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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library #81
The Margaret Herrick Library collects a wide range of materials documenting film as both an art form and an industry. Its holdings include photographs, posters, books, periodicals, screenplays, and ex

All the Saints of the City of the Angels #218
Collection Description: An historical and poetic road trip through the cultural heritage of Los Angeles, via its hundred streets named for saints. Contending that the history of a place resides in its

American Indian Resource Center, County of Los Angeles Public Library #88
The American Indian Resource Center was founded in 1979 to meet the informational, cultural, and educational needs of Native Americans in Los Angeles County and to make available information about the

Angeles National Forest #160
Established by Executive Order in December 1892, the Angeles National Forest comprises over 650,000 acres of diverse terrain at elevations ranging from 1,200 to 10,064 feet. The Angeles National Fores

Angels Gate Cultural Center #178
Angels Gate is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to promoting the visual and performing arts and to the celebration of ethnic and cultural diversity through exhibitions, concerts, classes,

Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park #130
The Museum exhibits American Indian cultural materials, primarily focused on cultures of the Southwestern, Great Basin and Californian culture regions, which were connected by a major trade route from

Arab American Historical Foundation #248
Arab American Almanac, 5th edition, 560 pages. The most comprehensive reference book about Arab-Americans. * Complete collection of The News Circle/Arab-American Affairs magazine, from 1972 t0 t

Arboretum of Los Angeles County, Historical Section Archives #161
The 127 acres of the Arboretum of Los Angeles County feature plant collections arranged by geographic origin and taxonomy, various gardens and exhibits, and several historic buildings. In addition, th

Arcadia Historical Museum, Ruth and Charles Gilb #154
The Arcadia Historical Museum, founded in 1988, focuses on the history of Arcadia—from Rancho Santa Anita, an enormous land grant given to the San Gabriel Mission by the king of Spain in 1771, to th

Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia History Collection #126
The Arcadia History Collection is a repository of photographs, scrapbooks, city directories, newspapers on microfilm, and ephemera documenting the history of the City of Arcadia. Its archival holdings

Archdiocese of Los Angeles Archival Center #69
The new Archival Center that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles built at the San Fernando Mission and opened in 1980 is a measured response to the church's obligation to collect and preserve records assoc

Armenian Numismatic Society #50
The Armenian Numismatic Society, an educational, non-profit organization, is the only active body in the world concerned with Armenian numismatics. The Society was established on February 27, 1971 as

Armory Center for the Arts #23
The Armory Center for the Arts has three fully operable letterpresses and much of the printed work from the Woman's Building's Graphic Arts Center, which closed in 1991. Among the printed materials ar

Art Center College of Design, James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library #71
The James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library offers an extensive collection of resources on art and design, along with materials on the arts community in Los Angeles and Pasadena as represented by the Art C

Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California #176
The Asian Pacific Community Fund is a philanthropic fundraising organization whose mission is to support health and social service programs that serve the critical needs of Asian and Pacific Islander

Automobile Club of Southern California #185
The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded in 1900, and the records of its undertakings provide a distinctive picture of life in the region during the twentieth century. The documents and

Autry National Center Institute for the Study of the American West #138
Access to the archival and artifact collections of the Autry National Center Museum of the American West and the Southwest Museum of the American Indian is through the Institute for the Study of the A

Azusa Pacific University #216
Materials on the advent of theological school in Los Angeles County

Azusa Pacific University, Hugh and Hazel Darling Graduate Library, Mrs. Irving Stone’s Special Collections Room #72
The institution has Special Collections including: 1) Local history; 2) American religious history; and 3) history of the American west. Under Local History, the Azusa-Foothill Citrus Collection con

Baha’i Center, Los Angeles #65
Los Angeles Baha'i Center's archival holdings consist of documents and records of Baha'i affairs from the 1920s to the present. Baha'i publications dating back to the 1920s are available as well. In a

Baldwin Park Historical Society #51
The Baldwin Park Historical Society has more than one thousand representative artifacts for the period from 1850 to 1950 in Baldwin Park, a community that began as an agricultural area and was incorpo

Barnsdall Art Center #175
Barnsdall Art Center, built in 1919, provides high-quality art instruction at an affordable cost to adults. Its mission is to create and maintain an environment that feels welcoming and an atmosphere

Beverly Hills Historical Society #61
Materials in the archives of the Beverly Hills Historical Society are primarily from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, Beverly Hills Women's Club, Beverly Hills Nurseries, Rotary Club of Beverly

Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection #85
Materials in the Beverly Hills Historical Collection deal almost exclusively with the City of Beverly Hills from 1919 to the present. The collection consists of books, newspapers, city directories, ma

Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center #10
Beyond Baroque is a small, independent literary archive center. Its holdings include chapbooks, volumes of fiction and poetry, literary periodicals, small edition works, and audio recordings of events

Bison Archives #35
Historical photographs and information on the history of Los Angeles and the Southern California area. Archive specializes in the history of the television and motion picture industry (studios) in th

Black Photographers of California #24
Black Photographers of California is a nonprofit educational institution founded in 1984 that is dedicated to preserving and presenting the photo-graphs of established and emerging photographers and t

Black Resource Center, A.C. Bilbrew Library #187
The Black Resource Center was founded in 1978 to meet the informational, cultural, and educational needs of African Americans in Los Angeles County, and to make available materials related to the hist

Bolton Hall Museum, Little Landers Historical Society #136
The Bolton Hall Museum is dedicated to preserving and exhibiting materials related to the history of the Sunland-Tujunga area. In its collection are institutional records, personal photographs, postca

Boyle Heights Historical Society #227
New historical society in Boyle Heights (Oct 2006) is beginning to plan for creation of an archive.

