UC Berkeley Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
UC Berkeley
- Location: Berkeley, CA
- Phone: (510) 643-6390
- Email: PAHMA-Registration@berkeley.edu
- Website: http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/
Founded in 1901, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is dedicated to the study of cultures from yesterday and today, both near and far. Today, the Museum contains an estimated 3.8 million objects from California and around the world, as well as extensive documents, photographs and film recordings. We continue a legacy of enrichment and education, functioning as a research unit for the University of California, Berkeley by supporting scholarly discovery and community-based research.
Located in the heart of the Berkeley campus, we have grown into a museum that studies the past and the present in order to encourage dialogue, understanding, and respect. We facilitate connections by helping people relate to objects, cultures, and to one another.
With a collection containing millions of objects, we are constantly working to tell the stories of the cultures around us. Stories that demonstrate our shared humanity and the myriad connections that bring communities—from around the world—closer together.
Collections at this institution
California Ethnographic Field Photographs
Ethnographic photographs by various photographers in the collection of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
3,299 Items
California Revealed from Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
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. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed 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.
Institution: UC Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
4 Items
Collection of Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins, ca. 1874-1890
The collection consists of 140 albumen prints on their original 22 x 28 inch mounts. The collection comprises views of the western United States including Upper Geyser Basin National Park, a rare set of images of Mammoth Hot Springs National Park, Casa Grande Pre-Historic Ruins in Arizona, scenes along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington including Cape Horn, views from Mt. Lola and Round Top, Lake Tahoe, scenes along the route of the Central Pacific Railroad, views of San Francisco, and uncommon images of Monterey county. These are primarily landscape views, but also include scenes of industrial and urban …
Institution: UC Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
140 Items
Ethnographic Photographs of California Indian and Sonora Indian Subjects by Alfred L. Kroeber, 1901-1930
The information presented in the container listing, taken from the photographic ledger catalogues, is as complete as possible. Dates and places are missing when they were not originally recorded. The numbers that are included in parentheses for some of the photographs from 1907 refer to a series of bodily measurements, taken as part of a survey of the physical anthropology of California Indians. These were published by Edward Winslow Gifford in 1926, California Anthropometry (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 22, no. 2).
Institution: UC Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
625 Items
