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Picnic Day Exhibit Sources

Archives and Special Collections is charged with collecting, preserving, administering, and providing access to the University Archives. This exhibit draws materials from several University Archives Collections.

The collections include:

  • University Archives Photographs –  A visual record of the history of the University of California, Davis. The collection contains photographic prints and negatives, and depicts buildings and grounds, faculty and staff, annual events such as Picnic Day, campus events, classes and classrooms, student clubs and activities, departments, and sporting events.
  • Academic Technology Services Photographs and Video Recordings–  The collection includes negatives, contact sheets, color slides, and prints created in the course of UC Davis activities by Illustration Services, which is now incorporated into Academic Technology Services.
  • Michel (Neil) Axiom Photograph Collection–  Neil Michel, co-owner of Axiom, was the principal freelance photographer for UC Davis from 1991-2008. The collection includes photographs taken for the California Aggie, Dateline, and UC Davis Magazine, as well as photography for alumni events, development events, and several colleges and programs.
  • The California Aggie, formerly known as The Weekly Agricola- This resource is now available online through the California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) and contains 5,410 issues of The Aggie beginning with the first issue of The Weekly Agricola on Sept. 29, 1915. The collection is broken down by year and month, has a keyword-search function and is available for download.

To access materials in these or other collections in Archives and Special Collections, or if you have materials related to the history of UC Davis that you would like to donate to the UC Davis Library, contact
SpecColl@ucdavis.edu.

More University Archives Related to Picnic Day

2010–2019

Exhibit: Picnic Day: By the Decade

Introduction Historic Picnic Day Films 1909–1929 1930–1949 1950–1969 1970–1989 1990-2009 2010–2019 Exhibit Sources
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Curated by Jenny Hodge