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Peek in the Stacks

Detail from the front page of ‘Cosmos’ score, RSB, Box 12 Folder 8

A Septennial Review: Criticism and Praise in the Reginald Smith Brindle Collection

December 9, 2025

The Complete Letter Writer. PE 1495 .C65 1797

The Lost Art That Made People Fall in Love

November 25, 2025

Image Selected from Collection by Student Assistant Veronica: Salvadoran men show off their FMLN flag in front of the National Palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, 1994.

El Rescate Collection

November 18, 2025

Detail from the cover of Perfect Womanhood for Maidens, Wives, Mothers. RG121 .M5 1903

Matrescence: The Transition into Motherhood

November 11, 2025

Children and the Queen of LALA 1994 dressed in white gowns sitting atop a red and gold float. Harold Hambrick Collection.

From Louisiana to LALA Land: A Black American Migration Story

November 4, 2025

Rice Paper Nameplate from 1977

The Rice Paper Newsletter

October 28, 2025

The creature’s eyes, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, PR5397 .F7 1984c

Shades of Inspiration: Barry Moser’s Literary Illustrations

October 21, 2025

Donny Hathaway-Vocals and keys

Donny Hathaway Live: Through the Lens of Roland Charles

October 14, 2025

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

Last Updated: 07/27/2024