Palmdale City Library

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The Palmdale City Library's local history collection contains approximately 10,000 items relating to the history of the Antelope Valley and surrounding areas, including maps, photographs, artifacts, and information collected by Fred Strasburg for the City of Palmdale. Topics include agriculture, entertainment and film industry, mining, Southern Pacific Railroad, LA aqueduct, indigenous peoples,…

GAMOLA (Garifuna Museum of Los Angeles)

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The museum has a display of warriors and a dance warrior depiction as well as items used for food preparation. There is an artifacts room with common instruments and daily tools used. Videos of dances, songs in Garifuna, paintings, and books about, for, and by Garinuga people. The heroes room has profiles of prominent Garifuna.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Special Collections and Archives

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Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Special Collection and Archives collections include photographs, documents, and architectural drawings related to Los Angeles and other surrounding cities.             

Fowler Museum of UCLA

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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…

Zoellner Quartet Family Archive

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The Zoellner (FamilyString) Quartet and the Zoellner Conservatory of Music at 3839 Wilshire Boulevard was famous in America and in Los Angeles in particular. Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, and musical luminaries all knew Joseph Zoellner, Sr. and his 3 children, who all at one time taught at Carleton, Pepperdine, Occidental, and Ponoma Colleges. Amandus, my grandfather Joseph…

Stan Winston Archive

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The Stan Winston Archive covers the history of special effects artist Stan Winston through thousands of photographs, video, and original artwork.     ×           ×      

Voces del Teatro Oral History Archive

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Collection consists of 40 hour-long video/audio oral history interviews from the mid 1960s to the present, comprising artistic directors and veteran performers from the Latinx theatre community in Los Angeles. The majority of the interviews are in English with some in Spanish. We hope to continue documenting the trajectory of Latinx theatre in L.A. into the 21st century, as Latinx theatre in Los…

About...Productions Archive

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The About…Productions Archive contains materials related to the production history of the Los Angeles-based theater company including scripts, collateral materials, photos, and videos. This collection was digitized as part of the L.A. as Subject Digital Residency Program.

Bates and Harvey Mudd Aeronautics Heritage Library

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The research collections of the Bates and Harvey Mudd Aeronautics Heritage Library include several book collections with special emphasis on Southern California and Los Angeles County. The most noteworthy of these are the Raymond Goodall Collection on the early history of aviation, aeronautical engineering, and the aviation industry, and the Iris Critchell Collection, which is particularly strong…

University of California, Riverside Special Collections & University Archives

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Special Collections & University Archives houses archives and manuscript collections, photographs, maps, books, and other rare or unique research material that document a wide range of subject areas. Los Angeles-related collections include: the George Brown Papers (Congressman from Los Angeles), the Kay Berryhill Smith and Connie Confer LGBT activism collection, numerous Tuskegee Airmen…
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