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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Moran (Camille) Papers, 2000-43
Camille Moran is a transgender poet and painter, as well as an activist who works against psychiatric abuse of queer and trans youth. This collection includes draft testimony, poetry, a series of satirical notes about her decision to transition, and other writing by Moran, as well as a number of articles she wrote or collected.
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
3 Items
1 Item
Ueda (Marie) Papers, 2006-12
Photographs from Marie Ueda of gay events during the 1970's to 1990's. Photos of Harvey Milk, Pride Parades, White Night Riots, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, AIDS and other LGBT events.
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
200 Items
Hardgrove (Carol) Papers
Carol Hardgrove worked in several different nursery and childcare centers and was Educational Consultant to Project Head Start from 1966 to 1970. The collection includes correspondence, student papers, published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and secondary materials on her subjects of interest. MSS 83-18
Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections
97 Items
Collection on race, ethnicity and student activism
This collection contains programs, newspaper clippings, fliers, posters, and other materials related to race and ethnicity both on and off the UC Riverside campus in the late 1960s. Topics addressed in the collection include information on ethnic studies, African American students, Mexican American students, protests, and related campus events. The collection also includes materials related to events and issues that happened off campus, such as housing discimination, farm worker strikes, and elections.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
84 Items
Los Angeles Star Collection
The Los Angeles Star (La Estrella de Los Angeles) is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Established in 1851 as a weekly newspaper, it was printed half in Spanish and half English until 1855. When the Civil War broke out, the outspoken criticism of the federal government by its editor led to the Star being banned from the mails, and the arrest of its editor for treason. It ceased publication in 1864, apparently due to financial problems, but resumed in 1868. In 1870 it became a ...
Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
567 Items
Luther Burbank correspondence concerning the 'peanut parrot seed'
Typed correspondence from Burbank to an unidentified person. Includes two colored-pencil drawings: one depicting the operation of the machine Burbank describes in his letter, and another of a parrot wearing a jacket and cap. Also includes formal autograph by Burbank.
Institution: Sonoma County Library
1 Item
Royal Chicano Air Force archives
Extensive collection of slides and silkscreen prints, along with administrative records, news clippings, correspondence, exhibition descriptions and flyers, photographs, creative writings, and miscellaneous publications of the Sacramento-based artists collective. Founding members of the RCAF include José Montoya, Esteban Villa, Juanishi V. Orosco, Ricardo Favela, and Rudy Cuellar.
Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
1,113 Items
John Galen Howard Papers
The John Galen Howard papers span the years 1874-1954 (bulk 1888-1931). It contains correspondence, diaries, drafts and manuscripts of poems, transcripts of speeches, articles, and course lectures, relating to Howard's career as an architect, a professor, and a poet. The collection provides a look at Howard's personal and family life, his interests outside of architecture, as well as his architectural work. The collection is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, Office Records, and Project Records....
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
2 Items
Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine and Early Italian Collection
The UCLA Library has a robust collection of Aldine press imprints. The collection, numbering approximately 1500 titles, includes the imprints of the press of the Venetian scholar-printer Aldo Manuzio (1449 or 1450-1515), his son Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), his grandson Aldo Manuzio the Younger (1547-1597), as well as those of associates and imitators. Our digital collection includes one exemplar. For more information, see https://guides.library.ucla.edu/c.php?g=180922&p=1187196.
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
1 Item