Directory

Directory

Directory

FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

Mission Statement: The FIDM Museum & Galleries provides students, researchers, designers, and the public with resources to examine the role of historic fashion, accessories, textiles, jewelry, fragrance, and related ephemera in their relationship to society, history, and technology. The collections are sustained by standard museum practices for continued acquisition, preservation, and display.…

Forest Lawn Museum

Our archives go back to the early 20th century, and we have a rich collection of photographs, image slides, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and films that document the development of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park organization, Glendale, and greater Southern California region throughout the 1900s. These collections detail geographic and cultural changes of Southern California.

Fowler Museum of UCLA

The Fowler’s collections comprise more than 120,000 art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological objects representing ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific. From Yoruba beaded arts of Southern Nigeria, to pre-Columbian ceramic vessels of Peru, to elaborate batik textiles of Indonesia and the vibrant papier-mâché sculptures…

Friends of Greystone

Friends of Greystone's archive mission is to collect, preserve and exhibit material that documents the history of the Doheny Greystone Estate and the Doheny family. Materials in our collection consist of a rich and expanding historic photo archive of the property, family and The Knoll, the subsequent home of Lucy Doheny Battson. The archive collection also includes family portraits, magazine…

Friends of Rockhaven

The collection includes photographs of the Rockhaven Sanitarium property as well as some of the residents and employees from over the decades. Also includes written memories from people who worked there or had relatives cared for at the Sanitarium.

Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, founded in 1969 as the Center for Afro-American Studies (CAAS), was renamed after Nobel Prize winner, scholar, activist, and UCLA alumnus Ralph J. Bunche in 2003, in commemoration of the centenary of his birth. Its mission is to develop and strengthen African American Studies through five primary organizational branches: research, academic…

Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation

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 maps and drawings, various account books and business records, oral interviews, and films. Primarily the archival holdings document the running of a large ranching enterprise by the Bixby family…

Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site

Rancho Los Cerritos is an historic home and gardens located in Long Beach, California. While the history of the land dates back many centuries, the house itself was built to be the headquarters of a 27,000 acre cattle ranch in 1844 by Los Angeles resident John Temple. The ranch evolved during the 175 years since its construction, its ownership and land use changing several times before becoming a…

Robert Mendel Research Collections - Collection #1: Historic Garvanza, Highland Park Northeast LA. /. Collection #2: Location Scouting Photography Folders 1981- approx. 2002

Collection #1: Photo archive (many obtained from LA Public Library Collection, plus others from misc. sources)., Historical Document archive (many also obtained from LA Public Library collection, but many others as well). All items of particular interest to those interested in Northeast Los Angeles, especially Highland Park, Garvanza, and Eagle Rock.   Collection #2: I have aggregated the history…

Russian Research Collective / Los Angeles

The collection consists of documents and ephemera related to the Second and Third Wave of Russian immigrants to Los Angeles (post-1917 and post-WW2) and their descendants. Among the collection, holdings are periodicals, photographs, video and audio materials, publications, and miscellany relating to the prominent community members who were employed in the motion picture industry, theater, music,…