UC San Diego Special Collections and Archives

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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Audiovisual recordings from the collections of Los Angeles-based poet Bill Mohr. These recordings include poetry readings and events, as well as master recordings of Mohr's spoken word works "Chromozones" and "Vehemence." Mohr was an attendee of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Poetry Program, and full recordings from the 2005 and 2006 summers are included. This online selection also includes recordings of the show "Put Your Ears On," from items in his papers and the archive of Momentum Press. Put Your Ears On was a reading and performance show, hosted by Bill Mohr, and originally aired on local cable television. Prominent guests …

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A selection of digital and digitized files from the Border Art Workshop/Tallér de Arte Fronterízo Records, collected by artist and organizer Michael Schnorr. As of 2024, the bulk of the files are short digital videos, with the addition of some images, that were all originally saved to optical disks. The presentation of online content from this collection is expected to grow.

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This collection consists of historical essays, research notes, and a small number of photographs created between 1936 and 1940 on select California landmarks, monuments and state parks. The California Department of Parks and Recreation, in conjunction with the Federal Writers' Project (a component of the federal Works Progress Administration), produced a series of descriptive historical essays and monographs on the state's important landmarks, monuments and state parks. Project editors were Clark Wing and Vernon Aubrey Neasham. Project writers included George Walcott Ames Jr., Christian Ecklon, Andrew Eggum, Russell C. Ewing, John Samuel Fox, Chester Lyle Gutherie, Esther Harlan, Oscar Houmann, …

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California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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Photographs and plans of Camp Matthews buildings after Camp Matthews closed operations in 1964, plus building modifications through 1967. Camp Matthews was a U.S. Army base; the land for the camp became part of the UC San Diego campus site. Images were digitized from originals held by the UC San Diego Library.

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The Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953) was conducted as part of a series of oceanic expeditions sponsored by the Department of the Navy and the University of California. Two Scripps Institution of Oceanography ships, R/V Horizon and R/V Spencer F. Baird, were used. The Capricorn Expedition was the first Scripps expedition to include the use of scuba divers to explore the Pacific. Operation Ivy preceded the expedition. This collection includes images taken during the Capricorn Expedition. Subjects include: R/V Spencer F. Baird and R/V Horizon; Pacific Islands and atolls (including the Marshall Islands, Alexa Bank, Palmerston Island, Tonga, Fiji, Tahiti, and the …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives