Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara

SELECTED RESEARCH COLLECTIONS AVAILABLE TO UCSB STUDENTS RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE

Department of History
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
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• Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents. 12 reels of microfilm. (UCSB Library)
• Papers of the President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957-1961. 3 reels of microfilm. (UCSB Library)
• Documents of the National Security Council, 1947-1977. Microfilm. (UCSB Library)
• Technical Trade Catalog Collection. Over 10,000 catalogs of businesses from the 19th and 20th centuries. (UCSB Library)
• Marie C. Stopes Birth Control Collection. Many of her books and artifacts; some correspondence. (UCSB Library)
• The Journals of Glenn T. Seaborg, 1961-1971. 25 volumes of diary notes and documents from the Nobel laureate's decade as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. (Badash personal collection)
• The Correspondence of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937). A few thousand xerox copies of letters to and from Rutherford. This is the world's most extensive collection, being based upon the papers in the Cambridge University Library, plus items from many other depositories. (Badash personal collection)
• Oral histories (ca. 1500 pages) and documents of members of the College of American Pathologists (est. 1946). (Osborne personal collection)
• Papers, records, drawings, patents, correspondence, photos, and models of Buckminster Fuller are available in the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Santa Barbara.
• The papers of Ernest O. Lawrence and many other prominent scientists in the Bay area are available in the Bancroft Library, on the UC Berkeley campus.
• Archive for the History of Quantum Physics. A large document and microfilm collection is available in the Office for History of Science and Technology, on the UC Berkeley campus.
• The papers of George Ellery Hale, Robert A. Millikan, Lee A. DuBridge, and many other notable scientists are available in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena.
• The papers of Leo Szilard, Harold Urey, Herbert York, and other notable scientists are available in the library at the University of California, San Diego.
• In addition to the above collections, which are in or reasonably accessible from Santa Barbara, it is of course possible to obtain materials from archives and libraries across the country and around the world. Travel funds to such institutions are competitively available, while xerox copies may be ordered by mail. The UCSB Library also has a number of finding aids for manuscript materials, such as Bruce R. Wheaton, Inventory of Sources for History of Twentieth-Century Physics (microfiche).

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