This collection comprises hand-written correspondence among members of the Amador, Yorba, López, and Cota families in the region of Orange County, San Diego County, and Baja California from 1853 to 1879. Items include personal letters and business receipts. The collection...

This collection of Al and Charlotte S. Appel's papers document various socialist and left-wing political parties and movements in Orange County, California chiefly from 1965-1990. The collection includes journals, flyers, newsletters, posters, and other ephemera, as well as correspondence of...

This collection consists of lesbian and women's liberation newsletters and journals from 1970-1994 accumulated by Joan Ariel, Women's Studies Librarian and a Women's Studies faculty member at the University of California, Irvine.

This collection documents Joan Ariel's interests in women's political activism, particularly in Orange County, California. It includes newsletters, press releases, and other printed ephemera from the following organizations: Know, Inc. (Pittsburg, PA); Los Angeles Women's Center; N.O.W.; National Women's Political...

The papers of Samuel and his wife Alice L. Armor of Orange, California include incoming letters and postcards, miscellaneous Orange County ephemera, photographs of family and friends, and essays by Samuel on topics such as flood control and politics. Also...

Records accumulated by Robert E. Badham during his 25 years of public service in California include materials from his terms in the California Assembly and in the U.S. House of Representatives. This collection documents only Badham's political career and not...

This collection consists of the working files and subject files of David L. Baker, engineer and member of the Board of Supervisors for Orange County, California from the early 1960s - early 1970s. Included are 25 binders of newspaper clippings...

This collection consists chiefly of Art Balderrama's papers related to the 1988 AIDS Walk Orange County, for which he served on the Board of Directors. Also included are minutes of meetings of the Lesbian/Gay/Feminist Leadership Federation of Orange County (LGFFOC)...

The collection includes early county records given to Baldwin by the Irvine Company, as well as materials documenting Baldwin's work with Southern California agriculture. Records primarily document the San Joaquin Fruit Company, the San Joaquin Fruit and Investment Company, and...

The collection contains 4 recordings on mp3, 4 transcripts, and 6 subject agreements from oral histories performed by scholar Ian Baldwin while he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

This collection contains a cash account book of the Bank of Orange (or Orange Bank) beginning in 1887.

The Rich Bassett papers on the Irvine Company contains research, articles, photographs, and negatives documenting the Irvine Company and its developments in Orange County. Bassett was a photographer from Santa Ana, California.

This collection comprises the administrative and legislative files of California state senator Marian Bergeson. Bergeson was the first Republican woman elected to both the California State Assembly and California State Senate. During her years in the California State Legislature, Bergeson...

This collection comprises the professional and personal papers of Ray Billingsley, a prominent lawyer in Santa Ana, California from the late 1800s to early 1900s. Included are records from his legal practice and his business interests in the Villa Park...

This collection contains three images circa 1880: Two pencil drawings and one photograph.

The collection contains two handwritten volumes of Annie H. Bosworth's diaries from January-May 1878. A resident of San Francisco, California, Bosworth described her daily activities in her diaries, which included visits to Chinatown, Marin County, San Quentin prison, and several...

This collection comprises material documenting the first Boy Scouts of America jamboree ever to be held in California, which took place in 1953 at the Irvine Ranch near Santa Ana. The collection includes a photograph album, likely the property of...

This collection consists of papers of and about Lawrence Clark Powell, former UC Los Angeles Librarian, collected by Elizabeth Bradstreet, Powell's administrative assistant. Included are pamphlets, reprints, periodicals, typescripts, clippings, and other ephemera by and about Powell. The earliest item...

This collection is comprised of files created by gay rights activist G.C. "Brad" Brafford of Orange County, California, primarily from 1972 until the late 1990s. Included are materials created and distributed by local, regional, and national gay/lesbian and other political...

This collection comprises photographs and a California vacation album that belonged to Georgina D. Bremer, a Maywood, Illinois schoolteacher. Photographs are of Bremer, her family and friends, and her home in Maywood. The vacation album documents a trip to Southern...

Richard Brock, an Orange County folklorist, conducted the oral histories included in this collection in San Juan Capistrano as part of his Master's degree in folklore and mythology at UCLA in 1975. The collection contains oral histories from Delfina Manriquez...

The Martin A. Brower papers contain material related to the Irvine Company, such as publications, photographs, business plans, and annual reports. Also included are materials related to the executive leadership change from Ray Watson, Lanny Eberling, and Thomas Wolfe to...

This collection contains two posters documenting environmentalist activities engaged in by Jerry Burchfield and Mark Chamberlain, two professional photographers living in Laguna Beach, California. The posters are titled - Laguna Canyon Project, circa 1989-1990 and , circa 1998-1999.

The California Coastal Commission Liquefied Natural Gas files contain reports, correspondence, court records, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous files relating to liquefied natural gas (LNG) sites proposed by several public utility companies in 1972. The California Coastal Commission was created through...

Handbills announcing club events from the early 2000s, mostly techno and electronic dance music with a few handbills for industrial and funk.

This collection comprises brochures and printed ephemera on California counties and localities collected by Mary Ference, an elementary school teacher in the Anaheim City School District in 1962.

This intentionally accumulated collection of scattered issues of newspapers printed in California consists of approximately 100 Orange County titles and approximately 160 titles from other urban, rural, and remote locations, primarily in Southern California. Significant but chronologically limited coverage can...

