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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Salinas Public Library Image Collection
Selected photographs from the Salinas Public Library local history collection.
Institution: Salinas Public Library
734 Items
Sam Hinton Papers
Sam Hinton (1917-2009) was a professional folksinger, aquarist, illustrator, and teacher of literature and folklore at UC San Diego. Selected materials from his papers have been digitized. Digitized items include photographs from the University of California Division of War Research, Hinton’s caricatures and sketches of Scripps Institution of Oceanography faculty, and many original drawings of ocean plants and animals created for Hinton’s newspaper column “The Ocean World.”
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
412 Items
Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection
In 2007, Scripps College inaugurated the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection in honor of Dr. Samella Lewis, who taught at Scripps from 1969 to 1984. An artist, art historian, curator, editor, and filmmaker, Dr. Lewis wrote the first textbook on African American art history, as well as monographs on leading artists Elizabeth Catlett and Richmond Barthé. The collection focuses on contemporary artists, with a special emphasis on art by women and African American artists. Featured are mixed-media works by Stas Orlovski and Susan Rankaitis; drawings by Elizabeth Turk; prints by John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Sue Coe, Floyd Coleman, Samella Lewis, …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
25 Items
Samuel P. Taylor Park, 1889
Photographs document the camping trip of a group of friends at Camp Taylor, West Marin County, 1889. Included are views of the paper mills, dams, and railroad trestles. Also shown is a part of the North Pacific Coast Railroad route, including the White's Hill trestle and the San Anselmo train station.
Institution: Marin County Free Library
20 Items
San Bernardino Public Library YouTube video collection
The San Bernardino Public Library participated in a statewide program called California of the Past where digital A/V recording stations were set up at libraries so local citizens could recording their memories of events and history of the state of California or their towns and cities. The videos have been edited with pictures and music to enhance the storytelling.
Institution: San Bernardino Public Library
19 Items
San Bruno local history photograph collection
The San Bruno Public Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of San Bruno and other areas of San Mateo County from the mid 1800s to the mid 1950s. Images document commercial, residential, and public buildings (notably Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mills Field Airport (later San Francisco Airport), Tanforan Park Racetrack, and Edgemont Grammar School); street scenes; neighborhoods; significant individuals; and annual events such as the Posy Parade.
Institution: San Bruno Public Library
159 Items
San Diego County, UC Cooperative Extension Records
At the turn of the previous century, growing concern over the quality of life for rural Americans prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to appoint a Commission on Country Life in 1908. One of the direct outcomes of the Commission’s recommendations was the passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914, which established a national extension service to place the knowledge generated at land-grant universities into the hands of farmers and rural citizens. Beginning in 1913, the Agriculture Extension Service, later known as UC Cooperative Extension, placed farm advisors employed by the University of California in every county that formed a farm bureau …
Institution: San Diego State University, Special Collections and University Archives, UC Merced, UC Cooperative Extension Archive
110 Items
San Diego History
Selected rare and unique materials documenting San Diego County; digitized from original postcards, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets and other materials held by UC San Diego Library. Materials cover a wide range of topics, including travel, tourism, agriculture, land, and housing development, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held at Balboa Park in 1915.
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
342 Items
San Diego Photograph Collection
The is modest in size with only 700+ images, yet some are of particular interest to those interested in the military in San Diego, Coronado and Hotel del Coronado, and outlying San Diego County....
Institution: San Diego State University, Special Collections and University Archives
47 Items