Collections in Calisphere

The Edward A. Rogers collection is the largest known vestige of the archive of the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. It comprises approximately 6,700 photographic prints housed in albums, 2,166 glass negatives, 124 film negatives, and 115 panoramic film negatives. The great majority of images document the exposition throughout its 1915 run, but some commercial photographs taken by Cardinell-Vincent date from the decade after the fair. During the construction period in 1913 and 1914 the exposition's photographic contract was held by H.S. Crocker & Co., and a significant number of their images are …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

A collection of books, articles, and manuscripts by, about, and directly relating to Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881), author of several popular and influential works and memoirs about 19th century English poets George Gordon Noel Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, is in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Accumulated over a period of fifty years by Donald B. Prell, the core of the Collection is composed of more than 135 published works and manuscripts. Of particular note in the Prell Collection is a manuscript notebook created by Edward Ellerker Williams (1793-1822) dating from about 1819-1820. This was the notebook on which Williams was …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

Collection of family papers, office records, and photographs documenting Trinkkeller's artistry and his extensive client list. This included producing ironwork for publisher William Randolph Hearst at his San Simeon estate where Trinkkeller collaborated with architect Julia Morgan; correspondence and photographs within the collection document their work together. Other noteworthy clients were oil magnate Edward Doheny; comedian Will Rogers; movie producer Cecil B. DeMille; and other well–to–do Southern Californians during the period 1896-1942, as reflected in Trinkkeller's original account ledgers.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The Edward H. Fickett Collection contains a selection of items digitized from the archives of the architectural office of Edward H. Fickett (1916-1999), FAIA, in Special Collections, USC Libraries. The physical collection contains 664.04 linear feet of architectural drawings, renderings, and photographs as well as other material stored in 360 boxes, including 99 long boxes, 163 document boxes, 2 banker's boxes, an additional 96 boxes of various sizes; and 52 flat file drawers. Another set of renderings is stored in flat folders. In addition, there are 4 3-D models of Fickett projects. The entire physical collection dates from 1945-2013. Examples …

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

Edward Huntsman-Trout (1889-1974) was a landscape architect who worked in Boston and Ohio before starting his own practice under in Los Angeles. The collection consists primarily of blueprints and tissue designs as well as correspondence, sketches, and photographs related to Huntsman-Trout's work.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

Documents regarding California water policy and development plans by civil engineer Edward Hyatt, who was state engineer of California from 1927-1950.

Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives

The Edward L. Doheny Family Collection is comprised of materials acquired from the family of the namesake of Doheny Library, the main library on the campus of the University of Southern California.

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

This collection of papers was given to the Bancroft Library by Miss Ellen Ord, the diaries in 1922, and the remainder of the material in 1956. The papers contain correspondence, primarily of a military nature; accounts relating to the Coast Survey and to the Army; Army orders and circulars; 3 diaries, 1850-1856; and a few miscellaneous papers. The collection deals to a large extent with the Civil War period, but also touches upon other phases of the General's career, particularly post-Civil War Arkansas and Texas during disturbances in the Rio Grande area. Also included is a small portion of papers …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Photographs from the collection of Edward Sheldon Barr, who accompanied the 1950 MidPac Expedition as a high school student and the 1952 Capricorn Expedition as an undergraduate. The photographs include images of Bikini Atoll, Namdrik Atoll, work at sea, and candid shots of expedition personnel.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material is a collection of pencil drawings, loose albumen and lithograph prints of his drawings, and bound volumes of his prints. Vischer is best known for his pencil sketches of California landscapes throughout the 1860s and 1870s. He sketched a wide variety of scenes and objects, but most commonly the California missions, trees, mountains, and rural scenes. Of special interest are his drawings of the ruins of the missions, the Washoe mining region, horses and wagons, including the Pony Express, and even camels which were part of a short lived military experiment to …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library