Archives and Special Collections

A website concerning the history of La Verne, including historical photographs and resources.

Digitized selections from the collections of the Huntington Library. Contains historical documents from California during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

An excellent selection of primary sources on Los Angeles and Southern California.

The USC Digital Library offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, as well as audio and video recordings. Particular emphasis has been placed on materials related to Los Angeles and the Southern California Region, the Western United States and the Pacific Rim.

Digitized archival sources from the Pomona Public Library, including historic citrus industry materials and early photographs of Pomona Valley.

Access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

"Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format."

Online catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.

A database of historical California newspapers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A portal to themed historical collections, such as 1780-1880 California in Transition; 1848-1865 Gold Rush Era; and more.

An exhaustive list of manuscript repositories and special collections across California.

A collection of books on Southeast Asia and America's involvement there. These books are located in the ULV Cultural & Natural History Collections.