The collection cover the pre-Games planning stages; materials produced during the Games and a small number of items after the Games concluded. Includes announcements, ephemera, exhibit catalogs, financial reports, guides, programs, serials, and other printed matter. Also slides and a small number of photographs. The main publishers were the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC); corporate sponsor, First Interstate Bank; and the newspaper, Los Angeles Times. Also records collected by the Natural History Museum (NHM) stemming from its role on the Los Angeles County Host Committee and as a Host Hospitality Center at Exposition Park

The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in Los Angeles, California from July 28 to August 12, 1984.

57 linear feet

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