Burbank Records Center #163
The holdings of the City of Burbank’s Records Center relate primarily to the organization, programs, and people of the municipal government. The center makes available a range of studies, reports, pub

C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Max and Lore Zeller Library #125
Archive has no materials about Los Angeles, per se. However, archive holds some records of the individuals--primarily from Eastern Europe--who settled here and began using Jungian methods professiona

Cal Poly Pomona, University Library Special Collections #180
Cal Poly Pomona was originally founded in San Dimas in 1938, as an all male agricultural/horticultural adjunct college of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In 1949 the college

California African American Museum #147
The California African American Museum collects, preserves, interprets, and displays materials that honor the contributions of African Americans to world history and culture. The museum’s art collecti

California Institute of the Arts #73
The collection of the California Institute of the Arts Library is contemporary in focus but offers resources for investigating the past as well. Its archival holdings include the Viola Hegyi Swisher C

California Science Center #137
The permanent exhibitions at the California Science Center educate visitors about the living world, with an emphasis on the common life processes of plants, animals, and people, and the creative world

California State University, Channel Islands, Robert J. Lagomarsino Archives #199
The Robert J. Lagomarsino Archives documents Mr. Lagomarsino’s service as a California State Senator (1961-1974) under governors Brown and Reagan and as a United States Representative (1974-1992) unde

California State University, Dominguez Hills. Archives and Special Collections #219
The Archives and Special Collections Department at CSUDH serves several functions as the archives for the California StateUniversity System, CSUDH, and the Rancho San Pedro/Dominguez Family. In additi

California State University, Long Beach, University Art Museum #148
The University Art Museum maintains both a permanent collection of twentieth-century works of art on paper and a collection of site-specific outdoor sculpture. The sculpture collection began in 1965 w

California State University, Northridge, Delmar T. Oviatt Library, Urban Archives Center #112
The University Archives at California State University documents the history of the University dating back to its beginnings in 1956 as a branch of the Los Angeles State College. Records include those

California State University, Northridge, Department of Geography, California Geographical Survey #107
The California Geographical Survey is a digital archive of geographical data, maps, and other information dealing with California and the United States. Although the survey’s Web site functions princi

California State University, Northridge, Department of History #115
In the Department of History’s collections is a range of books and journals related to Los Angeles. The Whitsett Collection, which contains the largest group of materials, has five major components: f

California State University, Northridge, Department of Journalism, Center for Photojournalism and Visual History #113
Many of the photographs and negatives in the collections of the Center for Photojournalism and Visual History depict people, places, and events in Southern California. The three largest collections co

California State University, Northridge, Geography Map Library #74
The Geography Map Library possesses approximately three hundred fifty thousand flat map sheets as well as numerous atlases, aerial photographs, gazetteers, and geographic teaching aids. It is a deposi

California State University, Northridge, University Library, Special Collections #191
Special Collections contains manuscripts, rare and unusual printed books and documents, and selected sound recordings. The collections focus on California, Women in Music, American Literature, Childre

California State University, Northridge, University Library, University Archives #114
University Archives is the repository for historical records, papers, manuscripts, publications, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts pertaining to the administration, faculty, staff, and students at

Canoga-Owensmouth Historical Society #48
The Canoga-Owensmouth Historical Society's collection contains photo-graphs, books, pamphlets, documents, artifacts, and oral interviews dealing with the history of the West San Fernando Valley, with

Catalina Island Museum Society, Inc. #131
The exhibitions of the Catalina Island Museum draw on the collections and archival holdings of the Catalina Island Museum Society. The archaeological site material in the society’s collections dates f

Center for Oral and Public History/California State University, Fullerton #257

Center for Oral and Public History/California State University, Fullerton #258
Oral history collections that represent geographical, ethnic, political, religious, and social communities of selected Los Angeles locales. Regions Covered: Gardena, Santa Monica, Whittier, Pico Rive

Center for the Study of Political Graphics #75
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits domestic and international poster art. The Center’s domestic and

Center for Visual Music #215
Collections include material on Oskar Fischinger and related Visual Music Artists, including Jules Engel, John and James Whitney, Pat O'Neill, Hy Hirsh, Single Wing Turquoise Bird light show, Ed Emshw

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Lillian Fellows Memorial Archive #198
Childrens Hospital Society of Los Angeles was established in 1901 by a small group of women who recognized the need for a hospital that could serve ill, crippled, and under-privileged children. The or

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California #60
The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California was founded in1975 to discover and recognize Chinese American pioneers and the history of Chinese Americans in Southern California. It also works

Citrus College Library #77
In the archives at the Citrus College Library are documents, black-and-white photographs, yearbooks, and videotaped interviews with alumni, administrators, and professors concerning the history of Cit

City of Commerce Public Library #87
Materials on history of City of Commerce prior to and after incorporation in 1960. Includes some information on surrounding East Los Angeles and region served by Montebello Unified School District.

