Distinctive Collections
- Alfedo Véa Manuscript Collection
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- Bookplate Collection
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The image to the left shows one of many outstanding booksplates from this collection. It is
the bookplate of Willard S. Morse.
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- East Los Angeles Community Union Archive
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On the right is a photograph from the East Los Angeles community Union Archive.
It shows "El Orgullo de Nuestra Herencia" (The Pride of Our
Heritage), a 37 x 23 foot mural that adorns the TELACU corporate headquarters
building in East Los Angeles. The mural depicts the history of the Mexican-American
community from before the conquest of Mexico by Cortez to the present day
in Southern California. A mosaic mural comprising 3,266 hand painted tiles,
it was commissioned by TELACU President David C. Lizárraga and executed by
Goez Art Studios. The mural was dedicated by Mr. Lizárraga and the late
Cesar Chávez on July 8, 1983.
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- Fedco Superstores, Inc. Collection
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- Frederick B. Shroyer Collection of Manuscripts
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- Jewel Plummer Cobb Collection on Women and Minorities
in Education
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The image to the left shows Dr. Cobb during the time when she was serving as President of
California State University, Fullerton.
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- John K. Pollard Collection of Children's Books
- The Pollard collection of Children's Books is comprised of works
by American and English authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
including Horatio Alger, Victor Appleton, William Baker, Gerarld Breckenridge,
Thorton Burgess, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Allen Chapman, Elmer Dawson,
Fremont Deering, J. W. Duffield, Leo Edwards, Edward Ellis, Percy
Fitzhugh, Howard Garis, Lillian Garis, Zane Grey, H. Irving Hancock,
William Heyliger, Laura Lee Hope, Howard Payson and Harold Sherman.
All are first or limited editions. John K. Pollard is a retired biochemist
who currently resides in Del Mar, Caliofrnia. The collection totals
approximately 2,650 titles, or 91 linear feet.
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- Joseph Wambaugh Collection of Manuscripts
 Joseph
Wambaugh, author, was born January 22, 1937, in East Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. He joined the Marines at seventeen, and married at eighteen.
He joined the police and rose through the ranks from patrolman to
detective sergeant. While working as a policeman, he attended Cal State University,
Los Angeles, receiving his B.A. (1960) and M.A. (1968) from California
State University, Los Angeles.
To date, the Joseph Wambaugh Collection
of Manuscripts includes The New Centurions (1971), The Blue
Knight (1972), The Onion Field (1973), Choir Boys
(1975), The Black Marble (1978), The Secrets of Harry Bright
(1986), and The Blooding (1988). The Collection totals four
linear feet.
All manuscripts are typescipts; some have handwritten
changes, notations and corrections.
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- Mexican-American Baseball
in Los Angeles Collection
 The
Mexican-American Baseball in Los Angeles Collection grew out of a
project sponsored jointly by the Cal State L. A. Library and the Baseball Reliquary. The
project was entitled Mexican-American Baseball in Los Angeles: From
the Barrios to the Big Leagues. The project was made possible, in
part, by a grant to the Baseball Reliquary, from the
California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide
California Stories
Initiative, and
from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles
County Arts Commission. The inaugural exhibition took place in this
Library March 26 through June 9, 2006.
The Collection documents and interprets the historic role that baseball
played as a cohesive element and as a social and cultural force within
the Mexican-American communities of Los Angeles County and the
surrounding metropolitan areas (Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino, and
Riverside Counties). While the impact of Major League Baseball in the
region is covered (the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim, the contentious and ideological battle over Chavez Ravine, and
the phenomenon of "Fernandomania"), particular emphasis is
placed on the once-flourishing culture of amateur and semi-professional
baseball as an important means for celebrating ethnic identity and
instilling community pride.
The Collection consists of photographs, artifacts, art works, audio and
video recordings, oral histories, and bilingual signage documenting and
interpreting the social and ethnic ramifications of baseball within the
Mexican-American communities of Los Angeles County. The Collection
provides a significant resource for the general public, students, and
researchers.
See our Mexican-
American Baseball in Los Angeles website. Until the Collection is
fully processed, this website will serve as an ongoing, online finding aid.
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- Newberry and Caldecott Award Collections
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- Newspaper Animation Collection
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The Newspaper Animation Collection includes this cartoon on the left by famous cartoonist,
Bil Keane. It is an early creation from his famous series, The Family Circus. Keane had a family
of five children that provided him with years of inspiration. Keane was born in 1922, and
learned to draw and develop cartoons entirely on his own.
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- Perry R. Long Collection of Books on Printing
and Graphic Design
 Perry Robert Long was a printer with a distinguished national reputation.
In 1959 the University Library at CSULA was selected by a committee
to receive Mr. Long's collection of books on printing and graphic
design consisting of approximately 3,000 titles, or 360 linear feet,
of rare and beautiful books of, and about, fine printing. It is one
of the largest collections of typographica on the West Coast. In includes
works on the art and science of typography, paper making and color
printing, graphic design, book binding, printer's manuals, and histories,
as well as ephemerae, keepsakes, announcements, broadsides, and
other examples of fine printing.
The collection also includes a rare
Washington handpress (click to see a photograph
of the handpress in our Collection). It was manufactured
in the United States between 1821 and 1910, by Paul Shniedewend. It
was presented to the University in memory of Gordon J. Holmquist in
1966.
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- World War II Patriotic Poster Collection
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