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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Edward W. Gee family papers
Contains mostly personal handwritten and typescript correspondence. The bulk of this correspondence consists of incoming letters to Mabel Gee (Mrs. Edward W. Gee) and other family members from Mabel's brother L. C. Lee (also referred to as Lu Chao Li and "Brother Chew"). L.C. Lee was educated at an American university and acted as English secretary to Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen. These letters are in both Chinese and English and date from the 1920s through 1981. The collection also includes assorted other letters letters to and from Edward W. Gee, Mabel Gee, and Sherman Gee. In addition, the collection contains …
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
15 Items
Edwin Bower Hesser Papers 1917-1958 (bulk 1920-1950)
Edwin Bower Hesser (1893-1962) was a prominent photographer who worked in New York and Los Angeles during the golden age of Hollywood and developed his own color photography system known as Hessercolor. The bulk of the collection consists of photographic materials such as negatives, prints, transparencies, and periodicals featuring Hesser's work. The collection also includes paper materials, such as miscellaneous manuscripts, business papers and journals. This digital collection includes examples of Hesser's color portraiture: two photographs of Jo Ann Smith, captured between the mid-1930s and 1940s.
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
2 Items
Edwin Cook and Susan Pflanz Cook Collection
Photographs taken by American anthropologists, Edwin Aubrey Cook (b. 1932 - d. 1984) and Susan Pflanz (Susan Pflanz-Cook Warrner), documenting research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea in 1961-1963 and 1971-1972. The majority of images document the social life and customs of the Kwiop and other Narak-speaking people, mainly in the Western Highlands Province. Topics of particular focus include rituals and ceremonies such as bride-price exchanges. The later photographs include local court cases, trade stores, and plantations. Cultural shows in Mount Hagen and Port Moresby are well-represented, along with photographs taken in western New Guinea in the Balim Valley …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
1,346 Items
Edwin Hutchins and Dona Hutchins Collection
This collection documents anthropological fieldwork by American anthropologist, Edwin Hutchins, and presently includes photographs created by Hutchins and his wife, Dona. The main fieldwork took place between July 1975 and September 1976, in the Trobriand Islands of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, primarily on the island of Kiriwina (also known as Boyowa). During this time the Hutchins were based in the village of Tukwaukwa. Other areas of Papua New Guinea visited by both Edwin and Dona Hutchins, and depicted in the photographs, include Kairiru in East Sepik Province, Port Moresby and its surroundings, and Western Highlands Province. Also included …
Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
1,031 Items
Edwin W. Pauley Papers, 1907-2001
Papers of Edwin Wendell Pauley, Sr. (1903-1981). In 1940, Pauley served as a member of the University of California, Board of Regents, a position he kept for 30 years. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, photo albums, and news clippings of Edwin Pauley with his family, friends, and numerous political figures of the twentieth century. Personal and political correspondence, correspondence and memorabilia from the 1960 Democratic National Convention, awards for public services, biographical information on Edwin Pauley, and books regarding political history are also included.
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
6 Items
E.F. Raynes Plante Autograph Albums (1914-1918)
Five autograph albums belonging to nurse E.F. Raynes Plante and signed by soldiers recuperating at the Red Cross hospital at 6 Third Avenue, Hove, Sussex, England, 1914-1943 (bulk 1914-1918).
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
5 Items
Egan (Richard) Manuscript Maps of Orange County
Four manuscript survey maps and one plat map depicting areas of Orange County and attributed to the noted surveyor and judge Richard Egan. One map is dated 1878 and 1879 by Egan. The other maps are undated and unsigned but it is likely that he drew them during these years. These maps primarily depict subdivisions of non-rancho tracts of land occupying what is now Orange County, with the addition of some topographical details.
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection
5 Items
Eight Plants from San Francisco
Silkscreened text, drypoint illustrations by Fred Rinne ; printed at San Franciso Center for the Book, 2005--Colophon. Library copy is number 5 of a limited edition of 10 copies.
Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
4 Items
Eisler (George) Collection
George Eisler Collection consists of advertisements and documentation from 1951-1952 as well as an oral history with Eisler from 2012.
Institution: UCLA, Kleinrock Internet History Center
8 Items
El Centro School
The El Centro Street School was originally built in 1885 and rebuilt in 1928. The El Centro Street School building was used as an elementary school as recently as 1979.
Institution: South Pasadena Public Library
233 Items
