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

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.

167 Linear Feet (167 document boxes)

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.

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.