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  • Los Angeles maps from California Historical Society collections now online

    Lines of the Pacific Electric Railway in Southern California. Map 627, California Historical Society.
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  • The Claremont Colleges Library Receives National Grant to Digitize California Water Resources

    Image: Mouth of Canyon, San Antonio Creek. Willis S. Jones Papers, Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California.
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  • Mellon Foundation Grant for Community Archives

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  • 14th Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar program now available

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The 442nd Regimental Combat Team: Fighting for Freedom Abroad and at Home

The 442nd Regiment comprised second-generation soldiers fighting for the liberation of Europe from Nazism. Ironically, while helping free those in Europe, their relatives were incarcerated in camps across the U.S.

The History and Future of Ocean Research in L.A.

The spirit of adventure moved people to explore the coastlines and channels of Southern California. Now a new generation of adventurers uses tech and tools to understand the oceans.

An Unsolvable Mystery: Captain Hancock and the Case of the Quarrelsome Castaways

Though Captain Hancock would make many trips to the Galapagos on his ocean research vessel, Velero III. This trip was special in that it was not to study the remote island chains’ unique flora and fauna, but to solve a gripping mystery. 

How Velero III, A Fantastic Watercraft, Enriched Early Ocean Research

The Velero III was no normal pleasure cruiser. It was a floating lab for scientists, funded by millionaire Angeleno George Allan Hancock. Its adventures benefited knowledge in the early days of ocean research.

Biddy Mason and the Founding of Los Angeles: From Slavery to Entrepreneurship

As an enslaved woman in the south, Biddy Mason was valued highly because of her knowledge in herbal medicine, but as a free woman in Los Angeles, Mason became a boundry-breaking midwife, nurse and philanthropist. 

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