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Special Collections & Archives

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2nd Floor

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Email

asksca@csun.edu

Hours

Monday
10:00am - 4:00pm

Tuesday
10:00am - 7:00pm*

Wednesday
10:00am - 4:00pm

Thursday
10:00am - 4:00pm

Friday
10:00am - 4:00pm

* Special Collections & Archives will close at 4:00pm on Tuesdays during summer and intercessions.

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SCA Blog posts tagged with: publications

A page from The Penny Magazine, November 24, 1832

Democracy and Education: The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

September 15, 2026

st. nicholas cover

St. Nicholas: an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks

September 1, 2026

Junior League members holding an issue of the Los Angeles Junior League News

Junior League of Los Angeles's Centennial

April 21, 2026

Detail from a promotional flyer for the 5th year of the Teenage Drama Workshop, ca. 1962. UAC Box 26, Folder 1

Playbills Past: CSUN Theatre through the years

April 14, 2026

Detail from Frankie’s Boots front cover, PS3552.L66 F73 1993

Punk Poetry

March 10, 2026

Detail from the cover of Cables to Rage by Audre Lorde, PN6109.7 .H4 v.9

Black Feminism

February 17, 2026

Photograph of study participants

Challenging the Racist Status Quo – Caroline Bond Day

February 10, 2026

haiku

Haiku, or Moments Captured and Released

February 3, 2026

Unattributed woodcut print, undated

Firebird: Russian Art and Culture in the Pages of Jar-ptitza

January 27, 2026

consulted items

Interview with Alex Winnik: 2025-26 Gardner Research Fellow

January 20, 2026

Rice Paper Nameplate from 1977

The Rice Paper Newsletter

October 28, 2025

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

September 23, 2025

cartoon of woman sewing

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)

September 2, 2025

Detail of the Reader nameplate from its first issue, 1978, NX1 .R42

The Los Angeles Reader

July 8, 2025

President Wilson during the earthquake reconstruction, August 1994, University Archives Photograph Collection, Box 46 Folder 2

Dr. Blenda Wilson, CSUN President, 1992-1999

April 29, 2025

What Fools These Mortals Be! (Repost)

February 25, 2025

Detail from the front page of The Black World announcing new faculty in the Pan African Studies Department, Fall 1981. E185.5.B86

The Black World by the CSUN Afro-American Studies Department

February 18, 2025

Front page image, October 16, 1876

Street & Smith's New York Weekly

January 28, 2025

Angels illustrated by Crane

Illustrations of Walter Crane

November 12, 2024

Henry David Thoreau woodblock print

Sauntering through Special Collections with Henry David Thoreau

September 10, 2024

Flier urging resistance to toxic incineration with Vernon city limits. Mary Santoli Pardo Collection

Power and Politics in Print

April 16, 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

Student Perspectives: San Fernando Valley High School Newspapers

February 20, 2024

Detail from “AIDS: The Facts” pamphlet distributed in New York, 1987. Vern L. Bullough Papers

HIV & AIDS, the early years in the United States

February 6, 2024

Detail of the cover art from Unknown Vol. 1 no. 6 featuring an illustration of L. Ron Hubbard's "The Ghoul." Cover art by Graves Gladney., P1 .U554

Unknown: “Slaves of Sleep” and “The Ghoul”

November 7, 2023

Detail of the cover illustration from Unknown featuring the story None but Lucifer, vol. 2 no. 1 September 1939, P1. U554

None But Lucifer

October 24, 2023

Detail from the cover of Weird Tales vol. 30, no. 4, October 1937, PN3435. W53

The Persistent Gender Gap in Pulp and Comic Magazines

October 10, 2023

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

Suicide Prevention Week

October 3, 2023

Detail of cover illustration from Weird Tales Volume 29, Number 1, "Children of the Bat"

Weird Tales: A Sexualized Scare

September 19, 2023

Cover of Detective Comics: Batman Robin and Batgirl “Challenge of the Man-Bat!” Issue #400

Batman issue number 400 “Challenge of the Man-Bat!”

September 5, 2023

Detail of the illustration on the cover of Weird Tales, v.25 no.5, May 1935

Weird Tales and The American Sherlock Holmes: Craig Kennedy

August 29, 2023

Image of Fireworks from the Summer Sundial, July 8, 1993

Summer Sundial

June 13, 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 an illustration from The Ladies Medical Guide

Women's History: 19th Century Gender Roles for Women

March 14, 2023

Liberated civilians during World War II

Allied Propaganda in the Lodge Collection

January 24, 2023

American Planning Association California Chapter Collection

November 15, 2022

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

Asceticism & Eroticism in the Mythology of Śiva

October 25, 2022

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

(Re)Introducing the CSUN Snacketeria

October 18, 2022

Illustration from Oliver Twist, Oliver Twist asks for more

Bentley's Miscellany, "Boz," and Oliver Twist

September 13, 2022

Area E Alternative School

August 16, 2022

Title page The Secret of the Old Clock, 1930

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Old Clock

March 29, 2022

"Notes and Comments, Reflections on The Passing Show" Cover, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius Big Blue Books and Larger Books Collection (EHJB)

Emanuel Haldeman-Julius Big Blue Books

March 15, 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

Title Page of A Handbook on the Annexation of Hawaii by Lorrin A. Thurston

Lorrin A. Thurston and the U.S. Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands

February 22, 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

Front page of the San Fernando Valley State College Newspaper

The Daily Sundial: What’s in a Name?

