Peter Sachs Collopy: On archives

Major Works

• 📘 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 [introduction] (Caltech Library), exhibition catalog, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, 2024
• 📺 Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives, with students, postdocs, and Maura Dykstra, Caltech, 2020
• 📺 Becoming Caltech, 1910–1930: Presentations from the Archives, with Heidi Aspaturian, Judith Goodstein, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020

Secondary Projects

• 📖 A Prank, a Story, and an Origin of Oral History at Caltech, To Illuminate Nature, from Molecules to the Cosmos: A Narrated History of Caltech Discovery from the 1920s to the 2020s (California Institute of Technology), 2026
• 📚 Electrifying Los Angeles, syllabus, with Jennifer Jahner, California Institute of Technology, 2026
• 📚 Curating Art and Science, syllabus, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, Claremont Graduate University, 2022
• 📖 Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record, book review, Technology and Culture, 2020
• 📺 Copernicus to Feynman: Paper and Print in the Caltech Archives from 1500 to Present, Caltech Alumni Association, 2019
• 📺 The Caltech Archives as Modern Wunderkammer, LASER Pasadena: Wunderkammer, ArtCenter College of Design, 2018
• 📄 History of Physics in the Caltech Archives, and Now on the Web: Hale, Glaser, and More, with Mariella Soprano, AIP History Newsletter, 2018