Collections in Calisphere

Alfred Thomas Quinn (1922-2003) was a notable educator and civic leader in Santa Monica, California. His parents Minister Alfred Kerruthers Quinn and Essie Carolyn Quinn, nee Jones moved the family to California in 1924 where Alfred Quinn would attend a series of racially segregated grammar schools. The family moved to Santa Monica, CA in 1935 after Dr. Quinn's father became a founding minister to the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Santa Monica. Dr. Quinn attended William McKinley Junior High School in Santa Monica and matriculated to Santa Monica High School where he graduated in 1939. Quinn attended Santa Monica ...

Institution: UCLA, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

The Herman George Scheffauer Photograph Album contains 130 photographs taken circa 1885-1925. Nearly all the photographs in the album feature Scheffauer, many of them being portraits taken by professional photographers in San Francisco, London, and Berlin. Other notable persons featured in the collection include Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, Haig Patigian, James Hopper, Frederick Bechdolt, as well as Scheffauer's wife Ethel and their daughter Fiona. Identifiable locations featured in the collection include the Bohemian Grove, London, Scotland, Spain and Germany. A few of the photographs feature sculptural or painted portraits of Scheffauer....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

In order to develop a new observing system for carbon, nutrients, and oxygen that will complement and expand on the existing observing system for heat and freshwater, the Global Ocean Biogeochemical array (GO-BGC) and Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) teams will deploy a large array (>500 per year) of profiling floats with biogeochemical sensors throughout the global ocean (with continued emphasis on maintaining coverage in the Southern Ocean). This robotic float observing system will be complemented by shipboard measurements, instrument and sensor development, and data analysis, including state estimation in conjunction with the modeling program.

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection brings together a selection of documents and images from the holdings of four repositories at the University of California: the University Archives, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; the University Archives, Young Research Library, UCLA; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego; and the Office of the Secretary of the Regents, Oakland. The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection comprises more than 3500 pages of electronic text, more than 30 pictorial images, and 15 audio clips, which document the controversy (1949-1951) that roiled the University during the McCarthy Era. The loyalty oath debate reverberated ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Yosemite views, with one image of the Columbia River, Oregon.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Glass plate negatives with images of Ventura County

Institution: Museum of Ventura County

The archives of El Teatro Campesino are the largest archival collection on Chicano theater, consisting of approximately 157 linear feet of archives and manuscripts. They include a variety of formats, dating from the Teatro's founding in 1965. They include primary materials for researchers with an interest in theater arts, cultural arts, history, political science, labor relations, ethnic studies, sociology, antropology, and women's studies. Most materials are in English; some are in Spanish or a combination of the two languages. At least eight other languages are represented, an indication of the international interest in the Teatro.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

The Dublin Heritage Center holds an archival collection that documents the history of Dublin California. This collection provides a record of the early families in Dublin including the Murray, Dougherty, Kolb, Tehan, and Fallon families, among others. It also documents 19th and early 20th century history and social life of Dublin with photographs of Murray School, the Old St. Raymond's Church, the Green Store, and other historic houses, buildings and businesses.

Institution: Dublin Heritage Park and Museums

The Views of Calaveras and Mairposa Counties, Calif. album contains 43 albumn prints taken in 1890 by Désiré Fricot. The album features many scenic views of the forest land of the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, as well as various other subjects, some of which are related to the Fricot family's mining interests. Calaveras County points of interest pictured in the album include the San Antonio Creek, Colwell Creek, and Hobe Ide's Ditch areas of Sheepranch (written as "Sheep Ranch" in the captions); Murphy's; San Andreas; the timber land of W.H. Clary; the Sheep Ranch Mine of J.B. ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Photographs of W.C. Ralston and His Mansion in Belmont, Calif. collection contains eleven photographic albumen prints taken by Eadweard Muybridge in 1874. The prints, some of which are stereograph halves, are gathered on four mounts --two prints being individually mounted, the remaining nine divided among two larger mounts. The collection features exterior views of the estate's various buildings and grounds; interior views of the dining room, ballroom, balcony and foyer; and a photographic reproduction of a portrait print of William C. Ralston by an unidentified artist....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library