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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Objets d'art
A collection of digital 3D models featuring various works of art from around the world.
Institution: The Arc/k Project
8 Items
Observations and Model Simulations from the Inner-Shelf Dynamics Experiment (ISDE)
The inner shelf, the transition zone between the surf zone and the mid shelf, is a dynamically complex region with the evolution of circulation and stratification driven by multiple physical processes. Cross-shelf exchange through the inner shelf has important implications for coastal water quality, ecological connectivity, and lateral movement of sediment and heat. The Inner-Shelf Dynamics Experiment (ISDE) was an intensive, coordinated, multi-institution field experiment from Sep.-Oct. 2017, conducted from the mid shelf, through the inner shelf and into the surf zone near Point Sal, CA. Satellite, airborne, shore- and ship-based remote sensing, in-water moorings and ship-based sampling, and numerical …
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
21 Items
OC Stories Photos
OC Stories celebrates the rich cultural diversity of Orange County's past and present by documenting people, businesses, institutions, and events of historical significance to Orange County, California.
Institution: OC Public Libraries
4,225 Items
OC Stories Videos
OC Stories celebrates the rich cultural diversity of Orange County's past and present by documenting people, businesses, institutions, and events of historical significance to Orange County, California.
Institution: OC Public Libraries
237 Items
Occidental College Barack Obama, U.S. President and Alumnus (1980-1981)
Institution: Occidental College Library
47 Items
Occidental College Bessie Beatty Collection
The Special Collection of photos, diaries, letters, news articles and books from the life of Bessie Beatty was originally loaned by the Beatty family to Occidental College Professor Norman Cohen as research for a biography of her life. The result of his extensive efforts is a significant collection donated to the College by the Beatty family that illustrates the life of a journalist, writer, activist, and radio host who attended Occidental College from 1903-1906. Her story is known by few people today, but in her day she associated with everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt to Vladimir Lenin and traveled around the …
Institution: Occidental College Library
170 Items
Occidental College Campus Design
Occidental College was established in 1887 in Boyle Heights, just outside the then city limits of Los Angeles, moved to Highland Park and then to Eagle Rock Valley. The Eagle Rock campus is designed by renowned architect Myron Hunt with landscape design in 1937 by Beatrix Farrand. On the occassion of the 100th anniversary of the campus, Special Collections & College Archives is building an online collection of photos, documents, maps and architectural plans and drawings to offer details about 100 years of Occidental College campus design.
Institution: Occidental College Library
440 Items
Occidental College Railroading
This digital archive of fifteen artifacts display the California History Research Seminar (History 279) class research with the John Lloyd-Butler Railroadiana Collection during the spring of 2008. Their research demonstrates an ideal of railroad transportation as a “spatial concept.” More specifically, this “spatial concept” perceives the railcar not only as a means of transportation but a cultural space unto itself.
Institution: Occidental College Library
15 Items
Occidental College Stereographs
This digital archive presents selected stereographic views from the American Civil War, the Cuban and Philippine campaigns of the Spanish American War of 1898, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, and the World War of 1914 to 1918. Sixty stereographic cards were selected from the holdings of the Charles D. Klamm Stereograph Collection to be described and analyzed by the students in the History of Photography (Art History 287) class during the spring of 2008. There are over 10,000 stereographic views in the collection documenting subjects of the 19th and early 20th century.
Institution: Occidental College Library
61 Items