Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
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Calisphere Are you ready for John Muir week? (We're quoting his letters here starting December 1--see our events for details) Get a jump start with photos, objects, landscapes, and timelines galore from the collections of the John Muir National Historic Site:
Calisphere I got 11/15 on the Physical and Cultural Geography quiz--hey, not too bad. What did you get? Happy International Education Week!
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Test your knowledge of the world! The Department of State and the Department of Education are pleased to partner with the National Geographic Society, which has provided questions from previous National Geographic Bee competitions for this year's Global IQ Quiz.
Calisphere Today in 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state. 30 years later: striking Dust Bowl images from Dorothea Lange.
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Calisphere Just found this fascinating document: a program from an NAACP rally, Oakland 1960. It includes a "legislative score board"--the civil rights voting record of every legislator in California.
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Brochure from the Civil Rights Rally held in the Oakland Auditorium on October 16th, 1960. Includes the program and various reports on civil rights legislation, national political party stands on civil rights, more.
Calisphere Today we hit 200 Facebook fans! Thanks everyone!
Calisphere Calisphere recommends: a fantastic compilation of of links on Indigenous Peoples, Conquest and Resistance in the West from Washington State University. A great resource for Native American Heritage Month.
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Featured Site:Indian Occupation of Alcatraz (1969-71) Professor Troy Johnson of UC Berkeley has compiled these rare and fascinating photos (contributed by Ilka Hartmann, Michelle Vignes, and the National Park Service). ...
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Mexicali, Mexico, 1954: L.A. Times reports "800 braceros massed against wall of U.S. border patrolmen for the chance to
be selected for one of the coveted farm jobs last week. Some fainted in crush."
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Courtesy of Dept of Special Collections, UCLA: Charles E. Young Research Library
Calisphere Calisphere recommends: Van Gogh's personal letters online, now translated into English! And annotated! Full search capabilities, sketches, notes, related artworks, and more. Pretty amazing.
Calisphere It's Native American Heritage Month! Striking images--plus essays and lesson plans--show California's diverse native cultures from the Pre-Columbian period to the 20th Century.
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Pre-Columbian California – 18th Century The 19th Century The 20th Century and Today Arts and Traditions in Everyday Life (1900s-1950s)
Calisphere Happy Halloween! Another classic (Anaheim, 1936). Zoom in for full effect--these guys were serious about costuming.
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Group portrait of 23 Anaheimers dressed for the Halloween Festival in 1936; Identified people include Monte Webb, Art Kemper, Jim Pifer, Mark Stephenson, Marcus Andrade, Ernie DuBois, Marion Henry, Bob Spence and Norbert DeCock; image shows 23 men dressed in a variety of costumes.
Calisphere Vintage Halloween (Anaheim, 1957). I wonder if there's anyone inside the tree...?
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View of the S.Q.R. Store float in the Anaheim Halloween Festival Parade; image shows float with three unidentified women dressed as witches, one on a flying broomstick, with a tree behind them and a sign reading "THE SQR STORE" on the side of the float.
Calisphere Remembering "Black Tuesday": this day in 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression, as traders panicked and sold their shares. See what it was like to live in those times:
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For California, the nation, and the world, the 1930s was a period of particularly hard times. The US stock market crash of 1929 set off the most severe economic depression in the Western world. In the American Midwest, this was compounded by a severe drought that destroyed crops and farms. ...
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Calisphere contains thousands of photographs of the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, like the one below. Browse more at http://bit.ly/j7OzY
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Calisphere Got flu on the mind? Calisphere recommends this online exhibit with photos and documents from the 1918 flu epidemic. From the National Archives and Records Administration. (Stay healthy this season!)
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World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives. The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.
Calisphere Beyond California: the Erie Canal opened on this day in 1825--an engineering marvel that brought commerce to surrounding states and enabled more settlers to venture West.
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