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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Faces of select bees from San Diego, CA
This is a collection of photographs featuring the faces of select bee species collected in San Diego, CA, meant to showcase the morphological diversity of native bees inhabiting Southern California's bee biodiversity hotspot. Photo subjects were preserved specimens mounted on entomological pins; these specimens were collected in one of two projects: (1) surveys of native bees in scrub habitat fragments and natural reserves in western San Diego County to investigate the impact of habitat fragmentation on native bee communities, or (2) surveys of native bees in natural habitats throughout San Diego County to establish an inventory of species within the …
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
1 Item
Faces of Tientsin, 1946. Photographs by Harold Giedt (Old China Hands)
Harold Giedt, the child of American missionary parents, was born and raised in Shanghai where he attended the Shanghai American School, found himself back in China in 1945 as a newly-commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Having received training from the military in Mandarin Chinese, he was posted to an assignment in Civil Affairs in Tientsin. Giedt was an enthusiastic amateur photographer, and, before leaving for China, acquired a Kodak Bantam 828 camera for colored slides and a twin lens reflex for black and white photography. In Tientsin he found most of his afternoons free and used the time …
Institution: California State University, Northridge
36 Items
Fairfax
Images from the Anne T. Kent California Room related to Fairfax.
Institution: Marin County Free Library
40 Items
Fannie Wall Children's Home and Day Nursery, Inc. Records
Established in Oakland, California on November 20, 1918 by the Northern Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, the Fannie Wall Children’s Home and Day Nursery, Inc. was created to “care for homeless, dependent, neglected children from broken homes, and to provide day care for children of working parents.” The Fannie Wall Children’s Home and Day Nursery, Inc. Records consist of correspondence, reports, meeting and fundraising programs, and newspaper clippings that document the management of the children’s home.
Institution: Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library at Oakland
20 Items
Farrand (Beatrix J.) Collection
The collection consist of personal and professional papers, records of Farrand's work as a landscape architect, and records relating to the Reef Point Library.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives
57 Items
Farrand, Beatrix Jones Collection
The collection consist of personal and professional papers, records of Farrand's work as a landscape architect, and records relating to the Reef Point Library.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives
17 Items
Fashion Plate Collection
Over 6,200 hand-colored, finely detailed fashion illustrations produced between 1780 and 1880 for British and American fashion magazines. The plates depict fashionable styles of dress for men, women and children, and constitute valuable source material on the history of dress during this period in history.
Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
6,203 Items
Fashion Plate Collection
Fashion plates were originally a way of illustrating current dress styles for consumers, dressmakers, and merchants. They were published in women’s magazines such as La Belle Assemblée, Journal des Modes, and the Magasin des Demoiselles. These periodicals were mostly weeklies that also included fiction and household hints along with the fashion plates. Since France was considered the center of fashion, both British and American periodicals contracted with French journals to republish their plates. Originally, the plates were engraved and hand colored with watercolors until the 1880s when color printing and chromolithographing became stylish. Fashion plates were popular until the 1920s …
Institution: California State University, Fresno
46 Items
Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century
The Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby Fashion Plate Collection comprises 650 images of nineteenth-century fashion plates from the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The collection was donated to the Denison Library in 1948 by Scripps Trustee Benjamin Kirby (1876-1957) and is named for his first wife, Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby (1881-1942). In addition to the Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby collection, the digital collection includes 65 fashion plates donated to the Denison Library by Elliot E. Lawrence.
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
676 Items
Father Markey Homilies
The collection of homilies presented here cover the period of his ministry in Aptos and Capitola. They are Father Markey’s working drafts, and show the development of his ideas and presentations. His style and themes are well represented - often referring to events of the week as a springboard to his message ("The Devil is back in business again! Time Magazine reports this week that crowds of sensatlon-seekers are calling by phone or visiting in person!..."), engaging the congregation by way of a challenging introduction ("How free are you? Or - to pose the broader question: have you ever been …
Institution: Santa Clara University
580 Items
