Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections
The Gerth Archives & Special Collections at California State University Dominguez Hills University Library is home to the university archives, digital and special collections, rare books, and the archives of the California State University.
Collection Highlights
A Raisin in the Sun play at CSUDH
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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
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Kumekichi Ishibashi with Children
Learn about the Ishibashi Family Collection from the collection's finding aid.
Homecoming Parade
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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
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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
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Century Freeway Project
See more digital items from the Tradeswomen Archive in our digital collections.
1982 Women's Basketball Team
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The Esperanto Movement
See over 400 books in our catalog written in or about the international language of Esperanto.
In the News
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.
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.
Interview at the Library: Meet University Archivist Amalia Castañeda
For the first installment of the Interview at the Library series, Amalia Castañeda, University Archivist at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archive and Special Collections, describes her role and goals for the future of the University Archives.
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.
Civil Liberties Icons Fred Korematsu and Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Archival Material Now Available in the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
The materials of Fred Korematsu (1919-2005) and Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga (1925-2018), two giants in terms of resistance to Japanese American incarceration during World War II and activists in the later redress movement, are now accessible on The California State University Japanese American Digitization (CSUJAD) digital database at http://csujad.com.
New Archives Exhibit: “perpetual and binding forever": Race and the Creation of a Los Angeles Subdivision
In observation of Black History Month, a new digital exhibit in the Gerth Archives & Special Collections illustrates how developers of a small West Los Angeles subdivision were forced to become essentially the weaponized arm of the government's racist attitudes.
New Archives Exhibit: Black Power: Selections from the Gerth Archives at CSU Dominguez Hills
The exhibit, which comprises facsimiles of material from the Holt Labor Library collection, is now on view at Page Against the Machine bookstore in Long Beach, CA until June 2021, as well as online via the Gerth Archives and Special Collections website.
Archives exhibit featured in SAA Newsletter
An article detailing the transition of the Gerth Archives' exhibit "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" from a physical space to an online platform has been published in Performance!, the Society of American Archivists Performing Arts newsletter. The article was written by Music Archivist Beth McDonald, who curated the physical exhibit and developed the online version.
Exhibit: "100 Years of the Women's Vote"
The Gerth Archives and Special Collections and the Department of Women's Studies presents the new student-created exhibit "100 Years of the Women's Vote," honoring the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment.