California Puerto Rican Archive

California Puerto Rican Archive showcases Puerto Rican history in Los Angeles County specifically and California, dating back to 1955. Our archive has about 1500 photos, 35 oral histories, and various ephemera from various community events around Los Angeles.

Museum of Riverside

The Museum of Riverside holds archives and collections beyond Riverside City and County, including Southern California (San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Orange Counties)

Holocaust Museum LA

Holocaust Museum LA is the oldest survivor-founded Holocaust Museum in the United States. Its genesis dates to the 1960s, through a grass roots movement on the part of survivors who after settling in LA, met and discovered that each of them had a photograph, document, story, or personal item related to their experiences. They decided that these artifacts needed a permanent home where they could be…

Drum Barracks Civil War Museum

Drum Barracks Civil War Museum & Research Library is housed in the Jr. Officers' Quarters of Drum Barracks, the Union Army Headquarters for Southern California and the Arizona Territory during the Civil War. Our focus is on the role of Los Angeles and California in the Civil War. Our primary sources include a complete set of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, transcribed copies…

Southwestern Law School

Our two main collections of interest is the Southwestern Law School collection which records the history of the school and keeps publications and ephemera from its years of existence. The other big collection is records and memorabilia from the Bullocks Wilshire Department Store, the Bullocks Wilshire building, and the restoration of the building from department store to law school library.  

Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles Heritage Committee

The archival collections of the GSGLA Heritage Committee are a vast resource of documents, audio/visual materials, textiles, scrapbooks, and ephemera documenting Girl Scout history in Southern California for the past century.

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.

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…

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Collections include an online archive of exhibitions and programs from L.A.'s longest-running contemporary artist space, founded in 1978. Materials also include original examples of ephemera, publications, and editions can be displayed. Note: Acquisition by the Getty Research Institute includes approximately 500 boxes of original materials.

Center for Land Use Interpretation

Collection includes the Coast Realty Archive