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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Native bees in San Diego's coastal sage scrub reserves and fragments, surveyed in 2015 and 2016
This dataset was collected by Keng-Lou James Hung during his PhD dissertation at UC San Diego. The original intent of this data collection effort was to examine whether patterns of diversity in native bees collected via passive bowl trapping would be predictive of the structure of plant-pollinator interaction networks. For data on plant-pollinator interaction networks collected contemporaneously with this dataset in the same study plots, see "Plant-pollinator interaction networks in coastal sage scrub reserves and fragments in San Diego" (https://doi.org/10.6075/J0DZ067F).
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
1 Item
Negatives from the Peoples Temple Publications Department
The negatives series documents the Temple's activities from the sixties through the seventies (with the overwhelming majority covering the years 1976-1977, including Temple bus trips, services, protests, and the early life of Jonestown). This series has several potential applications for the researcher. It documents the Department's extremely prolific photography, as well as what its staff found significant or aesthetically appealing about the Temple -- which was often the personal and intimate side of church life. In these photographs, members relax at bus trip rest stops, Guyanese orchids bloom, cats and dogs relax on the floor, and people smile from portraits. …
Institution: California Historical Society
2,456 Items
Nellie Doyle Collection of Postcards & Greeting Cards Sent or Received, 1880-1941
Institution: Sonoma County Library
82 Items
Nellie Suydam Cowley papers
This collection contains diaries, correspondence, photographs, and other material pertaining to Nellie Suydam Cowley, a diarist who wrote about her everyday life and experiences in Glendora, California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
65 Items
Nestor (Helen) Free Speech Movement Photographs
The Helen Nestor photographic collection at the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, California contains more than 2,000 prints and 20,000 negatives, is the life's work of an important documentary photographer who specialized in recording the political and social changes of the 1960s and beyond in California. The 39 photographs presented here are a selection from her negatives taken during the Free Speech Movement in the Fall of 1964....
Institution: Oakland Museum of California
34 Items
Netherland (Mayme C.) Collection
The Mayme C. Netherland Photograph Collection includes 41 photographs of friends and family of Mayme C. Netherland. Included in the collection are circa 1880s-1900s tin-type portraits and cabinet card portraits of African American women and men, as well as photographs of Netherland’s grandfather, father and husbands.
Institution: Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library at Oakland
41 Items
Network Measurement Center Collection
The UCLA Network Measurement Center was the first node of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), located at 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA. It was run by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock, who has donated his collection of Network Measurement Center documents which include reviews of computer science literature, project notes and reports on the development of the Center's Interface Message Processor (IMP), and various documents related to its role within ARPANET itself.
Institution: UCLA, Kleinrock Internet History Center
36 Items
New Rosario Silver Mining Company Records
The New Rosario Silver Mining Company was formed by the purchase of La Eucarnación, Nuevo Rosario, San Francisco, San Pedro and other small mining properties near the Real del Monte mining district of Mexico. In 1870, investors Charles Morris and John Morkill purchased the properties from John Dickinson Brunton, continuing the tradition of British mining operations in the district. The records of the New Rosario Silver Mining Company include a modest amount of business correspondence, articles of agreement, receipts, and reports meant to entice potential stockholders. The collection also includes articles of agreement for other ventures, including the Morro da …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
14 Items
New San Francisco: Three Years after the Great Conflagration: Photographs, 1909
The New San Francisco album contains 24 mounted prints taken by Edward N. Sewell in 1909 representing the state of recovery of San Francisco three years after the devastating earthquake and fire of 1906 which destroyed much of the city. The album primarily features scenes of the city's financial district, mostly along Market Street and its cross streets. Buildings pictured include the Phelan Building, the Crocker Building, First National Bank, the Palace Hotel, the Chronicle Building, the Monadnock Building, Mutual Bank, the Aronson Building, the Call Building, the Roos Brothers Building, Humboldt Bank, the Flood Building, the Emporium, the Westbank …
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
24 Items
New University
New University is the student newspaper of the University of California, Irvine. Issues from 1968-1983 were digitized from microfilm in 2007-2008. Issues from 1983-2003 were digitized from microfilm in 2015. Current and some back issues are available at http://www.newuniversity.org
Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives
1,310 Items
