Collections in Calisphere

was published in San Francisco from Feb. 1900 to 1951. It has a long publishing history and almost all its issues survived.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

This digital archive of fifteen artifacts display the California History Research Seminar (History 279) class research with the John Lloyd-Butler Railroadiana Collection during the spring of 2008. Their research demonstrates an ideal of railroad transportation as a “spatial concept.” More specifically, this “spatial concept” perceives the railcar not only as a means of transportation but a cultural space unto itself.

Institution: Occidental College Library

Institution: Palm Springs Public Library

The Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby Fashion Plate Collection comprises 650 images of nineteenth-century fashion plates from the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The collection was donated to the Denison Library in 1948 by Scripps Trustee Benjamin Kirby (1876-1957) and is named for his first wife, Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby (1881-1942). In addition to the Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby collection, the digital collection includes 65 fashion plates donated to the Denison Library by Elliot E. Lawrence.

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Include papers of artist Gerald Cassidy and his wife, writer Ina Sizer Cassidy. Letters written to them by friends, associates, professional organizations, etc.; copies of letters written by them; biographical materials; personalia; diaries, date books and journals kept by Mrs. Cassidy; some financial records, including two volumes of his painting accounts; MSS of her writings; subject files, notebooks, scrapbooks and clippings relating to the following: Gerald Cassidy's paintings and exhibitions; Mary Austin and other writers of the Southwest; Indians of the Southwest; arts, crafts and folklore of the Southwest; New Mexico Federal Writers Project; Santa Fe; woman suffrage; etc.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Views from a Trip to California collection contains 217 photographic prints collected by Harriet S. Tolman during a trip to California from 1888 to 1889. The dated prints range from 1887 to 1889, though many undated prints are likely to have been published earlier. The prints are primarily commercial views by popular photographers of the time depicting locales which Tolman presumably visited. California regions featured in the collection include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, Ventura County, Monterey, and the Mojave Desert. Many California Missions are featured, including San Gabriel, San Diego, San Luis Rey, San Fernando, San ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The California Room owns yearbooks from many Santa Clara County universities, colleges, and high schools. Visit our Yearbooks page to view a list of all of the school yearbooks that can be found in the California Room. We have a growing collection, but we are missing many volumes. Help the California Room fill in these gaps by donating copies of old and unwanted yearbooks from Santa Clara County. If you have a yearbook which is not in the California Room Yearbooks list and which you would like to donate, please contact the California Room. The Digital Collection This collection currently ...

Institution: San José Public Library, California Room

Photographs of the UCSD School of Medicine and the UCSD Medical Center, including images that chronicle the physical development of the Medical Center; events relating to the UCSD Medical Center, including the transfer ceremony from the San Diego County Hospital; and group photographs of Medical Center doctors and patients. Images were digitized from originals held by the UC San Diego Library.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

The collection consists of photographs taken chiefly in Washington Territory and along the 49th parallel by British photographers in the Corps of Royal Engineers, as part of the survey to identify and mark the international boundary between British Columbia and the United States. The images include landscapes, survey party members, camps, survey monuments and cairns, outposts (chiefly Fort Colvile [sic] and the British party's winter quarters in the Colville vicinity), and Indians of the Pacific Northwest.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library