About the UCSC Library Digital Collections
Explore over 100,000 digitized items from UCSC Special Collections & Archives. This site is a living database with new photographs, documents, maps, audio and video added regularly. While only a small fraction of the Library’s archival collections are digitized, you can learn more about the unique archives from which these items originate in the Collection Guides linked to each item.
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- Adlai E. Stevenson College1
- University of California, Santa Cruz. College V1
19 collections
Sigrid McLaughlin photographs of the University of California, Santa Cruz
This collection consists of images of campus views, landmarks, students, and architecture taken by Sigrid McLaughlin at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1998 and 1999.
40 items
Steve Rees photographs of the University of California, Santa Cruz
This collection consists of images of campus life taken by Steve Rees at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from the fall of 1966 through the spring of 1967. These black and white, 35mm negatives chronicle the first year of Stevenson College for the Adlai E. Stevenson College Journal, 1967, the yearbook published by the pioneer class of the college. Included are performances, informal portraits, and student activities, as well as visitors and events significant to campus history.
353 items
Tina Silverstein slides of the University of California, Santa Cruz
The collection contains images of the UCSC Farm, taken by Tina Silverstein during her apprenticeship with the Agroecology Program, as it was then called. The images were captured on four different dates: August 1983, November 1984, May 1985, and December 1985, and include plantings, structures, garden art, and views of and from the Farm.
56 items
UC Santa Cruz Campus History Collections
This collection includes photographs and other material documenting the historical development, culture and social environment of one of the UC system's most beautiful campuses, the University of California, Santa Cruz.
22 items
UC Santa Cruz Campus Maps
This collection includes maps documenting the physical development of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Included are maps produced by the campus for promotional purposes as well as maps created in the course of planning future campus growth and those created by outside organizations, including the city of Santa Cruz to illustrate the impact of the campus on the larger community.
18 items
UC Santa Cruz Faculty Lectures
The UCSC Faculty Lectures collection includes recordings of select lectures given by preeminent faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
3 items
UCSC Photography Services Photographs
The Photography Services Photographs collection includes photographs created by staff photographers employed by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The collection visually documents the history of UCSC from the campus opening in 1965, until the Photography Services department was closed, in 2005. Images include aerial and landscape photographs of the campus and neighboring Santa Cruz, construction views, scenes from daily campus life and activities, classrooms, labs, and curricular materials, and people and events significant to UCSC history.
12331 items
University of California, Santa Cruz, Public Information Office records
These photographs were produced by the Public Information Office of UCSC and were used to promote the University of California, Santa Cruz, from the first invitation to the Board of Regents by the city of Santa Cruz to the recent past. The images in the collection document the history and achievements of all members of the UCSC community.
755 items
Visual Resource Collection: Campus History Slides
This collection contains images of campus history that had been acquired as part of the UCSC LIbrary's Visual Resource Collection. Included in the collection are photographs of campus events, architectural drawings and construction photos.
414 items