The Ansel Adams Collection is a collection of images (prints & negatives) commissioned by Fortune Magazine around 1939 for a story about the aviation history of Los Angeles. It consists of 217 images portraying businesses, street scenes, aerospace employees, and...

The Bob Baker collection contains photographs, negatives, slides, print materials, correspondence, ephemera, scrapbooks, photo albums and audio cassettes that relate to the life and nearly eight decade long career of Los Angeles puppeteer, Bob Baker (1924–2014), co-founder of the Bob...

Lyndon Ellsworth Behymer was an early 20th century music impresario in the Los Angeles area. His sixty-year career involved working with acts including Nellie Melba, Tommaso Salvini, Edwin Booth, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Mei-Lan-Fan, Lily Pons, John Philip Sousa, Anna Pavlova,...

Brockman Gallery, located in a storefront in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles and founded by artists and brothers Alonzo Davis and Dale Brockman Davis, was at the root of a community of Black artists from 1967-1990. The gallery,...

The Charles Koon/Lawrence Welk Show Collection consists of approximately 6,034 35mm mounted color slides and 500 3.5” x 5” color photographic prints, documenting week to week stage production of the television program, The Lawrence Welk Show. Images were presumably photographed...

The collection documents the 1981 founding and early years of Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU), the first major Queer Latinx organization in the Los Angeles area. Materials include issues of the GLLU newsletter, as well as papers related to...

Collection of approximately 350 color mounted slides taken by Dr. Cornelius Schnauber between 1969-1982, with emphasis on the latter date. Slides primarily depict architecture around Los Angeles.

This collection contains cabinet cards collected by Elvera “Elvira” Keating Lack (1886-1989) possibly via correspondence that took place mainly during her childhood through mid-twenties, though one card was dated before her birth in 1871. Elvera “Elvira” Keating Lack was the...

A collection of over 1,000 glass negatives and about 200 celluloid negatives, taken between 1910 and 1925, by photographers George Andrew Fowler, Louis Beegle, and Blackwell & DiCorsi, who shared the same studio at 520 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, at...

Spanning three decades, The Jay More Collection chronicles the changing face of Los Angeles as it underwent the most extensive period of destruction and reconstruction in its history: the ‘80s, ‘90s, and early 2000s. His portraits of residences, shops, restaurants,...

The Jeff Allen Collection, 2004-2007, documents the exterior and interior of current and former Christian churches in the Los Angeles County area and a handful of churches in Orange County. Church denominations include Protestantism, Catholicism, Mormonism and Nondenominational. This collection...

The Kelly-Holiday aerial photography portion of the collection consists of 3,753 4” x 5” film negatives and six Hollinger boxes of 1,076 photographs by Kelly-Holiday Photography. There is also a small amount of ephemeral material related to the collection, such...

This collection consists of materials collected by Laura Durán and Irene Martínez during the 1980s and early 1990s, a time they were both actively involved as volunteers with Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU), and Lesbianas Unidas (LU). Items include...

The Los Angeles Examiner Exhibit and Contest Collection consists of 207 photographs in two parts: (1) thirty-five mounted news photographs submitted to Kent State University School of Journalism’s Short Course in News Photography tenth annual National Press Photography Contest (nine...

The Los Angeles Resistance collection is comprised of papers, correspondence, writings, legal records, newsletters, news clippings, datebooks, prints, photographs, digital still and moving images, audiotapes, and ephemera chronicling the non-violent anti-draft activities of the Los Angeles chapter of the Resistance.

The Louis Jacinto Collection contains approximately 3,000 photographic negatives and contact sheets of 35mm film shot by Jacinto in Los Angeles from 1976 to 2008, primarily the Los Angeles punk music scene, LGBTQ+ events ranging from political rallies to pride...

The archive contains photographs, posters, ephemera, planning documents, and personal items belonging to Lydia R. Otero, a non-binary Latinx activist, educator and author. As an activist in Los Angeles, Otero advocated for greater visibility, rights, and healthcare in the LGBTQ+...

The Max Tatch Collection contains photographs, negatives, print materials, correspondence, and ephemera that pertain to Max Tatch’s (1898-1963) professional work as a freelance photographer. He captured mid nineteenth century landscape and architecture in Los Angeles and the surrounding southern California...

The collection contains a total of 89 letters and 32 postcards written by Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992), the accomplished food writer, to Marian L. Gore (1914-2009), an antiquarian bookseller who specialized in culinary titles, between 1956 and 1990. During...

Photographer Richard Hewett spent over five decades capturing the essence of Los Angeles, covering subjects as wide-ranging as television productions, hospital staff, school children and animals both domestic and wild. As a photographer working for Los Angeles Times, Life, Look,...

Robert Bromley (1907-1981) was a world-renowned puppeteer who popularized the “visible puppeteer” style of puppetry. Bromley used his marionettes to satirize personality archetypes. His marionettes danced, sang, played piano, flew from a trapeze, and one even did a strip tease....

The Herman J. Schultheis Collection of International Photographs, 1927-1950 is comprised of original photographic prints documenting Schultheis' various travels to the Mediterranean region, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the eastern half of the United States.

A collection of approximately 14,000 slides taken by photographer Philip Hugh Stanton at international cultural festivals in Southern California, landmarks in Greece and China, scenery of clouds, sunsets and the moon, college gymnasts and of models participating in the Los...

The Travel Poster Collection consists of nearly 900 travel posters from around the world. The earliest dates to the end of the 19th century and the latest to the end of the 20th century, with the majority falling between 1920...

The Yale Puppeteers Turnabout Theater collection, circa 1910s-1990s, consists of several thousand photographs and negatives, hundreds of items of ephemera, many journals and items of correspondence, and several puppets and stage props owned by the Yale Puppeteers: Harry Burnett, Forman...