UC San Diego Special Collections and Archives

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 ...

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A selection of images from the papers of Carl L. Hubbs, documenting his research in ichthyology, zoology, natural history, conservation, and archaeology. This online collection represents only a small fraction of the many original photographs and slides in Hubbs's papers, which includes images of biological specimens (primarily fish), mammals (whales and seals), portraits of Hubbs and other scientists, and images from his extensive travels, both in the western United States and abroad.

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A small collection of the family papers of American painter John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1898), consisting mostly of letters to Chapman from colleagues and associates, and correspondence with his son, Conrad Wise Chapman. Of special interest are Conrad Chapman's letters to his family, written while he served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. These letters, dating from the years 1861 to 1865, provide details on Conrad's experiences in the Confederate army, and include a set of undated drafts which form an extended diary in letter form. In his letters, Conrad writes of forced marches, sleeping on wet straw, the ...

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Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) was a noted zoologist at the University of California, Berkeley and early advocate for the development of a marine station in La Jolla that would later become the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Selected materials from his papers have been digitized. Digitized items include photographs of Charles and his wife, Carrie Winter Kofoid; their families, friends and colleagues; travel; the 1904-1905 Albatross Expedition; and many freshwater and marine biological research stations, some of which were included in Kofoid's book, The Biological Stations of Europe.

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Film and color slides created for and used in a photographic documentary of early UCSD events from 1963 to 1967. The project documents the construction of Revelle College campus, various campus events, political and social activities of the first undergraduate classes. The original film and color slides are held by the UC San Diego Library.

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Propaganda posters created by various Chinese agencies, 1968-1989.

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Advertising artwork created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, author and illustrator known internationally as Dr. Seuss. Geisel's major clients included Standard Oil of New Jersey, Flit pesticide and the National Broadcasting Company. His remarkable and imaginative campaign for Standard Oil promoted Esso Motor Oil with the monsters Karbo-nockus, Moto-raspus, Zerodoccus, Moto-munchus and Oilio-gobelus. Other clients included Holly Sugar, Brevo Shaving Cream, Narragansett Lager and Ale, and Hankey Bannister Scotch Whiskey. Geisel also produced a poster and cartoons for the War Department for use in their War Savings Campaign in 1943. These images have been digitized from the originals, held by the ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives