UC Irvine
UC Irvine
- Location: Irvine, CA
- Phone: (949) 824-3947
- Email: spcoll@uci.edu
- Website: http://special.lib.uci.edu/
Collections at UC Irvine
Egan (Richard) Manuscript Maps of Orange County
Four manuscript survey maps and one plat map depicting areas of Orange County and attributed to the noted surveyor and judge Richard Egan. One map is dated 1878 and 1879 by Egan. The other maps are undated and unsigned but it is likely that he drew them during these years. These maps primarily depict subdivisions of non-rancho tracts of land occupying what is now Orange County, with the addition of some topographical details.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection
5 Items
Filming of Planet of the Apes video (University of California, Irvine)
The digital portion of this collection contains reformatted video from one super 8 film reel containing a recording of the filming of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes movie on UCI campus in 1972, recorded by former student Lorraine Prinsky.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives
1 Item
Fort Chaffee Photographs of Vietnamese and Cambodian Refugees
This collection is comprised of black and white photographs and negatives taken of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees living at Fort Chaffee, a military base in Arkansas. The photographs document the daily life of the refugees, including the arrival of refugees by plane and bus, a visit from President Gerald Ford, refugee education and social activities.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
33 Items
Frank (Anne) Photographs of Southeast Asian American Communities
The collection is comprised of photographs of businesses and cultural festivals within Southeast Asian American communities. The photographs were taken by Anne Frank, librarian of the Southeast Asian Archive at the University of California, Irvine. The communities include those in Long Beach, California; Lowell, Massachusetts; Little Saigon in Garden Grove and Westminster, California and other cities in the United States.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
50 Items
Frank Cancian photographs of Lacedonia, Orange County housecleaners, and Zinacantan
This collection consists of photographs taken by University of California, Irvine anthropology professor emeritus Frank Cancian (1934-2020) during three separate projects in 1957, 1971, and 1973-2002. The collection comprises three sub-collections of photographs that illustrate the variety of anthropological studies performed by Cancian during his career. The Lacedonia photographs document the people and places in a small town in Italy in 1957. The Zinacantan photographs document the people and places in and around Zinacantan, Mexico in 1971. The Orange County Housecleaners photographs document the working lives of housecleaning staff in Orange County, California between 1971 - 2002.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
427 Items
Fred L. Emmert collection of aerial photographs from the Real Estate Masterwork series of books
This collection is comprised of aerial photographs, taken by Fred L. Emmert, and used in a series of books by Fred L. Emmert and Richard N. Frost. The books present the chronological ongoing development history of real estate projects in Newport Center and Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. The collection contains wooden exhibit panels and digital images of the panels presented at the 2017 lectures at Newport Beach City Hall and the panels from the 2018 exhibit displayed at John Wayne Airport.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection
45 Items
From out of Sherwood Forest newspaper collection
From Out of Sherwood Forest (alternatively known as Sherwood Forest) was an underground alternative newspaper published biweekly in Newport Beach, California. Established in 1969, it featured political, cultural, and socioeconomic commentary reflective of the antiwar sentiment of the time. Its main editor was Don Elder, a student at UC Irvine and member of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection
30 Items
Gerhardt (Wally) Photograph Collection
This collection includes one box of photographs and six boxes of unprinted negatives of Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Corona del Mar, and other Orange County, California, localities taken in the 1940's and 1950's. Images include individual, group, and family portraits; marine and sailing scenes; commercial sites and churches; architecture; houses; and yachts.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection
1,432 Items
Hugh Everett III Manuscripts
American physicist Hugh Everett, III (1930-1982) first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics. These documents include scanned original documents, draft and final versions of Everett's long and short Ph.D. theses and the early notes that led to these published works, Everett's correspondence regarding his relative state formulation of pure wave mechanics, and miscellaneous biographical material discovered by investigative journalist Peter Byrne, Petaluma, CA in 2007 in the Los Angeles basement of Everett’s son, Mark Everett. The original documents were digitized with support from National Science Foundation Grant #0924135. The collection is edited by Jeffrey A. Barrett, Peter Byrne, …
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
230 Items
Hyleigh Pan collection of digital photographs of Lao ephemera
A description of the collection from the donor, Hyleigh Pan: "The Laotian community in the United States, made up of nearly 250,000 people, has limited representation in literature and art. The aftermath of the Secret War in Laos led many to flee the country, leaving only a few stories and scraps of paper behind. With the aim of preserving the past, I initiated a project to gather photographic evidence of items that are important to the Laotian Diaspora. While most collectors concentrate on famous items, I made a deliberate effort to locate objects that were often overlooked or undervalued, but …
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
107 Items