Collections in Calisphere

The Final Report of the 1981 Historic Resources Survey presents the findings of the Western Sonoma County Historic Resource Survey team's comprehensive visual assessment of historic resources in coastal and western Sonoma County, as well as the City of Sebastopol, excluding prehistoric or archaeological data. This survey presents a well-balanced collection of resources from throughout the map areas, showcasing various activities that have taken place since the 1830s. It includes landmarks, farm units, the rural narrow-gauge railroad, towns of different sizes, and remnants of various structures representing human involvement in the area's growth between 1850 and 1940.

Institution: Sonoma County Library

Individual photographs of historic resources surveyed in the 1981 Western Sonoma County Historic Resources Survey. Each image includes links to the survey page, as well as map locations.

Institution: Sonoma County Library

Photographs, postcards and greeting cards selected from the collections of the Western Sonoma County Historical Society's West County Museum.

Institution: Sonoma County Library

This survey expedition stereograph collection consists of 150 albumen stereographs taken of and for the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian from 1871-1874. The publisher is the War Department Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. The U.S. Geographical and Geological Surveys were implemented for the purpose of surveying, mapping, and studying the vast expanses of the previously unknown western landscapes of the United States. Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William Bell were the official photographers of the surveys....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

West-ography, re-imaging the West consists primarily of photographs documenting how the American west has been imaged historically and over the years. Initially, photographs include landscape photography and portraits of Native Americans – as the collection grows portraits of pioneers and other documentary photographs such as photographs from various Western fiestas and/or pageantry will be added. Currently, the collection includes select Edward S. Curtis photogravures from his The North American Indian: being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska numbered plate portfolios and boxes 1 and 4 from the Charles Lummis photograph collection …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

The Philip Whalen Papers, circa 1940-2001, consist of the writings (notebooks, poems, prose works), correspondence, professional papers, artwork and personal papers that detail Whalen’s dual life as poet (coming to prominence during San Francisco’s Beat era of the 50’s and often associated with his fellow Reed graduates, Gary Snyder and Lew Welch), and later, Buddhist monk.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

What We've Learned is a newsletter produced by Student Affairs at UC San Diego. The newsletter began in 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, as an effort to keep students informed on current events. Currently, the newsletter is published biweekly; however earlier editions were published weekly and occasionally triweekly.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The Wheeler Scrapbooks were a gift of Frank Wheeler, a real estate businessman, to The Claremont Colleges, and they chronicle life at Pomona College and in the city of Claremont from 1884 to 1938. The Scrapbooks were assembled with the assistance of Pomona College faculty member Edwin Charles Norton, as well as various other members of the community who provided items. Newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, plans, pamphlets, and other items are affixed onto roughly 300 scrapbook pages. Through age and many years of use, the scrapbooks have become quite fragile, particularly the highly acidic pages of newspaper which are now …

Institution: Claremont Colleges Library

"During the spring of 1969 some 50 African American students, accompanied by psychology professor Ed Turner, the sole African American faculty member on campus, marched on the Chancellor's Office to demand, in part, creation of a Department of African American Studies. The negotiations begun by Chancellor Emil Mrak were continued under Chancellor James Meyer. It was decided to create an African American Studies Program, and FTE were set aside for faculty with expertise in the black experience. Ed Turner,appointed director of Black Studies, consulted with a newly formed curriculum development committee consisting of black political sociologist and Berkeley graduate student …

Institution: UC Davis, University Library, Special Collections

The Whittier Historical Photograph Collection includes images documenting the foundation of the community of Whittier, California during the periods of the late 1800s to the middle of the 20th century. The images in the Whittier Historical Photograph Collection depict not only historical buildings and portraits of early Whittier settlers; they also document the beginnings of the California citrus, oil, and transportation industries. Many of the images in this collection display the prosperous time of growth as seen in similar early California settlements. Images include the Casa de Governor Pio Pico, (home of the last Mexican Governor of California), the Jonathan …

Institution: Whittier Public Library