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Detail of the cover of Put It In a Blender by the Spring 2019 Printmaking III: Relief class with instructor Jamie Russom, N7433.4.P88 2019

Representing the Creativity of CSUN Students in Special Collections & Archives

November 5, 2024

Detail of the title page from the Manuscript Cookbook, MCB, 1935.

Home Remedies: The Old Age Medicine

April 30, 2024

Detail from a Trans-Canada AirLines Plane Ticket, 1949

"Passport to Peace": European Travel After World War II

January 30, 2024

Detail of the marbled endpapers from The Castle of Otranto, PR3757.W2 C3 1786

The Castle of Otranto

September 26, 2023

Illustration from The Story of War Time Rationing, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Collection

Rationing During World War II in the US

August 15, 2023

Detail of Anatomy Plate 1, AE25.E551 Vol. 2

The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

March 7, 2023

Frontispiece, Drops from Flora's Cup, or the Poetry of Flowers, with a Floral Vocabulary by Miss Mary M. Griffin, PN6110.F6 G7 1852

Floriography: The Language of Flowers

March 3, 2022

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

Richard Cross Photographic Collection

July 14, 2020

Paper mâché guitar of Antonio de Torres

A History of Classical Guitar Construction

March 24, 2020

Cover, The Writings of St. Patrick

Saint Patrick in the Archives

March 10, 2020

Ida Nudel with Jane Fonda

Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collection, Part 5

February 25, 2020

Front cover, BLK, Volume 2, Number 7

Spotlight on African American LGBTQ+ Periodicals

February 11, 2020

"Art of Self Defence...," Egan’s Life in London...

George Cruikshank

January 28, 2020

A picture of the Teutonic

Journal of a Trip from Liverpool to San Francisco

January 21, 2020

"Japan's hour of doom" leaflet

The Psychological Warfare Branch Scrapbook

November 19, 2019

Diagrams showing various positions of the left hand, identical to images in the method of famed European guitarist and composer, Fernando Sor

Method Books and the Classical Guitar in America

November 5, 2019

The Book of Werewolves

What About the Werewolf?

October 29, 2019

Page from Three Trips to Alaska scrapbook

The History of Scrapbooks

October 22, 2019

Left Book Club insignia

The Left Book Club

October 15, 2019

Cracker Jack Chronicles

Miniature Books

October 9, 2019

Sketch of cannon guarding Madrid in All the Brave

Spain's Conflict with Fascism

April 30, 2019

Newsreel cover

Is Little America on Your Bucket List?

April 16, 2019

Winking nun

Les Surréalistes

April 9, 2019

Julián Cardona, Juárez, 2009

Julián Cardona Collection

March 12, 2019

14 Songs of Love with Guitar

"How do I love thee?"

February 12, 2019

Undated identification form for Setty Sondheimer

Jewish Experiences in China during World War II

December 11, 2018

Classical guitar

The Infinite Forms of Music

November 20, 2018

the canons of the fingers title page

"The Naturall Language of the Hand"

September 11, 2018

Hand colored sketch of Fairgrounds by Fei Pai Yee

Community Fairs

September 4, 2018

View-Master viewer and reels included with Atlas of External Diseases of the Eye

Window to the World

April 27, 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

Gun crew pass belonging to Raymond Marshall.

Corporal Raymond Marshall Collection

February 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

Fragment of a Torah scroll

The Torah

December 19, 2017

Arm band identifying Gloria Watson Curtis Kliene as a British national

Civilian Internment in China, 1941-1945

December 5, 2017

Cover photo, American Guitar Society, in Soundboard, Winter 1984/1985. Vahdah Olcott Bickford Collection

The Guitar Foundation of America's International Concert Artist Competition

November 28, 2017

Phrenology chart in Matrimony: Or Phrenology and Physiology Applied to the Selection of Congenial Companions for Life: Including Directions to the Married for Living Together Affectionately and Happily, HQ31 .F775 1875

Pseudosciences of the 19th Century

November 14, 2017

Brunswick Stew

Please Pass the Corn

October 24, 2017

Cover of Baedeker's travel guide for the United States

Baedeker's Travel Guide for the United States

October 17, 2017

The USRM Thomas Corwin

USRM Thomas Corwin

October 10, 2017

Passport photograph of Eva Tharp, August 1938

Passports of the Past: Encoding National Identities

October 3, 2017

How to Treat Your Face by Susanna Cocroft

Corresponding Culture: Bringing American Culture to Shanghai Through Distance Learning

