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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Palm Springs Historic Architectural Highlights Issues
Institution: Palm Springs Public Library
1 Item
Palos Verdes Bulletin
The Palos Verdes Bulletin was a monthly newsletter which began publication in November 1924. It was produced by the Palos Verdes Homes Association and distributed freely to homeowners, lot owners, residents, and potential buyers of land which became Palos Verdes Estates. The Bulletin contained news on the activities of the Homes Association, the Art Jury, and the general progress of the Palos Verdes Project development. Information on new buildings, architecture standards, landscaping ideas, and amenities such as the golf course, the riding stables, and the swim club was accompanied by numerous photographs. The Bulletin also detailed the burgeoning social life ...
Institution: Palos Verdes Library District
82 Items
Palos Verdes College Photo Collection
The photographs in this collection document the Palos Verdes College, a private, two-year, co-ed, liberal arts college, once located off of Crest Road in the Rolling Hills area of Rancho Palos Verdes. The college opened in September 1947 under the direction of founding president, Dr. Richard P. Saunders, who came to Palos Verdes from New York University. The site of the school was a former Army Air Force base, composed of barrack-like buildings. The site was temporary pending the construction of a large permanent campus on a nearby parcel of land. Due to a lack of funding, a permanent campus ...
Institution: Palos Verdes Library District
225 Items
Palos Verdes Homes Association Photo Collection
The Palos Verdes Homes Association Photo Collection was donated to the Palos Verdes Library District by the Palos Verdes (PV) Homes Association. The photographs in this collection were featured in one of the earliest publications on the Peninsula, the Palos Verdes Bulletin. The Bulletin, published from November 1924 to October 1931 and then again form October 1932 to June 1933, provided updates to residents and potential property buyers. The Palos Verdes Homes Association continues to this day overseeing building and landscaping throughout the City of Palos Verdes Estates.
Institution: Palos Verdes Library District
1,775 Items
Pamphlet Maps Collection
Collection consists of hundreds of pamphlet maps of various places around the world.
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
8 Items
Panama Pacific International Exposition Collection
The Photographs of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition collection contains photographic glass negatives of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition taken by the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Exposition.
Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections
340 Items
Panama Pacific International Exposition Records
The Panama Pacific International Exposition Records consist of the official records from the offices of the world's fair held in San Francisco, California in 1915. The bulk of the records range in date from 1911, when San Francisco was officially declared the site for the Exposition, to the dissolution of Exposition property in 1916. The records have been arranged into nine series, documenting the major divisions of the Exposition: Executive and Administrative Files, the Office of the Comptroller, Division of Works; Division of Exploitation, Division of Concessions and Admissions, Division of Exhibits, Foreign Office Files, Office of the Historian, and ...
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
3 Items
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
The Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) was a world's fair held in San Francisco between February 20 and December 4, 1915.
Institution: Marin County Free Library
58 Items
Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Photographs
The Photographs of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition collection contains 31 photographic prints of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition taken by the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of the Exposition.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
32 Items