The Archives & Special Collections acquire, preserve, and make available items relating to the history and development of Pacific Union College and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, especially in Northern California and the Pacific Rim. This part of the library supports and promotes research by Pacific Union College students, faculty, alumni, and other researchers who work with primary and secondary source materials.
The Archives & Special Collections are located in the Library Walter Utt Center on the lower level. Call (707) 965-6241 or email the Reference Librarian to ask questions, request material, or to set up an appointment.
Online Collections
Vital: Contains Campus Chronicle issues from 1924 to the present, Diogenes Lanterns, photographs, albums, slides, and more digitized historic documents.
Archive-It: Contains snapshots of changes to Pacific Union College websites from 2015 to the present. Use this collection to view and browse websites as they used to appear.
Flickr: Highlights certain photos in the archives and includes online exhibits.
ContentDM: This collection of Campus Chronicle issues from 1924 to 2009 is now replaced by Vital, but ContentDM provides a secondary way to keyword search in a different interface.
Library Catalog: Use the catalog to find call numbers for thousands of books in the Alumni, Heritage, Maxwell, and Pitcairn collections and the Vault.
Online Bibliographies
Comprehensive lists of references for research on all areas of Seventh-day Adventist history, religious history, and general history can be found in a collection of bibliographies prepared by Gary Shearer, Librarian Emeritus, Pacific Union College. NOTE: Gary retired at the end of 2006 and updates to his many bibliographies ceased as they were his personal project.
Archival Collections
Collection Name Collection Number
Adu Worku Collection PUC.MSS.057 FINDING AID
Alice Ding Collection PUC.MSS.079
Alice Holst Collection PUC.MSS.061 FINDING AID
Alma McKibbin Collection PUC.MSS.065
Andrew (Andy) Hanson Collection PUC.MSS.068 FINDING AID
Asian Missions Lantern Slides PUC.PIC.069
Barbara Phipps Collection PUC.MSS.026
Benjamin P. Hoffman Collection PUC.MSS.017 FINDING AID
Carl D. Anderson Collection PUC.MSS.001 FINDING AID
Charles Anderson Collection PUC.MSS.075
Charles Elliott Weniger Collection PUC.MSS.045
Clement Counter & Paul Wickman Collection PUC.MSS.011
Donald M. Warren Collection PUC.MSS.042
Donly Gray Collection PUC.MSS.015 FINDING AID
Dramatic Arts Society Collection PUC.MSS.089
Earl Lehman Collection PUC.MSS.074
Early PUC Lantern Slides PUC.PIC.062 FINDING AID
Edna Fisher Collection PUC.MSS.073
Eliott Varner Smith Collection PUC.PISC.078
Elman J. Folkenberg Collection PUC.MSS.013
Ernest L. Place Collection PUC.MSS.027
Ernest M. Christiansen Collection PUC.MSS.007
Ernest R. Johnson Collection PUC.MSS.018
Ervil D. Clark Collection PUC.MSS.008
Evabelle R. Winning Collection PUC.MSS.046
Floyd. O. Rittenhouse Collection PUC.MSS.031
Ford Family Collection PUC.MSS.083
Frank Riggs Collection PUC.MSS.047
Fred C. Hutchinson Collection PUC.MSS.053 FINDING AID
Fred Veltman Collection PUC.MSS.040
George H. Ham Collection PUC.MSS.016
George R. West Collection PUC.MSS.063
Gordon Madgwick Collection PUC.MSS.020
Harold Clark & Earl Aagaard Collection PUC.MSS.010
Harold W. Clark Collection PUC.MSS.009
Health Services Collection PUC.ART.072
Herschel and Ruth Wheeler Collection PUC.MSS.043
Jack W. Provonsha Collection PUC.MSS.067
James and Marcia Terrell Papers PUC.MSS.035
Joel Lutes Collection PUC.MSS.064
John Peter Anderson Collection PUC.MSS.002
John W. Cassell Collection PUC.MSS.004
John W. Christian Collection PUC.MSS.005
John Whieldon Collection PUC.MSS.080
Joseph C. Johannes Collection PUC.MSS.019
Joseph M. Peterson Collection PUC.MSS.025
Joseph Wheeler Collection PUC.MSS.044
L. L. Moffat Collection PUC.MSS.066
L.E. Niermeyer Collection PUC.MSS.060 FINDING AID
Larry A. Mitchel Collection PUC.MSS.051 FINDING AID
Linda Thorman Collection PUC.MSS.036
Lois Christian Randolph Collection PUC.MSS.077
Lula (Lulu) Layman Collection PUC.MSS.082 FINDING AID
Lydia Madsen Collection PUC.MSS.081 FINDING AID
Madge Haines-Morrill Nelson Collection PUC.MSS.022
Margaret W. Rowen Collection PUC.MSS.052 FINDING AID
Marvin Walter Collection PUC.MSS.041
Mary McReynolds Collection PUC.MSS.021
Minnie E. Dauphinee Collection PUC.MSS.012
Napa Register Negatives PUC.PIC.058 FINDING AID
Nelson Memorial Library Collection PUC.INS.076
Noah Paulin Collection PUC.MSS.024
Northern California Conference Papers PUC.NCC.090 FINDING AID
Orville R. Thompson Collection PUC.ART.048 VAULT FINDING AID
Pacific Union Conference Papers PUC.MSS.071
Paul Quimby Collection PUC.MSS.028
Percy W. Christian Collection PUC.MSS.006 FINDING AID
Postcard Collection PUC.MSS.055 FINDING AID
Prophetic Charts Collection PUC.ART.049 FINDING AID
Public Relations Academy Ads, 1960-1961 PUC.INS.056 FINDING AID
PUC Church Sabbath School Records and Registers PUC.INS.054 FINDING AID
Richard Utt Collection PUC.MSS.038
Robert Brinsmead Collection PUC.MSS.003
Roger Bothwell Case PUC.MSS.059 FINDING AID
San Francisco Earthquake Collection PUC.MSS.062
Sarah Peck Collection PUC.MSS.070
Sherwin Goerlitz Poster Collection PUC.MSS.085
Special Board Committee (1972) PUC.INS.050 FINDING AID
Stanley S. Slotkin Printed Book Leaves Collection PUC.MSS.058 FINDING AID
St. Helena Sanitarium School of Nursing Collection PUC.MSS.084
Toppenberg Collection PUC.MSS.037
Virgil Staff Collection PUC.MSS.034
W. I. Smith Collection PUC.MSS.033
W. Larry Richards Collection PUC.MSS.030
Walter C. Utt Collection PUC.MSS.039 FINDING AID
- Walter C. Utt Collection Poster Inventory (illustrated)
- Walter C. Utt Collection Duke of Schomberg Letters Inventory
Walter Rea Collection PUC.MSS.029
William E. Nelson Collection PUC.MSS.023
William Thomas Ross Collection PUC.MSS.032
| Coll # Key (MSS-manuscript papers, ART-artifacts, PIC-photographs, MM-multimedia, INS-institutional archives, PISC-Pitcairn Islands Study Center, NCC-Northern California Conference, SHH-St. Helena Hospital) |