Collections in Calisphere
All of the items in Calisphere are organized into collections. Collections bring context to images, documents, videos, and audio recordings. Some collections represent a particular topic or format, some have items created by the same person, and some showcase an institution’s special project or initiative. Use the tabs below to explore the hundreds of collections in Calisphere.
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A Brief Voyage in the Life of Gloria Stuart
Keepsake for attendees of the twenty-fourth Biennial Joint Meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs at Los Angeles on October 24 & 25, 1998, printed by Wm Erik Voss--Colophon.
Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
3 Items
San Luis Obispo County Historic Lithographs Collection
This collection contains 48 sheets of hand-tinted lithographs, each approximately 11 ¾ x 8 ½ inches, depicting 61 different ranches, residences, hotels, commercial and civic buildings throughout San Luis Obispo County in 1883.
Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
48 Items
San Luis Obispo Building Permits Collection
Select building permits for the City of San Luis Obispo, California for years 1906-1937 with yearly alphabetical indices for 1923 and 1928-1937.
Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
34 Items
Iwata (Jack Masaki) Collection
This collection consists of 166 photographs and copy negatives of photographs taken at Manazanar and Tule Lake concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Subjects include scenes of daily life, group portraits, and landscapes....
Institution: Japanese American National Museum
166 Items
Orange County Rancho Title Abstracts, Collection of
This collection comprises 3 bound, handwritten title abstracts, prepared by the Abstract and Title Insurance Company of Los Angeles, containing transcriptions of documents, dating back as early as 1868. The transcriptions are from original documents such as deeds, leases, tax assessments, and court cases with accompanying hand-drawn maps for properties that were part of Rancho Boca de la Playa and Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana presently part of Orange County, California. The fourth document is an unbound typescript copy of an 1887 title abstract for a property formerly known as the Colima Tract on the Rancho Santa Gertrudis, and was ...
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection
1 Item
Maps
This album contains images of maps of and related to South Pasadena.
Institution: South Pasadena Public Library
1 Item
Scripps Ecological Observatory
These data are collected as part of the Scripps Ecological Observatory program located at the Ellen Browning Scripps Pier at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Flow cytometry data are collected twice weekly in collaboration with the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS). Samples are fixed to 0.25 % with glutaraldehyde and run for autofluoresence with SYBR Green staining on a Guava 11HT flow cytometer. 123count eBeads are used as an internal standard. The expected concentration of beads in each sample is 500 per ml. Dissolved gas concentrations are collected on a Hiden HPR-40 Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometer (MIMS). Data are ...
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
2 Items
Workman-Temple Homestead Museum Collection, 1830-1930
The Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum Collection, 1830-1930 consists of materials from the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum in the City of Industry, California. The Homestead Museum is located in a former Mexican rancho and is home to rich collections documenting many aspects of Southern California history between 1830 and 1930. Staff from the Homestead Museum have selected approximately 500 photographs and ephemera highlighting Mexican-American, Chinese-American, and Japanese-American life in the Los Angeles region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among these items are broadsides from two Mexican-American theatres in Boyle Heights during the 1920s and ...
Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
284 Items
Robert Kemp Collection
Born in San Diego on October 19, 1924, Robert C. “Bob” Kemp was a publications editor and illustrator with General Dynamics in San Diego, as well as a noted artist, specializing in aircraft and sailing ship paintings. A graduate of Herbert Hoover Senior High School in San Diego in 1942, and San Diego State College in 1952, Kemp joined the company in 1952, at that time known as Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation. This collection highlights Kemp’s career and some of the projects he worked on.
Institution: San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives
1,008 Items
Digital Media Lab
This collection includes a range of interdisciplinary 3D media and data visualization projects created and curated by the UC San Diego Library Digital Media Lab.
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
2 Items