This collection comprises political publications and ephemera distributed in California from 1936 to 1989. Materials document the activities of California and Orange County legislators, politicians, political groups and officials such as Robert E. Badham, John V. Briggs, Dennis E. Carpenter,...

This collection contains postcards, most of which are blank, of California. The postcards depict California missions, national parks, and California landmarks.

A collection of 25 handbills and flyers promoting California psychedelic, rockabilly and alternative country bands from the 1980s-1990s.

The collection comprises records from the California Republican Assembly (CRA), a grassroots political organization that promotes conservative values, policies, and candidates related to the Republican Party. Over the years CRA has supported several winning candidates in the national political arena...

This collection is comprised of six early-20th-century albums of uncertain provenance containing photographic prints, postcards, and photomechanical reproductions that document the vacation experiences of the creator of each album. Locales depicted are chiefly in Southern California, but also include areas...

This collection primarily documents AIDS, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activism in Orange County, California circa 1985-2005, including material on the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), Laguna Outreach, and the No on 64 Campaign. Also included are...

This collection comprises the administrative and legislative files of the office of California State Senator Dennis E. Carpenter. Administrative files primarily consist of official press releases, printed material, newsletters issued by Carpenter's offices in Sacramento and Irvine, California, and ephemera...

Scott Case is a descendant of early Orange County settlers (Case and Thurston families) who homesteaded and farmed in the Laguna Beach area beginning in 1871. He became interested in Laguna Beach history in the 1970s and he was mentored...

This collection contains files and materials, including negatives, photographs, multimedia art, correspondence, and manuscripts, relevant to Mark Chamberlain's work documenting Laguna Beach, California, such as The Tell and the Laguna Canyon Project, and BC Space Gallery. Mark Chamberlain was an...

The illustrated holograph journal of Alexander W. Chase documenting his family's overland journey from Iowa to California by covered wagon from May to August 1861. The illustrations include both pencil sketches and watercolors. The journal is accompanied by 43 loose...

This collection consists of the papers of Ronald H. Chilcote, resident and civil activist of Laguna Beach, California documenting his involvement with the Laguna Beach Unified School District and school board, Temple Hills Community Association, Laganza Farm, Laguna Greenbelt, Inc.,...

This collection is comprised of approximately 1,200 photographs taken by Edward William Cochems, a prominent commercial photographer in Santa Ana, California, between ca. 1919-ca. 1949. The images are principally views of Southern California, primarily Orange County locations. Areas receiving the...

This collection consists of a bound typescript manuscript of , compiled by Captain Harrington Willson Cochran, M.I.D., under the direction of the Department Intelligence Officer, Intelligence Office, Headquarters, Western Department, San Francisco, California, November 23, 1919. This is an unpublished...

This collection consists of documents of and related to the Committee of 4000, a non-profit political action group from Irvine, California. The Committee of 4000 was an organization founded by land leaseholders who disputed the terms of their leasing rights...

This collection consists of papers of Leland Cooley's literary activities, including his fiction as well as his non-fiction books on retirement and land issues in Southern California. Included are manuscripts, galleys, reviews, promotional material, research files correspondence, and photographs. There...

This collection consists of materials documenting Bessie Coulter's activities as Curator of the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and her research notes and chronologies relating to the Bernardo Yorba family. In Coulter's papers there are photographs and other miscellaneous materials...

This collection consists of materials printed and collected by Frank Myrle Cushing, proprietor of the noted Garden View Press in Tustin, California (founded in 1929). Included are numerous samples of Cushing's commercial and fine printing, as well as the works...

The business records collected by real estate developer S.H. Woodruff in his capacity as head of the Dana Point Syndicate, a group of wealthy Los Angeles investors formed to finance the purchase, subdivision, and development of some 1,400 acres of...

The Robert F. Dannenbrink Jr. papers contains material documenting the work of urban designer and planner Robert F. Dannenbrink, Jr., including his work on planning for the campus of the University of California, Irvine; Irvine Ranch and The Irvine Company;...

A collection of research files, photographs, correspondence, legal documents and newspaper clippings collected by James W. "Jim" Davis, Sr. detailing the sale, development and conservation of the Eugene Grant Starr Ranch.

This collection comprises employee training and policy guides, promotional material and brochures for the Disneyland and Walt Disney World theme parks and rides, popular publications featuring the Disney corporation and its entertainment subsidiaries, and other related material. The collection also...

, written by Paul H. Dudley, contains information geographic information about the Santa Ana Mountains as well as maps of the area.

This collection consists of the papers of John William "Sky" Dunlap, Orange County, California journalist, publisher, and owner-operator of the Pacific Clipping Service. Included are photographs, correspondence and newspaper clippings. Dunlap's collection includes issues of approximately 440 early newspapers from...

This collection of 230 photographs and 106 associated negatives documents buildings in East Irvine, California that were built at the turn of the twentieth century. The collection was compiled by Sanchez Talarico Association, Inc. in circa 1988 in order to...

Four manuscript survey maps and one plat map depicting areas of Orange County and attributed to the noted surveyor and judge Richard Egan. One map is dated 1878 and 1879 by Egan. The other maps are undated and unsigned but...

This collection comprises records related to the development of the El Toro Airport in Irvine, California.

This collection comprises records of the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO) is an all-volunteer political action committee that works on behalf of civil rights, mainly those of women and the LGBT community. The collection includes newsletters, reports,...

