Directory

Directory

Directory

Automobile Club of Southern California

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 pictorial materials in the club’s archive relate not only to the club’s history but also to local and regional architecture, infrastructure, public policy making, and cultural and recreational…

Ayn Rand Archives

Ayn Rand lived in Los Angeles twice during her lifetime. Her papers document the work she completed while living here.

Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center

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 at the center. The publications relating to poetry and literature date from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Bison Archives

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 the U.S. and Los Angeles specifically.Archive also has in it architectural history of the Los Angeles area as well.

Black Surfing Association

Photographs that reflect the tradition that African Americans in Los Angeles have with the Pacific Ocean.

Bolton Hall Museum, Little Landers Historical Society

Artifacts, documents,photographs and memorabilia of Rancho Tujunga

Boyle Heights Paranormal Project

The neighborhoods that make up the East Side of Los Angeles and the collective culture that generations of residents have created here are relatively unknown to anyone outside of it. Boyle Heights Paranormal Project is a group that is not only interested in the paranormal in relation to this part of Los Angeles, but it also works to preserve, document and share the history that is made here.

Cal Humanities

California Historical Society

The California Historical Society collects materials of enduring historical and cultural value in support of its mission to inspire and empower Californians to make the past a meaningful part of their contemporary lives. In our North Baker Research Library, we hold some fifty thousand books and pamphlets, four thousand manuscript collections, half a million photographs, as well as ephemera,…

California State University, Long Beach, University Art Museum

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 with an International Sculpture Symposium and continues to expand, making the Long Beach campus of only three large public sculpture sites in Southern California. The museum has archival material…