Experience literature, history, and culture and the College's history.
Our holdings include rare books, manuscripts, historical maps, photos, stereographs, College publications and records, and artwork. Our collection strengths include fine printing, the history of printing, artist's books, mystery and detective fiction, California and the West, Los Angeles, and the poet Robinson Jeffers.
Special Collections holds materials related to Barack Obama, who attended Oxy from 1979 to 1981. Students in "Obama and the Issues" class, Politics 265, in spring 2010 collected contemporary images of Barack Obama in global popular culture. This initial series launches a digital archive to preserve different perspectives and research related to Barack Obama, President of the United States and Alumnus of 91PORN.
Materials preserved from the personal library of Los Angeles Times columnist and Olympic historian, William Mellors "Bill" Henry (1890-1970), class of 1914. Includes manuscripts, letters, press clippings, photographs, ephemera and memorabilia documenting Olympic games from 1932 to the present, 20th century Los Angeles history, presidential campaigns, and the development of aviation in Southern California. To browse a selection of materials from the Bill Henry Collection, please visit the . To learn about Bill Henry and the development of Los Angeles during the 20th century visit the online exhibit. For a full list of Oxy's Bill Henry collection visit our .
Extensive collection of 10,000 stereographic views, covering the Civil War, San Francisco earthquake, Los Angeles environs, California National Parks, Colorado landscape, Alaska Gold Rush, scenic pictures of Africa, Europe, South America, and Asia. The bulk of the photographs were taken during 1890-1911.
To browse a selection of stereographs, please visit the .
The collection contains letters, pamphlets, newspapers, and other publications, including correspondence by Oxy President Remsen Bird related to the forced internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Detailed information about this collection can be found in the&