Friday, March 13, 2015

UC Santa Cruz Campus History in the Oral History Collection

The Regional History Project at UC Santa Cruz has been documenting campus history since 1963. Typed or printed transcripts of the audio recordings are available in the Library stacks and Special Collections. On-line versions are in PDF format in the Library's Digital Collections, as well as in eScholarship.

1960s - The Early Years at UC Santa Cruz:

UCSC dedication events, January 17, 1963: Clark Kerr, with Donald Clark and regents in a car at the site of the library
-University of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library, Special Collections, ms0090_pho_63_61a_cs2_21
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Herman Blake's Junior Leadership Program, Summer 1967: participants on a forest walk, with a lizard
-University of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library, Special Collections, ua0050_neg_06320b_16
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Moving a redwood tree from UCSC to Cabrillo College: Vice Chancellor Harold Hyde (left) and Chancellor McHenry (right), with tree mover Joe Arnaz of Mountain View
-University of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library, Special Collections, ua0050_neg_04185a_16
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Cowell College Culture Break, February 1968: human chess game
-University of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library, Special Collections, ua0050_neg_04245a_17