Thomas G. Lambert traveled to California during the gold rush. He wrote a letter to his "Dear Parents" in a Cooke & Le Count's California Letter Book. In it he gives them a "confidential" account of his friends and acquaintances in California, and describes other events in his life.

The Latino Cultural Heritage Oral History Project Collection contains interviews conducted with several donors to the Latino Cultural Heritage Archives as part of the Urban Archives Center’s efforts to expand its holdings documenting the Latino and Chicano experience in Southern California.

Letter from French painter Marie Laurencin, handwritten in French, to an unnamed "Monsieur" thanking him for sending books and apologizing for losing a letter.

The collection consists of a fieri facias writ of execution issued in Lawrence County, Alabama in 1860, which commands any state sheriff to seize the sum of two thousand dollars in court ordered damages from a number of debtors. The writ also includes a list of court costs, and a number of handwritten notes.

The Ellwood Lawson Collection consists of items collected by Lawson and his wife, Darla, that relate to his experience as an Old China Hand. The collection is primarily made up of biographical documents, photographs, and articles outlining Lawson's military service in China and his life in Pekin, Illinois.