February 8, 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

The Countess of Forlì : a poem for voices by Ann Stanford, PS3537 .T1815 C6 1985

Dr. Ann Stanford

November 30, 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

Neeli Cherry cat illustration

Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns

October 19, 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

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

Early Childhood Educator Associations

September 21, 2021

Postcard, residence, Northridge, 1918

Northridge: the Early Years

March 30, 2021

Andrae Nordskog speaks on the radio, The Gridiron, February 12, 1929

The Gridiron: Oppression Means Stagnation and Freedom Means Progress

February 9, 2021

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

CSUN’s China Connection

November 24, 2020

Alte Gitarrenmusik duette für violine oder mandoline und gitarre, 1918

The C.C. Easley Microfilm Scores

October 20, 2020

Students at the Robert Kennedy information booth during the California Political Forum—1968, May 1968

Political Engagement at CSUN

October 5, 2020

John Broesamle in 1981. (Sundial)

John Broesamle Suddenly A Giant: A History of CSUN Collection

August 11, 2020

Pamphlet, Fast for Life

Millie Moser Smith Papers

June 16, 2020

Fine Arts building at San Fernando Valley State College

Richard Neutra's Fine Arts Building

March 30, 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

Front cover, BLK, Volume 2, Number 7

Spotlight on African American LGBTQ+ Periodicals

February 11, 2020

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

What is this place?

December 16, 2019

Registering for evacuation at San Francisco

Japanese-American Internment and Civil Rights

November 26, 2019

Front page of The AVC Bulletin, volume 4, number 5, May 1949

Celebrating 100 Years of Veterans Day

November 7, 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

San Fernando Valley State College Groundbreaking Ceremony

CSUN's Founding Story

June 18, 2019

Cover, The Charles Weeks Poultry Colony No 2

Charles Weeks Collection

May 7, 2019

Poem on silk screen with photograph by Judy Miranda

Poetry and Perspective

April 23, 2019

Cover, Helps Over Hard Places: Stories for Girls

Early Children's Literature

April 2, 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, Good Roads in Southern California

"Rapid Locomotion via the Rubber-shod Steeds of Steel": Early Automobile Tourism

February 26, 2019

14 Songs of Love with Guitar

"How do I love thee?"

February 12, 2019

Cover, Los Angeles, 1781-1981

The LA River

February 5, 2019

Compañeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology

Perspectives on "Coming Out"

January 29, 2019

Cranberry salad from Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills

Please Pass the Cranberries

December 18, 2018

Sundial, November 5, 1968

S.F.V.S.C., November 4, 1968

November 13, 2018

Rabble rouser

Fighting Antisemitism

November 6, 2018

First two pages of The Photograph

The Violet Atkins Klein Papers

October 26, 2018

Transvestia, volume 3, number 14, cover featuring Nancy, April 1962

Tolerance and Community: Virginia Prince and Transvestia Magazine

October 23, 2018

Invitation to The American West Exhibit

The Carl S. Dentzel Collection

September 25, 2018

the canons of the fingers title page

"The Naturall Language of the Hand"

September 11, 2018

Santa Monica Mountains' and Seashore fundraising postcard

The Susan B. Nelson Collection

June 26, 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

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

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

The Oldest Profession

March 13, 2018

Bumper stickers by Californians Against Forced Busing, 1979

A Look Back at School Desegregation and Busing in Los Angeles

February 27, 2018

Van Norman Reservoir following the Sylmar Earthquake, ca. 1971

A Look Back at the Sylmar Earthquake

February 6, 2018

C is for Cat

19th Century Primers

January 23, 2018

Fragment of a Torah scroll

The Torah

December 19, 2017

Invitation to participate in a fundraiser for Canoga Park High School's War memorial, 1934

The Canoga Park High School Collection

December 12, 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

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

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

Owensmouth Women's Club's entry in Armistice Day Parade, 1929

Canoga Park Women's Club Collection

September 12, 2017

Postcard for America First rally

America First: Variations on a Theme

September 5, 2017

How to Treat Your Face by Susanna Cocroft

Corresponding Culture: Bringing American Culture to Shanghai Through Distance Learning

August 29, 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

Tales of the Dark Knight

BOFF! THWACK! KAPOW!