This collection is comprised of aerial photographs, taken by Fred L. Emmert, a professional aerial photographer based in Orange County. The photographs were used in a series of books by Fred L. Emmert and Richard N. Frost. The books present...

This collection consists of materials related to the Environmental Coalition of Orange County (ECOC), a non-profit environmental group based in Santa Ana, California. The collection includes subjects divided into various county environmental issues from the mid-to-late 1970s to the early...

This collection consists of materials related to the Fair Housing Council of Orange County (FHCOC), a private non-profit organization formed in 1965 in the wake of the civil rights movement that resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The...

The collection contains brochures, planning documents, press releases, articles, VHS cassettes, and photographs relating to open space planning on the Irvine Ranch, the formation of the Natural Community Conservation Planning (NCCP), and public access to the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve....

The collection contains handwritten correspondences, telegrams, family photographs, and religious ephemera complied by the Del Valle and Forster families between 1804 and 1931.

Records detailing the activities of the Foundation for the Great Park, a philanthropic organization which provided financial support and community leadership for the creation of a unified metropolitan open space in Orange County, CA.

Isaac Jenkinson Frazee was a postmaster in San Diego County, California, and an early Orange County, California, painter. This collection comprises letters, business correspondence, photographs, journals, artifacts, and ephemera, primarily from the 1910's. It also includes programs of , a...

The collection comprises bound copies of outgoing letters written by C. E. French, an entrepreneur who contributed significantly to the growth of Santa Ana, California during the mid to late 19th century. The letters refer to French's personal and business...

The collection consists of records documenting the activities of Friends of the Newport Coast, an environmental organization dedicated to preserving and protecting open space and wildlife habitat on the Newport Coast in Orange County, California. Included are newsletters, legal documents,...

This collection comprises the records of The Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County (The Center OC), a not-for-profit organization serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community in Orange County, California. The collection documents the Center OC's...

This collection includes one box of photographs and six boxes of unprinted negatives of Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Corona del Mar, and other Orange County, California, localities taken in the 1940's and 1950's. Images include individual, group, and family portraits;...

This collection contains sixty-three audio tapes of interviews by Gilbert G. Gonzalez with individuals associated with the citrus industry in Orange County in the first half of the twentieth century. These interviews were conducted for Gonzalez's monograph, , 1900-1950 (Urbana:...

This collection contains 131 photographs taken and developed by Alice Gulick Gooch between 1899-1932. These photographs document various Southern California locations in the counties of Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego; however, the bulk of the...

This collection consists of approximately one hundred pieces of Mexican travel ephemera dating principally from the 1950s and 1960s. Included are tourist and museum brochures and guidebooks, railway, city, and road maps, and unsorted magazines and newspapers. A 1962 edition...

This collection consists of the files of activist and sociologist Dr. Wendy Griffin, documenting women's rights activities in Orange County, California between 1974 and 1992. Topics include the push for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive freedom, and the...

This collection comprises the papers of Shirley Grindle, an environmental and political activist, self-proclaimed "watch-dog" for Orange County campaign ethics, and former Orange County (California) Planning Commissioner (1973-1977). The papers include records of the Orange County Planning Commission from her...

The collection consists of 383 photographs relating to the Gulick family of Orange County, California. A family album contains 214 photographs. Images are mostly of the Gulick family branches, extended relatives, and family friends. Other photographs depict family homes and...

Vivian Hall, a resident of Irvine, California from 1968 until her death in 2008, was an educator, feminist, political and community activist, and grass roots organizer. The collection principally documents Hall's political and feminist activities during the 1970s, notably...

This collection comprises agendas, fundraising materials, and ephemera documenting the activities of the Harbor Day School Board of Trustees from 1972 to 1978. This collection was assembled by Eloise Kloke, a member of the Harbor Day School Board of Trustees.

The collection documents the activities of the Health Care Council (HCC) of Orange County, California, a coalition of health-related organizations that works to improve access to healthcare services for all Orange County residents. Because HCC staff members serve as advocates...

This collection of diaries serves as a window into the life of Oscar M. Henry, a California rancher, farmer and miner. Henry wrote the diaries on his farm in Amador County, California from 1885 to 1915. In daily entries, Henry...

This collection includes materials that document lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism in Orange County.

This collection contains materials collected by Dick Hitt from 1978-2008 documenting gay and lesbian employees of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, as well as LGBT news and events in the Orange County area and beyond. Included are newsletters, fliers,...

This collection comprises the papers of Robert R. Hodges, professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) and activist in the gay liberation movement in Southern California and nationally in the 1970s and 1980s. His...

This collection documents the families and business ventures of Tustin, California residents William M. Huntley and his wife Helen Gulick. Materials include family photographs, photographs of Southern California, family correspondence, business records from the Tustin Garage and the family's citrus...

This collection consists of newspaper clippings regarding the development and incorporation of the city of Irvine, California and actions of the Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission, from 1969 to 1972.

This collection contains copies of court records regarding the Irvine Family, specifically James Irvine, from the Huntington Library.

This collection comprises records created and collected during a Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) project completed prior to the demolition of the Irvine Valencia Growers (IVG) packing house in Irvine, California, which belonged to the Irvine Company. The IVG packing...

Jeanie Bernstein was an activist and advocate for peace in southern California. In Orange County, she helped found the Alliance for Survival, a peace and environmental organization, and was an integral part of the peace movement in the area. Bernstein...

