Collections in Calisphere

The California Scenic Line album features 56 views from the route of the California Western Railroad & Navigation Company line. The line runs from the coastal town of Fort Bragg through the redwood forests of Mendocino County to Willits, California. The leather-bound promotional album issued by the railroad company is undated, but appears to be from the early 1900s. The album includes many views of the Noyo River Tavern, a new resort on the railroad line. Also included are views of the Noyo River that emphasize the trout fishing in the river. Additional views of redwoods and other scenery and ...

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

A broad and diverse assortment of photographic images acquired singly and in small accessions over many years by the former SIO Archives, and merged into one collection for storage and access. The digitized portion of the collection includes photographs of SIO staff and faculty, the campus, and scientific expeditions (primarily Shellback, Vermilion, and TransPac). Only a very small portion of images in the SIO Photograph Collection have been digitized. Please consult the finding aid for SMC 59 (https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/smc0059.html) for a descriptive inventory of all the images in the collection.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The Clark B. Waterhouse Photograph Collection is comprised of 305 black and white photographs that were originally organized in a scrapbook. It is assumed that Waterhouse was the photographer of the collection, as the bulk of the photos are from a six-week trip he took with classmates and professors from the University of California (Berkeley) during the summer of 1916.

Institution: Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History

A collection of Chinese antiquities has been gifted by Roland Tseng, a Chinese-American entrepreneur, to the California State University, Northridge for public display and academic study. Included in the collection are archaic jade, ancient bronze and other stunning objects spanning more than 6,000 years of Chinese history. Tseng, a preservationist and collector of ancient Chinese art for two decades, said he chose Cal State Northridge to host The Tseng Collection in part because of the diverse scholarly research conducted on campus. In fields ranging from archaeology to Asian studies and history to material sciences, scholars at Cal State Northridge have ...

Institution: California State University, Northridge

Collection Summary: Approximately 575 linear feet including folders of textual materials, ledgers and logbooks, oversize folders of textual or graphic material, scrapbooks, photographic prints in standard and oversize formats, negatives, transparencies, motion picture film, audiotape and objects. The collection is comprised of two large acquisitions. The first portion, accessioned in 1983 and processed in 1987, consists of approximately 308 linear feet of logbooks and other corporate documents (bulk 1927-1943). The second portion (bulk 1938-1988), with which this finding aid is primarily concerned, was transferred from American President Lines (APL) to the San Francisco Maritime NHP Historic Documents Department in February ...

Institution: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Various photogrammetry experiments and intricate models from our archival collection. These include 3D models from a variety of locations. From a locomotive to the monuments of Chernobyl and into outer space, The Arc/k Project seeks to expand and improve the capabilities of accurate and authentic digital preservation.

Institution: The Arc/k Project

The Henry J. Bruman Map Collection contains many atlases. Some cover the entire world while others are concerned with specific continents, regions, countries, various administrative areas, and urban areas. The atlases contain information on an array of topics including history, physical and cultural geography, politics, vegetation, soils, the military, forestry, and climate, to name a few. The earliest atlases in our collection date from the mid-nineteenth century, with the exception of a rare volume from the 1645 Blaeu Atlas.

Institution: UCLA, Henry J. Bruman Map Collection

Impressive in both size and scope, the photographic collections at the Center for Sacramento History amount to more than five million images and include a variety of photographic types and processes. The photographs come from our public, manuscript, and personal collections and document Sacramento's origins as a small riverfront town to the burgeoning state capital. The wide array of historic images, range from the earliest known daguerreotype of Sacramento, made around 1850, of the New World steamship docked along the city's Embarcadero, to contemporary views that capture the development of the Sacramento and the surrounding region.

Institution: Center for Sacramento History

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: Manzanar National Historic Site

This collection consists of 35 stereographs of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872, photographed by William Bell. Includes views from the Utah Series, the Colorado River Series, and the Geological Series. The locations photographed include: Mt. Nebo, Willow Creek Canyon, Salt Creek Canyon, Gunnison, Mt. Baldy, Kanab Canyon, Colorado Basin, Paria River, the Grand Canyon, miscellaneous Arizona scenes, and others. The photographer's numbers are retained for the numbering system, which accounts for the gaps in numbering. Printed captions below the photographs are reprinted in the container listing....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library