Claremont Colleges, Denison Library, Special Collections #97
Denison Library’s Special Collections are extensive and varied, ranging from classical literature to Californiana. They include the Scripps College Archives, which provide a significant record for the

Claremont Colleges, Honnold/Mudd Library, Special Collections #78
The Special Collections holdings reflect the diverse communities of the Claremont Colleges and the local area and region. Among the collections especially pertinent to Los Angeles and Southern Califor

Cold Tofu #9
Cold Tofu's collection includes photographs and videos that document the past sixteen years of this Asian American improvisational comedy group, whose cast members have included Amy Hill and Denice Ku

Community Arts Resources, Inc. (CARS) #21
Since 1989, CARS has been breaking down barriers between the public and the arts. It offers Los Angeles artists and artists visiting the area guidance and access to the local resources they need for t

County of Los Angeles Public Library (Californiana Collection) #247
This reference collection is about the history and culture of California. Contains over 20,000 books, magazines, newspaper, and pamphlets. The collection is a non-circulating resource collection of

County of Los Angeles Public Library, East Los Angeles Library, Chicano Resource Center #76
The Chicano Resource Center was established in 1976 to serve the information needs of the Chicano population of Los Angeles and to make available materials related to the history and culture of the se

Craft and Folk Art Museum Archives #239
The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) has been a fixture in the museum district on Wilshire Blvd. since 1975 and, before that, its predecessor, The Egg and The Eye Gallery, was a center for exhibition

Craft and Folk Art Museum Edith R. Wyle Research Library Collection #128
The Edith R. Wyle Research Library of the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) was donated to the L.A. County Museum of Art Research Library in December 1997 during a period of consolidation for the Muse

Dan Kwong #43
Dan Kwong has early snapshots and formal photographs of Japanese and Chinese family members, as well as correspondence collected by his Japanese grandfather while interned by the U.S. government durin

Daniel T. Muñoz #36
Daniel Muñoz's collection has books on the history of Los Angeles County; newspaper articles from Echo Park and other neighborhoods and cities in the count regarding hospitals, transportation, and man

David Boule #237
Photographs, postcards, periodicals, brochures, posters, educational materials, advertising and marketing materials, souvenirs, pins, badges, objects

Delmar Watson Photographic Archives, Inc. #38
Dating back to the late 1800’s, the archive contains over 2 million negatives, photographs, and turn-of-the-century 5X7 glass negatives of numerous events in Los Angeles and history at large. Also in

Downey City Library #120
In addition to telephone books for the years 1960 to 1980, the Downey City Library has runs of several local newspapers on microfilm: Downey City Courier (1875-1880), Downey Champion (1888-1895), Down

Downey Historical Society #62
The Downey Historical Society is located at the Downey History Center in Apollo Park. For more than thirty years, the society's all-volunteer staff has been gathering and preserving records and artifa

Duarte Historical Museum #49
The collection of the Duarte Historical Society and Friends of the Library focuses on the history of the City of Duarte and adjacent Bradbury. Its archive includes photographs, records, and other arti

Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society #53
Materials about the history of Eagle Rock. Once an independant city now a neighborhood in Los Angeles.

East Los Streetscapers #25
East Los Streetscapers was founded in 1975 by Wayne Alaniz Healy and David Rivas Botello, both veterans of the East Los Angeles mural movement. Among the public art projects produced by this team are

Educational Communications #14
Established in 1958, Educational Communications is dedicated to improving the quality of life on this planet by creating greater awareness of environmental issues. Educational Communications curre

El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument #149
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is the oldest section of Los Angeles. Its twenty-seven historic buildings clustered around an old plaza range in architectural style from an adobe dwelling

Eriberto #37
Photo collection expands over 20 years and documents life in San Diego (where the individual started documenting the Chicano Movement - Chicano Park), on the life at the Malibu Pier (including some s

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Region 2 Archives #63
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was formally created in 1988 from the three church bodies known as the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in America, and the Association of Evang

Filipino American Library (FAL) #253
A compilation of published and unpublished materials on the history of Filipinos in Los Angeles, including the formation of Historic Filipinotown. The collection includes books, reports, memorandums,

First Street Gallery Art Center #2
First Street Gallery/Art Center is founded on the proposition that human potential for creativity and artistic expression is not limited by physical or developmental disabilities. The gallery presents

Fischinger Archive #201
Oskar Fischinger, filmmaker and painter, worked in Los Angeles from 1936-1967. He is known for his work on the original "Fantasia", for his abstract animated films, and his influence on the southern

Forest Lawn Museum #220
Throughout 2006, Forest Lawn will be celebrating its Centennial, 100 Years of Service in Los Angeles. Therefore, beginning January 28th and lasting until July 16th, the Forest Lawn Museum will have an

Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies #79
Established in 1988, the Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies is a nonprofit arts research institute. It publishes books of art criticism and Art issues, a magazine that focuses on contemporary vi

Getty Research Institute, Research Library #246
Located on the Getty Center campus in Brentwood, the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute focuses on the history of art, architecture, and archaeology from prehistory to the contemporary

Glendale Public Library #249

Glendale Public Library, Special Collections #127
Special Collections at the Glendale Central Library contains books about the City of Glendale and its history, clippings from newspapers published in the Glendale area, historical photographs, and eph

Great Leap, Inc. #12
In Great Leap's collection are posters, photographs, reviews, videos, and music that represent the development of Asian American culture from 1970 to the present. Great Leap has produced and presented

Griffith Park Archives #168
In the Griffith Park Archives are photographs, maps, and historical material about Griffith Park and its present-day attractions: Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles Zoo, Travel Town Museum, Greek Theat

