Discover UCI April 12, 2013
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We’d like to give a warm welcome to the newly admitted freshmen and their families who are visiting UCI this week! Here is a slideshow of students discovering the new UCI campus in the 1960s (looks a bit different now, doesn’t it?):
These images, along with thousands more, are available at the Online Archive of UCI History. The site also features videos (like the quirky Wot ZOT?), interviews with founding faculty members, and the New University student newspaper, with more coming soon!
Happy Birthday Ansel Adams February 20, 2013
Posted by ucisca in Early UCI Campus, Photographs, Uncategorized.Tags: Ansel Adams, Langson Library, Photographs, UC Irvine, University of California, University of California Irvine
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Ansel Adams at Langson Library. Photograph by Richard Schlesinger, 1966.
On this day in 1902, the great Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California. In 1966, less than one year after UCI admitted its first students, Adams came to photograph the distinctive buildings on the Irvine campus. This was part of a project commissioned by UC President Clark Kerr to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the University of California in 1968. The photographs were published in the commemorative book, Fiat Lux, and are currently in the California Museum of Photography, Sweeny/Rubin Ansel Adams Fiat Lux Collection at UC Riverside.
Ansel Adams getting his beard trimmed. Photograph by Liliane De Cock, ca. 1966.
Here Adams is shown having his beard trimmed by Nancy Newhall, who wrote the accompanying text for his photographs in Fiat Lux as well as numerous other books.
Photos from AS-061, Box 128. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
The First UCI Men’s Basketball Game: December 1, 1965 January 28, 2013
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It’s basketball season! The very first UCI basketball game was held over 47 years ago in December, 1965. The Anteaters played the Highlanders of UC Riverside in Campus Hall (now Crawford Hall), where Chancellor Dan Aldrich and UCR Chancellor Ivan Hinderaker tipped off to begin the game. The ‘Eaters went on to win the game with a score of 85 to 71! ZOT ZOT!
Good luck to the men as they play Cal Poly this Wednesday January 30th, and to the women as they play Pacific on Thursday January 31st!
Chancellor Jack Peltason and Peter the Anteater June 7, 2010
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UC Irvine’s second Chancellor, Jack Peltason, poses with Peter the Anteater.
AS-061. University Communications Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Cinco de Mayo Photographs, 1981 May 5, 2010
Posted by ucisca in Student Life, University Archives.Tags: celebrations, Cinco de Mayo, dance, Photographs, University of California Irvine
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AS-061. University Communications Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Watermelon Eating Contest April 27, 2010
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Anteaters of all ages participate in a watermelon eating contest at a campus picnic in 1966.
AS-061. University Communications Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Peter Hangs Five March 31, 2010
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Camino’s First Years: Camino, Mesa Court, UCI. AS-068. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Women’s History Month Library Exhibit, 1993-1995 March 24, 2010
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In 1991 a group of staff and students created an exhibit in Langson Library on cross-cultural perspectives on women and work to celebrate Women’s History Month. In subsequent years, the installation of the Women’s History Month exhibit was continued by students enrolled in Women’s Studies 160: Research Methods and Sources in Women’s Studies.
Each year students from the course were divided in two groups and asked to organize their research and exhibit around a central theme related to women’s history. In 1992 the students surveyed the growth and development of Women’s Studies as a discipline; in 1993 they challenged associations inherent in the phrase “the year of the woman”; in 1994 the focus was on global feminism; and in 1995 the exhibit explored feminism in the past, present, and future.
Included below are photographs from librarian and Women’s Studies instructor Joan Ariel’s teaching files taken during the installation of the exhibits in 1993, 1994, and 1995:
Joan Ariel Files on Women’s Studies at the University of California, Irvine. AS-105. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Jay Leno Homecoming Poster, 1988 February 26, 2010
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Chancellor Jack W. Peltason Records. AS-031. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
1986 Homecoming Dance Poster February 25, 2010
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Poster for the 1986 homecoming dance with handwritten notes to Chancellor Jack W. Peltason.
Chancellor Jack W. Peltason Records. AS-031. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
