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 artifacts from and about the southeastern part of Los Angeles County. The society's collection includes original photographs from 1870 to the present (copy negatives, duplicate prints, or 35-mm slides are…

We have a large collection of ephemera relating to the San Fernando Valley- restaurant menus, newspapers, concert flyers, photography, post cards, and more- much of which was donated directly by community members.