Hirokazu Kosaka #39
The private collection of Mr. Hirokazu Kosaka is a rich hybrid of various nations and traditions. They include photographs and objects from his family’s immigrant history from the late 19th century,

Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley #208
Documents and photos relating to the history of the Crescenta Valley. The La Crescenta Valley Historical Society has a lot of materials on the New Years Flood of 1934, and the town of Montrose, plus s

Hollywood Bowl Museum #132
Established in 1984 through a partnership between the County of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, the Edmund D. Edelman Hollywood Bowl Museum is located on the grounds of the w

Huntington Hospital #217
Collection of old diploma schools of nursing materials from Los Angeles County

Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens #80
The Library has a large collection of manuscripts, printed books and periodicals, photographs, maps and ephemera relating to Los Angeles. Topical areas of particular importance, with examples of archi

Huntington Park High School Alumni #242
Huntington Park High School alumni information

Huntington Park High School Alumni Association #207
Huntington Park High School Alumni Association collection of names & addresses of graduates, yearbooks, newspapers and various other items of memorabilia has collections of memorabilia from 1910 to pr

Immanuel Presbyterian Church #64
Immanuel Presbyterian Church has corporate minutes; organizational records of governing bodies, committees, and other subgroups; and membership records. In the church's library are publications dealin

Inner-City Arts #22
An arts organization that provides arts education to children and teenagers (450 daily), Inner-City Arts teaches visual arts, ceramics, dance, music, drama, poetry, and other language arts. The missio

Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty #200
The Institute is a nonprofit research and policy organization that catalogs materials related to homelessness and poverty in Los Angeles and the surrounding region. The Institute's online catalog con

International Child Art Collection #1
International Child Art Collection celebrates human similarities and cultural contrasts among people throughout the world. Originated by UNESCO and entrusted in the 1960s to the Junior Arts Center, th

Irene Fertik #179
Irene Fertik is a community artist, teacher, and photographer whose work has appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines, and books. Her collection of photographs contains images of New York City i

Irwindale Public Library #121
Collections include photographs and newspaper clippings of Irwindale. Materials are uncatalogued and unsorted at the moment, and difficult to use. Access is only available if a staff member can be s

Italian Oral History Institute #34
Despite the important contributions of Italians to Southern California, the history of this community has yet to be fully documented. The Italian Oral History Project, directed by Luisa Del Giudice,

Japan Cinex, Inc. #20
Japan Cinex is a nonprofit organization that informs Japanese culture by making accessible materials on Japanese cinema. Various film critiques published in Japanese and some of the organization's res

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center #15
The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center preserves and encourages appreciation of Japanese and Japanese American heritage and culture. The center's Franklin D. Murphy Library has a comprehe

Japanese American National Museum #133
The Japanese American National Museum holds a wide variety of materials documenting the Japanese American experience from a Japanese American perspective. Built around broad historical eras and themes

Jeff Vilencia Collection #251
8mm, super 8mm, 16mm home movies approx 20 thousand 50 & 100 foot camera original rolls, spanning 1920's to 1980's. about half to 3/4 are families in California. also home made 78rpm discs from the

Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles, Peter M. Kahn Memorial #119
In addition to a variety of pedagogical and teaching resources for Jewish communal workers, the Jewish Community Library holds a collection of books that reflect Jewish life, history, culture, art, an

Jewish Home for the Aging #17
Jewish Home for the Aging is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide quality services to Jewish elderly in need and their families, in a Jewish atmosphere, within its service area. It is

June L. Mazer Lesbian Collection #16
The June L. Mazer Lesbian Collection, formerly the West Coast Lesbian Collections, was founded in Oakland, California, in 1981. Six years later it was moved to Los Angeles by Connexxus Women's Center/

Kathryn Tubbs #44
Kathryn Tubbs has audio recordings of her interviews with artists, arts administrators, gallery owners, writers, cultural organizers, and activists in Los Angeles regarding the exhibition and the econ

KCET-TV #18
A public television station that has served Southern and Central California since 1964, KCET seeks to educate and inspire by providing unique and valuable programs and services to diverse communities.

Korean American Museum #134
Founded in 1991, the Korean American Museum recognizes the history, culture, and achievements of Americans of Korean ancestry and fosters the exchange of ideas and experiences between individuals of a

Korean Youth Community Center (KYCC) #19
KYCC's mission is to serve the evolving needs of the Korean American population in the greater Los Angeles area and of the dynamic multiethnic community in Koreatown. Directed toward recently immigrat

La Puente Valley Historical Society #52
John Rowland, co leader of the first wagon train of settlers to reach the La Puente Valley area, is the focus of the collection of the La Puente Valley Historical Society. The society's archive contai

La Senora Research Institute #250
Ernest Marquez Collection 3,000+ photos with emphasis on Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu - Documents, Deeds, Marriage Investigations, related to the Marquez, and Reyes families and

LA84 Foundation #204
The AAF Sports Library houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections on sports information. The collection highlights include more than 8,000 volumes archiving the Olympic Games; photograp

Lanterman House #211
Local history of the La Canada Valley and Flintridge and of the City of La Canada Flintridge (incorporated 1976). History of the Lanterman family, pioneer settlers of the La Canada Valley in the 1870

Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture #156
The Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture is the first museum in the United States dedicated to presenting the contributions of Latino culture. It sponsors several exhibitions each year and active

Lawrence J. Siems #41
Larry Siems holds a collection of letters between undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants and their families and friends. The collection formed the basis of the Book, "Between the Lines",

