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Pictures of Our Past Collection
The collection includes over 30,000 photographic prints from 1879-2006. The photographs portray important events in Cal State LA’s history as well as general university life.
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Installing the Cal State LA sign on the 10 freeway, 1964
Cal State LA after the construction of Salazar Hall and Simpson Tower, late 1970s
John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, early 1970s
Cal State LA after the construction of Salazar Hall and Simpson Tower, the naming of which was highly contentious ca. 1968
East LA Archive
The East Los Angeles Archive is comprised of collections that document the lives and events of a historical community central to the social, political, and cultural history of the Chicana(o)/Latina(o) community in the United States.
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A selection of pins from the Gloria Arellanes Papers, late 1960s
Poster from the Jose Figueroa Papers created by Self Help Graphics, 1979
MECHA Poster from the Gloria Arellanes Papers, late 1960s
Brown Berets peacefully march through the streets, photograph from the Gloria Arellanes Papers, late 1960s
Compton Communicative Arts Academy Collection
The Compton Communicative Arts Academy (CCAA) collection is composed of images that document African American art and culture, community-based art-making, and art-based community making in Los Angeles during the early 1970s.
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Elliott Pinkney mural depicting working men, stars and stripes, early 1970s
Elliott Pinkney mural of three African American women dancing, early 1970s
Elliott Pinkney multicultural mural, early 1970s
Elliott Pinkney "Ignorance and Poverty" mural, early 1970s
Mesoamerican Colonial Mexico Rare Book Collection
The Mesoamerica and Colonial Mexico Rare Book Collection consists of facsimile editions of Pre-Columbian Codices, such as the Borgia, Nuttall, Fejervary-Mayer, Vaticanus A and B, Selden, Borbonicus, Boturini, Mendoza, De la Cruz-Badiano, and Florentine Codex.
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Documents and drawings of the British artist and explorer Adela Breton during her visits to Chichen ltza in 1903-1904.
From Codex Fejervary-Maryer, 1901
A map from The First Delineation of the New World and The First Use of the Name America on a Printed Map, 1928
Restoration of the Xochicalco Monument from Monumentos del Arte Mexicano Antiguo, 1890