Collections in Calisphere
All of the items in Calisphere are organized into collections. Collections bring context to images, documents, videos, and audio recordings. Some collections represent a particular topic or format, some have items created by the same person, and some showcase an institution’s special project or initiative. Use the tabs below to explore the hundreds of collections in Calisphere.
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InSite Archive: Casa Gallina
This collection consists of digital photographs, emails, planning documents, publicity materials and publications developed for Casa Gallina, the sixth edition of the inSite art collaborative located in the neighborhood of Santa María la Ribera in Mexico City. In the description for the book Experiences of the Common Good: inSite/Casa Gallina, which documents the six-year project, Casa Gallina is described this way: "The project proposed that although there would be artists (predominantly from Mexico) invited to participate in residencies and long-term research, neither they nor their works would be the main focus, but would constitute only one of the elements of …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
342 Items
San Francisco views
Album of San Francisco street scenes and photographs of civic and commercial buildings prior to the earthquake and fire of 1906. Of particular interest are twenty-three views of San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
19 Items
Genay Family Correspondence
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, greetings, and published ephemera, 1917-1935, primarily illustrating the World War I Era narrative of the French Genay family and their involvement with the charitable organization, Fatherless Children of France [Fraternite Franco-Americaine]. The Genay Family Correspondence is composed almost entirely of the correspondence of Madame L. Genay, widow of Captain Eugene Genay, and her elder daughter, Camille (1901-circa 1925), with an American friend, Miss Mildred Veitch (later Mrs. R. K. West). The family, which included a younger daughter, Marie Louise, resided in Versailles, and maintained a country home in the village of Saint-Sauveur. Captain Genay …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
65 Items
James A. Schill collection of photographs and a pocket diary of Southeast Asian refugees
These records document the conditions of refugee camps in Southeast Asia and resettlment in Camp Pendleton, California, collected by James A. Schill, a retired Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State and USAID. The collection comprises mostly of color photographs of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees at refugee camps in Malaysia and Thailand between 1975 to mid 1980s, as well as photographs of refugee resettlement in Camp Pendleton in 1975. Also included is a Vietnamese boat person refugee's pocket diary with entries written in English, Vietnamese and French from 1979, detailing their journey to Pulau Bidong, Malyasia.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
3 Items
William Rodman and Margaret Critchlow Photographs
Photographs taken by Canadian Anthropologists Margaret Critchlow and William Rodman during research trips conducted in Vanuatu from 1969-1995. Subject matter documents scenery of Vanuatu and residents in their daily activities such as copra production as well as rituals, dance, and ceremonial exchange. The locations of the images include the country's capital city Port Vila on Efate Island, the second most populous city Luganville on Espiritu Santo, and the volcanic island of Ambae.
Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
977 Items
California Revealed from Inyo County Free Library
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: Inyo County Free Library
194 Items
California Revealed from Tulare County Library
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: Tulare County Library, Annie R. Mitchell History Room
3,841 Items
Occidental College Railroading
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
15 Items
Esmeralda Tree-Cat; The Lonely Bear
The book contains two interconnected stories. One story reads front to back; the book is then turned upside-down and the second story is then read front to back. One story is of Esmeralda, a girl who escapes from an oppressive Catholic school, is eaten by a Jaguar, and is reborn as "a jaguar girl with many powers." The other story is of a bear haunted by his own loneliness and by his dreams of a being who sometimes manifests as a spotted kitten and at other times as a small girl. At the end of each story, Esmeralda and the …
Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
9 Items