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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Sabino Osuna photographs
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
427 Items
Sacramento Ephemera Collection
Tickets, programs, leaflets, advertisements, cards, letters, invoices and other forms of ephemeral material provide a visual window into the history of Sacramento businesses, chambers of commerce, sports teams, schools, government agencies, theaters and clubs.
Institution: Sacramento Public Library
749 Items
Sacramento Public Library YouTube video collection
Book talks, local history, and more from Sacramento Public Library.
Institution: Sacramento Public Library
117 Items
Sacramento Room Periodicals
Amusements, events and topics of the late 19th and early 20th century are captured between the pages of select weekly and monthly magazines published with the express purpose of profitably promoting the professions, programs and projects that utilized the Sacramento Valley's vast resources.
Institution: Sacramento Public Library
416 Items
Sacramento Room Photographs
Over a century of images selected from the Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library provide a panoramic presentation of the life and times of the Capital city.
Institution: Sacramento Public Library
2,860 Items
Sacramento Room Postcards
Colorful pocket-sized mementos of Sacramento’s past capture the growth of the region and chronicle its unique resources and often dramatic change.
Institution: Sacramento Public Library
1,384 Items
Sacramento Yearbook Project
A growing collection of yearbooks from some of Sacramento’s most significant schools spans over 50 school years. From the collections of the Sacramento Room and the Center for Sacramento History.
Institution: Sacramento Public Library
100 Items
Sacred Heart Chapel
The Sacred Heart Chapel Stained Glass Windows Collection features twenty-nine unique stained glass windows found in Loyola Marymount University’s iconic chapel. Twenty-eight of the windows feature a religious figure and a seal representing one of the Jesuit Colleges or Universities in the United States. The one exception, the “Rose Window,” depicts an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to whom the chapel is dedicated.
Institution: Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
30 Items
Sacred Text Conference Archives
The First Annual Conference of Religions in Conversation will be an exploration of passages addressing relationships with insiders and outsiders, and points of inclusivity and exclusivity, within the Sacred Texts of six groups: Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, LDS/Mormonism, and Hinduism. What do these Sacred Texts say about the tension between inclusivity and exclusivity? Are there actions proscribed by the text for treatment of insiders and outsiders?
Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
9 Items
Sadakichi Hartmann papers
Selected photographs from the personal papers of Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944), a writer, poet, dramatist, and critic during the early 20th century. Hartmann was an important figure in early modernism and had a diverse social circle that included Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, and John Barrymore.
Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
7 Items