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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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
Vester and Esther Dick Papers
The Vester and Esther Dick collection contains images of damage from the 1989 Santa Cruz Earthquake, primarily focusing on downtown.
36 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