UC San Diego Special Collections and Archives

The Alaska Commercial Company was a San Francisco firm that purchased the assets of the Russian-American Co. in 1867. The company supported the Alaskan fur trade by providing steamship transportation, general merchandising, and other commercial and financial services. The company had offices at Unalaska on Unalaska Island, at Unga on Unga Island, and at St. Michael on the west coast of Alaska in the Norton Sound. The collection contains a small body of business correspondence and records, including 34 letters written from early March to 12 October 1897 between agents Otto W. Carlson at Unga, R. T. Lying and James ...

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Correspondence and a journal from the papers of Alfred North (1807-1869), an American Presbyterian minister who served on international missions in Singapore from 1836 to 1843, and Madura, India from 1843 to 1847. Returning to the United States, North devoted himself to home missions in Trenton, Middlefield, Pittsford, LeRoy, and Attica, New York; Kansas City, Kansas; Tipton, Missouri; and Chilton, Wisconsin. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters written by North to his friend and fellow preacher A. P. Marvin, dating from 1856 to 1867. The letters primarily document North's personal reflections on religious life and morality, but also ...

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This collection represents a selection of artworks by American visual artist and poet Alice Notley, drawn from the Alice Notley Papers at UC San Diego Library. Images include collages, fans, masks and sketches. Describing her art, Notley wrote, "I think my collages resemble my poems, though they're not vocal. They reflect my conception of language being as infinitely dimensioned as a person or the physical world of objects, of being always intertwined with matter." Notley's writing and art responds to a broad spectrum of American culture. Among the numerous collections of verse that Notley has published are Incidental in the ...

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The records of the American Friends Service Committee - U.S.-Mexico Border Program document the work of the organization primarily between 1982 and 2003, when Roberto Martinez was program director. USMBP was established to monitor local law enforcement practices, support immigrant labor rights, promote understanding of immigration, and support strategic litigation that would have an impact on immigration policies. In support of this advocacy work, the collection contains abuse complaint case files, dated 1977-2001, from individuals in and around the San Diego-Mexico border region reporting violence, harassment, and abuse by law enforcement officers. For many years, to protect the privacy of ...

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In 1991, the American Institute of Wine & Food donated half of its library, about 400 volumes, to UC San Diego. Those volumes focused largely on European cuisine and culinary history from the 17th to early 19th centuries. In the years since, UC San Diego continues to add materials that support the campus’ academic interests in Mexico, the Pacific Rim, Latin America, California, and the American West. The collection now numbers more than 7,000 volumes and continues to grow. The objects here offer a taste of the AIWF Collection. Albeit a small percentage of the collection, they represent the collection’s ...

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Collection of printed and manuscript materials created between 1965 and 1998 by 23 distinct revolutionary groups in Mexico. The collection is particularly strong in ephemeral communiques and revolutionary periodicals such as "13 de junio," "Madera" and "Militante." Images were digitized from originals held by the UC San Diego Library.

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A collection of over 1,400 postcards primarily depicting Southern California, Baja California, and the American Southwest. Major themes include San Diego's areas of interest, the US-Mexico border region, Tijuana, Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, the California missions, and the US Navy. Popular tourist destinations such as the Hotel del Coronado, Balboa Park, and La Jolla Cove are particularly well-represented, as are postcards featuring the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. The collection was scanned in its entirety and may be searched by date, geographical region, publisher, subject matter, and key words from captions and ...

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Municipal and government documents relating to official policies, civil matters, contracts, litigation, war, and state infrastructure development in Baja California, including Santo Tomás, Rosarito, Mexicali, Ensenada, Tecate, Tijuana, and other towns and cities. Documents include official handwritten correspondence, petitions, requests to purchase land, settlements and maps, mine registers, and other materials that document daily life and municipal administration in Baja, throughout the turbulent period including the Mexican War, 1846-1848, with special emphasis on the Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920.

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Bear Facts was the newsletter published by the Oceanids, a service and social organization promoting friendship and services to the UC San Diego community. Oceanids began as a women’s organization in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and remains active today. The newsletter is currently known as Oceanids News and is available through the organization’s website.

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The Ben Yellen Papers document grassroots social and political activism on the subjects of farm labor, commercial agriculture, and western water policy in Southern California. In 1942, Ben Yellen (1907-1994) settled in the town of Brawley in Imperial County, California, the center of one of the richest and most productive agricultural regions in the United States. In the late 1950s, Yellen initiated a protracted battle against the large-scale growers who dominated the region's economy and their representative institutions, including the Desert Growers Association and, especially, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID). The digitized portion of the collection focuses on Yellen's self-published ...

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