Collections in Calisphere

Photographs of Monte de las Piedras and the town of Macharavialla (Macharaviaya), birthplace of José de Gálvez.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Sesquicentennial Photograph Collection consists of images derived from photographs contributed by individuals in the community and local museums. The photos were selected mainly for their historical interest. They represent various aspects of life in Tulare County. The photos date from 1860's to 1990's.

Institution: Tulare County Library, Annie R. Mitchell History Room

Hand-painted reproductions of printed propaganda posters.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

This dataset is a set of processed pulse-echo ultrasonic C-scans of composite samples with barely visible impact damage. The samples have varying layups and impact energies and have been processed using an open-source MATLAB code developed as an alternative to commercial ultrasonic C-scan processing software. The data included are (1) raw data from the ultrasonic C-scan, in .csv file format in .zip folder, (2) the processed C-scan from a commercial software, Mistras/UTWin, in .png format, (3) output figures from the open source code, in .png format (specifically, time-of-flight map, damage layers map, inflection points map & mask, 3D reconstruction of …

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

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: San Diego Zoo Global Library and Archives

The Collection consists of the Florence Flippen Smiley Memorial Archives, on permanent loan from the Orange Community Historical Society, as well as numerous items acquired by the Library through purchase or donation. Covering the period 1871 to the present, this rich and diverse collection includes books, periodicals, photographs, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts. A variety of subject areas are represented, with particular emphasis on the citrus industry, old businesses, civic and religious organizations, and city agencies.

Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center

The Thomas D. Church collection documents over two hundred of Church's projects through textual records, drawings and photographs. The collection is arranged in four series: Office Records, Project Records, Display Boards, and Additional Donations. The office records include correspondence relating to prospective (uncompleted) projects, subject files that contain photographs and clippings of landscape details and structures, public relations files and exhibit boards. The public relations files include correspondence regarding the publication of Church's work and photographs of Church projects. The exhibit boards also feature photographs, as well as drawings. Additional photographs are located with the project files....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

One 34-page album of black and white photographs taken by George Oiye and Susumu Ito....

Institution: Japanese American National Museum

The Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Region I document the daily work of the NAACP in the Western United States from 1942-1986 (bulk 1945-1977). Regular additions to the collection are expected. Although the Region initially consisted of four states and grew to include nine, the bulk of the collection documents the work of the Region I Office in California, particularly in regard to statewide legislation. One of the most comprehensive record series is that of Branch Files, which contains documentation of the work of local (usually citywide) branches throughout the Region. The work …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

This collection comprises an album of 66 studio photographs, carte de visites, and tintypes of early and prominent Californio family members. The families are predominantly from the Orange County area and include the prolific and prominent Yorbas, Peraltas, and Sepulvedas, the first three land grant families that received titles for areas which include the present day UC Irvine campus from King Ferdinand VII of Spain in the early 19th century. Also included are portraits of members from the Avilas, Burruel, Dryden, Gless, Landell, Lugos, Pryor, and Ríos families. Individual and group portraits of adults predominate, although there are a number …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection