UC Riverside Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Library, Special Collections and University Archives
UC Riverside
- Location: Riverside, CA
- Phone: (951) 827-3233
- Email: specialcollections@ucr.edu
- Website: http://library.ucr.edu/libraries/special-collections-university-archives
Special Collections & University Archives at the UC Riverside houses rare books, manuscripts, archival records, audiovisual materials, and other formats covering a wide range of special subject areas.
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Collections at this institution
Patricia Ortlieb collection on Eliza L. Tibbets
Photographs and documents on the life of Eliza L. Tibbets and her descendants, compiled by author Patricia Ortlieb, who is Tibbets' great-great-granddaughter. Photographs, including ambrotypes and tintypes, depict members of the Tibbets, Lovell, Summons, and Olmsted families throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tibbets (1823-1898), a horticulturist, spiritualist, abolitionist, suffragist, and early settler in Riverside, is most widely known for her role in introducing the Washington navel orange in California. Ortlieb is the co-author of "Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry" (Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2011).
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
188 Items
Sabino Osuna photographs
Glass plate negatives, photographs, and lantern slides of the Mexican Revolution taken by photographer Sabino Osuna. Includes images of Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Alvaro Obregón, Emiliano Zapata, and Pancho Villa, as well as street warfare during La Decena Trágica.
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427 Items
Sadakichi Hartmann papers
Selected photographs from the personal papers of Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944), a writer, poet, dramatist, and critic during the early 20th century. Hartmann was an important figure in early modernism and had a diverse social circle that included Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, and John Barrymore.
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7 Items
Ted McKown collection of flamenco sound recordings
Sound recordings of Diego del Gastor, Donn E. Pohren, Antonio Mairena, and several other flamenco guitarists and singers who gathered and performed at locales in and around Morón de la Frontera, Spain in the late 1960s. Ted McKown, an Orange County, California-based guitarist and guitar teacher, recorded these performances on open reel tape during his travels to Spain.
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7 Items
Tomás Rivera archive
Select digitized photographs and documents from the papers of Chicano author, poet, and educator Tomás Rivera, who served as chancellor of UC Riverside from 1979-1984. Born to a migrant farmworker family in Crystal City, Texas, Rivera is best known for his 1971 novel "...y no se lo tragó la tierra," and as the first person of color to serve as chancellor in the University of California system.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
164 Items
Trailfinders collection
Organizational records, photograph albums, and 16mm silent films from the Trailfinders, a private school for boys and wilderness organization, established by Harry C. James in Hollywood, California during the spring of 1915.
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73 Items
Tuskegee Airmen collection
Documents, photographs, and other material regarding the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who served in World War II as part of the United States Army Air Corps. Includes certificates, pamphlets, press clippings, artwork, photographs, and videocassettes related to those individuals who served in units at Tuskegee Army Air Field and those associated with the 99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, and 477th Bombardment Group. Additional material pertaining to Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., a non-profit organization, are included.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
14 Items
University of California, Riverside Chicana/o/x student newspapers
In 2022, Chicano Student Programs, Teatro Quinto Sol, the Encuentros, Student Participatory Research Project (ESPARiTU), and UCR Library collaborated to inventory, digitize, and make accessible Nuestra Cosa, the “Chicano alternative newspaper” founded by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A.) de UCR in December 1972. Running until 2012 after which the zine Nuestra Cosita emerged, a zine created by Teatro Quinto Sol, a student artivists organization on campus. Nuestra Cosa was a crucial resource for the Chicana/o/x community at UCR. The newspaper, published bilingually in English and Spanish, included news coverage of Chicana/o/x issues both locally and nationally, as well as …
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95 Items
University of California, Riverside, Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station records
Correspondence, reports, clippings, notes, and other material regarding the history of the Citrus Experiment Station (CES), established by the Regents of the University of California in 1907. The University of California, Riverside campus was added to this site in 1954 and the original CES buildings still remain today. Topics include the establishment of the CES in Riverside, California, its early activities, and building dedications. Senate and assembly bills regarding the purchase of land for the institution are also included.
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93 Items
University of California, Riverside Highlander student newspaper
The Highlander is the student-run newspaper of UC Riverside, first published in February 1954 as the UCR Cub.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
2,043 Items