This collection includes photographic and audiovisual material related to and from the Irvine family; oral histories, audiovisual and print material on the history of OC Parks; planning documents including master planning for OC Parks and county infrastructure; Jessen family photographs;...

Roger Johnson (1934-2005) served as chairman and chief executive for Western Digital Corporation in Irvine, California from 1982 to 1993. Though a lifelong Republican, he was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton to serve as head of the U.S. General...

The George and Miko Kaihara collection of Japanese internment ephemera contains material related to Miko Nakamura (b. 1925) and George Kenzo Kaihara (1925-2015), who were completing their junior year at Tustin High School in Southern California when they were sent...

This collection consists of papers and photographs of the Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families. The Kenyon and Crellin families lived in Iowa in the late 19th century and moved west to Tustin, California at the turn of the 20th century,...

This collection comprises Anaheim-related printed ephemera, photographs, and clippings gathered by the Kuchel family, owners and publishers of the , and documenting the family's publishing activities and other local commercial publishing. Other materials in this collection record the meetings of...

This collection consists of real estate documents, housing development brochures, local maps, sales listings, periodicals, community association documentation and correspondence collected by Newport Beach real estate developer Lars Labagnino. The documents offer insights into the 1950s Orange County real estate...

This collection comprises pamphlets, information packets, clippings, newsletters, minutes, notes, and other materials documenting the Laguna Beach Historic Survey Board. Also included are criteria for establishing historical status, a glossary of architectural terms, data to complete housing surveys and information...

Laguna Greenbelt, Incorporated (LGI) is an active non-profit organization founded in 1968 to preserve the open space bordering the City of Laguna Beach, California and comprising Sycamore Hills and five canyons: Aliso, Wood, El Toro, Laguna and Morro. LGI has...

The League of Women Voters of Orange County (LWVOC), California is a nonpartisan organization committed to educating the public about elections, the voting process, and political and social issues. This collection comprises the records of the LWVOC beginning with 1957....

This collection comprises materials collected by Ellen K. Lee, Orange County historian and Helena Modjeska expert, during the course of her research from 1965 until her death in 2006. The materials document Ellen Lee's research, Helena Modjeska's life in the...

Material related to the Legacy Project, a project founded by Jerry Burchfield in the spring of 2002 to document the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Orange County, California and its subsequent transformation into the Orange County Great Park....

This collection comprises files of George Leidal, a reporter employed by the Daily Pilot newspaper in Newport Beach, California. Leidal reported on the planning, incorporation, and early development of the City of Irvine, a master-planned community designed by architect William...

The Leisure World Historical Society records consists of Leisure World newspapers, scrapbooks, both from clubs and individuals, administrative files, club records, photographs, slides, VHS tapes, and oral histories.

John M. Liu was a professor in the Comparative Culture program at the University of California, Irvine and chair of the Chinese American Council of the Historical and Cultural Foundation in 1992 when he curated an exhibit of historical photographs...

This collection comprises materials documenting the military service of Victor G. Loly, a Canadian Corps captain who served in England, France, and Germany during World War I. Additionally, this collection includes correspondence to and from Loly, and records documenting his...

This collection comprises pamphlets, information packets, clippings, newsletters, minutes, notes, and other materials documenting Helen Lotos' involvement in women's rights organizations during the 1970s and 1980s. Women's advocacy organizations represented in this collection include the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)...

Charles F. Lummis explored and documented the culture and history of the Southwest in his writings and photography from 1884 until his death in 1928. A resident of Los Angeles for most of his life, Lummis was city editor of...

The collection consists of papers of Mary Lynch, former leader of Alcoholic Services for Homosexuals, Inc. in Orange County, California. Papers include pamphlets, newsletters, clippings, reports, and ephemera related to Alcoholic Services for Homosexuals, the Center OC, and Pacific Research...

This collection contains four photograph albums of scenic postcards and ephemera from the travels of Dorothy Lyndall and Margaret Rees to Arizona, California (Death Valley and Northern California), Hawaii, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Utah, and Ensenada, Mexico.

This collection contains files accumulated by Therese Lynn documenting the activities of the Orange County chapters of the California Federation of Business and Professional Women organization, particularly the Saddleback Valley chapter. Included are newsletters, newspapers, brochures, and printed ephemera. Files...

This collection comprises an autograph album containing autographs, poems, friendship sentiments, quotations, and pencil drawings. The album was presented to Ella Lyon by her mother on her 16th birthday (1881, Jan. 17). The Lyons lived in Tustin, California. Materials in...

This collection documents archaeologist and historic preservationist Nicholas Magalousis' efforts to preserve Southern California historic sites, particularly the San Juan Capistrano Mission, the San Luis Rey de Francia Mission, and the Irvine Ranch. It also includes documents relating to the...

This collection comprises the papers of Patric A. Magee, a transgender man active in many transgender support groups and activities in Orange County and Southern California. The collection includes personal correspondence and writings by Magee, as well as fliers, pamphlets,...

The Robert and Bertha Massoth collection of Orange County arts ephemera collection contains a variety of arts-related ephemera from Orange County, California, collected by Robert and Bertha Massoth over approximately 30 years, including items related to Pacific Symphony, Orange County...

This collection includes Disneyland-related newsletters, magazines, and other publications collected by Robert J. Massoth and by his wife, Bertha E. Massoth. Bertha worked as the executive secretary to the head of publicity and marketing at Disneyland, a theme park in...

