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University Archives
Collections
Collections in the University Archives are arranged by record groups, which are based on the office of origin or creating body. The University Archives has over 150 collections. Below are descriptions of select collections. Descriptions for additional collections are forthcoming.
Holdings can only reflect what is submitted to the University Archives. We welcome historical archives and records from the administrative offices, campus organizations, and student groups. Please contact us to discuss the records that you wish to transfer to the University Archives at speccoll@ucdavis.edu
The papers of University of California, Davis faculty are administered as manuscript collections within Special Collections. See our manuscript guide for a list of manuscript collections.
Researchers should confirm collections are available, before visiting, as many collections are stored offsite.
Chancellor
- Chancellor, Office of the
- Collection Number: AR-023
- Extent: 420.0 linear feet
- Description: Office files relating to the physical planning and administration of the University of California, Davis.
- Inclusive Dates: 1953-1999
Vice Chancellor for Administration
- Accounting and Financial Services Office
- Collection Number: AR-127
- Extent: 5.0 linear feet
- Description: Income ledgers (1910-1912); general ledgers (1914-1940); contingent fund and revolving fund ledgers (1911-1922); and financial reports (1938-1957). These early historical account ledgers provide many clues to the activities of the campus from its earliest establishment as the University Farm. Several examples of entries include the Library's purchase of "Revue de Viticulture" in 1910 and the University's purchase of silkworm eggs from a firm in Tokyo in 1914.
- Inclusive Dates: 1910-1957.
Vice Chancellor for Resource Management and Planning
- Resource Management and Planning, Office of
- Collection Number: AR-051
- Extent: 151.0 linear feet
- Description: Budgets and financial statements, long range development plans, and environmental impact reports.
- Inclusive Dates: 1948-[ongoing]
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
- Associated Students, University of California, Davis (ASUCD) Records
- Collection Number: AR-111
- Extent: 13.4 linear feet
- Biography: The Associated Students, University of Calfornia, Davis (ASUCD) is the official student government of UC Davis. Description: Legislation, election information, meeting minutes, financial materials, clippings of Aggie articles about ASUCD, and a scrapbook.
- Inclusive Dates: 1945-2007.
- Baggins End: Innovative Housing
- Collection Number: AR-049
- Extent: 11.1 linear feet
- Description: Meeting announcements and minutes, correspondence, planning documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to the Baggins End student housing community.
- Inclusive Dates: 1972-1997.
- Memorial Union Art Gallery Records
- Collection Number: AR-132
- Extent: 14.0 linear feet
- Biography: The Memorial Union Art Gallery began as "The Painting of the Month" in the 1950s featuring the work of the Art Department faculty and students. An enclosed gallery was established on the fourth floor of the expanded Memorial Union Tower in 1966.
- Description: Exhibit files which include artist information, press releases, loan agreements, correspondence between artists and the Gallery Manager, installation notes, publicity materials, exhibit catalogs, and slides.
- Inclusive Dates: 1970-2008.
- Memorial Union Services
- Collection Number: AR-152
- Extent: 2.0 linear feet
- Description: Material related to the fundraising campaign of the UC Davis Student Memorial Union project. Also included is a logbook from West Hall which contains the minutes and records of student meetings held between 1921-1930.
- Inclusive Dates: 1921-1962.
- Undergraduate Admissions
- Collection Number: AR-123
- Extent: 3.0 linear feet
- Description: Slides that were used by the Admissions Office for their publications and web site.
- Inclusive Dates: 1990-2001.
- Unitrans Archives
- Collection Number: AR-071
- Extent: 4.4 linear feet
- Description: Annual reports, schedules, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia documenting the history of Unitrans, the University and City of Davis bus service, founded in 1968 by the Associated Students of UC Davis.
- Inclusive Dates: 1966-2008
Vice Chancellor for University Relations
- Committee for Arts and Lectures Records
- Collection Number: AR-042
- Extent: 5.7 linear feet
- Biography: In 1955 the Committee for Drama, Lectures, and Music was organized. The group was responsible for organizing arts events and lectures on campus. Its name was changed to the Committee for Arts and Lectures (CAL) in 1960 and again in 1990 to UC Davis Presents. In 2002, the Mondavi Center for Performing Arts opened and the function of this group was transferred to the Center.
- Description: Season files including brochures, flyers, and playbills, as well as snapshot photographs, and some posters.
- Inclusive Dates: 1964-2002
- Events and Ceremonies, Office of
- Collection Number: AR-163
- Extent: 6.0 linear feet
- Description: Commencement records, ceremonies, dedications, lectures, mailing lists, meeting minutes, programs, receptions.
- Inclusive Dates: 1945-1999.
- University Communications
- Collection Number: AR-031
- Extent: 41.8 linear feet
- Description: Images of faculty and staff, sporting events, classroom activities, and special events such as Picnic Day, clippings files for campus news and events, and materials regarding the 75th anniversary of the campus.
