Collections in Calisphere

Occidental College was established in 1887 in Boyle Heights, just outside the then city limits of Los Angeles, moved to Highland Park and then to Eagle Rock Valley. The Eagle Rock campus is designed by renowned architect Myron Hunt with landscape design in 1937 by Beatrix Farrand. On the occassion of the 100th anniversary of the campus, Special Collections & College Archives is building an online collection of photos, documents, maps and architectural plans and drawings to offer details about 100 years of Occidental College campus design.

Institution: Occidental College Library

This collection contains materials documenting the life and professional activities of Dr. Howard L. Fields. His remarkable contributions to pain medicine and neuroscience have significantly advanced our understanding of pain mechanisms and management, transforming lives and shaping the field. Included in this collection are correspondence, research papers, slides, reprints, writings, subject files, audiovisual recordings, conference proceedings, and a collection of books on pain research, treatment, and neuroscience.

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Digital selections from the papers of Leslie Scalapino, San Francisco Bay Area poet, scholar, experimental prose writer and founding editor of O Books. Content includes poetry, essays, interview transcripts, photographs, and sound and videorecordings reformatted or captured from analog media. The audiovisual material includes Scalapino reading her own work, as well as some play and dance productions, and memorial events featuring many readers from her circle. Files in this collection were originally saved to the poet's collection of floppy disks and optical media, such as CDs and DVDs. Due to copyright restrictions, access to this content may be limited. This …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The Block and Koenig slides are two of the smaller unique collections in the possession of the USC Libraries. They document examples of 20th century California architecture that developed stylistically from the foundations of the International Style as established by the 1932 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, titled Modern Architecture: International Exhibition, and of European pre-World War II Modernism. The collection consists of about 1300 slides from the Fritz Block collection that document Modern architecture of Southern California (although there are some slides that pertain to Modern architecture of Northern California), and 100 slides from …

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

This collection consists of 17 cyanotype prints of views at Lake County, California, collected by Elise Stern Haas. The photographs were taken in 1889-1890. The photographer is unknown.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Collection consists of thousands of photographs, some with descriptions and titled albums. California, Latin America, and the Middle East are well represented. Other subjects include railroad locomotives, photographs of British soldiers in the 1860s, South Africa, French actress Constant Coquelin, Australia, Egypt, Italy, Queen Victoria’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee, the Canadian Rockies, Texas oil fields, Mexican Revolution, Mathew Brady photographs of soldiers and civilians, Abraham Lincoln, China, France, photographs of architectural drawings, New Zealand, Fiji, Persia, Scotland, Burma, Athens, Philippines, St. Petersburg, Japan, Hawaii, Sakhalin snow crystals, Dutch East Indies, Hopi Indians, West Indies, Turkey, Vatican sculptures, World War I photographs …

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

Kern County Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of Bakersfield and other areas of Kern County from the late 1800s to 2001. Images document buildings, business people, city views, earthquakes, education, floods, government officials, hospitals, hotels, industry, libraries, military facilities, organizations, parades and processions, petroleum industry, stores and shops, theaters, and transportation.

Institution: Kern 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: California State Library

Scores used by Maestro Paul Salamunovich (American conductor, 1927-2014) as he conducted the St. Charles Borromeo Church Choir of North Hollywood, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and other smaller ensembles. Recordings, photographs, and a few score manuscripts are also included.

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is dedicated to the discovery, preservation, interpretation and sharing of historical and cultural experiences of African Americans in California and the West for present and future generations. The African American Museum and Library at Oakland’s archival collection is a unique resource on the history of African Americans in Northern California and the Bay Area. The archive includes over 160 collections documenting prominent families, pioneers, churches, social and political organizations. Freedom's Journal, the Liberator, California Voice, Sun Reporter, Muhammed Speaks, and the Black Panther newspapers are available on microfilm. Using the African American …

Institution: Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library at Oakland