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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C. J. Ryland Architectural Collection
Collection consists of blue print sets, preliminary plans and drawings, and brown line prints, related to Ms. Shloss' work as an architectural draftsman at several architectural and engineering firms in Los Angeles. Those firms include Pereira & Luckman Associates, William R. Stephenson, and Victor Gruen and Associates.
Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
7 Items
Cache Creek Catalog
Cache Creek Catalog is a project to provide access to all types of documents pertaining to Cache Creek and vicinity in Yolo and Lake Counties, California. Funded by the Water Resource Association of Yolo County, the purpose of this project is to facilitate administrative, research, and information needs for all parties.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
115 Items
Calaveras and Mariposa Counties, California - Views
The Views of Calaveras and Mairposa Counties, Calif. album contains 43 albumn prints taken in 1890 by Désiré Fricot. The album features many scenic views of the forest land of the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, as well as various other subjects, some of which are related to the Fricot family's mining interests. Calaveras County points of interest pictured in the album include the San Antonio Creek, Colwell Creek, and Hobe Ide's Ditch areas of Sheepranch (written as "Sheep Ranch" in the captions); Murphy's; San Andreas; the timber land of W.H. Clary; the Sheep Ranch Mine of J.B. …
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
43 Items
California Agricultural Teaching Aid Photograph Collection
The collection contains mounted photographs used presumably by the Alameda County Schools Curriculum Materials Center and later by the Hayward Unified School District as a teaching tool. The photographs are related to three subjects: dairy farming, the Delta Mendota Canal Fish Diversion Facility, and cattle ranching in Alameda County. The photographs were presumably taken circa 1950-1959. Captions from the back of each photograph have been used in the descriptions.
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
76 Items
California Agriculture: Crops
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting California's agricultural crops (almonds, apples, apricots, beans, celery, century plants, cherries, cotton, figs, grapefruit, grapes, guayule, hay, hemp, hops, lemons, olives, onions, oranges, peaches, pears, persimmons, plums, prunes, pumpkins, raisins, strawberries, sugar beets, wheat), between the years of 1880 and 1970.
Institution: California Historical Society
192 Items
California Agriculture: Exhibitions
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting California's agricultural exhibitions.
Institution: California Historical Society
5 Items
California Agriculture: Farms and farmers
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting California farms and farmers.
Institution: California Historical Society
6 Items
California Agriculture: Food processing
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting food processing in California.
Institution: California Historical Society
52 Items
California Agriculture: Irrigation
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting agricultural irrigation in California.
Institution: California Historical Society
20 Items
California Agriculture: Labor
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting agricultural labor in California.
Institution: California Historical Society
11 Items
