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

Heroes

November 26, 2024

Cartoon illustration from Chase Craig’s retirement scrapbook, 1975, Chase Craig Collection, Box 37.

Retirement Traditions in the Archives

October 29, 2024

Source of Information Chart, The Eighth Annual Report to the Governor of the State of California, Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, July 1, 1938 to June 30 1939

Loudon and Latham: Records of the California Institution for Women at Tehachapi in the 1930s

September 24, 2024

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

Menstruation: Misinformation, Fear, and Folklore

September 17, 2024

Margarita Piel McCoy's Notebook from People-to-People Urban Planning Delegation to Europe and the USSR

Margarita Piel McCoy

August 27, 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

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

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

Power and Politics in Print

April 16, 2024

Detail from Molina for Supervisor 1990-1991 campaign mailer, Frank del Olmo Collection, Box 148 Folder 18

Gloria Molina

March 12, 2024

Student Perspectives: San Fernando Valley High School Newspapers

February 20, 2024

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

The Homer Halverson Collection – Documenting Los Angeles in Photographs

February 13, 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

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

Audio Cassette of Vinod Sodhi's Oral History Interview, Cities of Destiny Oral History Project Collection

The Cities of Destiny Oral History Project: India

February 21, 2023

Typical Section for Route 64, illustration demonstrating the width of the future highway

CA 64 - The Valley’s Right of Way to the Beach

December 6, 2022

American Planning Association California Chapter Collection

November 15, 2022

Photo of the Avocado Street Sign Taken for the Historical-Cultural Monument Application

Historic Avocado Trees in Los Feliz

August 30, 2022

Area E Alternative School

August 16, 2022

Women’s History in the Stacks

March 1, 2022

Vultee Aircraft award presentation program cover page, 1942

Southern California Arbitration Case Files Collection

November 2, 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

Terra cotta tile, Campo de Cahuenga, Studio City, 2003

Campo de Cahuenga

May 11, 2021

Dilapidated homes

A Look Back at a Previous LA Housing Crisis

April 6, 2021

Postcard, residence, Northridge, 1918

Northridge: the Early Years

March 30, 2021

Freeway Records Exene Cervenka

Poetry at Bebop Records & Fine Art

February 23, 2021

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

The Gridiron: Oppression Means Stagnation and Freedom Means Progress

February 9, 2021

Lockheed Air Terminal, East passenger concourse with TWA and American Airlines DC-3 aircraft, 1945

Coralie Hewitt Tillack Collection

February 2, 2021

Members of the Supreme Council of the Mexican-American Movement, May 1949.

Supreme Council of the Mexican American Movement Collection

January 26, 2021

Rose Parade Queen, Brenda English, 1963

Beauties in the Archives

December 8, 2020

Pacoima Farmers' Market banner, 1978-1981

Pacoima Revitalization, Inc. Collection

December 1, 2020

Champion Guernsey dairy cow Linetta, ca. 1937

Adohr Farms Collection

November 2, 2020

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

The Legacy of Brad Pye, Jr.

September 29, 2020

Fire fighters from Fire Station 75 work to extinguish flames in Sylmar, June 19, 1980

Forest Fires in the Valley

September 15, 2020

Fernandeno Tataviam Tribe members at San Fernando Mission, 1974

San Fernando Rey de España at Achoicominga

September 8, 2020

Mother Rosa L. Broadous receiving PTA of San Fernando Lifetime Membership pin

Northeast Valley Oral History Project Collection

August 25, 2020

Pamphlet, Fast for Life

Millie Moser Smith Papers

June 16, 2020

Portrait of Antonio Regalado Calvo, ca. 1920s

Antonio and Luz Mendez Calvo Family Collection

May 12, 2020

Certificate of Lawful Entry for Antonio R. Calvo

Interpreting a Trove of Forms and Applications

May 5, 2020

Justice for Mary, May 29, 1987

Richard Bruland Bebop Records Art Posters Collection

April 21, 2020

Julian Nava and Mexican President, José López Portillo, ca. 1980

Julian Nava Collection

April 7, 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

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

Page from Three Trips to Alaska scrapbook

The History of Scrapbooks

October 22, 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

President's medallion

CSUN Leaders Collection

August 8, 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

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

Cover, Los Angeles, 1781-1981

The LA River

February 5, 2019

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

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

Invitation to The American West Exhibit

The Carl S. Dentzel Collection

September 25, 2018

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger and the Women's Suffrage Movement

September 18, 2018

Hand colored sketch of Fairgrounds by Fei Pai Yee

Community Fairs

September 4, 2018

Santa Monica Mountains' and Seashore fundraising postcard

The Susan B. Nelson Collection

June 26, 2018

Marian elementary school

On the Eve of Suffrage: The Philanthropic and Educational Work of the Reseda Woman's Club, 1918-1920

May 7, 2018

Map of Territory Annexed to the City of Los Angeles

Maps of Greater Los Angeles

April 24, 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

"Loteria: Tabla Llena" by Carmen Lomas Garza taken from El Calendario Chicano 1975. Rodolfo F. Acuña Collection

Quirky and Curious Calendars

January 30, 2018

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

The Canoga Park High School Collection

December 12, 2017

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

The Retail Clerks Union Local 770 Scrapbook Collection

November 21, 2017

Raza Unite protest advising the Chicana/o community to unite about the concerns within their community and their campuses. Rodolfo F. Acuna Collection

The Development of CSUN’s Ethnic Studies Programs

November 17, 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

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

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

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

Image from Picus campaign door hanger

Joy Picus Collection

February 7, 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

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

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

Santa Susana Mountain Park Association

September 6, 2016

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

Linked in Friendship, Connected in Service

May 17, 2016

Postcard mementos from Shanghai and The Great Wall

Summer Vacation

May 10, 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

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

Driving permit issued to Stephan Strauss, ca. 1939

Wartime Jewish Émigrés

November 10, 2015

Photograph from promotional brochure featuring CWED's solidarity lending services

Coalition for Women's Economic Development Collection

October 27, 2015

Congressman Martin Dies

The House Un-American Activities Committee

October 20, 2015

Construction area

July Renovation Update

July 21, 2015

artists' rendering of new space

June Renovation Update

June 23, 2015

War is a Crime, anti-war campaign photo

Voices and Vices: The Reverend Wendell L. Miller Collection

April 28, 2015

Starbound, 1938

YWCA Hollywood Studio Club

December 9, 2014

Image of an American Pilgrim

Thanksgiving Traditions

November 24, 2014

Brochure, America for Americans by the Ku Klux Klan

The Study of Antisemitism

October 21, 2014

Tent City News, Gridley Migratory Labor Camp

Migratory Labor Camp Newsletters

September 4, 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

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

Photograph of Helen Thomas

Interview with Helen Thomas

March 4, 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

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

Censor approval stamp

The Great War

November 12, 2013

Mulholland Orchard Company

Happy 100th Birthday, Los Angeles Aqueduct!

November 5, 2013

Richard Bruland Bebop Records Art Posters Collection

October 8, 2013

Felipe Rodriguez, 1918

Felipe and Blandina (Guerrero) Rodriguez Family Collection

September 17, 2013

Advertisement, "Remember Mother with Christopher’s Chocolates.

Mothers in the Archives

May 7, 2013

Mothers of East Los Angeles water conservation advertisement

Environmental Collections

April 23, 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: 12/24/2024