UCSC Library Digital Collections

Featured Collections

Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Photographs

Photographs that visually document the people and landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area during a time of enormous social, political, and environmental change.

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Branson DeCou Digital Archive

Digitized hand-painted lantern slides that document DeCou's travels in five continents and subsequent travel lecture tours ca. 1920-1941.

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Digitized glass negatives and photographs documenting the building of the Observatory along with portraits of scientists, Observatory personnel; images of instruments and celestial objects and events.

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Santa Cruz County History

Santa Cruz County Historic Photo Collection

Harry Mayo Surfing Photography Collection

MS 39: Chuck and Esther Abbott Slide Collection

MS 188: Alexander Lowry Photographs

Vester Dick Collection Loma Prieta Earthquake Photos

Performing Arts

Frank Kofsky Audio and Photography Collection of the Jazz and Rock Movement

Grateful Dead Archive Online

Aerial Photography

Santa Cruz and surrounding counties

UCSC Campus History

Digitized campus publications are temporarily unavailable on the web while we migrate to a new digital collections platform. We want to ensure continued access to the publications during this period. Please contact us at speccoll@library.ucsc.edu and we will deliver the digital files via email.