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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Zambian Storytellers
Video and audio recordings from professor of African and Comparative Literature Robert Cancel's research in Zambia and other regions of Africa. Footage documents oral histories and folk tales of a culture rich in oral traditions. Cancel's research is world renowned and the unique documentation that this research provides is highly valuable to multiple disciplines.
Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
857 Items
Local News Index
An index to newspaper and periodical articles from a variety of Santa Cruz publications. It is a collection of over 50,000 articles, primarily from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, that have been clipped and filed in subject folders. While these articles of local interest range in date from the early 1900's to the present, most of the collection and clipped articles are after roughly 1960. There is an ongoing project to scan the complete articles and include them in this collection. Also included are more than 350 full-text local newspaper articles on films and movie-making and on the Japanese-American internment. In …
Institution: Santa Cruz Public Libraries
32,712 Items
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915 - Views
The Views of the Panama Pacific International Exposition albums contain 462 photographic prints taken by William Hood of the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Exposition. The albums document in great detail the structures and grounds of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (P.P.I.E.), held in San Francisco in 1915. The albums predominantly picture the architecture, sculpture, painting, gardening, and illumination featured at the P.P.I.E. Notable P.P.I.E. highlights pictured in the collection include the Palace of Fine Arts, the Tower of Jewels, the South Gardens, Festival Hall, the Palace of Horticulture, the Court of the Universe, the Court of Abundance, and …
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
461 Items
Guayule Rubber Industry in Salinas, California, ca. 1942
This collection consists of an album of 44 photographic prints, plus ephemera, of the guayule rubber industry in Salinas, California, circa 1942. The photographer is unknown. Included in the photographs are images of workers planting, harvesting and manufacturing the guayule; views of agricultural equipment; guayule fields; guayule plants; mills and mill machinery at Salinas; and Senator Sheridan Downey, Major Evan W. Kelley of the U.S. Forest Service, rubber chemist Dr. David Spence, and members of the "Truman Committee," which investigated Salinas' guayule industry....
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
44 Items
Esther Klotz collection on Miné Okubo
This collection contains correspondence, artwork, brochures, and other material by and about Japanese American artist and author Miné Okubo (1912–2001). Okubo was born in Riverside, California, and is best known for her book "Citizen 13660" of drawings and text on her experiences of incarceration at Tanforan and Topaz camps during World War II. The material was collected and donated to UCR by Esther Klotz, a historian of the Riverside area and longtime friend of Okubo.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
36 Items
Donn Borcherdt Collection
Donald R. Borcherdt, known as "Donn" to his friends and colleagues, received his B.A. from UCLA in music in 1956. He earned his M.A. in music with a specialization in ethnomusicology in 1962, and by 1966 had advanced to doctoral candidacy in music with a specialization in ethnomusicology. Borcherdt conducted field research in Mexico in 1960, 1961, and 1963-1964 and in Chile in 1966-67. Borcherdt also hosted the weekly radio program, "Many Worlds of Music," in 1960-1962, on KPFK in Los Angeles. In 1961, Borcherdt, started a student-run mariachi class, Conjunto Mariachi or Conjunto Uclatlán [the land of UCLA], in …
Institution: UCLA, Ethnomusicology Archive
447 Items
Posters of the Chinese Independent Film Festivals
Chinese Independent Film Festival posters and ephemera from the Li Xianting Film Fund Archive and REEL China Film Festival that occurred during 2004 to 2016. REEL China was an influential Chinese documentary film festival biennial organized by the New York City–based Chinese artist Zhang Pingjie that introduced Chinese independent and underground documentary film first to Americans and later to Chinese audiences mostly in Shanghai. Beijing Independent Film Festival and China Documentary Film Festival were organized by the prominent public intellectual Li Xianting in the artist village Songzhuang on the outskirts of Beijing and functioned as the premier alternative culture venues …
Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
22 Items
Broadsides
Selections from the California Historical Society broadsides collection.
Institution: California Historical Society
38 Items
Catalina PhotoShare
Catalina PhotoShare, an online community history project of the County of Los Angeles Public Library, is collecting photographs that capture the community's rich history.
Institution: LA County Library
334 Items
SCU Historic Buildings
This collection includes black & white and color photographs of Santa Clara University buildings, both past and present. Most buildings have photos of both interiors and exteriors. The collection is comprised of photographs transferred from University departments as well as items donated to or purchased by the Archives.
Institution: Santa Clara University
795 Items