UC San Diego Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
UC San Diego
- Location: La Jolla, CA
- Phone: (858) 534-2533
- Email: spcoll@ucsd.edu
- Website: https://library.ucsd.edu/research-and-collections/special-collections-and-archives
Special Collections & Archives is an administative unit of the Library that includes UC San Diego's distinguished Mandeville Special Collections and the long-established Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives. The two collections were combined in July 2013.
Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) houses a wide range of rare books, manuscripts, periodicals, maps, photographs, artworks, films, sound recordings, archives, and digital files. These primary source materials support UCSD's instructional and research programs, and distinguish UCSD's library collections from all other research universities.
Collections at this institution
Dr. Seuss Political Cartoons
Political cartoons drawn for the New York newspaper PM by author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel. From 1941-1943, Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, worked as the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York magazine PM, creating over 400 editorial cartoons. These images have been digitized from the published versions of the cartoons, held by the UC San Diego Library.
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
390 Items
Ed Fletcher Papers
The papers of Ed Fletcher, a noted San Diego land developer, civic leader, and member of the California State Senate, document all aspects of Fletcher's career but are most complete in regard to his water-related enterprises. The papers include correspondence, legal documents, blueprints, reports, maps, and a large assortment of photographs documenting the Fletcher family, dam construction projects, and San Diego buildings and views. The majority of the Ed Fletcher Papers, held by the UC San Diego Library, have been digitized. Images of the documents are largely scans from the microfilm of the accession processed in 1991.
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
4,148 Items
Edna Watson Bailey Photographs
Photographs collected by Edna Watson Bailey, a graduate student at the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, later Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Some of the images may have been formerly mounted in an album or scrapbook. Subjects include Bailey and members of her family, work colleagues, La Jolla, early Scripps laboratory facilities, and the July 25, 1906 wreck of the research vessel Loma off Point Loma in San Diego, California. Selected images from this collection have been digitized.
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
48 Items
Edward Sheldon Barr Papers
Photographs from the collection of Edward Sheldon Barr, who accompanied the 1950 MidPac Expedition as a high school student and the 1952 Capricorn Expedition as an undergraduate. The photographs include images of Bikini Atoll, Namdrik Atoll, work at sea, and candid shots of expedition personnel.
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139 Items
Edwin Cook and Susan Pflanz Cook Collection
Photographs taken by American anthropologists, Edwin Aubrey Cook (b. 1932 - d. 1984) and Susan Pflanz (Susan Pflanz-Cook Warrner), documenting research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea in 1961-1963 and 1971-1972. The majority of images document the social life and customs of the Kwiop and other Narak-speaking people, mainly in the Western Highlands Province. Topics of particular focus include rituals and ceremonies such as bride-price exchanges. The later photographs include local court cases, trade stores, and plantations. Cultural shows in Mount Hagen and Port Moresby are well-represented, along with photographs taken in western New Guinea in the Balim Valley …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
1,346 Items
Elisha Oscar Crosby Papers
Materials in this small collection document the life of Elisha Oscar Crosby, an early (1849-1895) California settler, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and civil servant. Subjects include Crosby's reminiscences of his life and career in early California, including his participation as a delegate at the Constitutional Convention that created the state; his duties as an election official for the Sacramento district; his services as a State Senator from 1848 until 1852; his term as the United States resident minister to Guatemala; and his legal work regarding the land claims of Spanish-speaking Californios. Biographical materials include correspondence, personal family and financial papers, and …
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33 Items
Ephraim Morse Papers
Documents from the Ephraim W. Morse Papers, San Diego pioneer, businessman, and civic leader. Materials date frpm 1839 to 1884 and include financial records for Morse's Old Town and New Town stores; correspondence; cased daguerreotypes and ambrotypes; and scrapbooks. Highlights of the collection are the financial records of Morse's stores, recorded in storebooks and account books, detailing individual accounts and transactions. Another highlight is the scrapbooks containing photographs of San Diego, circa 1874, as well as a collection of pressed ferns and seaweed from the southern California region. The collection includes some cased daguerreotype photographs.
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
24 Items
Ephraim W. Morse Family Papers
The Ephraim W. Morse Family Papers includes correspondence documenting 19th century life in New England and California. It includes letters from many promient San Diegians, including: Alonzo Horton, Joseph Judson Ames, Manuelito Cota, Rufus King Porter, Judge James Robinson, Jonathan T. Warner, and Thomas Whaley, as well as family members. Since Morse served many roles in the community--as storekeeper, lawyer, and express agent--people wrote to him about a variety of issues concerning those living in or passing through San Diego in the 1850s-1860s. The collection also contains biographical materials such as various civic office notifications, certificates, and oaths; economic transaction …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
205 Items
Eugene Cecil LaFond Papers
Eugene Cecil LaFond (1909-2002) began as a technical assistant before his promotion to oceanographer and eventually marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he worked from 1933 to 1961. In 1964, LaFond joined the Navy Electronics Laboratory and remained there as senior scientist and consulting oceanographer until his retirement, where he helped pioneer the use of submersibles to study the ocean floor. LaFond had an early interest in photography, and took pictures of the SIO campus and every member of the staff in in the 1930s, eventually donating his original negatives to the Library. The images in this …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
196 Items
Ex-Mission of Santa Catarina Legal File
Legal and financial documents from the Ex-Mission of Santa Catarina Legal File collection. Materials consists of scans from three bound volumes containing legal documents, expense statements, correspondence, and other materials pertaining to the dispute of ownership to the lands of the Ex-Mission of Santa Catarina. The lands of the ex-Mission of Santa Catarina are located in northern Baja California, about 70 miles south of San Diego, and spanned approximately 1.5 million acres. Prior to the Mexican Revolution, the lands belonged to the Catholic Church; post-Revolution, the property was appropriated by the Mexican government. In 1855, the Mexican government granted ownership …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
3 Items
