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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California Agriculture: Livestock
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting California livestock (blacksmith industry, burros, cattle, dairy industry, chickens, diseases, ducks, goats, horses, ostriches, oxen, pigs, sheep, turkeys).
Institution: California Historical Society
155 Items
California Agriculture: Machinery
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting California's agricultural machinery.
Institution: California Historical Society
33 Items
California Agriculture: Ranching
Contains photographs and picture postcards from the Agriculture series in the General Subjects Photography Collection, depicting ranching in California.
Institution: California Historical Society
78 Items
California and Mexico, ca. 1880-1889 - Miscellaneous Views
The collection includes 39 photographs by I. W. Taber and 10 by William Henry Jackson in an album. Taber's California photographs (no. 1-38) include scenes of San Francisco, Monterey, Yosemite, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Los Angeles, and Pasadena. No. 39-48 are views of Mexico taken by Jackson. Subjects include Chihuahua and Mexico City. No. 49 is also a view of Mexico, taken by Taber. The photographs are undated, but likely taken in the 1880s....
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
49 Items
California and Other Western States, ca. 1890-1901 - Views
The Views of California and Other Western States album contains 221 photographic prints taken from circa 1890 to 1901, the year of the album's compilation. Although the majority of the album's photographs are of California subjects, there are also several of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming locales, as well as other western states, Canada, and New York. California points of interest include Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, Marin County, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Mt. Lowe, Redlands, Riverside, Hotel Del Coronado, Santa Barbara and vicinity, Monterey and Hotel Del Monte, Santa Cruz and the Felton Big Trees, San Jose and the Lick Observatory ...
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
221 Items
California and the Columbia River Gorge, ca.1880-ca.1890? - Scenic Views
The Scenic Views in California and the Columbia River Gorge album contains 106 mounted photographic albumen prints taken circa 1880 to circa 1890. The views featured in the album are almost entirely of California locations. Points of interest pictured include Lake Tahoe, the Lick Observatory and Mount Hamilton, the Hotel Del Monte and Monterey, San Lorenzo Canyon, Ortega, Gaviota and the Gaviota Pass, Santa Barbara, San Clemente, San Fernando, San Diego, Montecito, San Luis Obispo, Glen Annie, the San Marcos Pass, the Yosemite Valley, Mt. Shasta and the Mossbrae Falls, Sausalito, and Mount Tamalpais. The album also includes several photographs ...
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
106 Items
California and the West, ca. 1867-1903 - Stereoviews
The Stereo Views of California and the West collection consists of 51 stereographs taken between circa 1867 and circa 1903. Photographers include Carleton E. Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Houseworth & Co., Maxwell Bros., Underwood & Underwood, Charles R. Savage, William H. Jackson, John J. Reilly, and other unidentified photographers. The collection consists of general California scenery, including scenes in Yosemite and views along the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads. Utah views include a portrait of Brigham Young, the exterior of his home, Salt Lake City views, and scenery....
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
51 Items
California and West Coast Labor and Industrial Relations, Selected Publications
During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The extent of labor's reach was often seen in its concerted efforts to secure better pay, better working conditions and reliable pensions for its members. This digital repository enables scholars to study broad trends in U.S. labor and industrial relations by providing access to original materials from a variety of authors, organizations and government agencies, which together provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on the life and times of the labor movement between 1945 and 1980. The collection includes original documents, pamphlets, company publications, union ...
Institution: UC Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Collections
1,162 Items
California Art Research Archive
Twenty volumes of the publication, CALIFORNIA ART RESEARCH, containing monographs on artists whose principal residence was San Francisco.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
22 Items
California Border Region Digitization Project
Black and white photographic images drawn from a variety of collections document the daily life, work, and activities of the residents of the California border region with an emphasis on San Diego County and Baja California, Mexico between 1850 and 1940. Images show the development of aviation, business, neighborhoods, beaches and harbors, water and transportation and include visiting dignitaries, political subjects and locally based events including the Panama-California Exposition and California Pacific International Exposition. Representing the diverse residents of the region are images of Native Americans, African Americans and American immigrants including Chinese, Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, and Portuguese. Photographs also ...
Institution: San Diego History Center (formerly San Diego Historical Society)
3,491 Items