UC Irvine Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

This collection is comprised of approximately 1,200 photographs taken by Edward William Cochems, a prominent commercial photographer in Santa Ana, California, between ca. 1919-ca. 1949. The images are principally views of Southern California, primarily Orange County locations. Areas receiving the most coverage include San Juan Capistrano, Del Mar, the Irvine Ranch (80 images), Laguna Beach (120 images), the Rosicrucians monastery (Oceanside, California), San Luis Rey Mission, and Santa Ana (55 images). There are approximately 40 studio portraits by Cochems in the collection. Approximately 130 images are of unidentified subjects. Individual photographs are undated.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

Four manuscript survey maps and one plat map depicting areas of Orange County and attributed to the noted surveyor and judge Richard Egan. One map is dated 1878 and 1879 by Egan. The other maps are undated and unsigned but it is likely that he drew them during these years. These maps primarily depict subdivisions of non-rancho tracts of land occupying what is now Orange County, with the addition of some topographical details.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

This collection is comprised of aerial photographs, taken by Fred L. Emmert, and used in a series of books by Fred L. Emmert and Richard N. Frost. The books present the chronological ongoing development history of real estate projects in Newport Center and Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. The collection contains wooden exhibit panels and digital images of the panels presented at the 2017 lectures at Newport Beach City Hall and the panels from the 2018 exhibit displayed at John Wayne Airport.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

This collection includes one box of photographs and six boxes of unprinted negatives of Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Corona del Mar, and other Orange County, California, localities taken in the 1940's and 1950's. Images include individual, group, and family portraits; marine and sailing scenes; commercial sites and churches; architecture; houses; and yachts.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

Hugh R. McMillan (1916-2000) was a historian, journalist, dispatcher, and photographer in Newport Beach, California. He was also an avid fisherman and self-proclaimed "beach rat" who lived his entire life near the ocean. This collection features nearly 1000 digitized negatives selected from about 3000 black and white photographs taken by McMillan primarily in the late 1940s and 1950s. Most of the photos were taken in and around Newport Beach while McMillan worked as a journalist and photographer for the local Ensign newspaper. McMillan’s passion for sport fishing is reflected in the hundreds of photos of anglers in Newport Beach and …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

The artificial collection comprises primary and secondary source materials on Helena Modjeska, a nineteenth-century Polish stage actress who had a successful career in the United States. Most items pertain to her stage career, while others provide insight into Modjeska's life at her Santiago Canyon ranch, Arden, in Orange County, California. Primary sources include original and photocopied Modjeska correspondence, ephemera, programs and playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts, including a hand-written book of fairy tales. Secondary sources include biographical information on Modjeska in newspaper clippings, manuscripts typescripts, and published journal articles written by a number of authors.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

This collection contains oral histories documenting personal memories and encounters with the sea from current and former residents and visitors of Newport Beach. The oral history interviews were collected by UCI student interviewers.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

This collection is comprised of photographs taken by Norbert Tsi documenting activism in Southern California.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

This collection comprises an album of 66 studio photographs, carte de visites, and tintypes of early and prominent Californio family members. The families are predominantly from the Orange County area and include the prolific and prominent Yorbas, Peraltas, and Sepulvedas, the first three land grant families that received titles for areas which include the present day UC Irvine campus from King Ferdinand VII of Spain in the early 19th century. Also included are portraits of members from the Avilas, Burruel, Dryden, Gless, Landell, Lugos, Pryor, and Ríos families. Individual and group portraits of adults predominate, although there are a number …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

This collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, and ephemera about Orange County, California's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.The materials were collected by multiple individuals as part of the Orange County Historical Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Timeline Project, an effort started by activist Barbara Muirhead in 1995. Activists Dick Hitt and Brad Brafford also contributed significantly to the Project. The Project highlights important people, organizations, and events related to the LGBT communities in Orange County. Among the topics covered in the collection are: Laguna Beach Pride, the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Equal Rights …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection