Visit the Collections section of our website. Guides to each of our four collecting areas have been created.
Within California
Calisphere serves as a gateway to California’s digital collections and contains over one million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more from repositories all over the state.
Online Archive of California - Contains thousands of finding aids to primary source materials located in many California libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums.
LA as Subject– Research alliance that maintains a directory of collections related to the Los Angeles region.
At the National Level
ArchiveGrid – A collection of over two million archival material descriptions held around the world.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) – Includes photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, etc. that have been digitized and made accessible to the public.
Internet Archive – is a non-profit library featuring millions of free books, photographs, websites, movies, software, music, and more for institutions all over the country.