- Inclusive Dates: circa 1914-2000.
- University Relations, Office of the Vice-Chancellor of
- Collection Number: AR-021
- Extent: 10.0 linear feet
- Description: Office files relating to activities involving CAAA, campus development, and campus outreach.
- Inclusive Dates: 1980-1987.
Vice Chancellor for Research
- Agricultural History Center
- Collection Number: AR-036
- Extent: 6.0 linear feet
- Description: Correspondence, reports, and card files relating agricultural history.
- Inclusive Dates: 1974-1997.
- Convenio Archives
- Collection Number: AR-014
- Extent: 1.0 linear feet
- Description: Publications and reports from a "Convenio" (an agreement or pact) between the University of Chile and the University of California for a long-term cooperative program that embraced nearly all disciplines at the two universities. Entomology, plant pathology, and pomology were considered top priority. The program received financial support from the Ford Foundation.
- Inclusive Dates: 1965-1979.
- Institute of Governmental Affairs Collection
- Collection Number: AR-041
- Extent: 101.0 linear feet
- Biography: The Institute of Governmental Affairs (IGA), founded in 1962, supports social science research, graduate student training, public affairs programming, and outreach activities at UC Davis
- Description: The majority of the collection is a clipping file maintained by IGA from 1971-1987 on the following areas: Davis/Yolo County, Sacramento City/County, and the California State Government. The collection also contains publications produced by IGA and the Agricultural History Center.
- Inclusive Dates: 1962-2009.
College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
- College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Undergraduate Program Review Subcommittee records
- Collection Number: AR-121
- Extent: 10.0 linear feet
- Description: Reviews of the undergraduate majors in the college.
- Inclusive Dates: 1975-1995.
- College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Executive Committee
- Collection Number: AR-120
- Extent: 8.0 linear feet
- Description: Committee lists, meeting calls, and minutes.
- Inclusive Dates: 1952-2000.
- Food Science & Technology Department Records
- Collection Number: AR-131
- Extent: 20.0 linear feet
- Biography: With origins rooted in the University of California Berkeley’s Division of Viticulture and Enology, the Department of Food Science was initially established in 1919 as a division of fruit products after the Volstead Act prohibited commercial wine-making. While studies in viticulture continued at Davis, the fruit products unit at Berkeley turned its focus toward processing fruit juices and identifying optimal techniques for canning, drying, and otherwise utilizing fruits for consumption. In 1951, the renamed Division of Food Technology moved from Berkeley to Davis.
- Description: Syllabi, lecture notes, department correspondence, and photographs.
- Inclusive Dates: 1914-2005.
- Foundation Plant Materials Service
- Collection Number: AR-050
- Extent: 22.0 linear feet
- Description: Office files relating to the production and dissemination of disease free cuttings and rootstock.
- Inclusive Dates: 1954-1985.
- LAWR (Land, Air, and Water Resources), Department of
- Collection Number: AR-094
- Extent: 36.6 linear feet
- Description: Correspondence, memos, manuscripts, pamphlets, photos, research projects, soil maps, and surveys.
- Inclusive Dates: 1924-1999.
- University of California, Davis. California Food and Fiber Futures Records
- Collection Number: AR-099
- Extent: 11.0 linear feet
- Biography: California Food and Fiber Futures was a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant in the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean's Office. The purpose of the grant was to encourage institutional change in California's higher education system through engagement of higher education partnerships and community based projects that addressed critical food systems issues.
- Description: Correspondence, model projects, meeting and conference materials, and annual reports.
- Inclusive Dates: 1997-2007.
- Viticulture and Enology, Department of
- Collection Number: AR-059
- Extent: 25.0 linear feet
- Description: Correspondence, budget and expense files, travel receipts, construction and repair requisitions, meeting minutes (department, division, staff, and committee), building plans, class materials, research projects and grants, vineyard reports, extension reports, and photographs.
- Inclusive Dates: 1913-1988.
University Library
- Oral History Office
- Collection Number: AR-113
- Extent: 41.2 linear feet
- Description: Audio recordings and transcripts of oral histories conducted by the Oral History Office. Also included are office files and correspondence relating to the activities of the office.
- Inclusive Dates: 1947-1996.
Academic Senate
- Academic Senate
- Collection Number: AR-108
- Extent: 8.0 linear feet
- Description: Correspondence, manuals, handbooks, bylaws, reports, meeting minutes, publications.
- Inclusive Dates: 1931-1999.
Student and UCD Community Organizations
- Agricultural Education Wives Club
- Collection Number: AR-083
- Description: Collection contains constitution, financial records, membership lists, photographs, and memorabilia.
- Inclusive Dates: 1950-1982.
- Antique Mechanics Club
- Collection Number: AR-010
- Extent: 2.1 linear feet
- Description: Newspaper clippings and speeches relating to the history of the Antique Mechanics organization on the Davis campus.
