Collections in Calisphere

This collection is comprised of 55 artifacts collected by Guire Cleary and Jade B. Ngoc Le from Southeast Asian refugees. Cleary is a Franciscan friar of the Episcopal Church who served as assistant director of the Tolstoy Foundation in San Francisco, California. Le is the former director of the United States Catholic Conference transit center in San Francisco. The artifacts in this collection are mostly Hmong or Iu Mien in origin and were left behind by refugees at the Travelodge Transit Center in San Francisco. During 1979-1983, San Francisco, California was the entry point for over 50,000 refugees each year ...

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive

Correspondence, notes, and other material pertaining to Andrae Nordskog's research on the Owens Valley and construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Nordskog was the president of the Southwest Water League and publisher of "The Gridiron," a Los Angeles newspaper promoting public utility reform.

Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives

Selected rare books ranging from early printed books to twentieth-century printed ephemera. The collection currently features a number of early twentieth-century booklets by the likes of Eric Gill and John Fass, whose works are celebrated for their design and typography.

Institution: University of San Francisco

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. The California Revealed Project 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: de Saisset Museum

The James D. Phelan Papers, 1855-1941 (bulk 1906-1930), contain materials documenting Phelan's political career as San Francisco's Mayor and a U. S. Senator, his involvement in relief efforts following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, his business and financial activities, and his philanthropic efforts. The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence. Other types of records include financial statements, insurance and tax forms, newspaper and magazine clippings, agreements, reports, notes, and published and unpublished writings by Phelan and others. Although the collection contains materials dating from 1855-1941, the bulk of the materials range from 1906-1930.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The papers of Ed Fletcher, a noted San Diego land developer, civic leader, and member of the California State Senate, document all aspects of Fletcher's career but are most complete in regard to his water-related enterprises. The papers include correspondence, legal documents, blueprints, reports, maps, and a large assortment of photographs documenting the Fletcher family, dam construction projects, and San Diego buildings and views. The majority of the Ed Fletcher Papers, held by the UC San Diego Library, have been digitized. Images of the documents are largely scans from the microfilm of the accession processed in 1991.

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

The City of Claremont History Collection documents the development of Claremont from its boom years at the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Composed of photographs taken by various amateur and professional photographers over a one hundred year span, the collection provides a glimpse of Claremont’s past through photographs of its buildings, neighborhoods, local landscape, and daily life. Though many of the photographs in the City of Claremont History Collection are unsigned, the collection contains many examples of the work of local photographer Loyd Cooper (Pomona College, 1916) who documented life in Claremont and the surrounding areas ...

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

Correspondence; manuscripts; diaries; clippings; some legal and financial papers; cards, announcements and invitations; concert and theatre programs; address books; snapshots and photographs. Mainly concerning cultural and social life in San Francisco and Carmel: his role as patron of the arts, particularly music; his interest in abolition of the death penalty; his support of Carmelite monasteries in California; his close relationships with his family and with his friends, many of whom were prominent Negroes.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

These papers, assembled from various sources, relate to Rowell's duties as librarian and archivist of the University of California. Many pertain to the acquisition of the Bancroft Collection for the University, to the assembling of papers of Edward R. Sill, to the search for Kaweah Colony material. Some papers concerning his library classification system and his activities in the California Library Association are also included.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

One 34-page album of black and white photographs taken by George Oiye and Susumu Ito....

Institution: Japanese American National Museum