UC Irvine

This collection consists of 60 digitized video recordings produced by UCI Media. It includes recordings of UCI events and subjects from 1965 to 1992.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

The artificial collection comprises primary and secondary source materials on Helena Modjeska, a nineteenth-century Polish stage actress who had a successful career in the United States. Most items pertain to her stage career, while others provide insight into Modjeska's life at her Santiago Canyon ranch, Arden, in Orange County, California. Primary sources include original and photocopied Modjeska correspondence, ephemera, programs and playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts, including a hand-written book of fairy tales. Secondary sources include biographical information on Modjeska in newspaper clippings, manuscripts typescripts, and published journal articles written by a number of authors.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

This collection contains materials acquired by Gayle Morrison during the time she served with the Lao Family Community, Inc., and the Governor's Task Force regarding issues of Southeast Asian refugees living both in the United States and in camps located in Southeast Asia. Materials relating to the Lao Family Community and the Governor's Task Force include correspondence and information on agencies at the local, state, and federal level. The agencies and services included in the collection deal with the issues and challenges Southeast Asian refugees face living in the United States and ways of helping the refugees adapt to their …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive

New University is the student newspaper of the University of California, Irvine. Issues from 1968-1983 were digitized from microfilm in 2007-2008. Issues from 1983-2003 were digitized from microfilm in 2015. Current and some back issues are available at http://www.newuniversity.org

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

This collection contains oral histories documenting personal memories and encounters with the sea from current and former residents and visitors of Newport Beach. The oral history interviews were collected by UCI student interviewers.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

Souvenir UCI dedication issue.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

This collection includes raw video footage used in the creation of the Emmy-winning documentary, "Bolinao 52" (2008), by Duc Nguyen. Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, millions of refugees took the perilous voyage across the South China Sea to find freedom. Many drowned or died of thirst and starvation. Some were lost at sea for days while others were pillaged, robbed and raped by pirates. Filmmaker Duc Nguyen, himself a boat refugee, retraced the odyssey of the Bolinao 52 and revealed an incredible tale of survival, reconciliation and closure. "Bolinao 52" tells the story of the one …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive

Engravings of ordinary people and everyday objects from the Gulf of Guinea Coast during the nineteenth century. These include Fante, Ouidah, and Asante people, as well as a stool, cushion, various hats, a fetish place, and a Dutch plantation. There is also an eighteenth century map of the region.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Digital Scholarship Services

This collection is comprised of photographs taken by Norbert Tsi documenting activism in Southern California.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

Patrick O'Donnell was a photojournalist and photographer. He photographed US presidents, groundbreakings, and events at California universities and colleges. This collection contains digital photographs taken by O'Donnell of UCI's 1964 dedication ceremony with Lyndon B. Johnson speaking, and Hubert Humphrey visiting campus in 1976 as part of the Presidential Symposium.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives