Collections in Calisphere

A selection of images from the Jonathan Silent Film collection which covers the early years of the film industry and specifically the contributions of Carl Louis Gregory, Eric Berndt, the Thanhouser Film Studio, and the Edison Studio among others.

Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives

Portraits show various identified personalities, many of them military figures.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Arthur E Guedel, M.D., was an anesthesiologist and clinical professor of anesthesia at the University of Southern California. The collection documents Dr. Guedel's long career as an anesthesiologist, scientist, and includes a variety of material related to his research and his professional service. The collection also includes material from Dr. A.E. Bennett, Dr. William Neff, Dr. Leonard Ramsay Thompson, Dr. Ralph Waters, and Dr. Richard C. Gill. The collection also includes material from the Guedel Memorial Anesthesia Center and includes a variety of material related to its administration, meeting minutes, photographs, and correspondence. Call number: MSS 2016-03

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

The Young Collection of paintings was given to Scripps College by General and Mrs. Edward Clinton Young in 1946. The majority of the works in the collection are in the Impressionist style and were painted by well-renowned American and European masters, including Mary Cassatt, George Inness, Winslow Homer, and Theodore Robinson. The Youngs developed their extraordinary collection while living in the eastern United States. Their goal was to include high quality, representative work by the best American painters active during the period 1870-1930. Their decision to donate the painting collection to Scripps College was the result of several factors, including ...

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

Letters from Richard Dering, which provide a detailed account of his activities and travels in Sonora, Baja California, the islands of the Gulf of California, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. The letters are primarily written from Isla Elide, Georges Island, Guaymas, Magdalena Bay, and San Francisco. Dering was an agent of the Lower California Company, active in the orchilla and guano trades. He was an early white settler at Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico and also lived in San Francisco, California. The collection consists of 63 letters from Dering to his sisters, Frances M. Dering and Elizabeth ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest, educator, explorer, and popular lecturer, known as “the Glacier Priest.” He taught geology, 1926-1930, and spent three decades exploring and documenting the Territory of Alaska, its glaciers and volcanoes, and its native peoples. These expeditions, 1927-1962, were financed by his lectures, films, and publications, undertaken from his offices at Santa Clara University in California. In 1937 and 1938 Father Hubbard lived on King Island, with his boats, dogs, expedition members, and more than 100 tons of supplies and equipment. During this expedition, he continued his glacier research and captured the King Island people ...

Institution: Santa Clara University

The Production Photographs from "Greed" album contains 46 black and white photographic prints taken in 1923 during the production of the film Greed. The album consists primarily of production stills taken by Warren Lynch, a Hollywood still photographer of the 1920s and later a cinematographer and special effects expert. Affixed to the inside front cover of the album is the bookplate of Jean Hersholt, who may have also compiled the album. The order in which the photographs are arranged generally follows the order of events in the story of the film. Meticulously adapted from Frank Norris' 1899 novel McTeague: A ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s extensive holdings include over 90,000 artifacts that represent over 500 years of Chumash, Spanish, Mexican and American history.

Institution: Santa Barbara Historical Museum

This collection comprises materials accumulated during Walsh's involvement with the Overseas Refugee Program for Southeast Asian refugees in the Philippines and Thailand, and also materials that he collected regarding the education and resettlement of Southeast Asians in the United States. The collection consists of video cassettes; conference schedules; curricula, resource catalogs, reference books, and workbooks for ESL education programs; newspaper clippings; reports and studies; and serial publications. Cultural orientation materials-- such as handbooks, guides, and manuals-- for refugees and their sponsors and service providers are also included. Items in this collection are predominately written in English, though a few items ...

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive

At different times and in different parts of the world, Pentecostal and charismatic expressions of Christianity have followed very different courses of development. A fuller contemporary account of these movements is possible if it is grounded in a better historical understanding of the variations from one time and place to another. To address this challenge, the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI) is working with the USC Digital Library to build an online digital archive of primary historical materials - correspondence, organizational records, tracts, sermons, diaries, photographs, oral histories - from different regions of the world. In order to build ...

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library