This collection contains approximately 90 unprinted 4 x 4" glass negatives and one 4 x 4" film negative depicting various unidentified Southern California locations. Approximate date and location of these images is based solely on information on the scraps of...

This collection consists of approximately 3000 black and white photographic negatives of Newport Beach and surrounding areas of Orange County, California in the mid-20th century taken by local historian Hugh R. McMillan.

This collection, measuring 18.5 linear feet, comprises the personal and professional papers of the McPherson family of Orange, California, 1846-1964. The collection primarily documents the professional and family life of teacher and farmer Stephen McPherson (1839-1917), his wife Jennie, their...

This collection comprises thousands of postcards collected by William McPherson. The geographic focus of the collection is Southern California, although postcards from other U.S. states and other countries are also included. These materials feature a wealth of images from California...

This collection comprises the personal materials, correspondence, writings, and extensive research files of historian and bibliophile Don Meadows. A small group of files documents the writings of Frances Meadows on Mary Refugio Carpenter Pleasants and other Orange County historical figures....

The collection comprises three logs that list medical treatments administered and surgeries performed by a variety of physicians from approximately the 1920s to 1932. Two of the logs list medical treatments alphabetically by ailment, disease, or injury; entries include the...

Jeannette Merrilees (1930-2013), born Jeannette Faas York, was an Orange County environmental activist. She received her bachelor's degree in Government and Religion from Smith College and received her law degree from the Western States School of Law. In 1973, she...

The collection comprises records from the Metropolitan Los Angeles Conference on Employment Problems of the Negro held in Los Angeles, California in 1940. The bulk of the material was produced by the conference's Findings Committee, including a conference event program,...

This collection consists of material related to the development of the Mile Square Regional Park in Fountain Valley, California from 1966 to 1978. Materials include planning documents, correspondence, reports, photographs, maps, and lease documents.

This collection consists of personal papers of the Perry Family, a New England family descending from Nathan Perry, including the Fox branch of the family, during the 1800s and 1900s. Included are family papers, letters, photographs, and narratives from the...

The artificial collection comprises primary and secondary source materials on Helena Modjeska, a nineteenth-century Polish stage actress who had a successful career in the United States. Most items pertain to her stage career, while others provide insight into Modjeska's life...

This collection comprises the research files and manuscript of Leonard C. Moffitt, campus-community planner at the University of California, Irvine, and author of several books about community and urbanization in Orange County and elsewhere. Included are interviews with many prominent...

This collection comprises the monthly meeting minutes of the Moulton Niguel Water District Board of Directors in Southern Orange County, California from 1974-1980. The collection also includes one resolution adopting water conservation rules and regulations.

This collection contains materials documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV/AIDS activism in Orange County, California and other areas of Southern California. Materials include files, photographs, audiotapes of oral histories, slides, and artifacts documenting such topics as the Orange County...

This collection contains aerial black-and-white photographic prints and color transparencies of Orange County, California taken by the National Aerial Photography Program (NAPP), an activity of the U.S. Geological Survey. The transparencies, dating from circa 1998-2003, are identified as NAPP 3rd...

A collection of ephemera and publications pertaining to Orange County nature reserves, wildlife and environmental efforts collected by the Natural Communities Coalition. The collection also includes over six-hundred slides and a birder's diary belonging to amateur photographer Russell E. Wilson.

This collection contains records from the Natural History Foundation of Orange County. Materials include exhibit planning documents, programs, publicity, articles, and museum task force records.

The Nat Neff papers contains material related to the planning of Orange County roads and highways.

This collection comprises municipal documents and other materials related to the planning and development of the City of Newport Beach, California.

This collection contains oral histories documenting personal memories and encounters with the sea from current and former residents and visitors of Newport Beach. The oral history interviews were collected by UCI student interviewers.

The Newport Ocean Sailing Association (NOSA) was founded in 1947 to organize a boat race from Newport Beach, California to Ensenada, Mexico. The collection includes planning documents, event records, correspondence, photographs, programs and invitations, publications, and clippings related to the...

This collection consists of approximately 721 black-and-white aerial photographs of Orange County, California produced on behalf of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The bulk of this collection consists of 9 x 9 inch and 23 x 23 inch...

This collection of over 100 maps documents the State of California, but especially its southern counties. Although the maps are predominantly reproductions they also include a number of originals, with some dating back to the 1820s. Early plats and diseños...

This collection comprises publications created for the Orange County, California Centennial Year celebration in 1988-1989, including programs, brochures, magazines, and newsletters.

This collection comprises an album of 66 studio photographs, carte de visites, and tintypes of early and prominent Californio family members. The families are predominantly from the Orange County area and include the prolific and prominent Yorbas, Peraltas, and Sepulvedas,...

This collection consists of records from the Orange County (California) Commission on the Status of Women from 1978 to 1990. Materials in this collection include booklets, reports, pamphlets, newsletters, schedules, a transcript, and related material documenting the activities of the...

This collection comprises aproximately sixty-seven Orange County, California telephone directories issued between 1950 and 1990. They include information for Orange County, Orange County regions or areas, and specific Orange county cities.

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, court documents, minutes, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting three major environmental and political issues in Orange County, California, in the 1960s: agricultural preserves, beach erosion, and redistricting. Primary creators and collectors of the documents...

This collection consists of various ephemera about Orange County, California from various donors. Subjects and materials include flyers, brochures, and programs concerning Orange County political and election issues and cultural events; political campaign materials for the 1978 state and local...

