– Special Collections & Archives – Peek In The Stacks

Peek in the Stacks

A National Guard member with a rifle and bayonet stands in the street in front of a crowd in Watts. A burned-out building is behind him and smoke fills the sky, 1965, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Collection.

The National Guard in Los Angeles

October 7, 2025

Cover page of comic “Dita in the Chelsea Girl”, from Sex by Madonna, ML420.M1387 A38 1992

The Most NSFW Pop Culture Moment in the Archives? Madonna’s Sex Book.

September 30, 2025

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

September 23, 2025

Joseph Roos' CRC letterhead

Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collection, Part 4

September 16, 2025

juridical tracts

Juridical Tracts Collection

September 9, 2025

cartoon of woman sewing

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)

September 2, 2025

mill explosion

Miniature Magic: 19th Century English Toy Theatres

August 26, 2025

swimming pool

Works of Ed Ruscha

August 12, 2025

Detail of the Reader nameplate from its first issue, 1978, NX1 .R42

The Los Angeles Reader

July 8, 2025

Detail of a father's signature from the Richard Embleton Correspondence Collection

Fathers in the Archives

June 10, 2025

Last Updated: 07/27/2024