March 7, 2017

Inside cover of The Military Pinup Kit

Pin-Ups

February 21, 2017

Front page of Denson Tribune

On Exhibit: Japanese American Relocation Center Newspapers

February 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

Bo Peep

Nursery Rhymes

December 13, 2016

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, On Going Naked by Jan Gay, 1932

Living in the Nude

November 29, 2016

Group of men dressed in suits, ca. 1900

The Evolution of Men's Fashion

November 22, 2016

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

Celebrating Culture Clash

November 1, 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

Pictographs located in the Burro Flats area, which date to 500 AD

Santa Susana Mountain Park Association

September 6, 2016

Postcard mementos from Shanghai and The Great Wall

Summer Vacation

May 10, 2016

Half-Dome in the Alpen-Glow, in Yosemite and its High Sierra

Happy Birthday, National Parks!

April 26, 2016

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

Old China Hands Archives Update

March 29, 2016

Los Angeles River

A River Runs Through It

March 8, 2016

Cover, BLK, issue number 3

African-American LGBTQ+ Periodicals

February 16, 2016

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

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

February 9, 2016

Image of BSU member, Sundial, November 5, 1968

S.F.V.S.C., November 4, 1968

February 2, 2016

Portrait, Isaac Newton Van Nuys

Van Nuys, Then and Now

December 15, 2015

Exterior view of Valley Music Theatre just prior to demolition, 2006

The Short, Happy Life of the Valley Music Theatre

December 8, 2015

“Modern Biscuit Baking,” cover of a recipe book

Food for Thought

December 1, 2015

Crop from a cartoon drawing done for Peggy Gilbert

Peggy Gilbert Collection

November 17, 2015

Photograph from promotional brochure featuring CWED's solidarity lending services

Coalition for Women's Economic Development Collection

October 27, 2015

Illustration in A Short History of Los Angeles

Celebrating the City of the Angels

October 13, 2015

George Cruikshank's Fairy Library

Once Upon a Time.....

October 6, 2015

Album cover, "Golden Jubilee" by Andres Segovia

Segovia in the Sundial

September 28, 2015

Puck masthead

What Fools These Mortals Be!

September 22, 2015

Angel

The Works of John Milton

May 5, 2015

War is a Crime, anti-war campaign photo

Voices and Vices: The Reverend Wendell L. Miller Collection

April 28, 2015

Cover, The Adventures of Captain America, Sentinel of Liberty. PN6728.C35 N522

Superheroes in the Archives

April 21, 2015

Child receiving an inoculation, California Historic Photographs Collection

Public Health in the Early 20th Century

March 3, 2015

Dr. John Money

The Jan Dailey and John Money Correspondence Collection

February 13, 2015

blindfold, stiletto heel, whip

The Study of Bondage

February 10, 2015

Illustrations of comical characters

Political and Social Satire in Punch

February 3, 2015

Title page of Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex

Things That Go Bump in the Stacks

October 28, 2014

Brochure, America for Americans by the Ku Klux Klan

The Study of Antisemitism

October 21, 2014

Sketch from Culture Clash Collection

Jokes and Humor

October 7, 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

Tent City News, Gridley Migratory Labor Camp

Migratory Labor Camp Newsletters

September 4, 2014

Pirates of Penzance Jack in the Box

Curiosities, Rarities, and Ephemera in Special Collections and Archives

August 12, 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

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

boy with dumbbells

Physical Culture in the 19th Century

April 15, 2014

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

Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley Collection

March 14, 2014

Cover, Calship Log, November 1, 1941

CalShip and the Liberty Fleet

February 18, 2014

Striker applying choke hold to scab crossing the picket line

The Last Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Strike

February 3, 2014

Hans Brinker's sister

Winter in Special Collections and Archives

December 17, 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

Mulholland Orchard Company

Happy 100th Birthday, Los Angeles Aqueduct!

November 5, 2013

Angel's Flight, 1905

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

October 22, 2013

Illustration from The Ladies' Medical Guide

19th Century Gender Roles for Women

October 19, 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

the temperance songster

The Temperance Movement

August 27, 2013

Advertisement, "Remember Mother with Christopher’s Chocolates.

Mothers in the Archives

May 7, 2013

dime novels

Dime Novel Collection

April 30, 2013

Mothers of East Los Angeles water conservation advertisement

Environmental Collections

April 23, 2013

crescendo

The Crescendo

April 16, 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

Andy Warhol in Andy Warhol's Index

Art in Special Collections

February 19, 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

Dragon

William Gaddis Collection

January 22, 2013

Seasons Greetings

Season's Greetings!

December 17, 2012

Special Collections & Archives

Location

2nd Floor

Phone

Email

asksca@csun.edu

Hours

Monday
10:00am - 4:00pm

Tuesday
10:00am - 7:00pm*

Wednesday
10:00am - 4:00pm

Thursday
10:00am - 4:00pm

Friday
10:00am - 4:00pm

* Special Collections & Archives will close at 4:00pm on Tuesdays during summer and intercessions.

Visitor Information