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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Boynton Collection of Early Claremont
The Boynton Collection offers a view of early Claremont through the eyes of an amateur photographer. This collection of glass plate negatives captures aspects of life in Claremont and at Pomona College around the turn of the twentieth century. As well as documenting local buildings and landscape, they present a candid glimpse of Pomona College student life, including athletic events, theatrical productions, college outings, and residence halls. The collection, which is housed in Special Collections, is believed to have come to Pomona College included with the papers of Charles Luther Boynton, a Pomona College alumnus and missionary to China. Boynton …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
760 Items
Muir Woods National Monument – Kent Family Collection
William Kent purchased Redwood Canyon, now Muir Woods National Monument, and donated it to the Federal Government in 1908, to save the ancient Redwood trees and the canyon from development.
Institution: Marin County Free Library
20 Items
Western Sonoma County Historical Society Collection
Photographs, postcards and greeting cards selected from the collections of the Western Sonoma County Historical Society's West County Museum.
Institution: Sonoma County Library
6,176 Items
Mission Santa Clara Sacramental Records
As all Roman Catholic clergy are obliged to do, the priests who staffed Mission Santa Clara kept meticulous records about the sacraments at which they officiated. Over the past few decades, mission sacramental records have proven to be of inestimable value in helping scholars reconstruct the rhythms of life in pre-1850 California. These different kinds of records offer clues about daily life at Mission Santa Clara. Careful examination of these records has enabled anthropologists to recover the size and location of a number of indigenous villages, and thus has immeasurably increased our knowledge of native California before the arrival of …
Institution: Santa Clara University
1,421 Items
UPI - Jimmy Carter
Part of the United Press International (UPI) collection, this series contains images covering Jimmy Carters presidency, 1977-1981.
Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
50 Items
Leo Szilard Letters to Gertrud Weiss
The Leo Szilard Letters to Gertrud Weiss collection contains letters written between 1937 and 1959 from Szilard to Weiss. The letters document the development of their relationship during this period and cover a variety of topics, from the everyday to more personal topics, including Szilard's battle with cancer. There are also a small number of letters from other correspondents. Letters are primarily in German, with some in English. The entire collection has been digitized.
Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
24 Items
Liberty High School (Brentwood, CA) Images and Artifacts
This Liberty High School collection contains photographs and artifacts that provide a glimpse into the history of those who attended Liberty High School in Brentwood, California during the first part of the 20th century. This collection includes photos showing the high school site at various times and student activities. The collection also includes school related artifacts such as dance and report cards.
Institution: Liberty High School Library
71 Items
Women's Suffrage and Equal Rights
Held in the Macpherson Collection by and about Women at the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College, the Women's Suffrage and Equal Rights Collection traces the development of the American women’s suffrage movement with a significant focus on California's history. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the collection primarily emphasizes the years from 1901-1924, preceding and immediately following the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Contents include leaflets, flyers, newspaper articles, suffrage programs, magazine clippings, and memorabilia from the United States, with correspondence and ephemera related to suffrage pioneers such as Susan B. Anthony, Alice Park, and Carrie Chapman Catt. Additional …
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
236 Items
Byron McAfee Papers, 1553-1964
Byron McAfee's research papers and original manuscripts from Mexico's colonial period. The research papers contain drafts of translations and essays by McAfee and his major collaborator, John Hubert Cornyn, on a variety of subjects including colonial codices, Spanish-Nahuatl dictionaries and vocabularies, and Nahua history and culture. The papers also include printed instructional and linguistic materials on Nahuatl, such as an 1887 Nahuatl grammar from Mexico; full transcriptions of important 16th century works by friars Bernardino de Sahagún, Alonso de Molina and Andres de Olmos; translations and linguistic studies of Nahuatl dramas; and material extracted from Mexican political and social movements …
Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
46 Items
Transportation
This album contains images of transportation in and around South Pasadena, California.
Institution: South Pasadena Public Library
58 Items
