Collections in Calisphere

Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

This group of San Bernardino Pioneers was the daring folks that in the 1850s traveled by wagon trains on the Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trails that brought them to San Bernardino. They formed a pioneer society.

Institution: San Bernardino Public Library

PAPER ABSTRACT: After highly fragmented civil wars, order is often secured through the selective co-optation of rebel field commanders and atomized insurgents. This paper presents a formal model of civil war settlement as a coalition formation game between various regime and rebel factions. This approach emphasizes the ability of installed civilian rulers to lure warlords into the state based on promises of future wealth, then use divide-and-rule tactics to pit different warlord factions against one another. Quantitative and qualitative data from Tajikistan, including an original data set of warlord incorporation and regime purges during wartime reconstruction, are used to evaluate ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

The California Federation for Civic Unity Records contain correspondence and material relating to the Federation's activities, 1945-1956, and deals mainly with racial minority problems such as discrimination, immigration, segregation, housing, Fair Employment Practices Committee, etc. Included, also, are a number of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and copies of bills introduced in the National and State legislatures regarding discriminatory subjects. In addition to the incoming and outgoing correspondence, there are minutes of meetings, minutes of board meetings, financial statements, bills, audits, and conference and workshop notes.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Oral history interviews, sponsored by the UCSD Chancellor's Office and Mandeville Special Collections, with various persons involved with the establishment and development of the UC San Diego campus and the development of various academic programs and departments. Some of the interviews were conducted by historian Kathryn Ringrose as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of UCSD's founding; interviewees include California Governor Edmund (Pat) Brown, UC Regent DeWitt Higgs, UC President Clark Kerr, UCSD Chancellors Herbert York and John Galbraith, and UCSD faculty James Arnold, Robert Hamburger, Roy Harvey Pearce, Roger Revelle, John Stewart, and Hans Suess. Other interviews, conducted by ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

Mainly 19th century studio portraits of members of the de la Guerra family of Santa Barbara, California.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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

The 168-megawatt Don Pedro Project located on the Tuolumne River, in the Sierra Nevada foothills and the eastern edge of California's Central Valley, provides water storage for the irrigation of over 200,000 acres of farmland, for municipal and industrial use, as well as for retail electric service, among other purposes. The Turlock Irrigation and Modesto Irrigation Districts applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for relicensing to authorize their continued operation and maintenance of the Don Pedro Project, FERC No. 2299. The objectives, methods, and results of a Native American Traditional Cultural Properties Study (CR-02), implemented by the Districts as ...

Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections

The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection brings together a selection of documents and images from the holdings of four repositories at the University of California: the University Archives, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; the University Archives, Young Research Library, UCLA; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego; and the Office of the Secretary of the Regents, Oakland. The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection comprises more than 3500 pages of electronic text, more than 30 pictorial images, and 15 audio clips, which document the controversy (1949-1951) that roiled the University during the McCarthy Era. The loyalty oath debate reverberated ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Extensive collection of silk screen prints and slides, as well as organizational records, photographs, and ephemera of the Los Angeles cultural arts center and studio. Founded in the early 1970s, during the height of the Chicano Civil Rights movement, by Mexican artists, Carlos Bueno and Antonio Ibaez, and several Chicano artists, including Frank Hernandez and Sister Karen Boccalero.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections