[Chicano] [Photography] Family and community life of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles between 1936 and 1968. Archive of 11 silver gelatin photographs measuring 5" x 3.5" to 3.25" x 2.5". Set in a residential neighborhood with visible postwar housing structures and mid-century automobiles, the photographs document family gatherings, leisure activities.....
Archive of original photographs documenting midget auto racing at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the postwar expansion of American motorsports culture in the 1940s and 1950s. The material captures competitive race action, spectator culture, and driver camaraderie at one of Southern California’s most recognizable sports venues during a formative.....
[Education][Integration] Los Angeles public school panoramic photographs (1965–1968), showcasing racial integration and diversity in East Los Angeles during the Civil Rights era. Created at a time of expanding desegregation efforts and increased visibility of Chicano and Sansei Japanese identity in urban California, the images provide direct visual evidence of multiracial.....
[Western Americana] La Reina, Los Angeles in Three Centuries, Laurance L. Hill. Security-First National bank: Los Angeles, 1931. Measures 9" x 6" inches. 208 pages. Front soft cover shows black and white photo of Spanish settlement with dirt roads and a single street lamp. Black and white photographs of the.....
Postwar African American military family photo album documenting the institutional pathways through which a black Los Angeles family pursued stability and advancement in the 1950s-60s. Images primarily center on a young black female graduate seen throughout the album, emphasizing academic success within an era where segregation and de-emphasis of female.....
[Japanese American] [WWII] Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Resolution Proclaiming Equal Rights for Japanese Americans. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County, May 1, 1984. One page printed resolution on official county letterhead with printed signatures by Supervisors of the 1st-5th district. Measures 11" x 19.5". Adopted forty-two years after the.....
[Japanese American] [WWII] Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Resolution Proclaiming Equal Rights for Japanese Americans. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County, May 1, 1984. One page printed resolution on official county letterhead with printed signatures by Supervisors of the 1st-5th district. Measures 11" x 19.5". Adopted forty-two years after the.....
An early and rare stereoview of Los Angeles, California, taken between 1860 and 1870. View shows a busy street scene with many buggy's and delivery wagons. The store at the center is Levy & Coblentz liquor and tobacco store. The mount is on yellow card stock and has a nice.....
[Art][Architecture] The Watts Towers. Los Angeles: Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts, 1961. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. 11 pages. Staple-bound in illustrated wrappers showing close-up textural details of the towers. An early booklet chronicling the visionary art environment known as the Watts Towers, constructed over a span of.....
Los Angeles Terminal Annex grand opening photo archive, 1940, recording the ceremony and early operation of the post office facility that served as Los Angeles’s central mail processing plant from 1940 until 1985. Built at 900 North Alameda Street near Union Station, the Terminal Annex opened as a major postal.....
