American Occupation of Japan, Voices of the Key Participants
The Pacific Basin Institute produced a 10-part documentary series The Pacific Century, in 1993. This collection contains digitized video from Part 5, "Reinventing Japan," which focuses on post-World War II Japan. Key figures of the American occupation government were interviewed about their contributions and views.
Boynton Collection of Early Claremont
Morrill G. Boynton, Pomona College 1904, was an amateur photographer. His collection of glass plate negatives, housed in Honnold/Mudd Special Collections, candidly and personally capture aspects of life in Southern California, especially Los Angeles, Claremont, and Pomona College. Most of these images in the Boynton Collection were shot between about 1900 and 1905.
The bulletins of the California Department of Water Resources and its predecessor agencies present findings from hundreds of investigations conducted throughout the years from one end of the State to the other. The collection also contains materials pertaining to the creation and operation of the Central Valley Project, the California State Water Project, and their component units.
Campi Phlegraei, Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies
The two volumes of the Campi Phlegraei (1776) and the Supplement to the Campi Phlegraei (1779) provide a firsthand report from Sir William Hamilton which documents the late eighteenth century eruptions of Mount Vesuvius and are important to the science of volcanology due to the precise descriptions of the changes in the appearance of the volcano, the lava flows and other volcanic activity. Displayed here in their entirety, these books contain text in both English and French and 59 hand-colored plates with accompanying explanations.
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).
City of Claremont History Collection
The City of Claremont History Collection documents the development of Claremont from its boom years at the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Composed of photographs over a one hundred year span, the collection provides a glimpse of Claremont’s past through photographs of its buildings, neighborhoods, local landscape, and daily life. This project is a work in progress, so please check back for updates.
Claremont Colleges Photo Archive
Historical photographs from the five undergraduate colleges and two graduate universities of The Claremont Colleges are housed in the Libraries' Special Collections. As part of an ongoing digitization project, photographs depicting aspects of college life, buildings, and landscapes are digitized to provide online access to The Colleges' archival photographs for teaching and research.
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.
The Claremont Discourse Lecture Series was established in spring 1998. Its main function is as a forum for faculty at The Claremont Colleges to present current research, publications, and creative projects.
The Claremont Mormon Studies collection contains videos and related materials selected from courses, lectures and conferences of the Mormon Studies program at Claremont Graduate University's School of Religion. Currently, the collection consists of video presentations, papers and other records from the Mormonism Through the Eyes of Women: Envisioning New Spaces for Theology and Practice conference which was held in March 2009.
Connie Martinson taped more than 2,500 interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction for her television show that spanned over 30 years. Included in the collection are interviews with Maya Angelou, Ray Bradbury, Al Gore, Rosa Parks, Gore Vidal, Barack Obama, Studs Terkel and Joyce Carol Oates.
The Lindley Scrapbooks were assembled by Dr. Walter Lindley (1852-1922), early resident of Los Angeles and prominent physician. Covering the period from 1861 to 1921, the scrapbooks are a testament to the impact Lindley had on the development of the city of Los Angeles. Included are letters from noteworthy members of Los Angeles society, clippings from regional newspapers, photographs, pamphlets, leaflets, and booklets.
Peter F. Drucker, a social ecologist, writer, consultant, and retired professor, was highly influential in the practice of management. Drucker worked with some of the world's largest businesses, small and entrepreneurial companies, nonprofit organizations, consulted for government agencies in U.S., Canada, Japan, and published 41 books, numerous articles and papers.
Edward Ellerker Williams Notebook
This manuscript notebook created by Edward Ellerker Williams (1793-1822) dating from about 1819-1820 was the notebook on which Williams was working just prior to his unfortunate fatal sailing accident with Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821. In his notebooks Williams recorded his travels during his stint in the Navy then afterward on the Continent with his friends and family, and are an important source for study of Shelley's last days. This notebook contains many sketches, botanical specimens, fragments of poems, and one particular pencil portrait that might be of Shelley.
Edward Vischer Drawings, Photographs and Other Material
A German born artist who immigrated first to Mexico and then to California, Edward Vischer (1809-1878), sketched and photographed California missions, trees, mountains, rural scenes, and mining operations in the second half of the 19th century. Honnold/Mudd Library Special Collections houses one of the largest collections of Vischer drawings, lithographs, albumen prints, and bound volumes.
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.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was one of history's most masterful printmakers and social satirists. Pomona College Museum of Art is proud to own first editions sets of all four of his etching series, a total of 211 prints.
Italian Renaissance Manuscript Collection
On view in this digital collection are eleven autograph, signed letters written between members of the Medici family of Florence and others in their social and political circles, including Angelo Poliziano, the Sforza family, Palla Strozzi, and Francesco Guicciardini. Written between 1426 and 1522, the letters touch on a number of issues urgent to the House of Medici including military campaigns, political associations, and the trials of family life.
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.
The Larry Oglesby Collection consists of 35 mm color slides of flora and fauna taken by Professor Larry Oglesby, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Pomona College. Taken in the field, the slides depict plants such as Sky Lupine or Field Mustard and animals such as the Pacific Pond Turtle and Killdeer. The photographs were taken primarily in California and Oregon but photographs of the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and other locations may also be found. Each item within the collection displays the color slide and Oglesby's notations on the slide mount.
Lectures on Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science
Collected from symposia and colloquia hosted by the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University, these videos document addresses and debates held on campus in Claremont. Talks focus on key questions facing applied psychology, research, and evaluation science.
Library Research, Publications and Events at The Claremont Colleges
Library Research, Publications and Events at The Claremont Colleges contains a variety of videos, and related materials, about the different activities that occur at the Libraries. Videos that depict the history of The Claremont Colleges and the libraries are also included in the collection. While many different activities occur at the libraries, two of the ongoing series include GIS Day and National Library Week.
Murals are an integral part of the Pitzer College campus landscape with murals from Yandos Rios to Paul Botello to students who continue to create new murals.
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.
The Nag Hammadi codices, thirteen ancient manuscripts containing over fifty religious and philosophical texts written in Coptic and hidden in an earthenware jar for 1,600 years, were accidentally discovered in upper Egypt in the year 1945. This immensely important discovery included a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures. These texts were once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy," scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth. The images in this collection were taken during the excavations and translation project of the 1970’s and record the environments surrounding excavations, visiting dignitaries, and the scholars working on the codices. The project has provided momentum to a major reassessment of early Christian history and the nature of Gnosticism.
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.
Pitzer College’s permanent art collection is dedicated to established and emerging artists and comprises an eclectic group of works— paintings, sculpture, ceramics and photographs—assembled over the forty-five years since Pitzer College first opened its doors in 1963. The art galleries are committed to expanding their presence on the campus and within the art community at large providing exceptional examples of historic and contemporary works that reflect Pitzer College's commitment to its core values of social responsibility and intercultural learning.
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.
Sacred Text Conference Archives
The First Annual Conference of Religions is a conversation and 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.
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.
