Sanson, Nicolas. America Settentrional, circa 1690, is an Italian edition of Sanson’s influential seventeenth-century mapping of North America and preserves one of the most enduring cartographic misconceptions of the early modern Atlantic world: California shown as an island. The map supports research into European geographic knowledge, the circulation of French.....
An original 19th century albumen photograph depicting Sant Francisco houses and the bay from up on a hill. Wording on bottom reads "B 865 San Francisco Bay. Tabers Photo., San Francisco." Mounted on a card. 5"x8"
Barr, Aaron; Cohen, Paul R.; Feigenbaum, Edward A. The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence. 1981. This three-volume work documents the system of artificial intelligence research consolidation and dissemination developed within Stanford University’s computer science community, bringing together approximately twenty-five years of work in heuristic programming, knowledge representation, and machine reasoning. The.....
Archive of newsletters issued by the American Civil Liberties Union Gay Rights Chapter of Southern California documenting LGBTQ legal advocacy, political mobilization, and civil liberties organizing during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The newsletters record responses to employment discrimination, police harassment, legislative campaigns, and public policy conflicts through committee.....
Archive of newsletters issued by the American Civil Liberties Union Gay Rights Chapter documenting LGBTQ legal advocacy, political organizing, and civil liberties activism in Southern California during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The newsletters record responses to discrimination, police harassment, legislative battles, and public policy disputes through committee reports.....
Boucard, Adolphe. Travels of a Naturalist (1894), a narrative of scientific travel and observation documenting Indigenous communities, natural environments, and colonial-era societies across North and Central America. The work reflects nineteenth-century naturalist traditions in which field observation, specimen collection, and ethnographic description were intertwined, offering detailed accounts of Indigenous lifeways.....
San Francisco Bay Area panel van photographs documenting corporate imaging, mobile advertising strategy, and branded distribution networks in 1980s America, capturing how businesses transformed commercial vehicles into rolling visual identities during the late twentieth century. An unidentified local photographer systematically recorded delivery vans, service fleets, and promotional vehicles belonging to.....
Defend Democratic Rights! Handbill Calling for Justice After the Arson of Black WWII Veteran John T. Walker’s Home in Redwood City, California, 1946 Redwood City, CA: Communist Party, San Mateo County, [1946]. 8.5 x 11 in. Mimeographed leaflet. Handbill issued by the Communist Party of San Mateo County after the.....
Photo archive of African American fashion models and a regional beauty pageant winner, 1960s–1970s, documents Black women’s participation in commercial modeling and organized pageantry during a period of changing representation in American media. The images center on professional studio photography and promotional portraiture, recording how Black women were presented within.....
African American family photo album documents military service, educational attainment, and middle-class life in Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1960s, a period shaped by wartime participation, postwar migration, and the expansion of Black urban communities in the American West. Centered on members including Herman, a World War II.....
[African American Military] African American servicemen archive spanning the late 1930s through the Second World War, including studio portraits, candid snapshots, and wartime scenes, several with manuscript captions and identifying inscriptions. The group documents Black military service during the era of official segregation in the United States armed forces, when.....
[African American Photography] Cabinet card original photograph of beautifully dressed African American woman. Los Angeles, California. 7.5" x 5.2." An African-American woman wears a ruffled white gown and decorative spring hat. Next to her is a table covered with ornate blankets. Studio blindstamp underneath image reads, "Bijou Studio, Los Angeles.....
African American law enforcement photographic archive, 1940s–1969, documenting the presence and professional roles of Black police officers during the decades spanning segregation and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. These images record individual officers, peer relationships, and public-facing roles within police institutions, providing visual evidence of Black participation.....
Cooper, Howard L. Vietnam War photographs and promotion letter, circa 1970s, document African American noncommissioned officer service within an integrated U.S. Army and the formal evaluation structures governing advancement during and immediately after the conflict. The material centers on Sergeant Cooper’s presence within a deployed unit in Vietnam alongside fellow.....
[Black Radicalism] Jihad News vol. 2, no. 1, issued in San Francisco in July 1974 and associated with the African People’s Party, joins Black Power politics in the United States to prison defense, police violence, and Pan-African debate through the paper’s own headlines and printed texts. The front cover asks.....
[LGBTQ] Archive of eleven grassroots LGBTQ political mobilization and public health advocacy documents during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Produced in San Francisco at a moment marked by widespread misinformation, discrimination, and limited federal response, the materials reflect how local organizations assumed responsibility for education, fundraising, electoral engagement.....
Archive of photographs and printed material documenting public health response, activist mobilization, medical research, and media representation during the AIDS crisis between 1988 and 1993. The material records responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through protest campaigns, educational outreach, scientific research, public-awareness initiatives, and international health conferences involving hospitals, advocacy organizations.....
[LGBTQ] [Public Health] [African American] Various authors and photographers. AIDS crisis archive, 1988 to 1995 documents medical education, community response, and lived experience during the HIV AIDS epidemic across the United States, the United Kingdom, and sub Saharan Africa. The material provides direct evidence of how governments, advocacy organizations, and.....
Various authors and issuers, group of LGBTQ+ publications, 1981–1987, documenting community organizing, political advocacy, and public health response during the early years of the AIDS crisis in the United States. The material operates in Cultural/Representational Mode, illustrating how LGBTQ+ communities articulated identity, protest, and survival strategies through print media, and.....
Kenneth L. Hoff photo album of U.S. Army Air Forces service in India during World War II, comprising photographs of camps, rail lines, port cities, urban staging points, and repeated movement between American military spaces and Indian civilian environments. Hoff is identified by the cover inscription and by preserved newspaper.....
All-American Canal construction archive, 1936, recording the machinery, labor, and earth-moving work that redirected Colorado River irrigation water into Imperial Valley through a canal located entirely inside the United States. Congress authorized the All-American Canal in the 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act, the same law that authorized Hoover Dam, as.....
World War I military photo album and scrapbook documenting Richard H. Morrison movement from Berkeley, California as an officer candidate from local recommendations and Army appointment papers to field artillery training, overseas service, postwar discharge, and later reserve artillery activity. Morrison’s record begins in April 1917, as the United States.....
Photo album documenting the travels of a young woman and her companions through California, Colorado, and Texas during the 1910s and 1920s, preserving visual evidence of female leisure travel, outdoor recreation, and tourism in the early twentieth-century American West. The album captures a period when increasing mobility, expanding rail and.....
Mid-20th century American lesbian pulp novel archive documents same-sex female desire as written by lesbian authors during the 1950s and early 1960s, when most pulp fiction in the genre was produced by men under pseudonyms. Issued between 1955 and 1964, these works by Ann Bannon (Ann Weldy), Pat Perdue, Gale.....
Adams, Ansel. Photographs of the Southwest. 1976 volume presenting a selection of Ansel Adams’ landscape photographs created between 1928 and 1968 across the American Southwest, inscribed and signed by the photographer. Adams emerged as one of the most influential figures in twentieth century American photography and environmental advocacy, widely recognized.....
