Collections in Calisphere

The Ericson Collection depicts a wide variety of everyday northwest California scenes and activities from the 1880s through the 1920s. Lumber industry, Native Americans, city and village street scenes (primarily Arcata ), Schools, portraits, and scenic views are the featured subjects of this collection. The primary photographer represented is A.W. Ericson with some by his son and business partner, Edgar. More information about this collection can be found at

Institution: Cal Poly Humboldt, Library Special Collections and Archives

Ernest Lowe studied photography in the late 50's with the noted social documentarian, John Collier Jr. His other models were the classic images of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and other Farm Security Administration photographers. In 1959 Lowe joined the staff of Pacifica radio station KPFA and almost immediately began documenting the lives of migrant farm workers. The photographs in this collection document the lives and struggles of the farmworking communities in California's Central Valley.

Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections

Mark Daniels was a Southern California architect who designed homes and gardens in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles and vicinity. Ernest Mitchell Pratt and Viroque Baker photographed Daniels' houses and landscape architecture to be published in magazines such as Country life and Town and country review, mostly in the 1920s. The digital collection consists of photographs of Mark Daniels' architecture and landscape architecture in Southern California.

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

Included are the personal papers of Ernest Lawrence, administrative records for the University of California Radiation Laboratory, the Joseph C. Hamilton papers dealing with the Crocker Radiation Laboratory, and some papers of Lawrence's close associate, Donald Cooksey. The papers relate primarily to the Radiation Laboratory, University of California; relations with the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Atomic Energy Commission; development of cyclotron technology and establishment of cyclotrons at other institutions, etc.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Ernest Paul Watson, SJ was born on April 4, 1889 in Quincy, California. Watson went to Santa Clara College (now Santa Clara University) as an undergraduate and was a student during the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. His account of the earthquake was published in the Plumas Independent; a copy of the article is included in the collection. After graduating from Santa Clara University in 1908, Watson entered the novitiate at Los Gatos, CA for the Society of Jesus and went on to teach at a number of different Jesuit institutions, including the University of San Francisco, Brophy College Prep in …

Institution: Santa Clara University

Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861-1936), renowned Austrian, naturalized American, contralto/mezzo soprano, was courted by the major composers of her day, including Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Johannes Brahms to perform their works. Thus, it is not surprising to find that over her long career she had collected more than 1,125 music manuscripts representing the work of 640 professional and amateur composers. These works comprise art songs, songs associated with World War I, lullabies, patriotic songs, and popular tunes; many were inscribed with dedications to her. Even though most of these songs were written by composers with whom she associated throughout her career, …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

The book contains two interconnected stories. One story reads front to back; the book is then turned upside-down and the second story is then read front to back. One story is of Esmeralda, a girl who escapes from an oppressive Catholic school, is eaten by a Jaguar, and is reborn as "a jaguar girl with many powers." The other story is of a bear haunted by his own loneliness and by his dreams of a being who sometimes manifests as a spotted kitten and at other times as a small girl. At the end of each story, Esmeralda and the …

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

This collection contains correspondence, artwork, brochures, and other material by and about Japanese American artist and author Miné Okubo (1912–2001). Okubo was born in Riverside, California, and is best known for her book "Citizen 13660" of drawings and text on her experiences of incarceration at Tanforan and Topaz camps during World War II. The material was collected and donated to UCR by Esther Klotz, a historian of the Riverside area and longtime friend of Okubo.

Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The information presented in the container listing, taken from the photographic ledger catalogues, is as complete as possible. Dates and places are missing when they were not originally recorded. The numbers that are included in parentheses for some of the photographs from 1907 refer to a series of bodily measurements, taken as part of a survey of the physical anthropology of California Indians. These were published by Edward Winslow Gifford in 1926, California Anthropometry (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 22, no. 2).

Institution: UC Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology