The Joe de Kehoe Silence and the Sun Collection highlights the stories of women and Hispanic families living in California's Mojave Desert along U.S. Highway 66 during the Great Depression. The content was generated during the course of Mr. de...
The Charlie Michael Graffiti Photograph Collection contains over 4,000 color images taken by Charlie Michael during the course of his employment with Clark County, Nevada, while removing graffiti (abatement). Michael's images document a wide range of graffitti types in the...
The materials of the Germaine Moon San Bernardino County Research Collection were selected and compiled during the course of Mrs. Moon's thirty years of service as a historian and reference researcher for the Mojave River Valley Museum in Barstow, California....
The Miriam A. Romero Amargosa Niter Collection is a collection of research materials intended for an eventual monograph on the history of the people and drama involved in the search for niter in the late 1800s and early 1900s titled,...
The O. A. Russell Color Transparency Collection is a collection of nearly 8,000 color transparencies taken by O. A. Russell and his wife, Esther, during their annual automobile vacations away from managing their Calico Motel operation in Yermo, California. The...
The Trona Argonaut Newspaper Collection contains nearly sixty-three years of news related to the company mining town of Trona, California. The weekly paper was published from 1923 to 1999. During the war years the newspaper won several national awards for...
The Peter Wild Correspondence with Germaine Moon is a collection of correspondence from Wild to Moon during the course of his research in support of his several publications on the history of the Mojave Desert and especially, the Van Dyke...