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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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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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