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Select a subject link below to view lists of subject-specific collections. Many collection titles are linked to descriptions and/or finding aids.

• American literature
• Arts & Antiquities
• California studies
  • Guide to Collections on Los Angeles
• Children's literature
• History of printing and publishing
• Human sexuality
• Japanese-American internment, 1942-1945
• Music
• 19th and 20th century Europe
• Radio and television scripts
• Religion
• Theater, plays, and Motion Pictures
• United States history
• World History

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American Literature

• Carl Sandburg Collection
• Dime Novel Collection
• Gwen Bristow Collection [unprocessed]
• The Thomas and Barbara McDermott Collection

Arts & Antiquities

• Tseng Family Collection of Chinese Antiquities

California Studies

• Automobile Club of Southern California
  • Road Maps of California and Other States. ca 1923 | [Road Maps Exhibition]
  • Road Maps of California, Other Western States, and the United States. ca. 1937
• California Tourism & Promotional Literature Collection, 1880-1939.
  • Los Angeles County | [LA County Exhibition]
• Early Los Angeles Court Transcripts, 1885-1904.
• George and Cecilia Burlingame Papers
• Ku Klux Klan. Realm of California. Records, 1922-1947
• Los Angeles (Calif.). Dept. of Health. Bulletin. 1934-
• Stone Houses of the San Fernando Valley
• Captain Leonard W. Noyes. Flush times in the Diggins, or the Lights and Shades of Murphys Camp in the Fifties

Children's Literature

• Carl Barks Correspondence, 1963 - 1984
• Chase Craig Collection, 1924-1980
• Rare children's Books.

History of Printing and Publishing

• Haldeman-Julius Collection of Little & Big Blue Books
• History of Printing and Publishing
• Armitage-Kistler Collection
• Richard Vogler Collection

Human Sexuality

• Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender
• Virginia Prince Papers
• Cross Dressing Newsletters

Japanese-American Internment, 1942-1945

• Heart Mountain Relocation Center records
• Internment camp newsletters
• Relief and Support Group Records
• War Relocation Authority papers

Music

• Francis Gilbert Webb Collection of Correspondence
• International Guitar Research Archive
• Ray Martin Music Scores (PDF)

Women in Music

• Ardis O. Higgins Collection. [unprocessed]
• Cohen Collection on Women Composers
• Helen Traubel Collection. [unprocessed]
• Library of the International Institute for the Study of Women in Music. Music Scores.
• Ruth Shaw Wylie Music Scores

19th and 20th Century Europe

• Baedeker and other travel guides, 1870s-1920s
• Century of Change Collection (Guernsey Collection) on British History and Politics.
• Left Book Club Publications
• Ludmilla Patrick Collection of Pamphlets on Revolutionary & Political Movements in Russia, 1875-1937
• Child Survivors of the Jewish Holocaust [inventoried]

Radio and Television Scripts

• Milton Geiger Papers, 1938-1973 (PDF finding guide)
• NBC Radio scripts, 1934-1947 [unprocessed]
• Violet Atkins Klein papers.

Religion

• Wilfred Cantwell Smith Papers

Theater, Plays and Motion Pictures

• Edwin Booth Collection
• Play Collection, 18th-20th Centuries
• Play Collection of J. Dicks and W. Andrade
• Southern California Theater Programs
• Theater Program Collections, 1809-1830
• William Schlosser American Musical Theatre Collection
• Lisa Lu Press Kit Collection

United States History

• Crown Collection of Photographs of American Maps, 1600-1800
• Legal and Financial Documents on Slaves and Slavery in the United States, 1756 Jan. 19 - 1869 Oct. 27
• Arnold Court Collection on Polar Exploration

World History

• Old China Hands Archive