Collections in Calisphere

El Clamor Publico is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Billed as Los Angeles' "Periodico Independiente y Literario," El Clamor Publico was the first Spanish-language newspaper in California after the American occupation. It was founded by the former Spanish editor of the Los Angeles Star, Francisco P. Ramirez, a 19-year old printer. Published weekly, 233 four-page issues were published between July 1855 and August 1859. The initially moderate paper evolved into an activist tabloid and espoused strong political views generally in support of the Mexicanos. While …

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

Not a library collection, this archive is hosted by LAPL for the El Pueblo Monument. El Pueblo Monument has over ten thousand photographs in its collection, divided into three hundred separate categories.

Institution: Los Angeles Public Library, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument

The archives of El Teatro Campesino are the largest archival collection on Chicano theater, consisting of approximately 157 linear feet of archives and manuscripts. They include a variety of formats, dating from the Teatro's founding in 1965. They include primary materials for researchers with an interest in theater arts, cultural arts, history, political science, labor relations, ethnic studies, sociology, antropology, and women's studies. Most materials are in English; some are in Spanish or a combination of the two languages. At least eight other languages are represented, an indication of the international interest in the Teatro.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Collection consists primarily of snapshots of Eldridge Cleaver's career from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. Earliest materials relate to his affiliation with the Black Panther Party. Also contains photographs taken during his exile abroad from 1968 to 1975. The majority of photographs was taken after Cleaver's 1975 return to the United States and relate primarily to his activities in conservative politics and the evangelical Christian movement.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Leonelli Collection includes photographic essays on a wide range of topics, by photo-journalist Elisa Leonelli. The photographs were originally taken on color transparency and black & white negatives with Nikon and Hasselblad cameras on 35mm and 120 mm film, mostly between 1974 and 1989, and often published in American and international magazines. They have been digitized specifically for this collection in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Special Collections of the Claremont Colleges Library will house the original archival collection, donated by Leonelli, so they may be made available to future generations of students and researchers. Among the subjects are: …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

The Elise Stern Haas Family Photograph Collection contains circa 5,700 photographic prints taken from ca. 1855 to ca. 1987. The collection also contains circa 660 negatives, and circa 65 postcards, drawings, manuscripts, slides and other miscellaneous items. Compiled by Elise Stern Haas throughout her lifetime, the collection offers a broad pictorial sweep of several generations of a distinguished Bay Area family. The primary focus of the collection is Elise Stern Haas and her husband Walter A. Haas, Sr. Also pictured prominently are their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren; their parents and siblings; and many other relatives, friends, and associates. While not …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Materials in this small collection document the life of Elisha Oscar Crosby, an early (1849-1895) California settler, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and civil servant. Subjects include Crosby's reminiscences of his life and career in early California, including his participation as a delegate at the Constitutional Convention that created the state; his duties as an election official for the Sacramento district; his services as a State Senator from 1848 until 1852; his term as the United States resident minister to Guatemala; and his legal work regarding the land claims of Spanish-speaking Californios. Biographical materials include correspondence, personal family and financial papers, and …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The Ellen Browning Scripps Collection contains correspondence, financial material, newspaper business documents, travel materials, diaries, photographs, and materials documenting Ellen Browning Scripps's many philanthropic activities. Her philanthropies include Scripps College, Scripps Clinic and Hospital, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and many other local and national projects, organizations, and institutions. The collection covers the years 1840 to 2000 with the bulk of the material ranging from 1880 to 1936. This collection also contains materials of J.C. Harper, E.W. Scripps, and other family members, business acquaintances and friends who had close relationships to Ellen Browning Scripps.

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

Welton Davis Becket was born in Seattle, Washington, on August 8, 1902; BA, Architecture, University of Washington, (1927), with one year of graduate study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau, France, (1928); partnered with Walter Wurdeman and Charles Plummer under the name Becket, Wurdeman, and Plummer in 1933; following Plummer's death in 1939 and Wurdeman's death in 1949, Becket continued the firm as Welton Becket and Associates, serving as President (1949-68) and Chairman of the Board (1968) until his death in 1969; served as Master Planner and Supervising Architect, UCLA, 1949-69; Becket's philosophy of total design, embracing all requirements …

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

This collection contains documentary ephemera on emerging nationalism in Portuguese Africa, collected by Ronald H. Chilcote in the course of research he did for his book, Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa. Emphasis is on materials originating from the nationalist organizations of Angola and Mozambique with lesser amounts on the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Biasau, and Sao Tome and Principe. Also included are copies of United Nations documents relating to Portuguese Africa. Chilcote is a political scientist and Latin Americanist by training and was the founding editor of Latin American Perspective. He created a documentation center in Africa for which he collected …

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library