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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Earl R. Oatman papers
Photographs, correspondence, military records, and other material pertaining to Earl R. Oatman, a Prisoner of War (POW) during World War II and Professor Emeritus of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
38 Items
Early California Ephemera
The Archives & Special Collection Department in the Santa Clara University Library has a rich collection of primary source materials available for researchers interested in the history of California Settlers and Pioneers. This digital collection is made up of ephemera: materials made for a single purpose and not meant to last for a long period of time. These can include everything from newspapers to calling cards to diaries. The items here come primarily from the nineteenth century in the San Francisco Bay Area. They provide a unique perspective to how early Californian settler and immigrant families lived and developed community …
Institution: Santa Clara University
39 Items
Early Campus Photograph Albums
The Early Campus Photo Albums comprise 372 photographs documenting UCI's first decade, 1959-1969. The mostly black and white photographs are arranged in chronological order in seven bound volumes. Many prints are 11 x 14 with excellent image quality. Coverage includes aerial and landscape photographs of the campus and Irvine Ranch area, construction of major campus buildings, scenes from daily campus life, and significant events and people from UCI's early history.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives
371 Items
Early Manuscripts and Printed Book Leaves Collection
The Early Manuscript and Printed Book Leaves Collection showcases a variety of leaves from the Otto Ege portfolios and the Bruce Ferrini Liturgical Manuscript Leaf Collection.
Institution: Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
77 Items
Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Comprising over 250 early modern printed books bearing handwritten annotations, this collection offers rich evidence for studying the material history of reading. The books collected here range in subject matter (from science and natural history to literature and philosophy), time period (1472–1818), and type of annotation (from scholarly commentary and cross-referencing to printers' notations and polemical criticism). The annotators themselves include translator John Florio, literary critic John Dennis, painter William Hogarth, French bibliophile François-Louis Jamet, English ephemera collector Narcissus Luttrell, avian enthusiast Judith Gowing, York printer Thomas Gent, London lawyer Thomas Turner, country vicar Thomas Austen, and many other identified …
Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
294 Items
Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
This collection contains complete digital scans of over 300 early modern English bound manuscripts from the Clark Library. Dating primarily from the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries, these handwritten texts comprise a vast range of manuscript genres, including commonplace books, miscellanies, recipe collections, historical treatises, literary manuscripts, sermon notebooks, scientific texts, heraldic manuals, musical collections, travel narratives, legal compilations, and account books. Together, these items offer an expansive research archive for historians and literary critics, with particular strengths in social history, the history of food and medicine, musicology, textual studies, and history of the book. Digitization of these items has been made …
Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
327 Items
Early Printed Books
Early printed books from UCLA collections
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
3 Items
Early SCU histories
This collection, taken from books and pamphlets in the Santa Clara University Archives & Special Collections Department, features histories of Santa Clara College and University, and the Santa Clara de Asis Mission, from its founding days until the bicentennial mission celebration of 1977. It also includes tour pamphlets for the Mission.
Institution: Santa Clara University
7 Items
Early Sonoma County High School Yearbooks and Student Publications
Yearbooks and student publications from the early 1900s. Materials come from five schools: Analy Union High School (Sebastopol), Cloverdale Union High School, Healdsburg High School, Petaluma High School and Sonoma High School.
Institution: Sonoma County Library
99 Items
Early tall buildings: Original drawings of California urban scenes
Drawings were made for two works by Dickinson Weber, both of which were published under the title: Early tall buildings: a sentimental sketchbook collection. 48 were for the 1988 book bearing the cover title: Early tall buildings from the agricultural valley towns of Northern and Central California... and 83 drawings and 2 maps were for the 1992 book with cover title: Downtown street views of early tall buildings from the bayside cities and tidewater towns of Northern California.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
1 Item
