The Temperance Scrapbook is a scrapbook compiled by an unknown person in San Diego, California. The book contains newspaper articles, editorials, and other writings on the temperance movement and women’s suffrage in the United States, religion, famous women, and world events from 1889 to 1894. The scrapbook also contains handwritten diary entries and religious musings from 1941.

The Theater Playbill Collection includes playbills from local Los Angeles area theaters dated from 1940 to 1970.

The Theatrical Promotion Collection primarily consists of broadsides advertising theatrical events at major and minor English theaters, but also includes a small number of American, Scottish, and French broadsides, theater programs, directories, newspapers, and other literature relevant to the theater industry.

The Bianca Todd Collection contains photographs, portraits, pastels, pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, and art clippings related to Todd's work as an artist in the first half of the 20th century.

Olaf Torgersen was born in 1885 in Larvik, Norway. He left Norway in 1914 to work as a sea captain in China and Hong Kong, where he captained a number of ships until returning to Oslo, Norway, with his wife in 1951. The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Torgensen, including identification cards and passports, his master's certificates and records related to his service on various ships, and personal correspondence, ephemera, and articles.

Helen Traubel was an American opera singer, best known for her Wagnerian roles. This small collection consists of a letter from the office of Pope Pius XII to Helen Traubel thanking her for a phonograph record that she presented to him, two photographs of Helen Traubel, and one photograph of Helen Traubel with her husband.