LIFE Bible College #68
LIFE (Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism) Bible College is a training facility for pastors, missionaries, and teachers. It has graduates and satellite institutions throughout the world,

Long Beach City College, Liberal Arts Campus Library #83
In the collections of the Liberal Arts Campus Library are materials pertinent to the history and administration of Long Beach City College. They include miscellaneous college publications relating to

Long Beach Collection, Long Beach Public Library #84
The Long Beach Collection preserves a variety of materials documenting the history of Long Beach. These include approximately one hundred audiotaped interviews, which were gathered in 1980 through an

Long Beach Historical Society #57
The Historical Society of Long Beach was founded to promote, perpetuate, publish, exhibit, develop, and preserve Long Beach history. Its holdings include twenty-six thousand images, both negatives and

Long Beach Museum of Art #135
The Long Beach Museum of Art has approximately fifteen hundred paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twentieth-century California artists and one of the largest collections of video art in the

Los Angeles City Archives #169
In the Los Angeles City Archives are the official municipal government records of the City of Los Angeles, including city council files, city ordinances, and city council minutes. The archives also co

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions #11
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions' collection comprises publications, posters, original videos of performances, and slides of work exhibited in the galleries, as well as institutional records. Its

Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations #170
Since 1944, the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations has worked to build positive intergroup relations in America’s most ethnically, racially, and culturally diverse metropolis. Its holdin

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Transportation Library and Research Center #171
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Library is one of the most comprehensive transportation and transit-related library research resources in the United States. It contains over thirty thousand

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Doris Stein Research Center for Costumes and Textiles #139
The resources of the Doris Stein Research Center for Costumes and Textiles illuminate the entire history of costumes and textiles. Its holdings include eleven thousand original prints, fashion plates,

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mr. & Mrs. Allan C. Balch Research Library #86
In the collection of the Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Art Research Library are posters and other pieces of ephemera relating to local exhibitions, artists, and organizations; all of this material is ar

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Photography Department #150
In the photography collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are approximately fifty-five hundred fine prints spanning the history of the medium, with an emphasis on post-World War II America

Los Angeles History Slugs #47
The collection of the Los Angeles History Slugs documents the history of parks, rivers, hospitals, orphanages, and schools in the Los Angeles area through photographs, news clippings, copies of origin

Los Angeles Maritime Museum Research Library #229
The Research Library is a special collection of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. Originally acquired by donations from local and California coastal shipbuilding companies, shipbuilders and industries,

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association #56
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association has a large collection of articles from local newspapers for the period from 1919 to the present, as well as numerous photographs of artists, many audio record

Los Angeles Police Historical Society #58
The Los Angeles Police Historical Society has materials from the Los Angeles Police Department and its members, past and present. The archives provide information about the department, officers, comma

Los Angeles Poverty Department #3
Los Angeles Poverty Department is a theater for homeless people of the Skid Row section of downtown Los Angeles. Archival materials include notes and scripts from shows, writings on a number of subjec

Los Angeles Public Library, History and Genealogy Department #89
In the collections of the History and Genealogy Department at the Los Angeles Public Library are a variety of materials relating to the history of Los Angeles. The History Collection includes the Cali

Los Angeles Public Library, Photograph Collections #70
The Los Angeles Public Library’s Photograph Collections comprise a number of major collections and special archives. In the Security Pacific National Bank archive are approximately three hundred forty

Los Angeles Unified School District #226
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) art and artifact collection has been amassed since the opening of the first district school in 1855. The collection began to be organized in 2001 whe

Los Angeles Zoo Library Archival Collection #122
The Los Angeles Zoo Library’s Archival Collection consists of newspaper clippings from the Los Angeles Times (1955–present); zoo publications, including annual reports (1963–present) and the quarterly

Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission #164
Since 1962, the Cultural Heritage Commission has designated properties in Los Angeles as landmarks and reviewed proposed alterations to designated sites. Many of the structures that the commission has

Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks, Hollywood Museum Collection #173
The Hollywood Museum Collection contains Hollywood memorabilia, costumes, full-length films, movie stills, photographic equipment, sound recordings, interviews, script treatments, books, and other ite

Los Encinos State Historical Park #256
Historical collections from the various families that lived at Rancho El Encino.

Loyola Marymont University, Dept. of Archives & Special Collections, Charles Von der Ahe Library #90
The Department of Archives and Special Collections includes several collections relating to Los Angeles and Southern California. Of these, the Research Collection of the Center for the Study of Los An

MacDonald & Associates #224
One of the world's largest privately-owned film collections, MacDonald & Associates holds much historic footage relating to Southern California from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Marymount High School - Los Angeles #213
Marymount High School is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school for girls, and was founded in 1923 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. While the school has played a singular rol

Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum, Inc. #259
World's largest independently held collection of African American history and culture; consisting of rare and out-of-print books, documents, films, music, photographs and memorabilia.

