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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Babcock (Harry) Photograph Albums, 1881-1883
The Harry Babcock Photograph Albums collection contains 175 photographic prints taken between 1881 and 1883, presumably by Harry Babcock. The collection contains many scenes of outdoor recreational activities, including hunting, fishing, boating, and camping. The natural locations photographed include Yosemite, San Andreas Lake, various parts of the Sacramento, McCloud and Pitt Rivers, Lagunitas, Mt. Tamalpais, Mt. Shasta, Eddy Mountain, San Francisco Bay, Mud Lake, Picayune Lake, Buck Lake, Castle Lake, Pilarcitos, and the Suisun marshes. There are also photographs of Babcock's hunting dogs, hunting partners, and killed game....
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
175 Items
Baja California and the West Postcard Collection
A collection of over 1,400 postcards primarily depicting Southern California, Baja California, and the American Southwest. Major themes include San Diego's areas of interest, the US-Mexico border region, Tijuana, Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, the California missions, and the US Navy. Popular tourist destinations such as the Hotel del Coronado, Balboa Park, and La Jolla Cove are particularly well-represented, as are postcards featuring the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. The collection was scanned in its entirety and may be searched by date, geographical region, publisher, subject matter, and key words from captions and …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
1,366 Items
Baja California Government Documents Collection
Municipal and government documents relating to official policies, civil matters, contracts, litigation, war, and state infrastructure development in Baja California, including Santo Tomás, Rosarito, Mexicali, Ensenada, Tecate, Tijuana, and other towns and cities. Documents include official handwritten correspondence, petitions, requests to purchase land, settlements and maps, mine registers, and other materials that document daily life and municipal administration in Baja, throughout the turbulent period including the Mexican War, 1846-1848, with special emphasis on the Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920.
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
1,353 Items
Baja California (Paipai) Indian Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections
The Paipai Indians continue in present day to live in Baja California, Mexico in an area south-east of Ensenada. Materials in the Paipai collection were field collected from 1955 to 1959 and consist of ethnographic as well as archaeological pieces.
Institution: UCLA, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
30 Items
Baker (Gilbert) Collection
Gilbert Baker was an artist, drag queen, and Sister of Perpetual Indulgence who played the central role in the 1978 creation of the rainbow LGBTQ pride flag. Baker’s collection consists largely of textiles, sewing supplies, art, and audiovisual materials, along with a small number of documents.
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
27 Items
Bancroft Library Manuscript Collections Guide
Volume 1 edited by Dale L. Morgan and George P. Hammond. Volume 2 edited by G. P. Hammond....
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
2 Items
Banning Library District Local History Collection
The Banning Library District Local History Collection consists of materials documenting the history of the San Gorgonio Pass from the 1880s to the Present. Included in these materials are photographs, newspapers and newspaper clippings, telephone books, Banning High School annuals, scrapbooks, brochures, maps, pamphlets, the Boud Collection and the Barker Collection. The Local History Collection documents the history of Banning, Beaumont, Cabazon, Cherry Valley, and other portions of Riverside County, California, depicting people, places and events of the San Gorgonio Pass and its communities.
Institution: Banning Library District
381 Items
Barbara Cameron Papers, 1968-2003
Barbara M. Cameron was a Native American lesbian writer, speaker, photographer, and political activist. She was born on May 22, 1954 in Fort Yates, North Dakota. She was raised on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota principally by her grandparents. After high school graduation, Cameron moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where she attended the Institute of American Indian Arts. She majored in photography and film and won many awards. In 1973 she moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Art Institute. Her papers include speeches, writings, subject files, photographs, audiotapes, and printed materials on the …
Institution: San Francisco Public Library
6 Items
Bartlett (Adelbert) Papers
Adelbert Bartlett was a commercial photographer based in Santa Monica, California, and the director of the Near East Relief Fund in Los Angeles. The collection contains photographs, clippings, correspondence, and stories relating to Bartlett's life as a commercial photographer.
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
2,629 Items
Barton Myers (1934- )
Barton Myers was born in 1934 in Norfolk, Virginia. From 1952-1956 he attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Science. After serving as a pilot, stationed in the UK, Myers went back to school in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1964. Afer school, Myers found work as a draftsman for his former teacher, Louis I. Kahn, in Philadelphia. Two years later, in 1968, Myers launched his architectural career in Toronto, Canada, in partnership with A. J. Diamond. A. J. Diamond and Barton Myers became known especially for projects …
Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum
29 Items