Collections in Calisphere

The patriarch of the Milner family was John Milner. He and his wife, Anna, lived in Los Angeles, CA. John and Anna had seven children: John, Mrs. J.W. Krause, Esther Rule, Clara McDonald, Mrs. Charles L. Michod, Louise Alton, and Henriette Straton. Milner was cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank in Los Angeles. The son, John Milner, was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1887 and passed away on January 20, 1937, at the age of 50. He was married to Winifred Milner, and they had a son, Reese L. Milner, and a daughter, Gwendolyn Milner Hubbard. John …

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

Institution: Other Minds Archive

The Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Records contain subject files, correspondence, files related to the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, and farm building plans. The collection also contains an index of images and associated negatives that were photographed by the department from circa 1915-1951. Subjects of the images include research by the department, various types of agricultural equipment such as: plows, harrows and rollers, cultivators, subsoilers, and harvesting and haying machinery, as well as agricultural buildings such as: barns, silos, corn cribs, poultry houses. This subset of the collection focuses on photographs and includes metadata from the index cards. …

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

Richard William Evans (1942 January 20-2023 April 26) was a Black, gay artist, community advocate, and participant in the “back-to-the-land” movement in Northern California. As a member of the Stellar Arts Collective, Evans helped to create “The Power of the Sun,” a large-scale stained glass installation that was displayed in the State of California office building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco from 1979 until the artwork’s destruction in a protest in 1991. The project proposal, photographic slides, oral history interview, and digital film in this digital collection document Evans's artistic work with the Stellar Arts Collective.

Institution: GLBT Historical Society

These data show the relative amount of chromosomal instability (CIN) in a diverse array of human breast cell types, including non-transformed mammary epithelial cells as well as cancer cell lines. Additional data is also provided from human embryonic and mesenchymal stem cells. To produce this dataset, we compared a published chromosomal instability gene signature against publicly available datasets containing gene expression information for each cell. We then analyzed these data with the Python GSEAPY software package, providing a CIN enrichment score for each cell. These data are useful for comparing the relative amounts of CIN in different breast cell types. …

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

This collection contains diaries, correspondence, photographs, and other material pertaining to Nellie Suydam Cowley, a diarist who wrote about her everyday life and experiences in Glendora, California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives

Eight of the twelve photographs in this collection by I. W. Taber are of the San Francisco area. Included are views of Golden Gate Park, Chinatown, Union Square, the Palace Hotel, and Telegraph Hill. The remaining photographs are of the State Capitol in Sacramento, the Hotel del Monte in Monterey, Santa Barbara Mission, and a Mexican-American family at Mission San Juan Capistrano. All but one of the photographs bear a printed caption and photographer's number. The photograph of the Hotel del Monte is dated 1895. The other photographs were presumably taken in the 1890s

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Berkeley Free Church (South Campus Community Ministry), 1967-1972, Richard York, Pastor, operated a service ministry to the Berkeley, CA, Telegraph Ave. area transients, runaways and hippies. Services included a referral switchboard, counseling, health care, crash pads, and free food. Support came from area merchants, local churches, and the Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations. The Church and its clergy were involved in all the radical and social justice issues of the late 60's including local Berkeley issues, campus riots, and People's Park; peace and draft resistance issues of the Vietnam War; and radical church renewal in the mainline Protestant denominations.

Institution: Graduate Theological Union

These images comprise the entire Slides series within the UC Irvine Communications photographs collection. Images were created by staff photographers employed by the University of California, Irvine, University Communications department. These photographs visually document the history of the UC Irvine campus. The slides document early UCI construction, inaugurations, convocations, campus life, student life, campus grounds, views, activities, Celebrate UCI/Wayzegoose festivities, theatrical performances, guest lecturers, faculty/staff portraits and campus buildings.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

Charles C. Chapman was a popular public speaker who was sought after for various events. This collection contains the speeches he gave to various clubs and organizations up through the 1930s.

Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives