Collections in Calisphere

The Eckert Papers include the ledgers used by the operators employed by the Washington United States Military Telegraph (USMT) office and those attached to the Army of the Potomac; Thomas Eckert’s own letterpress books; and keys to the military ciphers in use between 1862 and 1866. Digitization and transcription of these resources were made possible by the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.

Institution: Huntington Library

Sam Hinton (1917-2009) was a professional folksinger, aquarist, illustrator, and teacher of literature and folklore at UC San Diego. Selected materials from his papers have been digitized. Digitized items include photographs from the University of California Division of War Research, Hinton’s caricatures and sketches of Scripps Institution of Oceanography faculty, and many original drawings of ocean plants and animals created for Hinton’s newspaper column “The Ocean World.”

Institution: UC San Diego, 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: California State University, Los Angeles

The Finch Family Papers were donated to the USC Libraries in 2015 by USC Gerontology Professor Caleb E. Finch and include correspondences and other documents on and by his ancestors William Kelly, Benjamin Silliman (Sr. & Jr.), Faith Silliman, Gold Selleck Silliman, Jonathan Trumble, and others.

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

Municipal and government documents relating to official policies, civil matters, contracts, litigation, war, and state infrastructure development in Baja California, including Santo Tomás, Rosarito, Mexicali, Ensenada, Tecate, Tijuana, and other towns and cities. Documents include official handwritten correspondence, petitions, requests to purchase land, settlements and maps, mine registers, and other materials that document daily life and municipal administration in Baja, throughout the turbulent period including the Mexican War, 1846-1848, with special emphasis on the Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

A description of the collection from the donor, Hyleigh Pan: "The Laotian community in the United States, made up of nearly 250,000 people, has limited representation in literature and art. The aftermath of the Secret War in Laos led many to flee the country, leaving only a few stories and scraps of paper behind. With the aim of preserving the past, I initiated a project to gather photographic evidence of items that are important to the Laotian Diaspora. While most collectors concentrate on famous items, I made a deliberate effort to locate objects that were often overlooked or undervalued, but …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive

Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Robert N. Royston. The vast majority of this collection documents the projects of Royston's various firms, with a much smaller representation of Royston's work outside the firm in the professional or academic context. Of particular interest is Royston's participation in the landscape design for various sub-divisions and individual houses built by Eichler Homes and T. Jack Foster and Sons (Foster City). In addition, the many projects funded by FHA and HUD reflect both these organizations' involvement in design and development.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

Paul Laszlo was an interior designer and architect in Germany from the early 1920s until emigrating to the United States in 1936. He settled in Los Angeles and built a thriving business of interior design. After WWII, Laszlo worked with clients to design personal underground bomb shelters in the event of nuclear war. His interest in this particular topic might be traced to the loss of many of the buildings he designed in Germany during the War.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

This collection consists of photographs taken by University of California, Irvine anthropology professor emeritus Frank Cancian (1934-2020) during three separate projects in 1957, 1971, and 1973-2002. The collection comprises three sub-collections of photographs that illustrate the variety of anthropological studies performed by Cancian during his career. The Lacedonia photographs document the people and places in a small town in Italy in 1957. The Zinacantan photographs document the people and places in and around Zinacantan, Mexico in 1971. The Orange County Housecleaners photographs document the working lives of housecleaning staff in Orange County, California between 1971 - 2002.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections

The UC San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) collection consists of digital files documenting the activities of the experimental music and art research unit. The Project for Music Experiment, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, opened in 1972 under the direction of UC San Diego professor Roger Reynolds. In 1973, the project became an organized research unit at the University of California, San Diego and renamed the Center for Music Experiment (CME). In 1991, the UC Regents approved the change of name from CME to CRCA - the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives