Collections in Calisphere

The University of the Pacific Emeriti Society Oral History Project started in 1994. The purpose of the Project is to help document the history of the University of the Pacific by collecting conversations and recollections of university personnel from a variety of academic disciplines, departments, and administrative offices. This online collection contains complete edited interview transcripts of former faculty, staff, and administrators.

Institution: University of the Pacific

Emmett Ashford impacted the world of baseball in a variety of ways. His major influence was as the first black umpire in organized baseball. He spent 15 years as an umpire in the minor leagues prior to his stylish and groundbreaking entry into the major leagues which culminated in his officiating in the 1970 world series. In this milieu he was a pioneer in training umpires on the national and international level. Upon retirement he worked for then major league baseball commissioner, Bowie Kuhn. His duties included serving as Commissioner of the Alaskan League and overseeing activities in Hawaii. Subsequently, …

Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives

S. Guy Endore (1901-70) was a prolific author of books as well as television and movie scripts. His script, , was nominated for an Oscar in 1945. He was reputedly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios for his political views in the late 1940s. Endore devoted much of his time to the Synanon Foundation after being blacklisted. The collection consists of Endore's manuscripts and typescripts for plays, novels, and television shows. Other materials include clippings and printed materials, many of which address and review Endore's writings. The collection also contains materials related to the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Hollywood …

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

Contains Engel Sluiter's research notes and copies and transcriptions of historical documents from archives throughout Europe and Latin America made during approximately 1930-2001. Subject matter concerns Dutch voyages to the Pacific during the early 17th century, Dutch-Iberian global rivalry between 1568 and 1648, Dutch, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese voyages to the New World; the transatlantic slave trade, the Nassau fleet, Newfoundland fisheries, Arctic exploration and whaling, and the complexities of imperial finances between the later sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Photographs show the impact of human activities in Yosemite National Park.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Ephemera Collection currently includes a representative selection of ephemera from the California Room Collection. New images are added to the collection as they are digitized. The term ephemera refers to anything short-lived or ephemeral, and is generally printed paper material that was meant to be thrown away. This includes printed matter such as brochures, handbills, memorabilia, pamphlets, tickets, timetables, etc. Printed ephemera often documents events that are recorded nowhere else, making them a valuable resource to researchers. Our collection of ephemera materials centers on people, places, and events in the Santa Clara Valley, and dates back to the late …

Institution: San José Public Library, California Room

Documents from the Ephraim W. Morse Papers, San Diego pioneer, businessman, and civic leader. Materials date frpm 1839 to 1884 and include financial records for Morse's Old Town and New Town stores; correspondence; cased daguerreotypes and ambrotypes; and scrapbooks. Highlights of the collection are the financial records of Morse's stores, recorded in storebooks and account books, detailing individual accounts and transactions. Another highlight is the scrapbooks containing photographs of San Diego, circa 1874, as well as a collection of pressed ferns and seaweed from the southern California region. The collection includes some cased daguerreotype photographs.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Newquist was born July 25, 1925 in Ashland Wisconsin; attended Marquette University (1943-46) and University of Wisconsin (1946-49); copy supervisor for various advertising agencies in Minneapolis and Chicago, 1951-63; became literary editor for Chicago's American and a critic for the New York Post in 1963; hosted a radio program called Counterpoint, WQXR, New York; published books include Counterpoint (1964) and Conversations (1967).

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

The Ephraim W. Morse Family Papers includes correspondence documenting 19th century life in New England and California. It includes letters from many promient San Diegians, including: Alonzo Horton, Joseph Judson Ames, Manuelito Cota, Rufus King Porter, Judge James Robinson, Jonathan T. Warner, and Thomas Whaley, as well as family members. Since Morse served many roles in the community--as storekeeper, lawyer, and express agent--people wrote to him about a variety of issues concerning those living in or passing through San Diego in the 1850s-1860s. The collection also contains biographical materials such as various civic office notifications, certificates, and oaths; economic transaction …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Eric Rofes (August 31, 1954–June 26, 2006) was a gay activist, educator, and author who wrote or edited 12 books. He became director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in the 1980s. In 1989, he became executive director of the Shanti Project, a nonprofit AIDS service organization in San Francisco. He resigned in 1993. In 1998, Rofes wrote "Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures," in which he argued that the AIDS crisis had passed and gay men needed to free themselves from the sense of emergency and victimhood. He was a professor of Education …

Institution: San Francisco Public Library