- Inclusive Dates: 1972-1977.
- Cal Aggie Marching Band
- Collection Number: AR-150
- Extent: 7.0 linear feet
- Description: Correspondence, office files, video cassettes, photos, realia, survey worksheets.
- Inclusive Dates: 1958-1999.
- Fraternities, Sororities, and Honor Societies
- Collection Number: AR-151
- Extent: 15.2 linear feet
- Description: Correspondence, financial records, chapter records, office files, meeting minutes, photos, bylaws, membership records/rosters, constitutions, publications, realia.
- Inclusive Dates: 1916-1999.
- Golden Hoof Club
- Collection Number: AR-082
- Description: Collection contains club records, membership lists, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia.
- Inclusive Dates: 1920-ca. 1978.
- Student Clubs and Organizations Collection
- Collection Number: AR-180
- Extent: 1.0 linear feet
- Description: This small collection, assembled by Special Collections, contains flyers and ephemera related to a selection of student clubs and organizations on the University of California, Davis campus.
- Inclusive Dates: 1925-1981.
- University Farm Circle.
- Collection Number: AR-047
- Extent: 9.1 linear feet
- Description: Constitution, correspondence, meeting minutes, annual reports, club records, financial reports, club rosters, publications, photo exhibit, scrapbooks, realia.
- Inclusive Dates: 1925-1999.
Events and Celebrations
- Centennial Collection
- Collection Number: AR-144
- Extent: 4.0 linear feet
- Description: Planning and publicity files, correspondence, and memorabilia from the centennial year.
- History: The University of California, Davis celebrated its centennial during 2008-2009.
- Inclusive Dates: 2008-2009
- Picnic Day Board of Directors Reports
- Collection Number: AR-122
- Extent: 4.0 linear feet
- Description: Reports from the various Picnic Day Directors. Directors include Chairperson, Animal Events, Exhibits, Parking, Technical, among others.
- Inclusive Dates: Inclusive dates: 1981-2002.
- Picnic Day Collection
- Collection Number: AR-075
- Extent: 4.8 linear feet
- Description: Programs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia from the University of California, Davis Picnic Day celebrations.
- Inclusive Dates: 1909-[ongoing]
School of Medicine
- Department of Medical Pathology Oral History Recordings
- Collection Number: AR-133
- Description: Audio recordings of interviews conducted by Joann Leach Larkey for the Chairmen of the Department of Medical Pathology, University of California, Davis, as part of the campus's 1967-1996 Oral History Project. The interviews were conducted to mark the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the School of Medicine and have been transcribed into a printed volume.
- Inclusive Dates: 1995.
University of California (System)
- Genetic Resources Conservation Program
- Collection Number: AR-137
- Extent: 25.0 linear feet
- Description: Correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes, notes, project files, and photographs and slides.
- History: The Genetic Resources Conservation program was established in 1985 as a University of California Statewide Program of the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, through a special budget initiative by the Division in response to request from the State of California. The Program was supported by a baseline budget from the Division and various extramural funds. The Program was concerned with California's biological diversity and its conservation in the broadest sense: onsite and offsite conservation of the native flora and fauna, collections of germplasm amassed for agricultural, medicinal, and industrial uses, and collections of genetics stocks, tissues, cells, and DNA developed for teaching and research purposes. The Program as closed by the Division effective June 30, 2008.
- Inclusive Dates: 1979-2008.
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. Collection.
- Collection Number: AR-142
- Extent: 4.0 linear feet
- Description: Correspondence, meeting minutes, program plans, photographs, and slides for a slideshow for school groups on sustainable agriculture.
- History: The UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP) is a statewide program within UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. At the request of the California legislature, the University of California established SAREP with three mandates: administer competitive grants for research on sustainable agricultural practices and systems, develop and distribute information through publications and on-farm demonstrations, and support long-term research and sustainable farming systems on UC farmlands.
- Inclusive Dates: 1987-2008.
College of Letters and Science
- Nature and Culture Program Records.
- Collection Number: AR-175
- Extent: 1.0 linear feet
- Biography:
Nature and Culture, an undergraduate major in the College of Letters and Sciences, provided interdisciplinary studies of the relationships that existed between human cultures and the natural world. The major was discontinued in 2011.
- Description: Correspondence, course descriptions, program requirements, reports, flyers, and posters.
- Inclusive Dates: 1993-2011.
- Richard L. Nelson Gallery Records.
- Collection Number: AR-176
- Extent: 18.0 linear feet
- Biography: The Richard L. Nelson Gallery was dedicated in 1976 in memory of the first Chairperson of the Department of Art at the University of California, Davis. Established as an exhibition venue and teaching resource for the Art Department, the gallery program also serves the campus population, art communities, and general public of Northern California and the Central Valley.
- Description: Files about artists that showed their work at the Nelson Gallery.
- Inclusive Dates: 1976-1999.