Collections in Calisphere

Mexican colonial documents relating to land tenure in the Itzmiquilpa region of Mexico. Highlights include inspection reports from Mexican mines dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries; two papal documents, dated ca. 1805 and 1811; a handwritten supplement to a manual of Mexican agriculture, dated 1869; and an autograph letter signed by Pablo Macedo in 1908. The materials are written in Spanish and relate largely to Mexican legal matters and mining interests. The documents were the property of Pablo Macedo y González Saravia, a lawyer and professor of political economy at the Escuela de Leyes (School of Law), …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Charts of the Pacific Ocean, showing depth along coastlines and around islands, plus some land mapping.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play Records date from 1940 to 1951, and relate to the evacuation, internment, and relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The collection consists of a variety of materials, including correspondence, reports, minutes, and printed materials, which provide insight into the feelings of the citizens connected to this situation.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Pacific Review, the alumni magazine of University of the Pacific, is published three times each year by the Office of Marketing and Communications for alumni, parents and friends of the university

Institution: University of the Pacific

The Huntington Library encompasses a range of materials for the study of the Pacific Rim, a region of immense breadth and a diverse network of people, cultures, and societies. This Pacific Rim collection features a curated selection from legacy and recently acquired collections of digitized photographs and documents from these materials, with emphasis on Chinese American and Japanese American history in Southern California and beyond. Subject areas include immigration history, early Los Angeles Chinatown communities, early Japanese American flower growers and florists, Japanese American incarceration during World War II, and family history.

Institution: Huntington Library

The Pacific Rim Archive (PRIM) brings together archival materials relating to America's first century of involvement in and impressions of East Asia (broadly interpreted as including activities from the 1840s through the 1940s). Trading relations predate this period, but not at the level that began to develop with the United States' active settlement of its Pacific shores. And, on the other hand, the level of American involvement in East Asia following the defeat of Japan, and particularly the outbreak of the Korean War was on a much different level than this first century of the "Pacific Rim."

Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library

Ana Bégué de Packman (1882-1973) served as Secretary of the Historical Society of Southern California from the 1930s through the 1950s. The collection consists of Packman's photographs, newspaper articles, manuscripts, genealogies, maps, ephemera, and correspondence pertaining to the history of the city of Los Angeles, California missions, and Southern California ranchos and adobes.

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

The Paget-Fredericks Dance Collection contains roughly 2,000 original drawings, paintings, photographs and pieces of memorabilia that date from ca. 1913 to ca. 1945.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Young Collection of paintings was given to Scripps College by General and Mrs. Edward Clinton Young in 1946. The majority of the works in the collection are in the Impressionist style and were painted by well-renowned American and European masters, including Mary Cassatt, George Inness, Winslow Homer, and Theodore Robinson. The Youngs developed their extraordinary collection while living in the eastern United States. Their goal was to include high quality, representative work by the best American painters active during the period 1870-1930. Their decision to donate the painting collection to Scripps College was the result of several factors, including …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

Donated to the Library from the Pacific Palisades Historical Society in 2006, this photograph collection consists of more than 3000 images in prints, negatives, and other media. The collection provides a rich visual history of the Palisades community from its pre-development days in 1916 and founding in 1922 up to and including the 1950s.

Institution: Santa Monica Public Library