Monographs and serials
Items reproduced from the monographs and serials held by the Robert E. Kennedy Library's Special Collections and Archives department. Most items are catalogued in the library's catalog.
Items reproduced from the monographs and serials held by the Robert E. Kennedy Library's Special Collections and Archives department. Most items are catalogued in the library's catalog.
Panorama of San Francisco from California St. Hill. by Eadweard Muybridge, photographed in 1877 and printed as twelve mounted photographs 32 cm in size. [Covers not scanned].
Map 1 is entitled 'California Polytechnic State University Properties, 1983, With Major Ranch Units and Historic Residences,' and Map 2 is entitled 'California Polytechnic State University Land Parcel Acquisition, 1902-1971, Main Campus'
Front cover scan of Myron Angel's book about the origins of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Front cover of a travel brochure produced by the Southern Pacific Company
Front cover of a travel brochure produced by the Southern Pacific Company
Photograph of Oscar Lewis taken during an interview conducted by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun.
Courier's Text Atlas of The United States of America is an artist's book by Woody Leslie (One Page Productions, 2013): a geographically accurate, 100% typed atlas of the US, with each state typed out using only the letters of its name. CTA the album is a 'reading' of the book, as realized through a computer text-to-speech reader. Audio performed by 'Alex' on an Apple MacBook running OS 10.6.8. Recorded at Chooklyn Farms Studios, Brooklyn, NY April, 2014.
Excerpts include a map whose borders are the Mexico boundary to the south, General Grant National Park and Oceano Dunes to the north, Pacific Ocean to the west, and borders with Nevada and Arizona to the east; and listing of the homes of movie stars.
Genre: American poetry, 20th century, California - Jeffers; Contents: Pt. 1 Ballade of fog in the canon - Pt. 2 From the Golden Gate Bridge - Pt. 3 At the Stevenson Fountain - Pt. 4 Long view - Pt. 5 Letter to California - Pt. 6 After this, sea - Pt. 7 The hangar at Sunnyvale - Pt. 8 To the Holy Spirit - Pt. 9 The children's orchard - Pt. 10 Winter rain - Pt. 11 Folk scripture - Pt. 12 Natural Music
Oral history interview with James Sinton, conducted by Dean Miller, and transcribed by Janet Crabaugh.
A book produced by the San Luis Obispo fire department with photos of notable buildings in San Luis Obispo.
A directory of residents and businesses in San Luis Obispo city and county. Includes descriptions of the county and many advertisements.
Full title is: 'Learn by doing: memoirs of a university president: a personal journey with the seventh president of California Polytechnic State University'
Front cover of the 1894 souvenir edition of the Tribune dedicated to the completion of the railroad. The back cover has an advertisement for El Paso de Robles Springs.
A unbound portfolio that contains twelve colored illustrations of California wildflowers, reproduced by the three-color process and printed on fine quality white cardboard, each signed "Copyright by E.M.H.S. 1905." Plates accompanied by a booklet containing descriptions of each of the wild flowers represented, probably the work of the artist's husband, writer Charles Francis Saunders. The twelve reproductions in natural colors from water-color drawings are of the following flowers: California poppy -- Prickly phlox -- Brodiaea -- Cream cups -- Monkey flower -- Owl's clover -- Indian paint-brush -- Wild pansy -- Mariposa tulip -- Wild heliotrope -- Shooting star -- Scarlet bugler.