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Notes From the Archive Newsletter

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Previous newsletter issues:

  • Fall, 2024    Contemplating One Hundred Years Ago
  • Summer, 2024    Olympics in L.A. Back to the Future
  • Spring, 2024    Wild LA, Family History & Highflying Feats
  • February, 2024    Oil Discoveries in the Archive
  • Fall, 2023     A Veterans Day Tribute
  • Summer, 2023     On Exhibit at Museums Near and Far
  • May, 2023     History Book Launch Special Issue
  • Spring, 2023     Adventures in the Archives
  • January, 2023    Researcher Highlights
  • Fall, 2022    Recent Donation Highlights
  • Summer, 2022    Our Visual Collections Take to the Streets of L.A.
  • March, 2022    We're Back and Busier Than Ever!
  • Fall, 2021    Collection Highlights Selected by the Seaver Staff
  • May, 2021    National Preservation Month
  • Spring, 2021    L.A.'s First Historical Society Donates to the Natural History Museum
  • February, 2021    California Adventure...California Revealed
  • Winter, 2021    6th Street Bridge Series
  • November, 2020    Snapshots of 2020
  • October, 2020    Unburying L.A.'s Mortuary Row
  • September, 2020    How in the World Do People Find the Collections of the Seaver Center
  • Mid-Summer, 2020    Collection Highlight:  The California Alligator Farm
  • June, 2020     Collection Highlights:  Ralph Hamlin & William S. Hart
  • May, 2020     The History Collection Issue featuring the La Esperanza Bakery Collection
  • April, 2020     The Working-From-Home Issue
  • March, 2020     In the Beginning:  the Early Days of the Seaver Center and Remembering Its First Curator, Dr. Errol Wayne Stevens 
  • February, 2020     Collection Highlight:  Special Motion Pictures Issue
  • Winter, 2019/2020     Collection Highlight:  Holiday Greetings
  • November, 2019    Collection Highlight:  Special Automobile Issue
  • October, 2019     Collection Highlight:  Mount Lowe Railway
  • September, 2019     Collection Highlight:  Mercedes Prado Ferrell Photo Collection
  • August, 2019     Collection Highlight:  Incorporation Records of Los Angeles County
  • July, 2019     Collection Highlight:  Pío Pico Daguerreotype
  • June, 2019     Collection Highlight:  Alcalde/Los Angeles County Court Records, 1830-1863
     


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