Research Guides: Los Angeles and California Resources: Local History

Digital Collections & Primary Sources

Calisphere This link opens in a new window
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Search portal for the digital collections of all UC campuses and other contributing institutions. Indexes photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.
Online Archive of California (OAC) This link opens in a new window
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Free public access to searchable collection guides (also known as finding aids) for primary resource collections in repositories maintained by more than 200 institutions throughout California, including many digitized collections.

Imagine Santa Monica
The digital collections of the Santa Monica Public Library. The collections include the Santa Monica Image Archives, Pacific Palisades Historical Collection, Santa Monica Evening Outlook (1875-1937), Santa Monica Facts, Historical Maps of Santa Monica, and Santa Monica Newspaper Index.