August 29, 2017

Image from Pirates of Penzance advertising card

The David Trutt Gilbert and Sullivan Advertising Cards Digital Collection

June 27, 2017

Construction of fan braces, in Guitarmaking, Tradition and Technology by William R. Cumpiano and Jonathan D. Natelson

Classical Guitar Building

May 16, 2017

Philosophy professor, Jake Hale, as Miss Angelika

Exploring Sex, Gender, and Cultural Norms

May 2, 2017

Photograph of Richard Fish

Richard Fish Collection

April 4, 2017

Cartoons of the first participation of American troops

WWI Publications

February 28, 2017

Inside cover of The Military Pinup Kit

Pin-Ups

February 21, 2017

Booklet, They Got the Blame: The Story of Scapegoats in History

Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collections

January 31, 2017

Cover, On Going Naked by Jan Gay, 1932

Living in the Nude

November 29, 2016

Depictions of some of the tools used in whaling

A Whaling Good Time

November 8, 2016

Image in Apparitions and Thought-Transference

Getting Into the Spirit

October 25, 2016

Tattoo of actor, James Dean

Tattoos in the Archives

October 18, 2016

Seal of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in 1950

Documented Refugee Experiences

October 11, 2016

A Lake Tahoe Record Trout

The Art of Fishing

September 27, 2016

Illuminated "A" from the Book of Revelation, ca.1300

Manuscript Bibles from the Middle Ages

September 13, 2016

Cover, The Guitar and Mandolin

Women in Classical Guitar

August 30, 2016

Postcard mementos from Shanghai and The Great Wall

Summer Vacation

May 10, 2016

mother and child

In Honor of Mothers

May 3, 2016

Cropped image, front cover of the Association of Far Eastern Jews’ Silver Jubilee booklet, 1979

Old China Hands Archives Update

March 29, 2016

George Cruikshank's Fairy Library

Once Upon a Time.....

October 6, 2015

Cover, Behind My Own Disguise

The Dawning of a New Page

May 12, 2015

Spring Fashion 1861, from Godey's Lady's Book

Fashion and Beauty Trends Through History

March 31, 2015

Map of the eastern Area of the Great European War

The Whitfield T. Ganong World War I Diaries

March 24, 2015

Illustrations of comical characters

Political and Social Satire in Punch

February 3, 2015

Cover, Dalziel's illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments

Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights

January 27, 2015

Sculpture, Flor y Canto del Arte Prehispánico de México.

Mexico's Past

January 20, 2015

Illustration of a Telescope

Mysterious Universe

November 18, 2014

Photograph, Julian Bream

Concert Programs Tell a Story

October 31, 2014

Cinderella by Chas. W. Glover

The Victorian Sheet Music Covers Collection

September 23, 2014

Cover, Edwin Booth: Recollections by his Daughter and Letters to Her and to His Friends

The Edwin Booth Family Collection

September 16, 2014

Pirates of Penzance Jack in the Box

Curiosities, Rarities, and Ephemera in Special Collections and Archives

August 12, 2014

The Terra Nova in the pack ice

The Arnold Court Collection on Polar Exploration

May 13, 2014

Initial on the first page of the Antiphonary

Liturgical Music from 18th-Century Spain

April 21, 2014

The Painter and His Pug

William Hogarth: Painter, Printmaker, and Satirist

April 1, 2014

The game of Shanghai Millionaire, free parking spot

The Bell Family Collection

March 25, 2014

Cover, Helps Over Hard Places: Stories for Girls

Early Children's Literature

February 25, 2014

Cover, Memoirs of a Cassanova

Love and Friendship in the Archives

February 11, 2014

First verse and chorus of Rye Whiskey

The Bess Lomax Hawes Student Folklore Collection

October 15, 2013

Maj. James C. Magee (front row center) poses with his battalion staff at British Embassy compound billet, Peking 1945

China Marines

September 24, 2013

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

Journal of a Trip from Liverpool to San Francisco

July 23, 2013

John Williams Plays Bach, 1975

John Tanno Collection

May 21, 2013

Cover of 66 Good Old Time Tested Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes

The Culinary Collection

April 2, 2013

"Sunday, U. S. at War," diary entry.

The Raymond C. Fleming Diaries

March 19, 2013

Dragon

William Gaddis Collection

January 22, 2013

Girl in pith helmet

Travel Scrapbook Collection

November 26, 2012

Last Updated: 11/21/2024