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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Fruit Crate Label Collection
A collection of vibrantly-colored labels, designed for citrus growers throughout Southern California, mainly during the first half of the twentieth century. Many of the labels illustrate specific locations in the region, and are an excellent example of commercial graphic design from the period, as well as documenting the industry itself.
Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
286 Items
Yamada (Mitsuye) Papers
The collection comprises the papers of Mitsuye Yamada, a Japanese American poet and political activist who, as a teenager, was interned at Minadoka Relocation Center in Idaho during World War II. Her papers document her career as a writer, teacher, and human rights spokesperson, including her involvement with Amnesty International and the struggle by Japanese Americans to redress their treatment during the war. The collection also includes copies of Department of Justice and FBI files about her father's arrest and imprisonment during the war, which Yamada obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection
25 Items
American Legion Post #140
Schoeffel was elected chairman. In 1921 voters endorsed a $12,000 bond issue for a combined war memorial and American Legion clubhouse. In addition, Legionnaires raised $3,000 for the building. Thus, on December 4, 1921, a crowd of twenty thousand people gathered to watch the laying of the cornerstone by Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The Post stood for approximately 70 years until its closing in the early 1990s.
Institution: South Pasadena Public Library
5 Items
Rodolph (Frank B.) Photograph Collection
The Frank B. Rodolph collection consists of 1254 original photographs taken by Rodolph and associates, including Isaiah W. Taber. The Taber photographs, primarily of Alaska, can be found in volume 14 (BANC PIC 1905.17159). Rodolph's subjects include a variety of cityscapes, residences and other buildings chiefly of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sonoma County, Santa Cruz and Monterey areas of California. Many of the photographs are of recreational and leisure activities, including outings of a Bay Area group of photographers (including Rodolph) who called themselves "the Merry Tramps." Numbers in parentheses on the caption lists are photographer's numbers that appear …
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
619 Items
Montoya (José) papers
The José Montoya Papers cover his life from his return from the Korean War around 1954 through the late 2000s. They contain biographical information such as correspondence, events and sketchbooks. Montoya is an important cultural luminary of the Chicano Movement in which he had been long involved as a poet, activist, educator and artist. His artwork in this collection is represented in sketches, posters, slides and in digital format on Calisphere.
Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
430 Items
Smith and Williams
The firm Smith & Williams was founded in 1949 by Whitney Rowland Smith (1911-2002) and Wayne Richard Williams (1919-2007). Whitney Smith was born on January 16, 1911 in Pasadena. He attended the University of Southern California (USC) and graduated in 1934 with his bachelor’s degree in architecture. After receiving his degree Smith went on to work as a designer for notable architects in the Los Angeles area: Lawrence Test, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Kem Weber, and William L. Pereira. From 1941 to 1942, Whitney Smith taught at USC. One of Smith’s students was Wayne Williams (1919-2007), who started working for Smith …
Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum
57 Items
Mount Zion Collection: UCSF/Stanford Merger
Selected printed materials that document the merger between the UCSF Medical Center, Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinic, Stanford University Hospital, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and the clinical practices of the full-time faculty of UCSF School of Medicine and the Stanford Medical School. Papers range in date from 1996-2001. Call number: MSS-0001
Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion Archives
22 Items
North Bay Ethnic Digital Collection
The North Bay Ethnic Digital Collection features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to Incarceration Camp Amache near Granada, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections. These items are also featured in the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project.
Institution: Sonoma State University Library
256 Items
Gerald L. French Photograph Collection
The Gerald L. French Photograph Collection documents the San Jose State College West Coast School of Nature Study program held in Death Valley in 1958. Gerald L. French, then a San Jose State College student, attended this program and donated this collection to the university. The images document the activities, events, and participants on this field trip. The digital collection consists of forty-two 4x5 inch negatives and twenty-seven 35 mm color slides. Forty-one black and white prints which duplicate most of the negatives are included in the physical collection, but are not part of the digital collection. For additional information …
Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
69 Items
Mount Zion Photograph Collection: Architecture
Call number: P-0006
Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion Archives
17 Items
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