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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

Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Vern L. Bullough papers, Box 276 Folder 7

Menstruation: Misinformation, Fear, and Folklore

September 17, 2024

Henry David Thoreau woodblock print

Sauntering through Special Collections with Henry David Thoreau

September 10, 2024

Detail of an entry from Loris Bulla's Diary

The Loris Bulla Diary

September 3, 2024

Psychological Warfare Branch graphic, ca. 1941-1945, Psychological Warfare Branch Scrapbook

The Library Innovation Grant Program & Metadata Remediation

July 23, 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

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

Home Remedies: The Old Age Medicine

April 30, 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

Captain Houlihan is Speaker at ABC headline

Forrest G. Houlehan and the Civilian Conservation Corps

March 5, 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

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 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

Cover (detail) of Gourmets Guide to New Orleans, TX715.2.L68 S36 1951

Creole Culture in New Orleans, Louisiana

July 18, 2023

Detail of an illustration from The Ladies Medical Guide

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

March 14, 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

Marie in front of forty-eight star American flag, ca. 1912.

American Imperialism in the Philippines

September 22, 2020

Registering for evacuation at San Francisco

Japanese-American Internment and Civil Rights

November 26, 2019

The Book of Werewolves

What About the Werewolf?

October 29, 2019

Left Book Club insignia

The Left Book Club

October 15, 2019

Cracker Jack Chronicles

Miniature Books

October 9, 2019

The Drunkard's Children, Plate VII

The Temperance Movement

October 1, 2019

San Fernando Valley State College Groundbreaking Ceremony

CSUN's Founding Story

June 18, 2019

The Giants of Sequoia and Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks

May 14, 2019

Sketch of cannon guarding Madrid in All the Brave

Spain's Conflict with Fascism

April 30, 2019

Poem on silk screen with photograph by Judy Miranda

Poetry and Perspective

April 23, 2019

Newsreel cover

Is Little America on Your Bucket List?

April 16, 2019

Winking nun

Les Surréalistes

April 9, 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

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

Cranberry salad from Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills

Please Pass the Cranberries

December 18, 2018

London Jingles and Country Tales, for Young People

Chapbook Collection

December 4, 2018

A.C.L.U. cartoon

Activism in the Archives

November 27, 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

Portrait of a boy

John M. Sell Civil War Collection

October 9, 2018

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger and the Women's Suffrage Movement

September 18, 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

Vern and Bonnie Bullough

The Vern L. Bullough Papers

August 28, 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

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

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

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

C is for Cat

19th Century Primers

January 23, 2018

Fragment of a Torah scroll

The Torah

December 19, 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

Cover, How We Won the Vote in California

Women and the American Electorate

September 19, 2017

Jesse James’ Race for Life or Trailed by the Vigilantes

The Jesse James Adventure Series Collection

July 24, 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

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

Strive and Succeed Book Cover

Horatio Alger, Jr.

April 11, 2017

Tales of the Dark Knight

BOFF! THWACK! KAPOW!

March 7, 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

Front page of Denson Tribune

On Exhibit: Japanese American Relocation Center Newspapers

February 14, 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

Title page, Another Country, 1962

The Works of James Baldwin

January 24, 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

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

Accounting for History

November 15, 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

Silk Screen reproduction of sand painting depicting The Killing of the Great Monster

A Navajo War Ceremonial

October 4, 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

Old stacks area.

June Renovation Update

June 28, 2016

mother and child

In Honor of Mothers

May 3, 2016

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

Happy Birthday, National Parks!

April 26, 2016

Frontispiece, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1860

Celebrating Poetry

April 19, 2016

Los Angeles River

A River Runs Through It

March 8, 2016

woman with floating head

Lauretta, the Little Savoyard

March 1, 2016

Crop image, title page of Slave Songs of the United States

Songs of Slave Resistance

February 23, 2016

Cover, BLK, issue number 3

African-American LGBTQ+ Periodicals

February 16, 2016

Image of BSU member, Sundial, November 5, 1968

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

February 2, 2016

Tintype with hand coloring on the girls cheeks

Early Forms of 19th Century Photography

January 25, 2016

Portrait, Isaac Newton Van Nuys

Van Nuys, Then and Now

December 15, 2015

“Modern Biscuit Baking,” cover of a recipe book

Food for Thought

December 1, 2015

Clippings on a page. Sam Hayes Scrapbook

19th Century Scrapbooks

November 24, 2015

Crop from a cartoon drawing done for Peggy Gilbert

Peggy Gilbert Collection

November 17, 2015

Birthday Card from Borris [Emkims] for William Randolph Hearst

The L. Clarice Davis Collection

November 3, 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

Puck masthead

What Fools These Mortals Be!

