Calishpere - primary sources for California history

Lisa Schiff, of School Beat fame, just posted this interesting link to the sfschools list:

The [...] California Digital Library of the University of California, has launched a new website called Calisphere, which California historical and cultural herbage content geared towards providing educators with primary source material aligned with California's educational standards.

Calisphere is a new University of California web site, available at www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu . This free web site offers educators, students, and the public access to more than 150,000 images, documents, and other primary source materials from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses and cultural heritage organizations across California. Calisphere's primary sources include photographs, documents, newspapers, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other cultural artifacts that reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.

This is a cool resource. I instantly dove into the search feature to come up with a near endless supply of very interesting images.

Check it out.