Digital Archives
The Library has digitized representative documents from collections housed in its Special Collections Dept. The documents provide a range of media including letters, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, stereographic views, posters and maps.
We invite you to browse these virtual collections through the selections grouped to the left. You also have the option to search within a collection or across all collections, create customized queries by keywords or phrases and by preferences such as title, subject, description, or a variety of other fields.
We use Callimachus as a database for our digital items. For help with browsing our digital archive, please use the tools below.
- Advanced Keyword Search
- Search across all fields, in selected fields, or by proximity.
Browse- Browse through the collection without formulating a specific search.
- Preferences
- Customize options for search results, My Favorites, Compare and Slideshow views.
- My Favorites
- View, compare, delete and move collection items you have saved to My Favorites within CONTENTdm. Create and share My Favorites with others or view saved items as a slideshow.
- Help
- Learn about My Favorites, Search, Preferences and Browse.
More Digital Archives
This website is hosted by the USC libraries and contains digitized archives from many different institutions. This site helps to preserve information and materials.
This database holds 150,000 digitized, primary sources to use for research. Most of their collection comes from University of California institutions, yet Occidental College Special Collections materials can be found within this database also.
This database holds materials from over 120 libraries, archives, museums and other institutions in California. Over 170,000 materials have been digitized and kept within this database for researchers to use.
Occidental College Special Collections is a contributor. To see our contributions in this database, click here.
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Special Collections Librarian/College Archivist
 Dale Ann Stieber |
Inquiries
If you have any questions about the collections or you would like to do research at our facility, please fill out our online form and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks.
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