Collections in Calisphere

Historical moving images and audio from the California Audiovisual Preservation Project.

Institution: California State University, Fresno

Historical moving images and audio from the California Audiovisual Preservation Project.

Institution: Graduate Theological Union

The Central Coast Farm Labor Organizing Collection contains materials relating to migrant farm workers on the Central Coast of California, including oral histories, reports, correspondence, strike ephemera, and secondary sources. Photographs taken by Manuel Echavarria documenting the United Farm Worker movement and used in the exhibit "iViva la Causa! A Decade of Farm Labor Organizing on the Central Coast" are included in the collection.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Consists of 30 stereographic prints taken during the years 1870 to 1890. Various photographers are represented, including William A. Bell, M. Dickson, Duhem Brothers, M.M. Hazeltine, William Henry Jackson, Andrew Price, Savage & Ottinger, J.C. Scripture and Charles Weitfle.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Amounts and values of marine resources caught/landed by California's commercial fisheries, plus summarizations of catches by the passenger carrying fishing industry (party boat). Data available back to 1916 as published in the Fish Bulletin. More recent data published in print in Final commercial fish landing tables for ..., published by Calif Dept of Fish & Game.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

The Micky Moore Collection features the photographs, correspondence, and production materials of Michael D. “Micky” Moore, a child actor turned film director whose career spanned the evolution of filmmaking from the silent era to the millennium. Between 1917 and 1929, Moore acted in over 40 films and worked with such silent screen stars as Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Gloria Swanson, Lillian Gish, Conrad Nagel, and Tom Mix. However, the most influential relationship he developed during this time was with legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, who became his mentor. Moore acted in four of DeMille's films, including the epic The King ...

Institution: Pepperdine University, Special Collections and University Archives

The University of California Cooperative Extension Records for Merced County span the years of 1916-2000. Records include reports and information on irrigation districts, fire protection districts, infrastructure improvement, economic outlook, migrant workers, rodent eradication, WWI and WWII home front activities, Great Depression impact and relief programs, land management, rural development, and correspondence. A large portion of the records are related to agriculture in Merced County, San Joaquin Valley, and California and include trial reports and reference material on crops, domesticated animals, wildlife, integrated pest management, fertilizer, pesticides, water, soil, and climate. These records also include reports and information on the ...

Institution: UC Merced, UC Cooperative Extension Archive

The Women's Employment, United States and Great Britain in the Early 20th Century Collection is held in the Macpherson Collection by and about Women at the Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College. Contents include magazine articles, flyers, song lyrics, pamphlets, studies, and clippings, published by labor unions, women’s groups, consumers’ leagues, and government bureaus. With the earliest dating from the 1890s, these documents focus primarily on wage inequality, work environments, and emerging labor legislation in the United States prior to World War II, from the sweatshops of New York to canning factories in Wisconsin. A smaller selection of British materials ...

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

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

Selected rare and unique materials documenting San Diego county; digitized from original postcards, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets and other materials held by UC San Diego Library. Materials cover a wide range of topics, including travel, tourism, agriculture, land and housing development, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held at Balboa Park in 1915

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives