Teledyne Geotronics photograph collection, 1946-1979

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Summary

Creators:
Teledyne Geotronics
Extent:
167 Linear Feet (167 document boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Teledyne Geotronics photograph collection, Mss 344. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

Approximately 65,000 negatives of oblique aerial and ground photographs taken by various companies that became Teledyne Geotronics.

Formats are 4 x 5 inch negatives and prints. Locations covered in this collection include the United States and Mexico. Listed by state and county, these are:

California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Humboldt, Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Monterey, Napa, Orange, Plumas, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra, Tulare, Ventura.

Arizona (190 images): Coconino, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal.

Colorado (8 images): Rio Blanco.

Mexico (58 images).

Nevada (172 images): Clark, Washoe.

New Mexico (46 images): Santa Fe.

Oregon (8 images): Marion.

Texas (21 images): Nueces, San Patricio.

Utah (101 images): Beaver, Ducheshe, Iron, Juab, Millard, Salt Lake, Utah, Wasatch, Washington.

Biographical / historical:

Teledyne Geotronics was the aerial photograph component of Teledyne, Inc., and their office was located in Long Beach, California. The Teledyne Geotronics aerial photography was part of a major gift from the Teledyne Foundation to the Library in 1986. This gift comprised photography from the following companies: Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Teledyne Geotronics & Geotronics of Monrovia, International Mapping Company, Pacific Air Industries, Universe Air, and Watson Photo Studios.

Acquisition information:
Gift of the Teledyne Foundation, 1986.
Arrangement:

Box 1-35: Frames 1-12999; Box 36-167: numbering scheme in these boxes switches to year-number (i.e. yy-####).

Physical location:
Geospatial Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Photographs re-housed and digitized with a grant from the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, and may be accessed at the UC Santa Barbara Library Alexandria Digital Research Library.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Teledyne Geotronics photograph collection, Mss 344. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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