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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Sacramento Yearbook Project
A growing collection of yearbooks from some of Sacramento’s most significant schools spans over 50 school years. From the collections of the Sacramento Room and the Center for Sacramento History.
Institution: Sacramento Public Library
100 Items
Sacred Heart Chapel
The Sacred Heart Chapel Stained Glass Windows Collection features twenty-nine unique stained glass windows found in Loyola Marymount University’s iconic chapel. Twenty-eight of the windows feature a religious figure and a seal representing one of the Jesuit Colleges or Universities in the United States. The one exception, the “Rose Window,” depicts an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to whom the chapel is dedicated.
Institution: Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
30 Items
Sacred Text Conference Archives
The First Annual Conference of Religions in Conversation will be an exploration of passages addressing relationships with insiders and outsiders, and points of inclusivity and exclusivity, within the Sacred Texts of six groups: Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, LDS/Mormonism, and Hinduism. What do these Sacred Texts say about the tension between inclusivity and exclusivity? Are there actions proscribed by the text for treatment of insiders and outsiders?
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
9 Items
Sadakichi Hartmann papers
Selected photographs from the personal papers of Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944), a writer, poet, dramatist, and critic during the early 20th century. Hartmann was an important figure in early modernism and had a diverse social circle that included Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, and John Barrymore.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
7 Items
Saddleback College History
This collection brings together a wide range of institutional documents, spanning the history of Saddleback College since its founding in 1968. Documents include: College newsletters; Photographs; Student handbooks; Oral histories; College reports and planning documents; And much more! The following items are also available from external sites: - The Lariat: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=LAR
Institution: Saddleback College Library
241 Items
Saddleback Mascot History
Discover the evolution of Saddleback's mascot! This collection documents the transformation from the Gaucho to the Bobcat. Explore a variety of documents illustrating the decision to redesign the Gaucho mascot in 2019, the movement to retire the Gaucho entirely in 2020, and the process of selecting the Bobcat mascot in 2021. Documents include: Videos; Petitions; Press releases; Public comments; Committee documents; And much more!
Institution: Saddleback College Library
48 Items
Salinas Public Library Image Collection
Selected photographs from the Salinas Public Library local history collection.
Institution: Salinas Public Library
1,676 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 C. Evans collection on the Riverside Land and Irrigation Company
Documents pertaining to water rights and land ownership in Riverside and San Bernardino counties during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes legal documents, correspondence, and other material pertaining to the Jurupa Ditch and Trujillo Ditch companies, the Riverside Land and Irrigation Company, and the Bandini Donation collected by Samuel C. Evans, a prominent businessman in Riverside, California and former president of the Riverside Land and Irrigation Company.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
10 Items
