Collections in Calisphere

Chiefly campaign posters from the 1935-1936 British elections and post-war election in 1945. The 1935 posters are from both Labour Party and National Government and were collected in 1935-1936 by Professor Charles Aikin of U.C. Berkeley. To these have been added, from an unknown source, other British political posters that are believed to date from 1945. Both Liberal and Conservative posters are present....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The extent of labor's reach was often seen in its concerted efforts to secure better pay, better working conditions and reliable pensions for its members. This digital repository enables scholars to study broad trends in U.S. labor and industrial relations by providing access to original materials from a variety of authors, organizations and government agencies, which together provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on the life and times of the labor movement between 1945 and 1980. The collection includes original documents, pamphlets, company publications, union ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Collections

The Panama Pacific International Exposition Records consist of the official records from the offices of the world's fair held in San Francisco, California in 1915. The bulk of the records range in date from 1911, when San Francisco was officially declared the site for the Exposition, to the dissolution of Exposition property in 1916. The records have been arranged into nine series, documenting the major divisions of the Exposition: Executive and Administrative Files, the Office of the Comptroller, Division of Works; Division of Exploitation, Division of Concessions and Admissions, Division of Exhibits, Foreign Office Files, Office of the Historian, and ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 collection contains eleven cartes de visite and two stereographs taken in 1868 by various photographers. The collection documents the damage exacted by the Hayward earthquake of October 21, 1868, estimated to have had a Richter scale magnitude of seven. Hayward structures pictured in the collection include the Edminton Grain Warehouse, the Morse and Heslep Flour Mill, and the San Leandro Courthouse. Also pictured is the Estudillo residence of San Leandro, and three San Francisco street scenes....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center's Photograph Collection, in the Oivatt Library Digital Collections, highlights images from individual photographers' body of work. The Photograph Collection contains thousands of images documenting African Americans in Los Angeles and images documenting transnational economic violence in Mexico. The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center's archive contain over one million images produced by Los Angeles-based photographers. For a complete listing of the collections visit the Bradley Center Collections page. The images contained in these collections represent an ongoing effort to digitally preserve and exhibit these important works as part of the efforts of the Bradley Center ...

Institution: California State University, Northridge

This collection chronicles the life of Pepperdine alumni Terry Giboney (’61) and Susan Giboney (’62) during their time as Church of Christ missionaries in Omika, Japan from 1963 to 1966. The Giboneys worked primarily as educators with Ibaraki Christian College, but were also involved with the Hitachi Christian Camp, the Motosu Christian Camp, and the Nazare-En elderly Christian home, in addition to other activities. Furthermore, Terry and Susan became part of an organization called the “Light and Life Program,” which published and distributed Christian literature to the Japanese. After sharing three years of their lives with the people of Omika, ...

Institution: Pepperdine University, Special Collections and University Archives

The San Jose Public Library California Room collection includes books, photographs, maps, periodicals, clippings and ephemera. The collection covers all of California with special emphasis on San Jose and Santa Clara County. The majority of images chosen for this project were photographs selected from the California Room Photograph collection and the Arbuckle Photograph collection. Also included are ephemera and postcards. The images document businesses, street scenes, agriculture, government, transportation, buildings and special events located in San Jose and Santa Clara County.

Institution: San José Public Library, California Room

The online Image Archive, formerly known as PhotoNet, consists of more than 10,000 images, and it continues to grow. Original historic and contemporary photographs from Institute life are found here, as are documentary photos of artifacts, fine art, and rare books in our collections. Caltech history photos include most faculty and many staff members, trustees, notable visitors and other affiliated persons, along with buildings, laboratories, events, and student activities.

Institution: California Institute of Technology

This collection of Gabriel Moulin photographs consists of one album of 53 photographic prints and 7 loose photographic prints. The images consist of interior, exterior, and garden views of "The Pines" estate, taken circa 1927. The estate, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Bowles, was located at Broadway Terrace and Prospect in Oakland, California. The Bowles are featured in some of the photographs. Philip E. Bowles was president of the First National Bank of Oakland and a Regent of the University of California from 1911-22. Captions have been supplied for the container list....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Institution: Chula Vista Public Library