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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Carl Maston Papers
USC alumnus Carl Maston was an influential Los Angeles mid-century modern architect. Upon graduation, Maston worked for the offices of Floyd Rible, A. Quincy Jones, Fred Emmons, Phil Daniel, and Allied Architects before opening his own office. His homes, shopping centers, military housing units, and university buildings can be found throughout Southern California. Known for his stark, no-frills modern buildings such as the Maston (or Marmont) Residence and Hillside House, his career spanned over 40 years in public and private sectors. The bulk of the collection consists of architectural project files as well as architectural photographs by longtime-collaborator Julius Shulman.
Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
71 Items
West Valley College Administrators, Board Members, Community Leaders, and Alumni File
This file includes a variety of information on each person ranging from biographies, correspondence, news clippings, photos, press releases, published articles, resumes, speeches, etc.
Institution: West Valley College Library
1 Item
Patent model collection
Models for late nineteenth century United States patents related to ships and boats.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
12 Items
Hispanics on the Central Coast - 300 Years of History
This collection is based on a photo essay depicting the contributions of Hispanic people to life of the community in the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura. This exhibit focuses on those Hispanics who, without recognition or great material rewards, helped to build the social and economic prosperity of this nation. This collection is based on a photographic exhibit that was produced by the Black Gold Information Center in cooperation with the System Advisory Board of the Black Gold Cooperative Library network. The photographs were borrowed from a number of museums and libraries and from individuals within ...
Institution: Black Gold Cooperative Library System
123 Items
Illustrated Envelopes from Joseph McNeil to Ellen Redding, c. 1925-1933
The illustrated envelopes presented here were hand-colored by Joseph Dennis McNeil, and sent, with a few exceptions, to his fiancée, Ellen Josephine Redding, who was living in Nicasio and San Rafael during their courtship. This collection spans the years 1925 to about 1933. At this time, Joseph was working for Schmidt Lithograph Company in San Francisco and then in Los Angeles. Joe and Ellen had met as youngsters in Nicasio. They were married on August 9, 1928, at St. Mary's Church in Nicasio, the same church where her own parents were married, and in which she was baptized. Joe and ...
Institution: Marin County Free Library
1 Item
California Revealed from University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
191 Items
California Revealed from El Dorado County Library
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: El Dorado County Library
116 Items
Urquhart (Brian) Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche
Sir Brian Urquhart (b.1919) was active in the organization and direction of the United Nations (UN) Emergency Force in Middle East (1956) and responsible for the organization and direction of UN peace-keeping operations and special political assignments. Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) was the undersecretary for special political affairs at the UN (1958-67) and undersecretary general (1968). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. The collection consists of papers about and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by Brian Urquhart to write (1993). Items in the collection include manuscripts, notebooks, project files, audiotape recordings, clippings, travel photographs, and ...
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
21 Items
Occidental College Bessie Beatty Collection
The Special Collection of photos, diaries, letters, news articles and books from the life of Bessie Beatty was originally loaned by the Beatty family to Occidental College Professor Norman Cohen as research for a biography of her life. The result of his extensive efforts is a significant collection donated to the College by the Beatty family that illustrates the life of a journalist, writer, activist, and radio host who attended Occidental College from 1903-1906. Her story is known by few people today, but in her day she associated with everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt to Vladimir Lenin and traveled around the ...
Institution: Occidental College Library
170 Items
Data from: Mesopelagic fishes dominate otolith record of past two millennia in the Santa Barbara Basin
The two data files (Excel) in this collection contain (a) individual fossil otolith data (geometric measurements, shape characteristics and elemental composition) and (b) time series over the past two millennia at 10-y intervals for otolith deposition rate and proxies for upper ocean temperature and primary productivity. The latter time series were provided to the authors by Dr. James Kennett. All data from sediment cores from the Santa Barbara Basin.
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
1 Item
