The collection is organized into 20 boxes of prints, labeled by campus, research station, and/or UC Extension Center, as well as 11 boxes of original negatives, and a mockup of Fiat Lux: The University of California. In these photographs, commissioned by Clark Kerr, the President of the University of California between 1958 and 1967, Adams seeks to render visible the “invisible product” of the UC system, knowledge. He does this by photographing students and faculty at work, as well as various UC research projects and achievements. Owing especially to his strengths in landscape photography, Adams was able to show many UC campuses situated within their natural landscapes. Many of Adams’ most dramatic landscape photographs of UC lands did not make it into the final published product, but remain in the collection. The photos featured in Fiat Lux: The University of California depict students on the various campuses, technologies developed through UC research, and the UC System’s contributions to science and agriculture. The prints contain images of the campuses of Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Riverside. It also depicts the Deep Canyon Desert Research Station, Hat Creek Radio Astronomy Station, Hopland Field Station, Richmond Field Station, Bodega Marine Station, and Meadow Valley Forest Station. Images of UC Extension Centers and programs are also part of the Fiat Lux collection, showing the reach of the university beyond its campuses.