of awareness, cognition, and material agency that emerge in the wake of technological change.
    • Date: 2011
  22. Collection

    Alice Notley Artworks

    • A selection of artworks by American visual artist and poet Alice Notley. Images include collages, fans, masks and sketches.
    • Date: 1974-2004
  23. Collection

    American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection

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

    William Rodman and Margaret Critchlow Photographs

    • Photographs taken by Canadian Anthropologists Margaret Critchlow and William Rodman during research trips conducted in Vanuatu.
    • Date: 1970 to 1995
  25. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: Exhibit 2017

    • Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive debuted with a physical exhibit and a panel on student activism on February 1, 2017. The exhibit included history, student perspectives, and real-time feedback, all of which are now part of the collection.
    • Date: February 2017 to May 2017
  26. Collection

    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
  27. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: Course Curriculum and Events

    • The Tell Us How UC It project has consisted of a number of course collaborations from workshops to one-shot classes.
    • Date: 2017
  28. Collection

    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
  29. 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
  30. 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 -
  31. 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
  32. Collection

    University Art Gallery Closure Events, 2016

    • Images and events related to the threatened closure of the University Art Gallery in 2016.
    • Date: 2016
  33. Collection

    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
  34. Collection

    History of the UC San Diego Visual Arts Department

    • Images documenting the history of Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego from 1969 to 1989.
    • Date: 1969-1993
  35. Collection

    Stuart Collection Records: Selections

    • Video and audio recordings of the UC San Diego Stuart Collection site-specific public sculptures and interviews with the artists.
    • Date: 1982 - 2006
  36. Collection

    Hillary Eggers Photographs and Videos

    • Photographs and videos documenting the tools, processes and people from the February 2018 Winter CalCOFI cruise.
    • Date: 2018
  37. Collection

    California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Collection

    • Research data sets and photographs from CalCOFI (California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations) cruises.
    • Date: 2009-2018
  38. Collection

    John LeRoy Photographs

    • Photographs created by American anthropologist John D. LeRoy, in the context of field research with the Kewa people of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1971-1972
  39. Collection

    UCSD Audio Visual Theses and Dissertations

    • A subset of the dissertations produced by students at UC San Diego which contain audio and visual components.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: between 1971 and 2009
  40. Collection

    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
  41. Collection

    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
  42. Collection

    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
  43. Collection

    Mikhail V. Propp Negatives

    • Photographic negatives taken by Russian marine biologist Mikhail V. Propp, documenting a Soviet Antarctic expedition (1965-1966) at Mirny Observatory, Antarctica.
    • Date: 1965-1966
  44. Collection

    Visual Arts and Architecture

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

    Robert Mosher UC San Diego Architectural Image Collection

    • The Robert Mosher collection includes photographs of the interior and exterior of architectural structures as well as plans, drawings, elevations, models, studies, and materials samples of UC San Diego buildings and spaces. Development and master plans are also included. Most of the buildings and structures in this collection were designed by Robert Mosher but there are some images of UC San Diego structures that were designed by other architectural firms.
    • Date: 1961-1998
  46. Collection

    Stephen MacKinnon Collection

    • Slides and documents contributed by Stephen MacKinnon, member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) Friendship Delegation that traveled to China in 1972.
    • Date: 1972
  47. Collection

    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
  48. Collection

    Cinewest Archive

    • Materials documenting the several Cinewest production initiatives including Border Brujo, Murals off the Walls, and Mexico History and Image and others.
    • Date: 1969-1992
  49. Collection

    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
  50. 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