Collections in Calisphere

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: Santa Ana Public Library

This collection, taken from books and pamphlets in the Santa Clara University Archives & Special Collections Department, features histories of Santa Clara College and University, and the Santa Clara de Asis Mission, from its founding days until the bicentennial mission celebration of 1977. It also includes tour pamphlets for the Mission.

Institution: Santa Clara University

This collection contains 134 photographs of the Cox Family and friends and photographic works by Percy Smith Cox in Mexico: 32 photographs affixed to album pages, 86 loose black and white photographs, 2 cyanotypes, 2 postcards, 11 cabinet cards, and 1 photocopy of an original photograph. This collection also contains a small manuscript collection including one illustration, two business cards, nine letters from Mary Franklin Smith Cox to her granddaughter, Vivian Adelia Cox and her sister, obituaries, a robust family group sheet for Vivian A. Cox, one membership card for the Free Press Defense League, Sycamore Farm documents, and a …

Institution: Escondido Public Library, Pioneer Room

New University is the student newspaper of the University of California, Irvine. Issues from 1968-1983 were digitized from microfilm in 2007-2008. Issues from 1983-2003 were digitized from microfilm in 2015. Current and some back issues are available at http://www.newuniversity.org

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

The Collection contains interviews with 55 Catholic missionaries who served in various parts of China between 1904 and the 1950s. In 1967, David Obst, then a graduate student in Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, traveled to Taiwan to advance his Chinese language proficiency. During a hiking trip that May, he met Father Carl, a missionary from Lyon, France, who had lived in Tibet for 30 years before being expelled to Taiwan in 1949. Two weeks later, David returned with a tape recorder to capture Father Carl’s recollections. When asked whether there were others with similar experiences, Father …

Institution: UCLA, Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library

Comprehensive aerosol measurements were collected as a part of interdisciplinary North Atlantic Aerosol and Marine Ecosystem Study (NAAMES). The four NAAMES research cruises measured aerosol particle properties on the R/V Atlantis in the North Atlantic Ocean in 2015 (6 November to 1 December), 2016 (11 May to 5 June), 2017 (30 August to 24 September), and 2018 (20 March to 13 April). The particle mass concentration, size distribution, and chemical composition of atmospheric aerosols were measured during both cruises. Ambient air containing marine aerosols up to several micrometers was sampled using a common inlet about 18 m above sea level. …

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

Hammer Field was the site of a World War II Army Air Corps base and then became the Fresno Air Terminal. It is now the Fresno Yosemite International Airport. Part of the photographs in this collection are copies from the collection of the grandmother of Suzanne Tietjen (a student assistant in the Map Library in 1991). The other photographs are from the collection of Robert H. Bensing who was stationed at the base late in the war. These photographs were donated by his son, Tim Bensing, in 2003.

Institution: California State University, Fresno

The Views of the Hotel Del Monte album contains 27 photographic prints taken circa 1910. The primary subject of the album is the Hotel Del Monte, the lavish 126-acre Swiss Gothic resort constructed in Monterey, California in 1880 by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The album includes several exterior views of the hotel and grounds, many of which feature the extensive landscape gardening surrounding the structure. Interior scenes include verandas, a dining room, a lobby, and a billiard room. Also included are photographs of the greater Monterey Peninsula, which picture golfers, the Pebble Beach Lodge, and the 17-mile Drive and …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Scans of color slides taken by Scripps Institution of Oceanography marine technician Jan B. Lawson on research expeditions in the 1960s. Images include snapshots from the Swan Song Expedition in 1961; Lusiad Expedition in 1963; Papagayo Expedition in 1965; and the Zetes Expedition in 1966. Scenes include travel sights and activities, views from lodging and the research vessel Argo, coastlines, and crew members at work.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

City of Rancho Cucamonga Library's photograph and records collection includes images of historical interest of the City of Rancho Cucamonga from as early as 1897 to 1980. Images document the wine industry (notably the Virginia Dare Winery, Thomas Winery and Cucamonga Winery), buildings, people, organizations, city views, aerials, floods, significant individuals, including the Reid family, first mayor of Rancho Cucamonga, the Fire District; and annual events such as the Grape Harvest Festival.

Institution: Rancho Cucamonga Library Services