Collections in Calisphere

The Turner Collection comprises more than 300 items that help document the lives and contributions of American Blacks, largely through original photographic images. Dating from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, the collection includes photocards, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, posters, tintypes, pinback buttons, and pamphlets, all of which reflect some aspect of African-American life, achievement, or challenges. Many of the images focus on the migration of Blacks to the American West that preceded the great migration from the South after World War I. Most of the subjects in the photographs are unidentified by name. The photographer or photo studio is ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The Eloise Perkins Collection holds approximately 2,000 photos, with 200 currently digitized. Perkins (1921-1989) was a staff writer for the Times-Advocate from 1949 until 1981. She wrote local interest stories centering on Escondido, CA and the surrounding environs. The photos in this collection reflect her research into local historical places and people, nearby historical or environmental regions, and important events and places.

Institution: Escondido Public Library, Pioneer Room

Collection of architect and engineer Walter T. Steilberg, who worked for Julia Morgan in the 1920s and 1930s, including vintage photographic prints of Morgan projects and Steilberg's published and unpublished recollections of Morgan and her practice.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

A collection of Japanese propaganda posters meant for use during the Japanese invasion of China with puppet governments established in the mid-1930s to 1945.

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

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: Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage

Democratizing digital preservation is an important step towards communities documenting and controlling their own cultural heritage. The Arc/k Project provides free training in photogrammetry and accepts digital image donations from the public, organizations and communities. With your help, 3D models and other digital experiences can be created and preserved for generations to come.

Institution: The Arc/k Project

The Muybridge Lone Mountain Collection of photographs consists of 1700 stereographs, 6 albums and 39 individual photographs taken during the years 1867 to 1880.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The ephemera collection consists of a wide range of material, such as pamphlets, event programs, invitations, etc., related to LGBTQ communities in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Included in this digital collection are selections of ephemera related to HIV/AIDS. Collection ID: SUB EPH

Institution: GLBT Historical Society

3-daily averaged sea surface temperature, ocean currents (u, v), nitrate and phytoplankton biomass for the 35 types in the top 10m of the model. Model output has been interpolated from the natural grid onto 1/5th degree resolution. This version of the model was run with the gud package (git://gud.mit.edu/gud1). The ecosystem model is based on Dutkiewicz et al (2015, 2019) and resolves the cycling of carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen silica, iron, and oxygen through inorganic, living, dissolved and particulate organic phases (including CDOM). The biogeochemical and biological tracers are transported and mixed by the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm, Marshall et ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

Founded in 1996 with a generous contribution from Henry Wilson Coil, Jr., The Henry Wilson Coil Library & Museum of Freemasonry is named after noted Masonic author Henry Wilson Coil, Sr., the author of eight books on Freemasonry including Coil’s Masonic Encyclopedia (1961). The research collections of the library and museum include books, periodicals, printed materials, photographs, objects, artwork, ephemera, and manuscript material related to the founding of the Grand Lodge of California in 1850, the history and development of Masonic lodges in California, and the general history of Freemasonry and other fraternal orders in California and the United States.

Institution: Henry W. Coil Library and Museum of Freemasonry