McGroarty Art Center Friends #8
Longtime Verdugo Hills resident John Steven McGroarty was a playwright, columnist, lawyer, congressman, and poet of California. He lived for many years at Rancho Chupa Rosa, a small hacienda near Tuju

Montebello Public Library, Asian Pacific Resource Center #188
The Asian Pacific Resource Center was established in 1979 to serve the information needs of Asian Pacific people and to make information about these groups available to the greater community. English

Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive #189
The Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive is dedicated to the preservation, documentation and promotion of the most outstanding past and present photography from all facets of the entertainment

Museum of Contemporary Art #140
MOCA collects, exhibits, and interprets art created since 1940 in all media. Works in the museum's permanent collection range from masterpieces of abstract expressionist and pop art to recent work by

Museum of Television & Radio #157
The Museum of Television & Radio, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, is a non-profit organization founded by William S. Paley to collect and preserve television and radio programs and adverti

National Latino Communications Center #26
The National Latino Communications Center is a nonprofit media arts production resource center that supports, produces, and syndicates Latino programming for public television. It holds one of the lar

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Seaver Center for Western History Research #151
The Seaver Center for Western History Research collects, preserves, and makes available to the general public and to scholars historic records pertaining to the history and the exploration of the tran

Norton Simon Museum #141
The Norton Simon Museum’s collection spans two thousand years of Western and Asian art. It contains European and American art from before the Renaissance through the twentieth century, including works

O’Brien Turner Collection #40
The O’Brien- Turner Collection contains over 65,000 items issued for progressive causes from the course of U.S. history as well as items representing over 120 countries. Private collectors John O’Bri

Occidental College Library, Department of Special Collections #91
Collection Description: For over one hundred years, many notable gifts and endowments have been bestowed upon Occidental College Library for the advancement of the College mission in higher education

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives #117
ONE Inc., which was founded in 1952 by W. Dorr Legg and is the oldest ongoing gay/lesbian organization in North America, and the International Gay and Lesbian Archives, a collection initiated by Jim K

Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival #7
Outfest's collection is based on sixteen years of presenting films and videos about the gay and lesbian community. Although much of the collection is not Los Angeles-based, Los Angeles is referenced a

Pacific Palisades Historical Society #59
The collections of the Pacific Palisades Historical Society deal with the history of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica; the Chautauqua movement; the Methodist community from 1921 to 1943; the Uplifters Club

Palos Verdes Library District, Local History Collection #92
The Local History Collection for the Palos Verdes Library District focuses on the social and cultural history of the Palos Verdes Peninsula from 1920 to the present. This fairly extensive collection i

Pasadena Museum of History #228
The Research Library and Archives has been collecting material relating to the history of Pasadena since 1924. The archives contains approximately 1 million historic images (including photos, negative

Pasadena, Planning and Permitting Department, Pasadena Design and Historic Preservation Section #165
Within the City of Pasadena, the Design and Historic Preservation Section reviews plans for construction and building alterations affecting historic properties, conducts historic building surveys, car

Patrick Griffin #45
The private collection of Dr. Patrick Griffin preserves images from the history of Los Angeles so that they will be available to interested researchers and Angelinos in the future. Included in the col

Performing Tree, Inc. #27
Performing Tree was developed by the Junior League of Los Angeles and launched as a pilot project in 1972. One of the first nonprofit organizations to collaborate with the Los Angeles Unified School D

Philosophical Research Society #93
Founded in 1934, the Philosophical Research Society is a nonsectarian center for the study and teaching of the world’s wisdom traditions. The Philosophical Research Society Library’s holdings provide

Pico Rivera Historical Society & Museum #255

Pierce College, Kathleen Beachy Memorial Library #82
The Kathleen Beachy Memorial Library, which is sponsored and staffed by the Calabasas Historical Society, covers the history of the San Fernando Valley with emphasis on Calabasas and the west Valley a

Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center for the Arts and Education #13
The Plaza private arts are a collective of four distinct collections. Each one focused in its own area of interest: The Vincent Price Collection contains twenty two pieces of ceramic, wood, and stone

Pomona Public Library, Special Collections #94
Special Collections at the Pomona Public Library maintains extensive pamphlet files of clippings, photographs, brochures, and other ephemera related principally to Pomona Valley and especially to the

Public Utilities History Center #46
The Public Utilities History Center's collections concern the history of water, electricity, gas, and rail and bus transportation in Los Angeles from 1869 to the present. Its archival holdings pertain

Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation #186
The archives and collections of the Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation are site-specific and relate to the history of the locale. In the archives are approximately three thousand photographs, two hundred

Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site #142
Most of the collections and archival holdings of the Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site are site-specific and relate to its present role as a historic adobe museum and representative site in Southern C

Riverside Municipal Museum #155
Founded in 1924 as the Cornelius Earle Rumsey Indian Museum, the Riverside Municipal Museum presents multicultural and interdisciplinary exhibits and educational programs emphasizing the history, natu

San Pedro Bay Historical Society #55
The collections of the San Pedro Bay Historical Society comprise documents, large and small photographs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, maps, slides, books, ephemera, and regalia relating to the flor

Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division #166
The City of Santa Monica’s Cultural Affairs Division has a portable visual art collection produced by contemporary artists, including works by seventy-five Southern Californians. It also maintains a p

Santa Monica Historical Society Museum #203
The Santa Monica Historical Society was founded in 1975 as part of the city’s centennial celebration with the mission of collecting and preserving the history, art and culture of the Santa Monica Bay

Santa Monica Public Library #96
The Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives contain historical photographs, postcards, and slides documenting the city's changing landscape and architecture as well as the commercial enterprises th

Self-Help Graphics and Art, Inc. #28
Since 1972, Self-Help Graphics has illuminated and preserved the work of Chicano/Mexicano artists in the Los Angeles area and promoted Chicano art as a rich and vital part of American culture. Through

Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel #66
The collections of the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel relate to early Los Angeles religious history. They include two to three hundred photographs, correspondence between the president of the temple