This collection consists of photocopies of several internal documents from the Orange County Group, a Marxist-Leninist study group that formed within and eventually broke its ties with the August 29th Movement. Documents include "Towards the development of the correct Marxist-Leninist...

This collection consists of records of the Orange County (California) Human Relations Commission from 1974 to 1998. Materials include reports, publications, minutes and agendas, and other material related to the activities of the commission on topics including affirmative action, fair...

This collection contains the records of the Orange County Human Relations Council. The records document events, organizations, and initiatives with which Rusty Kennedy, the Orange County Human Relations Commission, and affiliates were involved. Orange County Human Relations Council is a...

The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, and ephemera about Orange County, California's gay and lesbian communities. The materials were collected by multiple individuals as part of the Orange County Historical Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Timeline Project.

This collection consists of the records of the Orange County Library Association from 1920-2014, including by-laws, minutes, correspondence, clippings, financial records, rosters and directories, bulletins and newsletters, committees and special reports, history, membership documents, and scholarship materials. A PowerPoint presentation...

This artificial collection comprises photocopied newspaper and magazine clippings from Orange County newspapers and magazines from the early 1900s through the 1990s. Clippings are organized in three groupings: biographical information about notable people; information about city news and significant regional...

This collection comprises photographs taken in Orange County, California from 1921-1980. Subjects include Native Americans, Governor Earl Warren and family and scenes of Balboa and Santa Ana.

The OC Pride LGBT Collection is composed of magazines, flyers, pamphlets, business cards, festival guides, newspaper article and other miscellaneous items concerning the OC Pride Festival and other events and issues pertaining to the LGBT community in Orange County. The...

This collection comprises 3 bound, handwritten title abstracts, prepared by the Abstract and Title Insurance Company of Los Angeles, containing transcriptions of documents, dating back as early as 1868. The transcriptions are from original documents such as deeds, leases, tax...

This collection comprises yearbooks from various Orange County high schools and a few colleges. The earliest item is the 1904 Santa Ana High School yearbook . Yearbooks from this collection document student life in Orange County schools primarily during the...

This collection comprises the papers of Lynn Moses Osen, who helped develop the Women's Studies program at the University of California, Irvine and actively spoke on behalf of women's education. The papers document Osen's teaching career at the University of...

The collection consists of maps, photographs, and descriptive text on various buildings in Orange County, California, primarily public institutions. The Pacific National Fire Insurance Company in Santa Ana, California produced these records between 1942 and 1951 for insurance purposes. The...

This collection comprises the personal papers of Martha Padve, a former resident of Crystal Cove, California and member of the Crystal Cove Residents' Association Executive Committee. The collection includes correspondence, reports and proposals, leases, financial records, newsletters, memoranda, clippings, photographs,...

The collection documents the activities of the Orange County (OC) chapter of the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) national organization. Records of PFLAG OC include scrapbooks, clippings, and newsletters dating from 1978-2008 (bulk, 1989-2003).

This collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers from the late 1930s relating to the Los Angeles Civic Center Union Station Committee, of which Marion Parks was secretary. Also included are personal correspondence to Harry Chandler of the , M.R....

This collection comprises news clippings, photographs, printed publicity materials and reports, datebooks, correspondence, and other papers related to the political career of Jerry M. Patterson, who served as councilman and mayor of Santa Ana from 1969 to 1974, then as...

The collection consists of typescript volumes by author Vernon Patterson (1896-1978), founding faculty member and professor of English at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. Patterson documented the early lives of his youngest son, Christopher (born 1949), and Christopher's...

This collection contains unpublished manuscripts, posters, scraps, drawings, art and writing specific to Peter Carr's political engagement and commitment to the Southern California ecosystem. Carr (1925-1981) was an activist, poet, artist, and teacher. He helped establish the Comparative Literature department...

The collection primarily comprises publications of the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO) collected by board member, Thomas J. Peterson. Founded in 1982, ECCO is a nonpartisan, political action committee that monitors legislative issues affecting the Southern California...

The Edna W. Phelps Collection contains photographs, correspondence, diaries, and family documents representing the history of at least four generations of the Phelps, Gulick, Davidson, Humiston, Gooch, Huntley, Schultz, Willson, and Turner families from 1847-1978. The bulk of the collection...

This collection consists of files from the American Civil Liberties Union, Orange County, California collected by Nancy Phelps, who served as office manager for the organization from 1976-1990. Included are minutes, reports, finincial information, newsletters, newspaper clippings, brochures, membership lists,...

This collection comprises three albums of photographs taken and assembled by Jerry Minnucci and given to Robert Major documenting a group of gay volleyball players between 1973 and 1975 in Laguna Beach, California. The photographs are chiefly of men playing...

The collection includes photographs of two or more hospitals in Orange County, California, and a library that may associated with a hospital. The bulk of the photographs depict Orange County Hospital, located on West Chapman Avenue in Orange, circa 1930-1938....

This collection consists of materials documenting the financial affairs of Mary Ellen Pleasant, an African American woman and entrepreneur known as the Mother of Civil Rights in California. Items include a small autograph note; a signed promissory note; three handwritten...

This collection comprises the personal papers of J.E. Pleasants and his first and second wives, Mary Refugio Carpenter Pleasants and Adelina Pleasants, and includes diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, negatives, and photographic prints. J.E. Pleasants' long association with the Santa Ana Mountains...

