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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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
346 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
San Diego Public Library - A Pictorial History
What became known as the San Diego Public Library had its beginnings in 1882 on the second floor of the Consolidated Bank Building at Fifth and G Streets in downtown San Diego. The first published catalog, compiled by Lulu Younkin in 1889, listed 7,800 volumes. In the decades since, the San Diego Public Library has grown into a robust stystem comprising thirty-five branches and the central library. Today our collections include more than 3.8 million items, including books, audio-visual materials, and the latest downloadable ebooks. We serve a population of more than 1.3 million residents over a geographic area of …
Institution: San Diego Public Library
743 Items
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Research Data Services Materials Collection
The SDSC Research Data Services (RDS) division provides infrastructure and technical expertise to support data-intensive research for academic and non-academic customers. The RDS team facilitates national trends in computationally-based research with services ranging from Cloud Storage and Compute platforms, Enterprise Networking, Research Data Consulting, Storage, System Administration, and VMware Virtualization Hosting. A component of these activities is the creation of presentations, technical and project reports, materials from expert workshops, training materials, webinar content, and more. This collection provides a central location for RDS informational and technical work products. Research and cyberinfrastructure activities within RDS are funded in part by grants …
Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
14 Items
San Diego Technology Archive Oral Histories
The San Diego Technology Archive (SDTA), an initiative of the UC San Diego Library, documents the history, formation, and evolution of the companies that formed the San Diego region's high-tech cluster, beginning in 1965. The SDTA captures the vision, strategic thinking, and recollections of key technology and business founders, entrepreneurs, academics, venture capitalists, early employees, and service providers, many of whom figured prominently in the development of San Diego's dynamic technology cluster. As these individuals articulate and comment on their contributions, innovations, contributions, and entrepreneurial trajectories, a rich living history emerges about the extraordinarily synergistic academic and commercial collaborations that …
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
60 Items
