Glass Collection
John B. Glass (1929-2015), born in Hawaii, majored in economics at Yale and earned a Ph.D. in archaeology at Harvard. He became an authority on Pre-Columbian hieroglyphics manuscripts, publishing numerous papers and books on the subject. In 2016 the John B. Glass collection of rare books and his papers were donated to Cal State LA Special Collections and Archives. The personal papers include publications and notes by John B. Glass related to his research on Mesoamerica. The rare books were separated from the papers and integrated into the Mesoamerica and Colonial Mexico Rare Book Collection. The entire collection also consists of two other book collections, which belonged to Scholar of the Aztecs, H.B. Nicholson and book collector Wayne Ruwet.
Ruwet Collection
Wayne Ruwet (1944 -2017) received a BA in Anthropology in 1967 and went on to receive a master's degree in Anthropology from UCLA in 1970. Ruwet worked at UCLA Library from 1970 to 1999 in various positions such as Search Supervisor, Stack Supervisor, and Circulation Operations Supervisor. He was also a scholar and book collector. He published various articles on Mesoamerica on Codex Magliabechiano and Codex Vaticanus and presented at the American Anthropological Association, Symposium on the Post-classic of Mexico, American Society for Ethnohistory, and various other conferences. Ruwet's Papers contain correspondence, publications, photographic materials, and documents on his research.