Shelley Gazin #210
Cross-section of Urban population and events including portraits of Creative Professional, Entrepreneurs, Scientists, Political & Religious Leaders, Persian-Americans

Side Street Projects #6
Side Street Projects is a community-based, nonprofit arts organization dedicated to helping artists produce and exhibit their work. Located in the Eighteenth Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica, Side

Sisters of Social Service #29
Collections of the organization document the history of the Sisters in Los Angeles and California from 1926-present. Particular emphasis is given to Hungarian immigrant experience and social services

Sisters of St. Louis #184
The Sister's of St. Louis collections about Los Angeles include 30 albums and 5 wall exhibits of photographs of students, teachers, residents and events from 1949 through 2000, all from the 20 schools

Skirball Cultural Center #143
The Skirball Cultural Center explores the linkage between American Jewish life and American democratic values through cultural programs and museum exhibitions for all ages and backgrounds. Designed by

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, West Coast Regional Center #162
The Archives of American Art, founded in 1954 and since 1970 a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, is the national trust for the history of the visual arts in the United States. It collects, preser

Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) #30
SPARC’s MREC is one of the country’s largest repositories of information about murals and other forms of public art. SPARC produces, exhibits, and preserves public art works and is particularly commi

Society of California Archivists #254
The Society of California Archivists, formed in 1971, is a professional association devoted to the support and development of individuals and institutions that collect, care for, and provide access to

South Pasadena Public Library, South Pasadena Historical Archives #98
The City of South Pasadena Historical Archives contain primarily material pertaining to the history of the South Pasadena area, with some of the material dating to before the city’s incorporation. Inc

Southern California Genealogical Society #225
The SCGS Library holds 30,000 volumes but a relatively small portion of the material is related to LA. We have published indices to cemetery records, marriage records, and naturalizations, and we pro

Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research #177
The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research primarily documents and preserves the history of twentieth-century radicalism and social change through progressive movements in the gre

St. Vincent Medical Center Historical Conservancy #54
The St. Vincent Medical Center Historical Conservancy was established in 1995 to preserve the long and storied history of St. Vincent Medical Center and of its founders, the Daughters of Charity. In o

Studio for Southern California History #240
Oral histories, postcards, photographs from family albums, maps, books, videos, articles, magazines.

The Ebell of Los Angeles #159
Yearbooks, newsletters and bulletins, scrapbooks describing club activities and philanthropic activities spanning the years from 1894 through the present. Furnishings, artworks including paintings an

The Ebell of Los Angeles #236

The Museum of the San Fernando Valley #223
Austin Conover Library of San Fernando Valley History, Archives of Los Angeles Valley College, W.P. Whitsett papers/artifacts (founder of Van Nuys - Metropolitan Water Dist.), Mayor Thomas Bradley pho

The Robert S. Birchard Collection #243
The Robert S. Birchard collection holds a great deal of visual and written material related to the early motion picture industry.

The Salvation Army Museum of the West #241
The Salvation Army Museum of the West houses material from the Southern California Division of the Salvation Army. The Southern California Division is headquartered in Los Angeles proper but services

The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants, Inc. #212
The collection is currently being evaluated to determine content and needs for curation and as such is not yet available to the public. Included are: Personal papers of Theodore Payne dating from 18

Travel Town Museum #144
The Travel Town Museum preserves and celebrates the railroad heritage of the western United States—its history and its artifacts. Particular emphasis is placed on the role that railroads played in the

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive #214
Though the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive has traditionally focused on collecting musics outside of Los Angeles, in recent years the Archive has developed a significant collection of LA-based materials.

United Latinos for the Arts-Los Angeles (ULA LA) #31
ULA LA holds documentation dealing with the Chicano Art Movement mainly from 1985-1991. Included in this is the PICO HOUSE experience, which includes: photos of the artists involved in the process o

United States Geological Survey, Pasadena Field Office #172
The Pasadena Field Office of the United States Geological Survey and the Seismological Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been archiving information about earthquakes

United Way of Greater Los Angeles #32
United Way has been producing reports for and about communities in Los Angeles County since 1953. As a resource about Los Angeles County, holdings include information on populations, social issues an

University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center #99
The Reading Room/Library of the Asian American Studies Center houses a significant archive on Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. The holdings include books, documents, printed ephemera

University of California, Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Library and Archive #205
The Chicano Studies Library and Archive collection focuses on the history and culture of Chicanos and of Mexico. Its archival holdings include personal papers and the records of organizations [see lis

University of California, Los Angeles, Film and Television Archive #102
The Film and Television Archive serves the past, present, and future by assuring that the audiovisual records of the twentieth century survive to be enjoyed and studied for generations to come. As the

University of California, Los Angeles, Geography Air Photo Archives #100
The UCLA Geography Air Photo Archives houses two of the most extensive collections of historic oblique aerial photography available to the pubic anywhere. Oblique aerials are taken at an angle and are

University of California, Los Angeles, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts #103
The Grunwald Center’s holdings consist of over thirty-five thousand works of art on paper, including prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books, dating from the Renaissance to the present. Amon

University of California, Los Angeles, Institute for Social Science Research, Social Science Data Archives #104
The Social Science Data Archives maintains a collection of machine-readable survey, census, and administrative data files and provides access to publicly available data. A portion of the collection is

University of California, Los Angeles, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library #105
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is a rare books and manuscripts collection, with particular strengths in English literature and history (1641–1800), Oscar Wilde, and fine printing. The libr

