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  1. Collection

    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
  2. Collection

    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
  3. Collection

    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
  4. 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
  5. Collection

    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
  6. Collection

    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
  7. Collection

    Howard E. Gulick Photographs

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

    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
  9. 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
  10. Collection

    Dr. Seuss Collection

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

    Francis P. Shepard Papers: Selections

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

    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
  13. Collection

    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
  14. Collection

    Dr. Seuss Political Cartoons

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

    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
  16. 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
  17. Collection

    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
  18. Collection

    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
  19. Collection

    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
  20. Collection

    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