Peek in the Stacks

In 1930, a publishing company called the Stratemeyer Syndicate, working with Grosset & Dunlap, published a mystery novel featuring Nancy Drew, a teenage girl detective, as its protagonist. Now a best-selling work of children's literature, it is titled The Secret of the Old Clock, and is the first of 175 novels featuring Nancy, her family, and her friends that make up the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories....

Simple and digestible literature is not often considered historically significant, but literature like this is a fantastic window into what was important to people who came decades before. After all, most people do not interact directly with those in power....

Special Collections & Archives holds a Submariner’s Album in the Far East. This album contains 148 sepia-tone photographs taken by a crewmember of the British submarine named Her Majesty's Ship L4 (HMS L4). Each photograph varies in size, and was glued to each page....

March is Women’s History Month in the United States and CSUN Special Collections & Archives holds a number of collections created by women and women’s groups. In honor of women’s history we will highlight an amazing group of women whose history lives on in here in the archives: Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA)...