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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

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

Detail of an entry from Loris Bulla's Diary

The Loris Bulla Diary

September 3, 2024

Governor Goodwin Knight and "Miss New Horizons" of the 1959 Union Products and Services Show

Los Angeles County Federation of Labor's Union Label Council

August 6, 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

William Burwell, Jr. Portrait, University Archives Photograph Collection, UAC-099, Box 93 Folder 2

A Pardon for Bill Burwell, CSUN Student Activist and Faculty Member

April 9, 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

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

The Homer Halverson Collection – Documenting Los Angeles in Photographs

February 13, 2024

Strike against pay cuts sign, Paul J. Goldener United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Local 645 Collection

Historic Strikes Across Los Angeles

January 23, 2024

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

Front cover, BLK, Volume 2, Number 7

Spotlight on African American LGBTQ+ Periodicals

February 11, 2020

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

Community Relations Committee correspondence from Fred Herzberg to William Gordon at Universal Pictures related to obtaining review materials for the short film "The House of Rothschild," January 19, 1948

Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles

September 17, 2019

From the USDA, a 1958 pamphlet to teach children arithmetic

California Federation of Teachers Collection

September 10, 2019

VICA members review plans

Industrial Association of the San Fernando Valley Collection

September 3, 2019

League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Collection

August 27, 2019

Douglas Cannon in the machine department of Bireley’s plant in North Hollywood

Frank W. Bireley Co.'s Local Orange Industry Innovation

March 26, 2019

Hollywood Studio Club girls rehearsing on club patio

Hollywood Studio Club

March 5, 2019

Cover, Los Angeles, 1781-1981

The LA River

February 5, 2019

A.C.L.U. cartoon

Activism in the Archives

November 27, 2018

First two pages of The Photograph

The Violet Atkins Klein Papers

October 26, 2018

My dear Mrs Shrader: I am writing to request that a special meeting of the YWCA Board be called to reconsider the Board actions taken on March 18th, protesting the signing of the loyalty affidavit, and to take action to sign the affidavit. Sincerely, Norma Woode

Deeds, Not Words: Women's Organizations and Loyalty Oaths

October 2, 2018

Hand colored sketch of Fairgrounds by Fei Pai Yee

Community Fairs

September 4, 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

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

Window to the World

April 27, 2018

Map of Territory Annexed to the City of Los Angeles

Maps of Greater Los Angeles

April 24, 2018

Hotel Alexandria main restaurant area

Four Walls, a Roof, and Neighbors in Close Proximity: Shared Living Spaces in Early 20th Century Los Angeles

March 27, 2018

Bumper stickers by Californians Against Forced Busing, 1979

A Look Back at School Desegregation and Busing in Los Angeles

February 27, 2018

William Grant Still is shown sitting at a piano looking at a sheet of music. Central Avenue-Its Rise and Fall: Including the Musical Renaissance of Black Los Angles, Bette Yarbrough Cox, ML 3556 .C75 1996

Celebrating Black History in LA

February 20, 2018

Van Norman Reservoir following the Sylmar Earthquake, ca. 1971

A Look Back at the Sylmar Earthquake

February 6, 2018

Photograph, delegates of the 23rd International Convention of the Retail Clerks Union

The Retail Clerks Union Local 770 Scrapbook Collection

November 21, 2017

Cover and first page of The Jazz Review, featuring Mimi Clar's article, "The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz," November 1958

The Mimi Melnick Collection

October 31, 2017

Del Rancho Al Barrio: The Mexican Legacy of Tucson

Hispanic Heritage Month

September 26, 2017

Postcard for America First rally

America First: Variations on a Theme

September 5, 2017

Occidental College football players in action

Occidental College Athletics in the Ted Ellsworth Collection

May 9, 2017

Photograph of Richard Fish

Richard Fish Collection

April 4, 2017

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

Frank del Olmo on Immigration

March 14, 2017

Image from Picus campaign door hanger

Joy Picus Collection

February 7, 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, Visit of His Excellency Most Rev. Diomede Falconio, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, Los Angeles, California, 1903

St. Joseph’s Catholic Parish

December 6, 2016

Cover and title page, An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California, reprint, 1936

Accounting for History

November 15, 2016

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

Celebrating Culture Clash

November 1, 2016

Seal of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in 1950

Documented Refugee Experiences

October 11, 2016

Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Collection

September 20, 2016

Cover, Angel City Chapter of Links Handbook, 1967-1968

Linked in Friendship, Connected in Service

May 17, 2016

Strike against pay cuts sign

On Strike!

April 12, 2016

Los Angeles River

A River Runs Through It

March 8, 2016

Sam Yorty and Brad Pye, Jr. at City Hall, 1970

Brad Pye, Jr., Los Angeles Sports Journalist and Community Advocate

February 9, 2016

Portrait, Isaac Newton Van Nuys

Van Nuys, Then and Now

December 15, 2015

Photograph from promotional brochure featuring CWED's solidarity lending services

Coalition for Women's Economic Development Collection

October 27, 2015

War is a Crime, anti-war campaign photo

Voices and Vices: The Reverend Wendell L. Miller Collection

April 28, 2015

Child receiving an inoculation, California Historic Photographs Collection

Public Health in the Early 20th Century

March 3, 2015

Starbound, 1938

YWCA Hollywood Studio Club

December 9, 2014

Image of an American Pilgrim

Thanksgiving Traditions

November 24, 2014

Photograph, Julian Bream

Concert Programs Tell a Story

October 31, 2014

Cutout from The Life and Times of Junipero Serra

Publications by Monsignor Francis J. Weber

October 14, 2014

Protesters hold large sign that reads, unfair

The Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild Collection

September 2, 2014

Jennie Endsley singing at the Cotton Club in Culver City

Northeast Valley Oral History Project

August 26, 2014

ILWU march, ca. 1934

The Longshore Strike of 1934

July 15, 2014

Pencil sketch of the Pink Panther character

The Chase Craig Collection

May 6, 2014

Vice President Hubert Humphrey addressing student protesters

The Campus Unrest Collections

April 29, 2014

Cover, Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley: Viva la Mujer--Women Activists

Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley Collection

March 14, 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

Northridge earthquake T-shirt

20th Anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake

January 17, 2014

Political cartoon noting a decline in public enthusiasm for easing Marijuana laws

The Merle H. Cunnington Collection

December 10, 2013

Pamphlet produced by the Burbank Chamber of Commerce, circa 1932

Beautiful Downtown Burbank

December 3, 2013

Los Angeles River flood aftermath in North Hollywood, 1938, Robert and Betty Holtby. San Fernando Valley History Digital Library.

Natural Disasters

November 19, 2013

Angel's Flight, 1905

From Myth to Metropolis: Los Angeles at the Turn of the Century

October 22, 2013

Richard Bruland Bebop Records Art Posters Collection

October 8, 2013

Felipe Rodriguez, 1918

Felipe and Blandina (Guerrero) Rodriguez Family Collection

September 17, 2013

Daily report cover

Detective E. B. Mortensen Daily Reports Collection

September 10, 2013

senorita verdugo

Early Los Angeles History

June 25, 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

Young Communist League booklet, Life With a Purpose

Gilbert G. Benjamin Subversive Activities Collection

March 26, 2013

two hands with a wedding ring

Bud and Louise

March 4, 2013

A mother holds her son at a BUSTOP campaign rally, circa 1980

School Desegregation and Busing in Los Angeles

February 26, 2013

Los Angeles aqueduct opening day, 1913

California Water Collections

February 5, 2013

Mickey Cohen reading Underwood's book

Agness M. Underwood Collection

January 29, 2013

Last Updated: 11/21/2024