Collections in Calisphere

Photographs, photocopies, and microfiche of federal records relating to property on the south rim of the Grand Canyon once owned by William Randolph Hearst.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The materials selected are drawn from a variety of archival collections, compiled by institutions and libraries with varying missions. Many of the collections have distinctive histories of their own. In some cases entire collections have been included; more often a selection of materials relating to the Chinese in California has been selected from a collection with broader scope. It is our hope that The Chinese in California presents a balanced perspective on a tumultuous and changing history of this community in California. Major issues explored in these records include the Chinese contribution to California and the American West in the …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

A selection of scanned images relating to the papers of Henry William Menard (1920-1986), a marine geologist who was known for his research in plate tectonics and seafloor spreading. Menard was professor of geology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, acting director of the UC Institute of Marine Resources (1967-1969), and tenth director of the U.S. Geological Survey (1978-1981). The collection includes scans of images he used in his books, particularly Anatomy of an Expedition (1969), with a focus on the 1967 Nova Expedition. It also includes sea floor images from the 1957-1958 Downwind Expedition, and pictures of some of his …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The Views of Parks in Oakland, California collection contains 30 photographic prints taken circa 1905.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The collection consists of the Sierra Club Board of Director Meeting Minutes from 1892-1995. Filmed from originals held by the Sierra Club.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

In July 2017, our team queried, downloaded, and analyzed approximately 1.25 million Jupyter Notebooks in public repositories on GitHub. By our calculation this was about 95% of all Jupyter Notebooks publicly available on GitHub at the time. This dataset includes: ~1.25 million Jupyter Notebooks Metadata about each notebook Metadata about each of the nearly 200,000 public repositories that contained a Jupyter Notebook Top level README files for nearly 150,000 repositories containing a Jupyter Notebook In addition to this core data, these data include: A smaller, starter dataset with 1000 randomly selected repositories containing ~6000 notebooks CSV files summarizing and indexing …

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

The Japanese American Archival Collection is comprised of approximately 2,100 original items, including letters and other textual documents, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, newsletters, art work, clothing and artifacts. The collection provides valuable insights into the history of Japanese American communities in northern California, particularly in the town of Florin, California from the late 19th century and into the 20th century. The collection contains significant documentation related to the internment of Japanese born and Japanese American individuals during World War II.

Institution: California State University, Sacramento Library

Selected photographs and documents related to the history of the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center at Mount Zion, including campus development, student and faculty life and research, and patient care. Images are predominantly from the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion Photo Collection: Historical Life. Call number: P-0005

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion Archives

The Leonelli Collection includes photographic essays on a wide range of topics, by photo-journalist Elisa Leonelli. The photographs were originally taken on color transparency and black & white negatives with Nikon and Hasselblad cameras on 35mm and 120 mm film, mostly between 1974 and 1989, and often published in American and international magazines. They have been digitized specifically for this collection in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Special Collections of the Claremont Colleges Library will house the original archival collection, donated by Leonelli, so they may be made available to future generations of students and researchers. Among the subjects are: …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

The History of the UC San Diego Visual Arts Department collection documents the history of the Department. The collection includes images documenting its development from 1969-1993. The collection also includes various videos of exhibitions, performances, and lectures associated with the University Art Gallery from the 1970s to the early 2000s. This content is foundational and is the base for a growing collection of content.

Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library