The collection comprises 159 postcards, primarily of Chinatown in San Francisco, California, from approximately 1901 to 1987. Subjects include individuals, families, restaurants, tea gardens, markets, bazaars, joss houses, shops, parades, and street scenes. The collection also includes a few postcards...

This collection consists of material collected by George Raab, a resident of Laguna Beach, California, about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender causes from 1984-1996. Included are newsletters, correspondence, notes and newspaper clippings related to his involvement in those causes. There...

L. M. Clement was one of the leading civil engineers responsible for surveying and building the eastbound route of the Central Pacific Railroad, thereby contributing to the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The collection comprises a handwritten copy...

This collection comprises materials from the James S. and Cora Rice family of Tustin, California, and other relatives, including Harvey M. Rice, father of James and an Ohio author and legislator; Nettie Rice, sister of James and the first wife...

This collection includes the professional papers of architect and planner Walter Richardson. The collection contains presentation materials from the firm Richardson, Nagy, Martin documenting its planning and architectural projects in Orange County, California. It also contains material collected by Richardson...

This collection comprises the political and professional papers of Robert F. Gentry, the first openly gay elected official in southern California and first openly gay mayor in the state of California. Gentry served as mayor and a city councilmember in...

This collection consists of Frank and Frances Robinson's research materials relating to issues surrounding the proposed land exchange between the County of Orange and The Irvine Company that would have allowed the latter to develop the Upper Newport Bay, California....

This collection comprises papers from Judy B. Rosener documenting three of her roles: President, Amigos de Bolsa Chica environmental organization, Commissioner in the South Coast Regional Commission, and Professor in the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. Included...

This collection consists of legal documents from Orange County Superior Court and Los Angeles Superior Court dating from 1915-1930. Also included are Santa Ana attorney and notary public Otto Sanaker's correspondence, his 1917 diary, wills of various clients, and unsorted...

The collection comprises a transcript on the appeal "Anaheim Water Company vs. Semi-Tropic Water Company." The document contains testimony of the development of irrigration along the Santa Ana River, as well as information on the early Spanish-speaking families that settled...

Established in 1964, the Santa Margarita Water District (SMWD), serves Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Coto de Caza, Las Flores, Ladera Ranch, Talega, and Rancho Mission Viejo in Orange County, California. The collection documents SMWD's research and services. It contains...

This collection comprises news clippings, correspondence, memoranda, press releases and other papers related to the 1972 campaign of John G. Schmitz as the nominee of the American Party for President of the United States. Also included are news stories and...

This collection comprises the files of Felix Schwarz, a member of the Board of Directors for the Orange County Human Relations Council. Materials include bulletins, reports, emails, and board of directors' meeting agendas.

This collection consists of G. W. Scott's manuscript , written in 1918.

The Henry Segerstrom collections contains South Coast Plaza 50th anniversary promotional materials, such as bags, magazines, pins, and a backpack. South Coast Plaza is a luxury shoping center in Costa Mesa, California. It was opened in March 1967 by members...

This collection documents the history of the Serrano Irrigation District of Orange County California, now known as the Serrano Water District. It includes records from the various water associations and companies that served the Villa Park region and led to...

This collection comprises the personal papers of Christine Shirley, a former resident of Crystal Cove, California and member of the Crystal Cove Residents' Association Executive Committee. The collection includes records from the Crystal Cove Residents' Association. Materials reflect Shirley's involvement...

The Jack Skinner papers are comprised of material, such as notes, reports, correspondence, and maps, created during the course of research and advocacy for clean water in Southern California. Much of the material pertains to Newport Bay, but the collection...

This collection contains the papers of Orange County, California historian James ("Jim") Doren Sleeper (1927-2012). Jim Sleeper specialized in Orange County history, especially the Irvine Ranch, Rancho Mission Viejo, and the O'Neill Ranch. The Sleeper papers are comprised of research...

This collection is compromised of photographs and other relevant material from the Smith and Sinnott families of Newport Beach and Laguna Beach, California, from circa 1918 to 1976. Highlights of the collection include images of beach life, fishing, images of...

This collection contains the administrative files of the Southern California Yachting Association (SCYA) from 1921 to the mid-1960s, including articles of incorporation and by-laws, manuals for member clubs, meeting minutes, yacht club membership rosters and yearbooks, correspondence, circulars and flyers,...

This collection consists of photocopies of the correspondence between Fanny Bixby Spencer (a philanthropist, pacifist, and playwright) and Nicolaas Steelink during and following his imprisonment at San Quentin (1920-1922) for "criminal syndicalism" due to his activities with the Industrial Workers...

This collection comprises newsletters, clippings, campaign ephemera, memoranda, reports, and other materials gathered by Judith Stanley, a University of California, Irvine, librarian, to document California's Proposition 13, a citizen's initiative to reduce property taxes that was approved as a State...

This collection consists of letters and documents belonging to John and Mary Sills Stephens, who settled in San Bernardino in 1874-1875. Mrs. Stephens preceded her husband by one year in coming to California from Wisconsin and her letters to her...

The Claire Still Scrapbooks are comprised of newspaper clippings and ephemera collected in scrapbooks between 1933 to 1959 by Claire Still, a medical social worker and medical librarian. She resided in Nebraska, Kentucky, Washington DC, Virginia, Wisconsin and California during...

This collection contains records documenting the activities of the California Constitution Revision Commission (1964-1974) compiled by commission chairman Judge Bruce W. Sumner. Records include reports, minutes, and correspondence of committees charged with revision of select constitutional articles, commission minutes and...

