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The Long Family and the Joseph and Vera Long Foundation receive the 2014 Fiat Lux Award for their distinguished volunteer leadership and outstanding generosity to UC Santa Cruz since the founding of the campus.
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures graduate student Sara Brumfield recounts her experience working at the UCLA Library's Center for Primary Research and Training, where she described and translated two collections of cuneiform tablets: the Edward A.…
From YouTube user MikeGoat: "Sometime in 1967, during my first year at UCSC, a young woman came hitchiking through UCSC in Santa Cruz California. She stayed in our dorm for one night and played her guitar, sang and laughed and then left. I never…
The McHenry Farm, Lompoc, California, 1912. Standing in front of the house in which Chancellor McHenry was born are, from left to right, his sister, Eunice Virginia; his brother Roy; his mother; the photographer’s wife, Mrs. Charles Bachelor; and…
Standing clockwise around the cow are Roy; Dean E. in the arms of his mother, Virginia Hilton McHenry; Mrs. Charles Bachelor holding a dog named Busy; and Eurnice Virginia. Seated in the foreground is Chancellor McHenry’s father, William Thomas…
When Upton Sinclair, famous author and lifetime Socialist, won the Democratic primary for governor of California in 1934 in a landslide--leading the greatest mass movement in the state's history--all hell broke loose there and across the country. To…
I designed this directory for the library's entry. The printed sheets are mounted on "gatorboard" and laminated. The far-left panel lists collections, services and offices by floor. The larger center panel features floor plans for each…
Identifier: crusadersorscene00keig
Title: The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Keightley, Thomas, 1789-1872
Subjects: Crusades
Publisher: London J.W. Parker
Contributing…
The cover is wrapped in a midnight blue leather. There are also wooden strips on the front and on the back. The front cover has 8 wooden pieces with 4 wooden strips on the bottom layer and then 4 layed over the top. Alternatively there are 9 wooden…