Abstract The Collins Family Collection documents the lives of James Arthur William and Katherine Collins, along with their children Katherine (Kat) Collins, James Alexander Collins, Jr., and Helen Collins Haynes Ross while they lived in China from 1917 to 1940. James went to China to work as a railroad civil engineer in 1915 for the Sims-Cary Engineering Company, based out of Peking. The family later lived in Tsingtao, and the children attended schools in Shanghai. The Collins Family Collection...

Abstract In the early 1970s, one of the leading national Chicana activist organizations, Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (CFMN), was created in Southern California. The focus of CFMN was to raise awareness of political and social issues that affected Latina women on a national level. CFMN felt that the role and well-being of Latinas were being left out of discussions taking place from the wider context of the Chicano movement. The Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley...

Abstract Founded in 1947 by Fred Ross Sr., Edward Roybal, and Anthony Rios, the Community Service Organization (known as the CSO) was a grass-roots civic-action organization led by its membership. The goal of the organization was to empower community members to become civically engaged to improve their lives and fight for social justice. The CSO began in East Los Angeles focusing on the Latino and Mexican-American communities, and then expanded with Chapters across California. The collection...

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The Joseph R. Cone China Marines Collection contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and newsletters documenting the experiences of United States Marines in China post-World War II. The materials especially cover the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions and their service in North China.

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This small collection of personal papers and family photographs documents the migration and naturalization of one man from Mexico to California. The collection also contains a small amount of material regarding Espinoza’s daughter, including elementary school report cards. This documentation gives insight into the life of an immigrant family in the San Fernando Valley during the 1940s and 1950s.

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The Helen Costello Millinery Workers Union, Local 41 Photograph Collection includes photographs of meetings, parades, and marches featuring members of the Millinery Workers Union and the union banner. One large panorama documents attendees at the Third Biennial Convention of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union at the Hotel Edison during the 1939 New York World's Fair.

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Isidore Covitt lived in Shanghai during the 1930s, and was heavily involved in the Jewish community in the city. The collection contains two photographs from the early 1930s, consisting of a large group portrait of the Jewish Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in Shanghai, as well as a group picture of the troop leaders with Isidore Covitt and other prominent Jewish community members.

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CSUN Anniversaries is a small collection of materials relating to the campus celebrations of significant campus anniversaries since its founding in 1958.

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The University Archives and Campus History Collections at California State University, Northridge solicited submissions from the campus community to share their experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to create the CSUN Covid-19 Community Archive Collection.

Abstract The CSUN University Women's Club began as the Faculty Wives Club of San Fernando Valley State College in the early days of the campus (1958). The CSUN University Women's Club Collection is a small collection documenting the club's activities, most often social and fundraising events for the campus faculty and administration. Fundraising events most often benefited the Club's scholarship program. The bulk of the collection consists of the Executive Binders...