University of California, Los Angeles, Young Research Library, Department of Special Collections #101
The Department of Special Collections is the largest of the special collections units administered by the university. It acquires, organizes, preserves, and provides access to rare and unique material

University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography #152
Images of Los Angeles and its communities are preserved in the collections of the California Museum of Photography. In the immense archive of vintage stereographic negatives and prints known as the Ke

University of California, Santa Barbara, Coleccion Tloque Nahuaque, Davidson Library #106
Established in 1971, the Coleccion Tloque Nahuaque is a reference service and collection development unit specializing in the multidisciplinary field of Chicano/Latino studies. Its holdings comprise a

University of California, Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Map and Imagery Laboratory #109
The Map and Imagery Laboratory promotes interdisciplinary use of spatial data and provides technologies for integrating analog and digital materials. Its holdings include a wide range of images in pho

University of California, Santa Barbara, University Art Museum, Architecture and Design Collection #153
The Architectural Drawing Collection contains important archival documentation of the built environment of California and the Southwest, as well as a large number of original drawings by nationally an

University of Southern California, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies #209
The Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies was founded in 1985 with a donation of an 80,000 volume book collection related mainly to the study of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Ho

University of Southern California, Digital Archive #124
The Digital Archive of the University of Southern California (formerly known as ISLA) is an ongoing project that is building a virtual library of digitized multidisciplinary materials principally focu

University of Southern California, Doheny Memorial Library, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library and Archives #110
The Feuchtwanger Memorial Library and Archive was donated to the University of Southern California by Marta Feuchtwanger, the widow of the German Jewish émigré writer Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958). Li

University of Southern California, Doheny Memorial Library, Regional History Collection #111
The materials of the Regional History Collection document 100 years of Southern California history in various formats. The collection was founded in the mid-1970s as a repository for the papers of Sou

University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery #145
The Fisher Gallery is the accredited art museum of the University of Southern California. Founded in 1939 by Elizabeth Holmes Fisher, the gallery has twenty-two hundred objects in its permanent collec

USC California Social Welfare Archives #190
The California Social Welfare Archives (CSWA) was organized in 1979 to collect materials that portray the development of social welfare in Southern California. Our goal is to ensure that pertinent kno

USC DML Rare Books and Manuscripts #108
Rare Books & Manuscripts oversees rare books, manuscripts, and historic photographs for the University of Southern California. In addition to its book holdings, Rare Books & Manuscripts maintains appr

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education #221
The mission of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is to overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry-and the suffering they cause-through the educational use of its vis

USC University Archives #206
The University of Southern California (USC) University Archives is the repository for the records of enduring value officially made or received by the University of Southern California, and for other

Virginia Robinson Gardens #252
Collection Description: Virginia Robinson Gardens, built in 1911, was the first estate in Beverly Hills. Today, it is listed on the national registry of historic sites. Social doyenne, art collector

Visual Communications #4
Visual Communications promotes intercultural understanding through the creation, preservation, and presentation of works by and about Asian Pacific people. It has an archive of approximately three hun

VIVA, Lesbians and Gay Latino Artists #5
VIVA's goal is to discover, empower, and promote lesbian and gay Latino artists. Its collection includes artwork, journals, newsletters, interviews, and videos by lesbian and gay Latinos from 1987 to

W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library #181
This archive documents the history of the Arabian horse with particular focus on the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch located in Pomona, California, which is now the site of California State Polytechn

Wally G. Shidler Historical Collection of Southern California Ephemera #192
The Wally G. Shidler Historical Collection is a collection of pamphlets, folders, maps, books, and electric railway time tables from the Los Angeles City, County and adjacent areas.

Water Resource Center Archives, University of California #222
The Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA) is a unique library that collects archival materials on all aspects of water resources in California and the West. WRCA manages over 125 collections with sev

Watts Labor Community Action Committee #33
Collections of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee contain photographs documenting the history of WLCAC, and the life of WLCAC founder, Ted Watkins, including family photographs, awards and oth

West Angeles Church of God in Christ #67
The collection includes artifacts, photographs, models, and other objects related to the history of the West Angeles Church, which began in a store-front on Vermont Avenue in 1943 and now serves more

West Hollywood Community Development Department #167
The Community Development Department facilitates business development, oversees housing programs, advises the West Hollywood City Council on designating individual buildings and districts as cultural

West Valley Museum #146
The West Valley Museum was established in August 1995. In its collection are postcards, memorabilia, banners, train information, newspapers, and photo-graphs of early residents, the land, businesses,

Western Costume Company #174
Since 1912, Western Costume Company has fabricated or supplied from its stock the costumes for film, television, stage, and school productions. In 1915, this costume house established the first produc

Western States Black Research and Educational Center #118
The Western States Black Research and Educational Center was founded in 1976. The materials in its collection relate to the African American experience in the United States and abroad. The holdings sp

Whittier College, Fairchild Aerial Photography Collection #182
The Fairchild Aerial Photography Collection at Whittier College contains approximately 500,000 images, including prints, negatives, photoindices, and photomosaics. All of the photographs were produce

Woodbury University #238
Print & photo archives from costume designer Howard Greer Original gowns and garments by Los Angeles designers: James Galanos, Rudi Gernreich, Irene Saltern, Edith Head, and Gilbert Adrian.

Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum #244
The Homestead Museum collection includes a diverse array of items from Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Region covering the general period of 1830 to 1930 and includes ephemera, maps, photographs, prin