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The creature’s eyes, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, PR5397 .F7 1984c

Shades of Inspiration: Barry Moser’s Literary Illustrations

October 21, 2025

Cover page of comic “Dita in the Chelsea Girl”, from Sex by Madonna, ML420.M1387 A38 1992

The Most NSFW Pop Culture Moment in the Archives? Madonna’s Sex Book.

September 30, 2025

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

September 23, 2025

cartoon of woman sewing

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)

September 2, 2025

What Fools These Mortals Be! (Repost)

February 25, 2025

Front page image, October 16, 1876

Street & Smith's New York Weekly

January 28, 2025

Detail of technical studies written by educator Sam Saxe, Mimi Melnick Collection.

Jazz in the Archives

December 10, 2024

Duke Ellington, Nat Cole, Marie Ellington, Jimmie Hamilton, and Harry Carney

Bob Douglas: A Twentieth Century Jazz Photographer

October 1, 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 the title page from the Manuscript Cookbook, MCB, 1935.

Home Remedies: The Old Age Medicine

April 30, 2024

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

Power and Politics in Print

April 16, 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

Bobtown street sign

Bobtown: Robert Celestin and a Louisiana Township

November 28, 2023

Bartender illustration

The Savoy Cocktail Book

November 14, 2023

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 frontispiece from the Pennyroyal edition of Frankenstein, “A Stream of Fire” wood engraving print, PR5397 .F7 1984c

Monster or Human? Pennyroyal’s Frankenstein

October 31, 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 of the cover illustration for The New Atlantis, PS648.S3 S463 1976

"Gathering Wild Oats and Telling Stories": Ursula K. Le Guin's Literary Meals

October 17, 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

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

Weird Tales: A Sexualized Scare

September 19, 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

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

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

Sri Lankan beauty pageant sponsored by Gala of London, 1982

The Hassina and Deeptha Leelarathna Photographic Collection

April 18, 2023

Detail of a pressed flower from page 1 of Emily Dickinson's Herbarium

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium

February 28, 2023

Cassius Clay, (soon to be Muhammad Ali) points to a chalk board that reads "Moore in 4, Next Champ Cassius Clay" at an event leading up to his boxing match against Archie Moore at the Sports Arena, November 15, 1962, Harry Adams Collection. ID: 93.01.HA.B4.N120.605.1

The Greatest

November 22, 2022

Title Page from Millicent Farrington Lowry's Line-A-Day Diary

One Line a Day: Five-Year Journals

November 8, 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

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

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

What is this place?

February 1, 2022

Detail of “Tirando rollo (I love you)” by Gaspar Enriquez, 2005

Chicano Art in Unlikely Conversations

January 25, 2022

Neeli Cherry cat illustration

Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns

October 19, 2021

Roman type S using geometry

The Influence of Type

September 7, 2021

Victorian valentine

Victorian and Edwardian Greeting Cards

August 31, 2021

Berry Gordy

For the Love of Music: Berry Gordy Jr. and Motown Records

April 20, 2021

Enlistment day entry, September 17, 1862

James F. Dargan Civil War Diary and Scrapbook

November 10, 2020

Untitled by Karen Carson

Selections from the University Art Collection

September 1, 2020

Envelope for letter from Alton Flanders to Mrs. Jason Coppernoll

Not so Distant: A Letter from 1919

April 28, 2020

Posted envelope to William J. Sell

The Power of the Post

April 14, 2020

Free status affidavit for Lilly Scott and sons, 1822

Slavery and the Law

February 18, 2020

Crop from Candle Lightin' Time

Early African American Poetry and Fiction

February 4, 2020

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

What is this place?

December 16, 2019

The Moon is Down, first edition, 1942

John Steinbeck Highlights in Special Collections and Archives

December 10, 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

The Drunkard's Children, Plate VII

The Temperance Movement

October 1, 2019

Poem on silk screen with photograph by Judy Miranda

Poetry and Perspective

April 23, 2019

Cover, Good Roads in Southern California

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

February 26, 2019

Cranberry salad from Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills

Please Pass the Cranberries

December 18, 2018

A.C.L.U. cartoon

Activism in the Archives

November 27, 2018

Rabble rouser

Fighting Antisemitism

November 6, 2018

First two pages of The Photograph

The Violet Atkins Klein Papers

October 26, 2018

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger and the Women's Suffrage Movement

September 18, 2018

Vern and Bonnie Bullough

The Vern L. Bullough Papers

August 28, 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

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

"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

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

Del Rancho Al Barrio: The Mexican Legacy of Tucson

Hispanic Heritage Month

September 26, 2017

Cover, How We Won the Vote in California

Women and the American Electorate

September 19, 2017

Postcard for America First rally

America First: Variations on a Theme

September 5, 2017

Jesse James’ Race for Life or Trailed by the Vigilantes

The Jesse James Adventure Series Collection

July 24, 2017

Strive and Succeed Book Cover

Horatio Alger, Jr.

April 11, 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

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

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

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

A Navajo War Ceremonial

October 4, 2016

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

Linked in Friendship, Connected in Service

May 17, 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

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

Old China Hands Archives Update

March 29, 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

Tintype with hand coloring on the girls cheeks

Early Forms of 19th Century Photography

January 25, 2016

“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

Congressman Martin Dies

The House Un-American Activities Committee

October 20, 2015

Puck masthead

What Fools These Mortals Be!

September 22, 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

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

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

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

Photograph, Julian Bream

Concert Programs Tell a Story

October 31, 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

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

boy with dumbbells

Physical Culture in the 19th Century

April 15, 2014

Quarters of Nims 2nd Massachusetts Battery

James F. Dargan Civil War Diary and Scrapbook

March 18, 2014

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

Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley Collection

March 14, 2014

Photograph of Helen Thomas

Interview with Helen Thomas

March 4, 2014

Cover, Helps Over Hard Places: Stories for Girls

Early Children's Literature

February 25, 2014

Cover, Calship Log, November 1, 1941

CalShip and the Liberty Fleet

February 18, 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

Songs of Work and Freedom

Songs of Protest

October 1, 2013

Felipe Rodriguez, 1918

Felipe and Blandina (Guerrero) Rodriguez Family Collection

September 17, 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

John Williams Plays Bach, 1975

John Tanno Collection

May 21, 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

crescendo

The Crescendo

April 16, 2013

Cover of 66 Good Old Time Tested Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes

The Culinary Collection

April 2, 2013

Young Communist League booklet, Life With a Purpose

Gilbert G. Benjamin Subversive Activities Collection

March 26, 2013

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

The Raymond C. Fleming Diaries

March 19, 2013

Union soldier with tattered US flag

John M. Sell Civil War Collection

December 3, 2012