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Sam Hinton Papers

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

About this Collection

Sam Hinton (1917-2009) was a professional folksinger, aquarist, illustrator, and teacher of literature and folklore at UC San Diego. Selected materials from his papers have been digitized. Digitized items include photographs from the University of California Division of War Research, Hinton’s caricatures and sketches of Scripps Institution of Oceanography faculty, and many original drawings of ocean plants and animals created for Hinton’s newspaper column “The Ocean World.” View this collection on the contributor's website.
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412 items found in this collection

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11-Rayed star: Astrocles actinodetus (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Aerial view of Building X, used by the University of California Division …
Agate chama shell: Chama arcana (illustration from "The Ocean World")
American lobster: Homarus americanus (illustration from "The Ocean World")
An angler-fish: Linophryne arborifera (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Anglerfish: Lophius piscatorius (illustration from "The Ocean World")
An armed squid: Abralia armata (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Arrow goby: Clevelandia ios (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Arrowhead sand-dollar: Encope grandis (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Atlantic ridley: Lepidochelys kempi (illustration from "The Ocean World")
An Atlantic sea-hare : Aplysia willcoxi (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Atlantic slimehead: Hoplostethus atlanticus (illustration from "The Ocean World")
The avocet: Recurvirostra americana (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Awning clam: Solemya johnsoni (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Balloon siphonophore: Stephalia corona (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Banded fanweed: Zonaria farlowii (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Basking shark: Cetorhinus maximus (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Batfish: Ogcocephalus darwini (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Bath-towel seaweed: Gigartina boryi (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Bead-string diatom: Thalassiosira decipiens (illustration from "The Ocean World")
A beard worm: Spirobrachia grandis (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Belcher's murex: Forreria belcheri (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Beluga: Delphinapterus leucas (illustration from "The Ocean World")
Berry's deepwater squid: Bathyteuthis berryi (illustration from "The Ocean World")
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