Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints
Examples of late 17th century to early 20th century Japanese woodblock prints from the Scripps College Collection of Japanese Prints by the artists Chikanobu (1838-1912) and Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
Claremont Colleges Sustainability Archive
The archive contains materials related to the efforts at The Claremont Colleges to create a more sustainable campus, one that minimizes the colleges’ impacts on resources and the environment. Teams of faculty, staff, and students applied for funding as part of a three-year pilot-program to implement projects that assess the colleges’ environmental impacts, recommend and implement measures to limit adverse environmental impacts, and evaluate the success of those measures.
Faculty Scholarship at The Claremont Colleges
Faculty Scholarship at The Claremont Colleges is an institutional repository with a set of services to capture, store, index, and provide access to scholarly research. The repository offers worldwide access to the scholarly output of Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, and Keck Graduate Institute faculty.
Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century
The collection is comprised of over 700 images of nineteenth-century fashion plates in the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The full-color fashion plates were gathered from a variety of women's periodicals and other mass-circulating publications from 1789 to 1914. The images are primarily from France, Britain, America, and Spain, and depict scenes of nineteenth-century middle and upper-class life with an emphasis on the leisure practices of bourgeois women, men, and children.
Gradual from Maundy Thursday to the Vigil of Pentecost
This illuminated Renaissance manuscript, officially named "Denison Library, Perkins 4. Gradual. s. XVI," is a choir book that contains Latin text and plainsong music sung by cantors and choir at the Roman Catholic Church mass. The book was created in northern France, probably Rouen, in the early 16th century.
Guides to Manuscript Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections at the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges provide access to detailed descriptions of various personal papers and manuscript collections held in Honnold/Mudd Library Special Collections and Ella Strong Denison Library. Special collections at the Libraries hold several hundred separate collections of literary and historical manuscripts, college records, and personal papers. They include a wide variety of materials, such as letters, diaries, photographs, literary manuscripts, and ephemera.
Records of the creative output of artist and Scripps College professor, Ken Gonzales-Day. Included in the collection is his curriculum vitae, images used to compile art and publications, notebooks documenting research, and photographs and documentation of art installations.
Images of murals from Northern Ireland, principally West Belfast, Republican and Loyalist, painted during the recent period of Troubles. The images are records which include historical representation, political standpoints, community concerns, forms of ideological address.
N.A. Chandler California Gold Rush Era Letters
The N. A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters collection consists of fifty-six handwritten letters from 1855 to 1872. Newton Amos Chandler (1818?-1880) wrote these letters from San Francisco and California mining camps, and Nevada silver and gold rush locations. These letters offer insights on life in San Francisco, Virginia City, Civil War opinions in California and Nevada, and the opportunities and discouragements of a prospector. In addition, Chandler's letters provide some information on the settling of Nevada, Native American interactions, and the mining history of Northern California and Nevada.
Paintings from the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery
Collection of paintings donated to Scripps College by General and Mrs. Edward Clinton Young in 1946. The majority of the works are in the Impressionist style and were painted by well-renowned American and European masters.
Pueblo and Plains Indian Watercolors
The artworks in this collection were produced by artists from the Pueblo and Plains American Indian cultures in the early twentieth century. The works demonstrate a number of very fine examples of the broad aesthetic of American Indian Modern painting: they are representational, depicting flat figures with clear outlines and unadorned backgrounds. While primarily produced for outside audiences, the works are distinctly 'Native' in terms of their function as historical records of Indian life in the early twentieth century.
Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection
The collection focuses on contemporary artists, with a special emphasis on art by women and African American artists. Featured are mixed-media works by Stas Orlovski and Susan Rankaitis; drawings by Elizabeth Turk; prints by John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Sue Coe, Floyd Coleman, Samella Lewis, Nancy Macko, Adrian Piper, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar; and photographs by William Anderson, Joyce Campbell, Anton Hardt, and Carrie Mae Weems.
Scripps College 19th and 20th Century Photographs
19th- and 20th-century photographs selected to enhance students' understanding of the history of photography. Among these are photographs by Diane Arbus, Anne Brigman, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gregory Crewdson, Jack Delano, Roger Fenton, Francis Frith, Arthur Kales, David Octavius Hill and Roger Adamson, Russell Lee, Margrethe Mather, John Jabez Mayall, Emily Pitchford, and Edward Weston.
Scripps College Architectural Drawings
The architectural drawings, plans, renderings, and blueprints used in the construction of the Scripps College in Claremont, California reveal the conception of one of America’s most beautiful college campuses. The collection includes plans for major campus buildings such as academic units, campus support facilities, and student housing as well as plans for campus layout and infrastructure, including landscaping, and utility systems.
Theses and Dissertations from The Claremont Colleges
Bringing together doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and a selection of senior theses, the collection showcases and expands access to the research accomplished by seniors, graduate and post-graduate students at The Claremont Colleges.
