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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Galería De La Raza archives
Administrative records, programs, subject files, correspondence, clippings, slides, photographs, serigraphs, posters, silkscreen prints, ephemera and other creative materials documenting activities of the San Francisco Bay Area Chicano cultural arts center. Includes work by many of the prominent Chicano(a)/Latino(a) artists, such as Juana Alicia, Rodolfo (Rudy) Cuellar, Alfredo De Batuc, Ricardo Favela, Gilbert Luján (Magu), Ralph Maradiaga, Juanishi Orosco, Irene Pérez, Patricia Rodríguez, and René Yañez.
Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
1,239 Items
Gallaher Collection
From 2005 until 2008, Gallaher, a UK-based tobacco company which was later bought by Japan Tobacco International (JTI), spent three years in a bitter legal battle against its former Middle Eastern distributor. More than 20,000 internal documents were disclosed in the course of the litigation between Gallaher and the Cypriot company, Tlais Enterprises. This collection is a subset of those documents. During the trial, Gallaher was accused of "complicity in facilitating worldwide smuggling, sanction-busting in Iraq, and the dumping of sub-standard cigarettes in Africa and Afghanistan," according to the British press.
Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Industry Documents Library
12,875 Items
Garrett (Laurie) Papers
Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer winning science journalist and public health and policy advocate. She has written extensively on global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism. Call number: MSS 2013-03.
Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections
71 Items
Gas composition and fluorescence data for: Continuous Measurements of Volatile Gases as Detection of Algae Crop Health
This data is a collection of gas composition and algal fluorescence data produced from each Carboy during the primary experiment discussed in "Continuous Measurements of Volatile Gases as Detection of Algae Crop Health."
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
1 Item
Gatherings: Event, Agency, and Program
"Gatherings: Event, Agency, and Program" (Gatherings) is a work of new media art that was written, produced, and performed by Jordan Crandall, a professor and new media artist in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. Gatherings is a mixed-media performative lecture that studies the nature of events and new forms of awareness, cognition, and material agency that emerge in the wake of technological change. It shows how technologies of tracking and surveillance transform people and objects into actors, influence them to come together as matters worthy of attention. It enables us to see how actors gather into composites, …
Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
7 Items
Gay and lesbian rights movement ephemera collection
Collection of flyers, brochures, announcements and newsletters from lesbian and gay rights activist groups working in Northern California in the 1970s.
Institution: California Historical Society
50 Items
Gaydon Moore Brundridge Papers
Photographs, diaries, diary transcripts, and correspondence related to Ms. Gaydon Moore Brundridge and her experience as a teacher at Carrizo Plain (Carrisa Plains) in 1918.
Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
9 Items
Gaye LeBaron Historical Photograph Collection, 1871-1989 (SPC.00002)
A collection of historical photographs compiled by Sonoma County historian Gaye LeBaron in the course of research for her weekly columns in the Press Democrat newspaper (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and for her books.
Institution: Sonoma County Library
488 Items
Genay Family Correspondence
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, greetings, and published ephemera, 1917-1935, primarily illustrating the World War I Era narrative of the French Genay family and their involvement with the charitable organization, Fatherless Children of France [Fraternite Franco-Americaine]. The Genay Family Correspondence is composed almost entirely of the correspondence of Madame L. Genay, widow of Captain Eugene Genay, and her elder daughter, Camille (1901-circa 1925), with an American friend, Miss Mildred Veitch (later Mrs. R. K. West). The family, which included a younger daughter, Marie Louise, resided in Versailles, and maintained a country home in the village of Saint-Sauveur. Captain Genay …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
65 Items
General Collection
Images in this collection represent various people, places, and subjects pertaining to Ventura County.
Institution: Museum of Ventura County
4,161 Items