The collection comprises a research paper by Anita E. Tapia documenting the life and family recollections of Lorenita Forster Weisenberg, a direct descendant of two prominent early Californio families, the Forsters and Del Valles. The two families owned numerous estates...

The Barry Tavlin collection on Orange County co-operatives contains records pertaining to an Orange County food co-operative founded and operated by many of the same members as the Sherwood Forest counterculture publication in Orange County, California, in the early 1970s.

This collection consists of the personal papers of Charles Sparks Thomas (1897-1983), who served as Secretary of the Navy (1954-1957), President of Trans World Airlines (1958-1960), and President of The Irvine Company (1960-1966). The bulk of the collection consists of...

This collection documents various aspects of Alberto F. Treviño's career. He was a principle planner with the Irvine Company from 1961-1965. Treviño is perhaps best known for his role in spearheading the design and planning for Fashion Island shopping center...

This collection is comprised of photographs taken by Norbert Tsi documenting activism in Southern California.

This collection consists of 67 photographs (albumen and silver gelatin prints) documenting Orange County cities, Santa Catalina Island, coastal and surrounding areas, and Tubbs family events and homes. The collection includes photographs of President Benjamin Harrison's whistle-stop tour through Santa...

This collection comprises fliers, reports, newsletters, photographs, bumper stickers, and ephemera compiled for use at the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) Information Fair held in San Fernando, California in 1969. The collection is particularly strong in documenting the United...

Collection contains chiefly governmental and non-governmental agency reports concerning the controversial 1965 Upper Newport Bay proposed land exchange between the County of Orange and the Irvine Company. Materials include plans and proposals for preservation of the bay; information on its...

This collection contains ninteen ledgers from the Villa Park Orchards Association. The ledgers contain information about purchasing, members, transfer growers, and supply statements. The Villa Park Orchards Association was established in Villa Park in Orange County in 1912 by 48...

Blanche Collet Wagner was a writer and artist who lived much of her life in San Marino, California. This collection consists of two bound manuscripts: one is an English translation of the Mayan creation story ; the other, titled (1941),...

This collection comprises the personal papers of James E. Walker (d. May 1972), an attorney in Santa Ana who had offices in the Spurgeon Building and ran for the California Assembly and the U.S. Congress as a Democrat from Orange...

This collection documents the activities of Willis H. Warner, who was a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors for 24 years, including the activities of the Board of Supervisors and numerous Orange County governmental units from the 1930s...

This collection comprises the extant files of Raymond L. Watson (1926-2012), former President and CEO of the Irvine Company. Beginning in 1960, Watson served the company as Architect Planner, Vice President of Planning, Senior Vice President of the Land Development...

This collection contains numerous site plans and brochures of Irvine Company and Baywood neighborhoods and homes, as well as other developments in Orange County, San Diego, and San Francisco. Some of the material also includes hand written notes. William R....

This collection consists of 39 holograph letters written by Laguna Beach landscape painter William Wendt to Guy and Lucia Edwards of Pasadena. While many of these letters are personal, some relay information about Wendt's art coursework and exhibitions. The collection...

This collection consists of historical ephemera from the western United States and Canada, specifically excluding the state of California. Types of materials include road maps and geographical maps, pamphlets, brochures, guides, articles, magazines, souvenirs, scrapbooks, city information sheets, fact books,...

The collection contains materials from both the Los Angeles and San Diego corrals of the national group The Westerners. The bulk of the collection documents the Los Angeles corral and includes correspondence, informational flyers, governance rules, and membership directories. Information...

This collection contains manuals published by the Nuclear Training Center of Westinghouse Electric Corporation on the thermodynamics of nuclear power plants. These manuals were part of a training program provided by Westinghouse for the education of Southern California Edison employees...

This collection comprises the papers of Ray E. Williams, an environmental and political activist in Newport Beach, California. The collection documents Williams's efforts as president of the board of Friends of Newport Bay (1973-1976), as well as his work as...

Women For: Orange County was founded in 1984 as a chapter of Women For:, the political activist organization based in Los Angeles, California. The collection is comprised of organizational records, photographs and other printed items which chronicle the group's activities...

The Women's March on Washington Orange County collection contains 33 interviews (.wav and .mp3), collected as part of the Women's March on Washington Oral History project hosted by the University of Florida. Nineteen interviews were recorded by Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Thuy...

The collection is comprised of reports from the historical and anthropological projects completed by the Works Progress Administration in Orange County, California from 1935 to 1939. The projects' reports reveal factual information on local history and anthropological research on Native...

The collection comprises the papers of Mitsuye Yamada, a Japanese American poet and political activist who, as a teenager, was interned at Minadoka Relocation Center in Idaho during World War II. Her papers document her career as a writer, teacher,...

This Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) report documents the Yorba Orange Growers Association Packing House in Anaheim, California with machinery in place, an important element for understanding the historical operation of such packing houses.

The Photographs from the Yorba, Travis, and Borchert families contains portraits of family members and churches, as well as postcards. The photographs are most likely from the 1920s and feature the Santa Ana Canyon Family Ranch. The collection also includes...

This collection comprises a photograph album with 57 tipped-in black and white photographs documenting the building of the Zupp family pool in Van Nuys, California. The photographs (each approximately 9 x 9 cm) and accompanying handwritten captions document the process...