Collections in Calisphere

Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

consists of 1,232 photographic and other pictorial portraits of 416 men and women prominent in California's history. The portraits, selected from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, offer a diverse selection of artists, writers, businessmen, politicians, scientists, entertainers, and others, primarily from the early nineteenth-century until the present. Individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area tend to predominate since the library's holdings are strongest in this area....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Fairs Collection contains archival and printed material created in three separate offices: Western Fairs Association, a non-profit trade association; Division of Fairs and Expositions, an agency of the California Department of Food and Agriculture; and the Joint Committee on Fairs Allocations and Classification, a legislative group comprised of seven senators and seven assembly members. In addition, material collected through the years by Louis S. Merrill, director of Western Fairs Association from 1945-1972, has been added to the collection.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The California Federation for Civic Unity Records contain correspondence and material relating to the Federation's activities, 1945-1956, and deals mainly with racial minority problems such as discrimination, immigration, segregation, housing, Fair Employment Practices Committee, etc. Included, also, are a number of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and copies of bills introduced in the National and State legislatures regarding discriminatory subjects. In addition to the incoming and outgoing correspondence, there are minutes of meetings, minutes of board meetings, financial statements, bills, audits, and conference and workshop notes.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

This collection consists of historical essays, research notes, and a small number of photographs created between 1936 and 1940 on select California landmarks, monuments and state parks. The California Department of Parks and Recreation, in conjunction with the Federal Writers' Project (a component of the federal Works Progress Administration), produced a series of descriptive historical essays and monographs on the state's important landmarks, monuments and state parks. Project editors were Clark Wing and Vernon Aubrey Neasham. Project writers included George Walcott Ames Jr., Christian Ecklon, Andrew Eggum, Russell C. Ewing, John Samuel Fox, Chester Lyle Gutherie, Esther Harlan, Oscar Houmann, …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

Institution: California Historical Society, University of Southern California Digital Library

The California Historical Topographical Maps Colllection encompasses topographic quadrangles from the Meriam Library collection dated from 1888 to 1955. Maps in the digital collection are currently indexed by quadrangle name, county, and date. The collection includes 15' (1:62,500), 30' (1:125,000),and 60' (1:250,000) maps, as well a several of irregular scales. All of the maps images in this collection are in the public domain.

Institution: California State University, Chico

The California History Center collection includes images of historical interest of Santa Clara County with emphasis on the western Santa Clara Valley, especially the municipalities of Cupertino, Saratoga and Los Gatos, and San José. Nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth century agricultural, and transportation history, education and urban life are portrayed in visual images from the general photo collection, the Charles Fuller family scrapbook collection, the Charlie Baer photo collection, a postcard file and ephemeral items. Cupertino farming families such as the Merithew and Dunbar families, Charlie Baer's automobiles and business activities, local churches, and Cupertino and north county schools are …

Institution: De Anza College, California History Center

Ranging from oil-on-canvas paintings to video tape, virtually every medium is represented in the California History Section's rich collection of historic images. Prints-including birds-eye views, lithographs, and pictorial lettersheets-provide a fascinating look at the state as interpreted by artists, lithographers, and engravers. The photograph collection features unique images of people, places, events, and subjects. Daguerreotypes illustrate the pioneer era, and stereographs show the development of the state during the 1860's and 1870's. Fine art views by present-day photographers add a contemporary element to the library's holdings. Complementing the photographs are hundreds of picture postcards, depicting historic monuments, public buildings, events, …

Institution: California State Library

Highway ramps are usually not postcard-worthy structures, but California Incline is in a different league. The Incline extends approximately 1,400 feet from the intersection of Ocean and California Avenues at the top of the Palisades bluffs to the Pacific Coast Highway (SR1) at the base of the bluffs. Not only is it a vital traffic route connecting downtown Santa Monica to PCH, it is also a destination point with a breathtaking view of the Santa Monica Bay. By the early 1990s, the deteriorating structure (which had been in place for eight decades) was deemed seismically deficient. In 2007, a federal …

Institution: Santa Monica Public Library