Photographs and architectural drawings documenting the historical development of the campus and its cultural and social environment.
This documentary oral history project conducted by the Regional Oral History Project at the UCSC University Library includes fifty-eight interviews with farmers, activists, researchers, and educators. It encompasses the 1960s through the present. Here you will find transcripts of all of the interviews in full text (PDF) format, along …
The Archives of the Lick Observatory, named in honor of astronomer and archivist Mary Lea Shane, document one of the most historically important observatories in the world, and are a unique resource for the study of the history of modern astronomy. The digital collection contains digitized historical photographs and includes portraits of …
This collection includes digitized maps of the Santa Cruz region from the UCSC Library Map collection. Currently the site holds Sanborn Fire Insurance Company maps of the Santa Cruz area and historical maps created by the Standard Map Service. Both show information about streets, buildings, and physical features such as creeks. The …
A collection of 419 geologic maps of areas in California, with indexes.
The Regional History Project has been documenting the history of the Central Coast of California and the institutional history of UC Santa Cruz since 1963, through oral history. This site includes the transcripts of selected oral histories from the library's collection. To view the the complete catalog of our collection, as well as …
Photographic images of Santa Cruz County circa late 1960s - 1990s. Notable subjects include Santa Cruz architecture pre and post Loma Prieta Earcthquake (1989) as well as images from the family photograph collection of Alfred Hitchcock.
Currently this collection includes digitized photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, Frank Kofsky. Subjects include such recording artists as John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ornette Coleman, and Archie Shepp. The physical archive includes recorded …
A German immigrant to California's Gold Rush, F. A. Hihn is considered by many as Santa Cruz County's most influential entrepreneur, from his arrival in Santa Cruz (1851) to his death (1913). Charles Bruce Younger Sr. was Hihn's principal attorney and dean of the legal community, and the two families were united by the marriage of Agnes …
The UCSC University Library's Digital Collections site holds a growing treasury of digitized photographs, maps, artwork, oral history transcripts, sound recordings, as well as "born digital" materials. The collections focus on the most rare and unique materials in order to provide access to the UCSC community and the world. For the best viewing experience, we recommend the following browsers: Safari 5+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Google Chrome 12+. The recommended viewer for PDF transcript and text files is Adobe® Reader® version 8.0+.
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