Notable Collections

The Urban Archives Center: a collection of the historically significant records of the labor movement, voluntary associations, local political figures, and civic leaders of Los Angeles County. Almost 200 individual collections are contained in the UAC.

The San Fernando Valley Digital Library: an extensive collection of photographs and other documents telling the history of the development of the Valley.

The International Guitar Research Archive: the world’s largest collection of music, history, correspondence, photographs and recordings relating to the guitar.

The Teacher Curriculum Collection: the largest and best-used K-12 curriculum collection in Southern California. It contains nearly 30,000 items.

The Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archive: an extensive series of unique collections of Latino/a leaders and associations.

The Old China Hands Archive: a special collection documenting the experiences of the many people who have resided and worked in China. The collection contains photographs, documents, diaries, newspapers and oral histories.

The Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender: one of the finest collections in the nation of the study of human sexuality throughout history.

University Archives: the most complete collection of the history of CSUN from its earliest development to today.

The 18th and 19th century English print collections: a fine collection of examples by English artists, particularly William Hogarth.

Japanese-American Internment collections: a large collection of newspapers and newsletters published in the internment camps.

Comic book collections: an extensive collection of comic books from the Chase Craig Collection, the David S. Somerville Collection and the correspondence of Carl Barks.