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Chess in the Archives

April 22, 2025

Chinese Government Railways Chief Engineers Office Envelope, Collins Family Collection

The Role of the Rail: Traveling to and Through China in the late 19th and early 20th century

March 28, 2025

Cover of the miniature book The Little Land, PR5489 .A3 1983

The Little Land Little Book

February 4, 2025

Detail from the cover of War Heroes Comic, Chase Craig Collection

Heroes

November 26, 2024

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

On a serving platter, the Djedjad-Imer ready for the dinner table, Recipes of all nations, TX725.A1 R43 1935

Honey Recipes in the Archives

December 5, 2023

Bartender illustration

The Savoy Cocktail Book

November 14, 2023

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

The Castle of Otranto

September 26, 2023

Detail image from the cover of The Fold-Away Doll House and Play Book of Cut-Out Furniture, TT174.5.P3 F6 1949

Dolls and Toys in Book Form

September 12, 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

Portrait of William Shakespeare, from The first collected edition of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, 1866, PR2751 .A15 18664

Lend Me Your Ears: Shakespeare in Special Collections

May 9, 2023

Sri Lankan beauty pageant sponsored by Gala of London, 1982

The Hassina and Deeptha Leelarathna Photographic Collection

April 18, 2023

Sara Chitjian ID, American University

Zaruhy “Sara” Chitjian Collection

April 11, 2023

Fabric pattern including with the book/kit, Chicks on speed : it's a project. N6497 .M87 2004

Chicks on Speed, a Book in a Bag

March 28, 2023

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

The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

March 7, 2023

Soochow, “Last Rites for Soochow,” Leatherneck, October 1948, Fred M. Greguras Papers

A Servicemember’s Best Friend

February 14, 2023

Detail of the cover art from “With You Beside Me,” score, 1899, M1622.M67 W47 1899

“Gone is the Sorrow”

February 7, 2023

Liberated civilians during World War II

Allied Propaganda in the Lodge Collection

January 24, 2023

Illustration of a calendar from Los calendarios mexicanos by Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y Veytia

Sunstone, Eliot Weinberger’s 1991 translation of Octavio Paz’s Piedra de sol

November 1, 2022

Detail of a eighteenth century Kangra Painting: Rati begs Śiva to revive Kama

Asceticism & Eroticism in the Mythology of Śiva

October 25, 2022

Orignal Beba Leventhal interview tapes recorded on Betamax tapes

Child Survivors of the Jewish Holocaust Collection

October 11, 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

Photograph of a man from the "Submariner's Album in the Far East" (SC.SAFE)

Her Majesty's Ship L4 Photo Album

March 8, 2022

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

Reports to the International Revolutionary Workers' Congress 1900, edited by Russian communist anarchist group. HX11.I5 D6 1902

Russian Free Press Fund Pamphlets

February 15, 2022

A Collection of Confection and Other Receipts, page 44. TX705 .C735 1700z

What is this place?

February 1, 2022

Drum on cover of Latin American Music Review, ML 1. L3 v. 1 no.1

Latin American Music Review

December 7, 2021

Dalí’s image of Alice seen throughout the book, on the title page, starting each chapter of text, and in each of the twelve illustrations by Dalí. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, PR4611 .A7 1969

Dalí in Wonderland

November 16, 2021

Image of abstract tiger from Borges’ The Gold of the Tigers, PQ7797.B635 O7413 1977

Dreaming Reality with Borges

November 9, 2021

Diametra, Trigona, Quadrata, & Hexagon, Iulij Firmici Materni Iunioris Siculi V.C. ad Mauortium Lollianum, Astronomicōn libri VIII, QB41 .F46 1551

Astrology: Finding Meaning in the Stars

October 26, 2021

Nopal

An Aztec Herbal: First medical text published in the Americas

October 5, 2021

Little Blue Books Dante's Inferno, volume 2, 1922

Emanuel Haldeman-Julius Little Blue Books Collection

September 28, 2021

Victorian valentine

Victorian and Edwardian Greeting Cards

August 31, 2021

Segovia Golden Jubilee Cover

The Impact of Fernando Sor

April 13, 2021

A woman reading a program while sitting in the balcony

Teatro de Cristóbal Colón in the Richard Cross Collection

March 2, 2021

President James Cleary and Chinese Delegation Sign Educational Exchange Agreement, 1981. Photograph by Rick Childs

CSUN’s China Connection

November 24, 2020

Cover, Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar

The Magic of Julian Bream

November 17, 2020

CSUN Matadors Alumni Pin

The CSUN Matador

October 27, 2020

Alte Gitarrenmusik duette für violine oder mandoline und gitarre, 1918

The C.C. Easley Microfilm Scores

October 20, 2020

Little Buttercup, from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "H.M.S. Pinafore." HF 5851 G44_04_04

Women in Trade Cards

October 13, 2020

Untitled by Karen Carson

Selections from the University Art Collection

September 1, 2020

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

Richard Cross Photographic Collection

July 14, 2020

Portrait of Antonio Regalado Calvo, ca. 1920s

Antonio and Luz Mendez Calvo Family Collection

May 12, 2020

Envelope for letter from Alton Flanders to Mrs. Jason Coppernoll

Not so Distant: A Letter from 1919

April 28, 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

Cover, REM Gospel: Gospel According to Massmann, 1900z

What is this place?

December 16, 2019

"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

Compañeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology

Perspectives on "Coming Out"

January 29, 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

Segovia’s arrangement and transcription of The Chaconne. Vahdah Olcott-Bickford Collection

Bach, Segovia, and the Rise of Classical Guitar on the Concert Stage

April 17, 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

Cover, Broadway Musicals

Musical Theater in Special Collections and Archives

April 5, 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