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detail of an illustration from the article "Heroes of Health," October 19, 1933, LAHH

Public Health in the Early 20th Century

November 19, 2024

Source of Information Chart, The Eighth Annual Report to the Governor of the State of California, Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, July 1, 1938 to June 30 1939

Loudon and Latham: Records of the California Institution for Women at Tehachapi in the 1930s

September 24, 2024

Margarita Piel McCoy's Notebook from People-to-People Urban Planning Delegation to Europe and the USSR

Margarita Piel McCoy

August 27, 2024

Plate 21 Cypress Grove, 1938" photographic print by Edward Weston, F868.M7 W4 1950

Two Photographers and a Poet in Point Lobos

March 26, 2024

Wood engraving from the Yolla Bolly Press edition of My First Summer in the Sierra, QH31.M9 A3 1988

Hiking through the Archives with John Muir

February 27, 2024

Homer Halverson, his wife Mill, and his daughter Gail, 1935

The Homer Halverson Collection – Documenting Los Angeles in Photographs

February 13, 2024

Annual reports of the CSUN Counseling Center for 1972 to 1973 and 1973 to 1974

Suicide Prevention Week

October 3, 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

Typical Section for Route 64, illustration demonstrating the width of the future highway

CA 64 - The Valley’s Right of Way to the Beach

December 6, 2022

American Planning Association California Chapter Collection

November 15, 2022

Rooftop Employee Grace Harrison filling meal orders, October 14, 1981

(Re)Introducing the CSUN Snacketeria

October 18, 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

Spine of two books reading "Administrative Records Vol. I" and "Vol. II", from the Los Angeles Weather Station Logbooks Archival Collection

Weather Station Logbooks

June 21, 2022

Cover art from "Fabulous Farmer, The Story of Walter Knott and His Berry Farm". S417.K62 H6

The Boysenberry and The Chicken Dinner

April 26, 2022

Johnson family standing on the road next to their cars, 1922, Johnson Family Echo Lake Photograph Collection

California Travel Memories

April 19, 2022

Illustration by Irving Block in Season of Green, 1979.

Francesca Lia Block & Irving Block

April 12, 2022

Vultee Aircraft award presentation program cover page, 1942

Southern California Arbitration Case Files Collection

November 2, 2021

Week of the Young Child promotional ephemera, 1971, California Association for the Education of Young Children Collection

Early Childhood Educator Associations

September 21, 2021

Terra cotta tile, Campo de Cahuenga, Studio City, 2003

Campo de Cahuenga

May 11, 2021

Champion Guernsey dairy cow Linetta, ca. 1937

Adohr Farms Collection

November 2, 2020

Pamphlet, Fast for Life

Millie Moser Smith Papers

June 16, 2020

The Moon is Down, first edition, 1942

John Steinbeck Highlights in Special Collections and Archives

December 10, 2019

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

The Charles Williams Photographic Collection

December 3, 2019

Registering for evacuation at San Francisco

Japanese-American Internment and Civil Rights

November 26, 2019

From the USDA, a 1958 pamphlet to teach children arithmetic

California Federation of Teachers Collection

September 10, 2019

The Giants of Sequoia and Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks

May 14, 2019

Delilah L. Beasley

Delilah L. Beasley and the Trail She Blazed

February 19, 2019

A.C.L.U. cartoon

Activism in the Archives

November 27, 2018

Vern and Bonnie Bullough

The Vern L. Bullough Papers

August 28, 2018

Santa Monica Mountains' and Seashore fundraising postcard

The Susan B. Nelson Collection

June 26, 2018

Map of Territory Annexed to the City of Los Angeles

Maps of Greater Los Angeles

April 24, 2018

A View of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition from Presidio Heights

Women's Work at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915

April 3, 2018

Rosa May, in The Redlight Ladies of Virginia City, Nevada

The Oldest Profession

March 13, 2018

"Loteria: Tabla Llena" by Carmen Lomas Garza taken from El Calendario Chicano 1975. Rodolfo F. Acuña Collection

Quirky and Curious Calendars

January 30, 2018

Postcard for America First rally

America First: Variations on a Theme

September 5, 2017

Photo of pink-petaled flower

California Flora

April 25, 2017

Photograph of a crumbled St. Luke's Episcopal Church

San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

April 18, 2017

Chicana/o Studies Now! tshirt

Notable Mexican American Figures

March 28, 2017

Immigrant workers on fruit farm. Report from the Center of Philosophy & Public Policy, 1981

Frank del Olmo on Immigration

March 14, 2017

Drink Cultura, image from cover of Chicanismo by José Antonio Burciaga

Celebrating Culture Clash

November 1, 2016

Postcard mementos from Shanghai and The Great Wall

Summer Vacation

May 10, 2016

Birthday Card from Borris [Emkims] for William Randolph Hearst

The L. Clarice Davis Collection

November 3, 2015

Child receiving an inoculation, California Historic Photographs Collection

Public Health in the Early 20th Century

March 3, 2015

Title page of The Red Pony.

The Works of John Steinbeck

December 2, 2014

Image of an American Pilgrim

Thanksgiving Traditions

November 24, 2014

Cutout from The Life and Times of Junipero Serra

Publications by Monsignor Francis J. Weber

October 14, 2014

ILWU march, ca. 1934

The Longshore Strike of 1934

July 15, 2014

Letterhead on letter from the Grand Dragon

Ku Klux Klan, Realm of California Collection

June 17, 2014

Illustration of a cowboy from Cowboy Life

Cowboys in the Archives

May 20, 2014

Four young children looking into the camera from behind a salvaged fence

Slum Neighborhoods in Los Angeles

March 11, 2014

Cover, Calship Log, November 1, 1941

CalShip and the Liberty Fleet

February 18, 2014

Felipe Rodriguez, 1918

Felipe and Blandina (Guerrero) Rodriguez Family Collection

September 17, 2013

American River Camp, About 1859

Thomas G. Lambert California Gold Rush Letter Book

September 3, 2013

View of the Statue of Liberty from the S.S. Teutonic

Journal of a Trip from Liverpool to San Francisco

July 23, 2013

José Ferrer as Edwin Booth

Milton Geiger Collection

May 14, 2013

Advertisement, "Remember Mother with Christopher’s Chocolates.

Mothers in the Archives

May 7, 2013

La Fiesta de Los Angeles

California Tourism and Promotional Literature Collection

April 9, 2013

Cover of 66 Good Old Time Tested Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes

The Culinary Collection

April 2, 2013

Last Updated: 12/23/2024