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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EarthCube User Scenario Collection
This collection holds a set of 50 user scenarios collected from end-user scientists that detail the specific cyberinfrastructure (CI) challenges and barriers that those geoscientists experience. The scenarios were collected by the Use Case Working Group within the National Science Foundation-funded EarthCube geosciences cyberinfrastructure program. The purpose of the user scenarios was to understand the CI needs and priorities of the geosciences community. In interviews, geoscientists were asked to describe their research, and identify those parts that were difficult or impossible in a way that new or better CI could help. These user scenarios are structured, thorough, in-depth expressions of ...
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
1 Item
Earthquake Damage in Santa Barbara, California - Views
This collection contains 32 black and white photographs of the Santa Barbara area, detailing the damage from an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale June 29, 1925. The photographs were taken by Edwin Rick and another unidentified photographer.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
32 Items
Earthquake of 1906 Digital Collection
Photographs and correspondence gathered from several special collections depicting the impact of the 1906 earthquake on Sonoma County.
Institution: Sonoma State University Library
68 Items
Eastman's Originals Collection
Photographs, negatives, and postcards for a wide variety of northern California locations and events, including dam construction, logging, mining, food processing, and community buildings and activities. Jervie Henry Eastman was born, July 20, 1880, in White Cloud, Michigan. His family moved to northern California in 1886. In 1898, Eastman launched his photographic career in Sisson, California (later named Mount Shasta), as a view photographer. He became a partner in the Shasta View Company in 1907. Eastman lost his entire stock of plates and cards in a fire in 1912. In 1921, Jervie Henry Eastman moved to Susanville and established Eastman ...
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
13,213 Items
Eastwood (Alice) Papers
The Alice Eastwood Collection is comprised of materials donated to the California Academy of Sciences. It contains her memoirs, diaries, field notes, and correspondence, among other items.
Institution: California Academy of Sciences
8 Items
Eckbo (Garrett) Collection, 1933-1996
Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000). The collection includes files created by Eckbo and the numerous firms with which he worked. Contains a wide range of materials documenting Eckbo's long, innovative and productive career as a designer, planner, and author. The Personal Papers contain biographical material, personal correspondence, student work and travel photographs, as well as portraits and family photographs. Project records document a wide spectrum of Eckbo's large- and small-scale projects, including pedestrian malls, civic centers, waterfronts, public parks, churches, playgrounds, freeway systems, botanic gardens, cemeteries, office buildings, resorts, residences, and ...
Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives
18 Items
Ecological/Environmental
Cultures and their environments are inherently connected; bound to influence and change each other throughout time. The Arc/k Project seeks to digitally preserve natural environments to help improve a wide range of scholarly study, from the humanities to climate change.
Institution: The Arc/k Project
42 Items
Ed Fletcher Papers
The papers of Ed Fletcher, a noted San Diego land developer, civic leader, and member of the California State Senate, document all aspects of Fletcher's career but are most complete in regard to his water-related enterprises. The papers include correspondence, legal documents, blueprints, reports, maps, and a large assortment of photographs documenting the Fletcher family, dam construction projects, and San Diego buildings and views. The majority of the Ed Fletcher Papers, held by the UC San Diego Library, have been digitized. Images of the documents are largely scans from the microfilm of the accession processed in 1991.
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
4,148 Items
Edgar F. Kaiser Papers
The bulk of the papers were transferred to The Bancroft Library by Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. and consist primarily of corporate files from Kaiser's tenure as president and chairman of the board of Kaiser Industries Corporation. Also included are records from his earlier career as vice president and general manager of Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. and Kaiser Company, Inc., followed by those from his tenure as president of Kaiser Motors Corp. and general manager of Kaiser-Frazer Corporation's automobile plant at Willow Run, Mich. Also included are personal papers given by Kaiser's family.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
9 Items
Edith Harvey Heron Collection
Edith Harvey Heron, the daughter of William S. and Ada Heron, was born January 2, 1895, in San Jose, California, After graduating from San Jose High School in 1914, she attended San Jose Normal School and graduated in 1918. Following a short-term teaching career in art therapy, she attended the California School of Arts and Crafts for two years (1920-22) and in 1929 earned a B. A. degree in art at San Jose State College. Heron spent most of her life in the Bay Area working as an artist. The King Library Digital collection contains a selection of 20 images ...
Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
20 Items