UC Irvine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. The files have metadata-only public access, please contact the contribution institution directly for full access.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Digital Scholarship Services

Jaded was an alternative media magazine published by students at the University of California, Irvine, intended to encourage political, cultural, and social discourse among UCI students. It published 12 issues from 2004-2007. According to its mission statement, Jaded attempted to celebrate and support the Asian Pacific Islander community by retelling the past, engaging the present, and creating a voice for the future. It hoped to build connections and bridge gaps between different people on and off campus. Its goal was to provide not only a space for students to voice different opinions and artistic expressions, but also as a form ...

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

These records document the conditions of refugee camps in Southeast Asia and resettlment in Camp Pendleton, California, collected by James A. Schill, a retired Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State and USAID. The collection comprises mostly of color photographs of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees at refugee camps in Malaysia and Thailand between 1975 to mid 1980s, as well as photographs of refugee resettlement in Camp Pendleton in 1975. Also included is a Vietnamese boat person refugee's pocket diary with entries written in English, Vietnamese and French from 1979, detailing their journey to Pulau Bidong, Malyasia.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive

Laos Stories: Laotian American Oral History Project consists of audio and video interviews of Laotian Americans across the United States about their life experiences. Interviews were conducted by Prinston Pan, a second generation Laotian American high school student in Southern California. The interviews range from 30 minutes to over an hour in duration and were primarily conducted remotely during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. The narrators discuss their experiences in Laos and the U.S. including the hardships they had to overcome, as well as what they hope for future generations. This project provides an in-depth, primary source on the Lao diaspora ...

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive