The University Archives has many aerial photographs of the early campus construction in the mid-1960s, before the campus opened in the Fall 1965. However, very few of those are in color. The collection Beth Koch Photographs of the University of California, Irvine, 1963-1984 (AS-056) has a few interesting color photographs.

AS-056. Beth Koch Photographs of the University of California, Irvine, 1963-1984. Special Collections and Archives, the U.C. Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.