September 22, 2015

Mexican Century

Mexican Independence

September 15, 2015

Bas reliefs from Konorak, 1260AD

Religious Beliefs and Human Sexuality

September 8, 2015

Sermones de t[em]p[or]e et de sanctis. A woodcut initial letter.

Incunabula in the Library

September 1, 2015

A new door, cut through heavy concrete

August Renovation Update

August 20, 2015

Construction area

July Renovation Update

July 21, 2015

artists' rendering of new space

June Renovation Update

June 23, 2015

Cover, Behind My Own Disguise

The Dawning of a New Page

May 12, 2015

Angel

The Works of John Milton

May 5, 2015

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

Superheroes in the Archives

April 21, 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

Frontispiece, Twelve Years a Slave, Narrative of Solomon Northup

Slave Narratives

March 17, 2015

A hand-drawn picture of a naval ship

Dr. Leonard Osborne Journal

March 6, 2015

Child receiving an inoculation, California Historic Photographs Collection

Public Health in the Early 20th Century

March 3, 2015

The Hindered Hand

Spotlight on Early African American Poetry and Fiction

February 24, 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

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

Daguerrotype of John Brown

The John Brown Letter

December 15, 2014

Title page of The Red Pony.

The Works of John Steinbeck

December 2, 2014

Image of an American Pilgrim

Thanksgiving Traditions

November 24, 2014

Illustration of a Telescope

Mysterious Universe

November 18, 2014

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

Cutout from The Life and Times of Junipero Serra

Publications by Monsignor Francis J. Weber

October 14, 2014

Sketch from Culture Clash Collection

Jokes and Humor

October 7, 2014

Illustration from My Story Of The War: A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as a Nurse in the Union Army by Mary Livermore

The Stiles E. Forsha Collection

September 30, 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

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

The Terra Nova in the pack ice

The Arnold Court Collection on Polar Exploration

May 13, 2014

Pencil sketch of the Pink Panther character

The Chase Craig Collection

May 6, 2014

Initial on the first page of the Antiphonary

Liturgical Music from 18th-Century Spain

April 21, 2014

boy with dumbbells

Physical Culture in the 19th Century

April 15, 2014

The Painter and His Pug

William Hogarth: Painter, Printmaker, and Satirist

April 1, 2014

Quarters of Nims 2nd Massachusetts Battery

James F. Dargan Civil War Diary and Scrapbook

March 18, 2014

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

Slum Neighborhoods in Los Angeles

March 11, 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

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

Censor approval stamp

The Great War

November 12, 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

Songs of Work and Freedom

Songs of Protest

October 1, 2013

Daily report cover

Detective E. B. Mortensen Daily Reports Collection

September 10, 2013

American River Camp, About 1859

Thomas G. Lambert California Gold Rush Letter Book

September 3, 2013

the temperance songster

The Temperance Movement

August 27, 2013

Slave inventory of the Providence Forge & Marston Plantation, 1798

Slavery and the Law

August 20, 2013

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

Journal of a Trip from Liverpool to San Francisco

July 23, 2013

senorita verdugo

Early Los Angeles History

June 25, 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

dime novels

Dime Novel Collection

April 30, 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

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

The Raymond C. Fleming Diaries

March 19, 2013

Climb the Mountains

Miniature Books

March 12, 2013

Andy Warhol in Andy Warhol's Index

Art in Special Collections

February 19, 2013

Seasons Greetings

Season's Greetings!

December 17, 2012

Union soldier with tattered US flag

John M. Sell Civil War Collection

December 3, 2012

Girl in pith helmet

Travel Scrapbook Collection

November 26, 2012

Last Updated: 11/15/2024