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G. Dwoyid Olmstead, 76, TBC.GDO, Box 4, Folder 2

G. Dwoyid Olmstead: 1940s Black Portraits in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles

February 24, 2026

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

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

Malcolm X sits at a table, Harry Adams Collection, 93.01.HA.B1.N45.191

The Malcolm X Interview

April 15, 2025

Portrait, Skid Row, 1994

Reframing Homelessness: The Visual Perspective of David Blumenkrantz

March 25, 2025

Maxie Floyd and Sheri Kawaduchi at Happy Time Liquor, 1973, Box 63, Folder 4

Maxie Floyd: A Life with a Camera

March 11, 2025

Cartoon illustration from Chase Craig’s retirement scrapbook, 1975, Chase Craig Collection, Box 37.

Retirement Traditions in the Archives

October 29, 2024

Portrait, Calvin Hicks, undated, Calvin Hicks Photograph Collection, Box 2 Folder 10

Venice Beach and Black L.A. According to Calvin Hicks

October 22, 2024

Michael Emery sitting for a photo in Costa Rica during one of his Central American trips. ca. 1985-1986. Box 3, Folder 1

The Journalist’s Log: The Mike Emery Collection

October 8, 2024

Duke Ellington, Nat Cole, Marie Ellington, Jimmie Hamilton, and Harry Carney

Bob Douglas: A Twentieth Century Jazz Photographer

October 1, 2024

Exterior view of the former Crenshaw Center, with a sign for customer parking and the Broadway department store building still intact, circa 1980-1988. Roland Charles Collection..

Crenshaw Boulevard: the Heart of Black LA

June 18, 2024

Artist Richard Wyatt, Jr with his mural Hollywood Jazz: 1945-1972 at the Capitol Records building, 1990, Roland Charles Collection

Murals in Los Angeles

May 7, 2024

Louis Armstrong and Clara Yaeju

The First Wrigley Field: More Than Baseball

April 23, 2024

California Christian Leadership Conference members greeting student sit-in leaders, Los Angeles, 1960, 09.CW.N45.B15.1888C

Civil Rights in Los Angeles, California

April 2, 2024

Bobtown street sign

Bobtown: Robert Celestin and a Louisiana Township

November 28, 2023

Unidentified individuals hold handmade posters at a demonstration organized by Black Lives Matter, Pasadena, 2020, KRT.D.B1.19.3462

Black Lives Matter Protest Collection

May 2, 2023

Sri Lankan beauty pageant sponsored by Gala of London, 1982

The Hassina and Deeptha Leelarathna Photographic Collection

April 18, 2023

Cassius Clay, (soon to be Muhammad Ali) points to a chalk board that reads "Moore in 4, Next Champ Cassius Clay" at an event leading up to his boxing match against Archie Moore at the Sports Arena, November 15, 1962, Harry Adams Collection. ID: 93.01.HA.B4.N120.605.1

The Greatest

November 22, 2022

Close-up view of sculpture's face belonging to a crouching woman at the Alto de las Piedras site of San Agustín Archaeological Park. Photo taken in 1975. Digital ID: 99.01.RCr.sl.B17.04.25.13

San Agustín Archaeological Park Archaeological photographs from Richard Cross

October 4, 2022

(Left to right) L.A. County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Museum Director Aurelia Brooks, an unidentified man, Senator Bill Green, and Assemblywoman Teresa P. Hughes pose for a group portrait while holding a pair of giant scissors during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the California African American Museum (CAAM). 1984. Digital ID: 11.06.GC.N35.B2.17.29.07.1

Black Female Politicians

September 20, 2022

Bandleader and musician Louis Jordan (left), unidentified woman, and photographer Harry Adams (right) at the Cavalcade of Jazz. Harry Adams Collection. 93.01.HA.N45.B34.133

20th Century Images of the Central Avenue District

September 6, 2022

Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, Jack Davis Photograph Collection

The Death of Ronald Stokes and the Birth of Black Power in Los Angeles

April 5, 2022

Berry Gordy

For the Love of Music: Berry Gordy Jr. and Motown Records

April 20, 2021

A woman reading a program while sitting in the balcony

Teatro de Cristóbal Colón in the Richard Cross Collection

March 2, 2021

Rose Parade Queen, Brenda English, 1963

Beauties in the Archives

December 8, 2020

CSUN Matadors Alumni Pin

The CSUN Matador

October 27, 2020

Political slogans on the walls of destroyed buildings, Berlín, 1983

Richard Cross Photographic Collection

July 14, 2020

Revs. Garner, Dawkins, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Crispus Wright, Dr. Odom, and Rev. Martin

The Charles Williams Photographic Collection

December 3, 2019

Julián Cardona, Juárez, 2009

Julián Cardona Collection

March 12, 2019