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Library Exterior and Inside the Library
Selections from John K. Pollard Children's Book Collection, donated in 1967 and comprised of works from authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1898 edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica, housed in the rare books section of Special Collections & Archives
Special Collections & Archives
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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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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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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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.
A map from The First Delineation of the New World and The First Use of the Name America on a Printed Map, 1928