Photo Collection
The LAPL Photo Collection emphasizes the history of Los Angeles, Southern California, and California. The online archive includes images from the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and Valley Times newspapers, along with photos from the Security Pacific National Bank Collection, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the WPA project, as well as from photographers including Ansel Adams, Herman Schultheis, Gary Leonard, and William Reagh.

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California Index
The California Index is a vast and unique resource for information relating to the history of Los Angeles and California. In addition to citations, this database also includes scans of documents and ephemera from files at Central Library and many of the system's branches.

Map Collection
The map collection is over one hundred years old, contains more than 100,000 items and represents a wide scope, including local, national and international cartography. The online archive focuses on maps depicting Los Angeles and the West.

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City and Street Directories
This selection of Los Angeles City and Street Directories spans from 1909-1987 and can be searched by name or address.

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Fruit Crate Labels
A collection of over 200 vibrantly-colored labels, designed for citrus growers throughout Southern California, mainly during the first half of the twentieth century. Many of the labels illustrate specific locations in the region, and are an excellent example of commercial graphic design from the period, as well as documenting the industry itself.

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Menu Collection
Images of full menus are primarily from California restaurants, but the collection also includes menus from other cities, steamships, airlines, and banquets.

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Turnabout Theatre
This online archive features photos from the famed Turnabout Theatre, a local revue operated by the Yale Puppeteers that ran from 1941 to 1956. Included are images of notables such as Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, and Aimee Semple McPherson, along with Elsa Lanchester who was a regular cast member at the Turnabout.

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Casey Fashion Plates
Over 6,200 hand-colored, finely detailed fashion illustrations produced between 1780 and 1880 for British and American fashion magazines. The plates depict fashionable styles of dress for men, women and children, and constitute valuable source material on the history of dress during this period in history.

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Bookplate Collection
Over 1,300 bookplates commissioned by people who wished to identify the books in their personal libraries through a unique work of art. The collection includes a wide variety of graphic and illustrative styles, both color and black and white, ranging from the formal to the whimsical.

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Travel Posters Collection
Selected travel posters of exotic destinations are from the collection housed in the International Languages Department and Rare Books at Central Library. The artwork finely demonstrates the sensibilities of 1920s and 1930s Art Deco and early Futurism.

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Movie Posters Collection
From the special collections of the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Branch Library, this collection spans from the earliest years of the motion picture industry to the World War II era.

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