Calisphere Soars Past Two Million Digital Primary Resource Items

Miguel Angel Reyes, Portait of Maria Felix, 2002 / UC Santa Barbara
Miguel Angel Reyes, Portrait of Maria Felix, 2002 / UC Santa Barbara

Calisphere announced that it now provides access to over two million historical images, texts, recordings, and other primary resources from the state of California’s remarkable digital collections. Explore early maps of the world; photographs from historical newspapers; paintings reflecting periods of cultural significance; personal journals and diaries charting new frontiers; political posters calling for decades of social and political change; and interviews with and oral histories of the citizens of this state. Visit Calisphere to access this openly-available, statewide aggregation of digitized resources from over 300 participating institutions and delve into the stories that have shaped California throughout its history.


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