Temple of Ceres (Temple of Athena) Ruins Paestum, Italy 6th Ct. BC Branson DeCou Archive UCSC Visual Resource Collection

Arts In the arts, the following media are represented in the Collection: Architecture Art Theory (Including Anatomy, Color Theory, Perspective, Etc.) Book Arts Ceramics and Glass Commercial Art Drawing Fashion and Fabric Design Film Graphic Art Minor Arts (Including Arms and Armor, Coins, Medals, Furniture, Liturgical Objects, Musical Instruments, Etc.) Mosaics and Stained Glass New Art Activity (Including Performance Documentation, Video Stills, Intermedia, Installations, Etc.) Painting Photography Sculpture Theater Arts (Including Stage, Set, and Costume Design, Play Performances, Etc. Material in the Arts is organized initially by time period, with further division by country or nationality, artist name, medium, style, and by subject designation.

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Palace of Fine Arts Panama Pacific International Exposition 1915 San Francisco, California Branson DeCou Archive UCSC Visual Resource Collection

Humanities and Social Sciences Images for the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences include: Significant Historical Events and Activities Maps Important Persons Images of Natural and Human Environments Economic Endeavors Traditional and Ritual Objects, and Depictions of Such Objects in Their Context of Use In addition to Western material, there is extensive representation of African, East Asian, South American, and South Pacific cultural groups. This material is organized by cultural group, with relevant arrangement by chronology, subject, style, or region. The Visual Resource Collection has obtained from Harvard University's Center for World Religion a set of 6,000 slides on religion, history and anthropology. These images are useful in the study of history and culture of a wide variety of nations, institutions, and peoples.

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Mt. Vesuvius, At the Rim Italy Branson De Cou Archive UCSC Visual Resource Collection

Sciences The Visual Resource Collection has slides from the following disciplines: Astronomy Biology Chemistry and physics Earth sciences Mathematics Medical sciences New technologies These holdings are organized by discipline. Slides are cataloged by subject divisions such as taxonomic group, geologic era, or other relevant topical patterns.

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Cooper House Santa Cruz, California Chuck and Esther Abbott Archive UCSC Visual Resource Collection

Unique Holdings Abbott The Visual Resource Collection is the depository of the work of Chuck and Esther Abbott, documentary photographers of architectural reconstructions of national urban and suburban landscapes in the 1960s. Their photographs of the buildings of Santa Cruz are of special importance to local patrons. Branson DeCou The Visual Resource also houses the photographic work of Branson DeCou. His several thousand hand-tinted lantern slides of world travel views, taken in the early 1900s, provide viewers with an opportunity to see locations and peoples that in many instances have since been altered by social and economic changes, military intervention, and natural disasters. The 1,475 slides taken in Italy are available for viewing on the Web. Visit the Web site! We are currently scanning the California slides from the DeCou collection. Moholy-Nagy The Sibyl Moholy-Nagy Architecture Collection provides glimpses into the pedagogical working methods of an important historian. Slides used in her architectural lectures, along with many slides of the work of her husband, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, are available for viewing.

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Food Santo Series-El Chile Rojo ©1981 Lithograph Paul Rangell, Alumnus, Lecturer, UCSC

Alumni Artists Working with the UCSC Alumni Office, the Visual Resource Collection has been acting as a registry of alumni artists' work. Each artist may submit up to ten reproductions of work to the collection. Biographical information about alumni artists and descriptions of their work is maintained in the Collection's SlideCat database.

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Papaverceae Eschscholzia Californica California Poppies, Meadow View University of California Santa Cruz campus UCSC Visual Resource Collection

Campus History The Collection contains images of important local interest including: Historical Campus Views: Aerial Photography Early Site Views Architects' Renderings Building Construction Campus Farm and Garden Material Campus Wildflowers

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