Collections in Calisphere

Include papers of William Keith relating to his career as an artist; papers of his wife, Mary McHenry Keith, reflecting her participation in the woman suffrage movement and humanitarian activities; papers of her parents, Ellen and John McHenry; papers of her sister, Emma Pond, and her brother-in-law, Charles Fremont Pond, relating to his naval career, 1876-1918; papers of the Ponds' daughter, Elizabeth Keith Pond, relating primarily to her interest in William Keith and to her travels and her camping trips in the High Sierra. Included also are miscellaneous papers of other members of the family and correspondence of Brother Fidelis …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Selections from the papers of Ralph H. Kellogg (1920-2009), UCSF professor and researcher who investigated high-altitude physiology, including significant work at White Mountain in California. Call number: MSS 90-38

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Architect and designer Karl Emanuel Martin Weber was born in Germany, and apprenticed as a cabinet and furniture maker. He emigrated to the United States, where he eventually established himself in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, and worked for furniture companies and individuals on commissions across the country. Weber's designs for homes, commercial interiors and exteriors, as well as his hotel and retail work, ushered in an era of modern design in the 1920s through the 1940s. His interior designs also encompass his furniture designs, with his most famous being the Airline Chair and Disney Studios in Burbank.

Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

Ken Gonzales-Day lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UC Irvine, and his MA in Art History from Hunter College (C.U.N.Y). Fellowships include: Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP; Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio (Italy); (Latino Studies) American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2008). Gonzales-Day is a Professor at Scripps College in California. Included in the collection are Gonzales-Day's Curriculum Vitae, images that Gonzales-Day used to compile his art and publications, notebooks documenting his research, and photographs and documentation of …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

The collection is comprised of the reports created as a result of two seminars and a conference related to a critque of the McCone Report following the 1965 Los Angeles civil unrest. In addition to the reports directly related to the seminars and conference, the materials include documents from training programs for U.S. Air Force Security and Law Enforcement Officers for 1965, 1966, and 1967. These publications were the result of work done through USC with Air Force Law Enforcement personnel to help them establish skills in administration and in dealing with race relations, relative to the work done on …

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

Donated by Kenneth and Claire Hopper to the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, the Kenneth Hopper Papers on Management include original correspondence, manuals, memoirs and other documents related to the Civil Communications Section (CCS) under General MacArthur's command in Tokyo after World War II. These papers tell the story of how the Americans shared their industrial management know-how with some very able Japanese, eventually giving rise to the so-called Asian Economic Miracle. Kenneth is co-author with his brother William Hopper of The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos, which in 2009 was called “one of …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

Kenneth L. Waller Bataan Prisoner of War Collection contains materials recording Waller's years as a prisoner of war (POW) in the Pacific Theater, from September 1941 to August 1945. The materials include photographs, an excerpt from a book, an annotated map, and a transcript of an oral history compiled by Waller and Sandy McKennon in 1980.

Institution: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was an author, critic, poet, teacher, translator and active member of San Francisco's cultural, political, and poetry scenes from the 1930s through the 1960s. The collection (most of which covers 1950-1975) consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera by and about Rexroth, and members of his circle. The digital collection contains photographs and correspondence concerning Rexroth, from 1958 to 1980.

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

Charles H. Bach, born in Erfurt, Germany in 1841, married Emilie Rittmeyer and moved to San Francisco (by way of Amador County) around 1874. He joined the malting business of F. Scherr, which he eventually purchased, and renamed the Charles Bach Company, Incorporated. On July 14, 1892, he bought 5.733 acres of land in Ross Valley for a down payment of $10.00 in gold coins. On this site he built his home, which the San Francisco Call referred to as a "country residence." Bach called this retreat Quisisana, named for a resort on the island of Capri where the family, …

Institution: Marin County Free Library

Photographs include the Kent family home; the annual Grape Festival (c.1921); the Pistol Shoot (c.1930); and miscellaneous views of Kentfield.

Institution: Marin County Free Library