Finding Aid for the Geography Department. Materials on the history of University of California Geography Departments. 1951-1981.
Processed by UCLA University Archives staff, 1986 Jul 30; finding aid revised by Katharine A. Lawrie, 2013 Mar; machine-readable
finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA University Archives
21560 Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: univ-archives@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
© 1986 Jul 30
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Geography Department. Materials on the history of University of California Geography Departments.
Date (inclusive): 1951-1981.
Record Series number: 33
Creator:
Geography Department.
Extent:
1 box (0.4 linear feet)
Abstract: Record Series 33 contains accounts, notes, history and chronology of the development of geography education in the University
of California system and history of the geography Department at UCLA.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. University Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Publication Rights
Copyright of portions of this collection has been assigned to The Regents of the University of California. The UCLA University
Archives can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish
or quote must be submitted in writing to the UCLA University Archivist.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Geography Department. Materials on the history of University of California Geography Departments.
(Record Series Number 33). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Scope and Content
Record Series 33 contains documents concerning the development of geography education in the University of California system
and history of the geography Department at UCLA. It includes: Geography staff assistant Ruth Baugh's accounts of the beginning
of geography education; Geography Professor Joseph Spencer's notes concerning the growth of graduate geography education;
Baugh and Spencer's chronology of the UCLA Geography Department; and Geography Professor Gary Dunbar's history of geography
education in the University of California system from 1868 to 1941.
This is an inactive Record Series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
Container List
Box 1, Folder 1
"The beginning of geography in the U.C."
1951.
Box 1, Folder 2
"Notes on the growth of the graduate program".
1971.
Box 1, Folder 3
"A historical chronology of the Dept. of Geography, 1882-1972."
1972.
Box 1, Folder 4
"Notes on Dept. Philosophy and Question of Graduate Program."
1973.
Box 1, Folder 5
"Geography in the University of California, 1868-1941."
1981.
Box 1, Folder 6
"Notes on physical facilities provided the department."
1973.
Box 1, Folder 7
"Geography in the U.C., 1868-1941". Notes created for Gary Dunbar.
ca. 1980-1981.
