Title

University Archives Photograph Collection

Description

Photographs, negatives, and photographic slides created and collected by campus staff, faculty, and students between 1900-2017. Images include campus buildings and landscape, student activities, special events, classrooms and coursework, faculty and staff events, and aerial views of campus and the surrounding area. Finding aid available at https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8w09c4b/admin/

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Local Identifier
ua-pho_00001408
Date Created
1913 to 1920
Description

On back: 'This picture is highly radioactive, "underground tests"' This be a residence in San Luis Obispo near the High School. This photo may be looking south towards Terrace Hill. (See also: ua-pho_00003362 https://digital.lib.calpoly.edu/rekl-96983 )

2 items in Collection
Local Identifier
ua-pho_00001666
Date Created
1968-10
Description

Architecture students studying abroad in Florence, Italy? They're all posing on the steps of the Badia Fiesolana located in the town of Fiesole, northeast of Florence, Italy.. Legend identifying first names included.

2 items in Collection
Local Identifier
ua-pho_00000617
Date Created
1929-11-02
Description

Text on back reads "At Poly- the homecoming bonfire! SLO November 2, 1929 500 gallons of oil and 10 gallons of gasolene! Charles Van Emburgh (Dutch) Milham (English)"

2 items in Collection
Local Identifier
ua-pho_00000766
Date Created
1939
Description

Caption on back of photograph reads: 'As there is no county fair for merchants to display their merchandise, many find that the annual Poly Royal is an excellent opportunity to place their wares before the public. Tractors, graders, plows, hay bailers, seeders, harrows, discs and cultivators shown.' The text on the back of the photograph also indicates it was included in the 1939 edition of the El Rodeo yearbook.

2 items in Collection
Local Identifier
ua-pho_00003550
Date Created
1975 (year uncertain)
Description

Students posing under Tehama dorm sign. They seem to be having fun, as certain students are striking funny poses.

Local Identifier
ua-pho_00003573
Date Created
1977 (year uncertain)
Description

Two students sitting on beds in a North Mountain dorm room look at a magazine and play an acoustic guitar, from a different angle showing the posters of Yosemite mountain peaks, items on the desk and letters, a planner lying open on the table next to a CB radio, with additional plants and decorations surrounding the students. The crocheted blanket is lying across one bed with a clock radio and flyers for concerts, posters, and other materials.

Local Identifier
ua-pho_00000272
Date Created
1981 (year uncertain)
Description

Fliers contain information on microform collections, biographies, and basic reference sources in engineering, journalism, music, ornamental horticulture, occupational information, and other subjects.

Local Identifier
ua-pho_00003641
Date Created
1983 (year uncertain)
Description

Possible student receiving a medical or kinesiology exam. An adult stands reading a sheet of paper.

Local Identifier
ua-pho_00003015
Date Created
1984 (year uncertain)
Description

A student working on a Mindset computer, using a stylus and writing pad to illustrate a computer graphic about the annual population of fish during the years 1981-1984.