Discover primary sources that document significant, and lesser known, events in culture and society including activism, civil rights, education, environmentalism, labor, politics, war, and more.
In this relatively new and growing collecting area, encounter materials that depict Chicana/o and Latina/o life experiences including art and activism, immigration and religion, as well as the rich cultures and histories of Latin American countries.
Even lifelong Californians will uncover a “gold rush” of new information through this tour of state and local history. This includes information about the city of Claremont and its surrounding area, cartographic resources, city directories, ephemera, manuscript collections, maps, newspapers and periodicals, photographs, and printed histories.
Rediscover the art of bookmaking by examining original artifacts from a number of presses, techniques, and time periods illustrating the book arts and the materiality and historical development of the book, whether manuscript or printed. Primary emphasis is on books in languages that use the Roman alphabet, although the collection includes representative examples from other.
Traverse various aspects of Asian and Asian American culture, history and more through manuscript and print collections that include correspondence and historical photos; Buddhist sutras and artifacts; Japanese and Korean maps; Chinese rare books of history, literature, and local gazetteers; and early Chinese translations of the Christian literature, western science and technology publications.