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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H. L. Ripley papers
This collection includes photographs and an unpublished diary written by H. L. Ripley while he traveled on horseback through Mexico in 1888-1889. A handwritten essay by Ripley from 1868 on the topic of manliness is also included.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
14 Items
H. Lee Hansen Collection
The Hansen Collection is a group of travel films dating from 1936 through 1980. The collection comprises both the private histories of home movies and the public record of travel films and is an important source of information for the researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
Institution: UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
41 Items
Hagemeyer (Johan) Photograph Collection
The Johan Hagemeyer Photograph Collection comprises the bulk of what was the photographer's personal archive at the time of his death in 1962. The collection contains approximately 6,785 photographic prints and negatives, and spans from his earliest known amateur work of ca. 1908 to his later works of the mid-1950s.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
1,500 Items
Halberstadt (Milton) Papers and Photographs
Selections of photographs, proofs, transparencies, and negatives of Milton "Hal" Halberstadt commericial and artistic photography.
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
214 Items
Hall Family Papers and Sugar Plantation Records
Family papers and sugar plantation records of the Hall family of England and Jamaica, including William Hall (b.1696), Thomas Hall (1725-1772), Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall (b.1748?), and Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall (b.1776). The collection provides an abundance of primary source material on eighteenth and early nineteenth century Jamaican plantation economy and culture. The Hall family owned and operated the sugar plantations of Irwin Estate, Tryall Estate, Johnshall Estate, Hallhead Estate, and Kirkpatrick Hall Estate. They also owned Worcester, Williamsfield, Stapleton Pen, and Kirkpatrick Pen. The collection contains numerous documents related to record-keeping on the plantations, the administration of Jamaican Governor Charles Knowles …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
262 Items
Halleck, Peachy & Billings Records, 1842-1862
Halleck, Peachy & Billings was one of the leading San Francisco law firms in the settlement of titles to Mexican land grants that operated in the 1800s and dissolved in 1861. The digital collection contains a translated deed of sale.
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
1 Item
Halpern collection of music documentaries
Documentaries on DVD produced by SMH Music, focusing on various classical musical composers, groups, and performers, including Spanish composers Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla, and Federico Mompou. The collection also includes multiple documentaries on violinist and teacher Aaron Rosand, which include performances, interviews, and master classes taught by Rosand.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
18 Items
Hamaguchi Study Print Collection
Nearly 800 prints selected for their pedagogical value in the study of printmaking, design, and history.
Institution: California College of the Arts Libraries
558 Items
Hamlin Garland Correspondence, 1864-1941
Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) is best remembered by the title he gave his autobiography, Son of the Middle Border. First receiving notice with a successful collection of grimly naturalistic 'down home' stories in 1891 (Main-Roads Traveled), Garland came to prominence just as the "frontier" mentality was receding in the wake of the settling of California and the West. Garland, with roots in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, frequently wrote about how this area had also been borderland in his lifetime. Garland was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918, and won the 1922 Pulitzer …
Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
10,576 Items
Hammer Field Collection
Hammer Field was the site of a World War II Army Air Corps base and then became the Fresno Air Terminal. It is now the Fresno Yosemite International Airport. Part of the photographs in this collection are copies from the collection of the grandmother of Suzanne Tietjen (a student assistant in the Map Library in 1991). The other photographs are from the collection of Robert H. Bensing who was stationed at the base late in the war. These photographs were donated by his son, Tim Bensing, in 2003.
Institution: California State University, Fresno
38 Items
