Library, Special Collections and University Archives

Commercial photographer Avery Field documented the growth and development of Riverside, California in the first half of the 20th century. A large portion of this collection is comprised of images featuring local residents and their involvement in various events such as parades, celebrations, and weddings. The architectural history of the city is also well-documented with images of both residential and commercial buildings, including many of the Mission Inn. Portraits of local families, images of the region's geographic landscapes, and artwork are also contained in this collection.

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California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. The California Revealed Project is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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Citrus crate labels, primarily from packing and shipping companies in Southern California with an emphasis on the Inland Empire region.

Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives

Photographs, correspondence, military records, and other material pertaining to Earl R. Oatman, a Prisoner of War (POW) during World War II and Professor Emeritus of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside.

Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives

Diaries of Toranosuke "George" Fujimoto and his son George Fujimoto Jr., including the World War II period when their family was forcibly removed from their home in Riverside, California to an incarceration camp in Poston, Arizona. The diaries kept by Toranosuke between 1913-1968 are in Japanese. The diaries kept by George Jr. between 1942-1948 are in English.

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Photographs taken by Jay Kay Klein documenting Science Fiction & Fantasy fandom. The majority of images were taken by Klein while attending various Science Fiction & Fantasy conventions and events, including many from the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). NOTE: To submit additional information or corrections for descriptions of photographs in this collection, please use the following form: https://library.ucr.edu/klein-info-form or use the new commenting feature now available on Calisphere for this collection (to access commenting select an image and click "Join the Discussion").

Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives

Correspondence, documents, publications, and other material pertaining to the personal and professional life of Juan Silvano Godoi (1850-1926), a Paraguayan politician, journalist, jurist, and historian. Includes correspondence with many prominent political figures and scholars of the era as well as political and financial documents.

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Items from "The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster : Embracing Accounts and Illustrations of St. Stephen's Chapel, and its cloisters, - Westminster Hall, - The Court of Requests, - The Painted Chamber", by Edward Wedlake Brayley, and John Britton. Material includes correspondence, documents and illustrated plates from circa 1650 to 1905.

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Photographs and documents on the life of Eliza L. Tibbets and her descendants, compiled by author Patricia Ortlieb, who is Tibbets' great-great-granddaughter. Photographs, including ambrotypes and tintypes, depict members of the Tibbets, Lovell, Summons, and Olmsted families throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tibbets (1823-1898), a horticulturist, spiritualist, abolitionist, suffragist, and early settler in Riverside, is most widely known for her role in introducing the Washington navel orange in California. Ortlieb is the co-author of "Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry" (Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2011).

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Glass plate negatives, photographs, and lantern slides of the Mexican Revolution taken by photographer Sabino Osuna. Includes images of Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Alvaro Obregón, Emiliano Zapata, and Pancho Villa, as well as street warfare during La Decena Trágica.

Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives