Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections
New Hours as of Monday, October 16, 2023:
Monday-Friday: 9am-12pm, 1pm-4:30pm (Closed 12pm-1pm) | Walk-in or appointment | We stop paging material at 4pm
E: archives@csudh.edu T: (310) 243-3895
Collection Highlights
A Raisin in the Sun play at CSUDH
See more images from the CSUDH Photograph Collection.
African Diaspora Sacred Music and Musicians Festival, 2005
See more of the digitized items from the Sacred Music Collections.
Mr. Takano
See more photographs from the Ninomiya Studio Collection in the California State University Japanese American Digitization Project.
Library Construction, 1971
See more images from the CSUDH Photograph Collection.
Kumekichi Ishibashi with Children
Learn about the Ishibashi Family Collection from the collection's finding aid.
Homecoming Parade
See more images from the CSUDH Photograph Collection.
1910 Air Meet Digital Collection
See more images from the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet held at the CSUDH campus.
Faculty and Staff Demonstrations
Browse images and text in the California State University System Archives digitization project.
Magic Johnson Speaks at CSUDH
See more images from the CSUDH Photograph Collection.
Madrona Marsh Preserve Collection
Learn more about environmental collections at CSUDH.
Albert J. McNeil Collection
Learn more about the Alfred J. McNeil Collection from the collection's finding aid.
The Jokerettes Comedy Troupe
See more materials about the Watts Labor Community Action Committee in our digital collections.
CSUDH Homecoming Court
See more images from the CSUDH Photograph Collection.
Century Freeway Project
See more digital items from the Tradeswomen Archive in our digital collections.
1982 Women's Basketball Team
See more images from the CSU Photograph Collection.
The Esperanto Movement
See over 400 books in our catalog written in or about the international language of Esperanto.
Student Opportunities
The CSUDH Gerth Archives and Special Collections offers volunteer, internship and work opportunities for students interested in various aspects of archival work including processing, describing and digitizing collections, and exhibition curation and research. Learn more.
In the News
CSUDH Launches New Filipino American Digital Archive (FADA)
On Saturday, March 5, leaders of the Filipino community and local dignitaries will join California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) faculty and representatives of the university’s Gerth Archives and Special Collections to celebrate the launch of the CSUDH Filipino American Digital Archive (FADA). The event, which will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Archives on the fifth floor of the CSUDH University Library, will double as a chance for members of the local Filipino American community to bring in their own materials to add to the archive.
“Alternate Takes” Exhibition Explores Alternative, Underground and Local Journalism
The exhibition, “Alternate Takes: Community, Underground and Alternative Newspapers, Zines, & Comix at the CSUDH Gerth Archives & Special Collections,” is now open in the Library Cultural Arts Gallery through May 2024.
Greg Williams, Director of the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, provides an overview of activist collections at the Gerth Archives
Greg Williams, Director of the Gerth Archives and Special Collections, recently presented at a virtual event co-sponsored by the Bibliographical Society (UK), Bibliographical Society of American, and the Bibliographical Society of Canada in a presentation recorded as part of the "Documenting Social Movement: Bibliography, Archives and Protest."
Gerth Archives Marks New Milestones in Documenting History
The CSUDH Gerth Archives and Special Collections, noted for its preservation of Southern California histories and cultures, has had three major developments toward its mission of making materials more accessible to the public.
New Collections Open for Research
The Gerth Archives and Special Collections has recently processed physical and digitized collections that are open for research!
University Archivist Named Mellon Cultural Heritage Fellow
Amalia Medina Castañeda, university archivist at the California State University, Dominguez Hills Gerth Archives and Special Collections, has been selected as one of 15 Rare Book School-Mellon Cultural Heritage Fellows for 2022-2024.
The Gerth Archives and Special Collections received funding from California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to launch an Oral History program
The grant, which is part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, allowed archivists from the department to attend an Oral History workshop and begin conducting Oral History interviews with CSUDH community members.
Seeing Ourselves In Archives On Giving Away Auntie's Things
Sharon Mizota recently wrote a newsletter about donating her aunt’s collection to the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project. Sharon Mizota, is the author of ARTchivist’s Notebook, an occasional newsletter musing on the intersection of archives, art, and social justice.
Gerth Archives and Special Collections Acquires L.A. Free Press Archive
The Gerth Archives and Special Collections recently acquired the archive of the L.A. Free Press, one of the first underground newspapers in the U.S. which gave voice to the counterculture movement and Black, Chicano, LGBTQ and leftist communities.
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project (CSUJAD) Wins National Award from the Society of American Archivists (SAA)
The CSUDH Gerth Archives and Special Collections’ California State University Japanese American Digitization Project (CSUJAD) has been awarded the 2021 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award from the Society of American Archivists (SAA) in recognition of the project's scope and success.