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| The Caltech Archives were formally established in 1968 to serve as the collective memory of the California Institute of Technology. Our mission is to preserve and make accessible the institutional records, personal papers, documents, artifacts and pictorial materials that tell the school's history. The Archives' unique research collections in the history of science and technology range from the time of Copernicus to today. They are available to the campus community for instructional and research purposes, as well as to qualified non-campus users by appointment.
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Talk of the Archives Looking Back: Alumni mini-interviews now online On Caltech's Alumni Seminar Day in May 2012, the Archives recorded short interviews with eight alumni volunteers. Several of these interviews may now be read in transcript form at our oral history web site. The interviews are grouped for easy retrieval under Alumni Seminar Day as subject. Alums related entertaining stories from their student years, replete with pranks and social antics. They also spoke about the seriousness of their days on campus, the hard work, and the high value of a Caltech education in later life.
This year on Seminar Day, May 18, the Caltech Archives will again host alumni for 10 to 15-minute recording sessions between 12 noon and 2 PM at the Sherman Fairchild Library.
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Professor Gerald J. Wasserburg began donating his papers to the Caltech Archives in 1996. A searchable collection guide to the now 172 archival boxes has been published online at the Online Archive of California (OAC).
A rich overview of Caltech's past based on historic photos, film, and audio materials from the Caltech Archives. The 10-minute video was created by Archivist Emerita Judith Goodstein in 2000 for the Watson Lecture Series. 
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