Los Angeles & Southern California Collections

A selected list of photography collections relating to Los Angeles and Southern California.

• Aerial photographs of Los Angeles. Spence Air Photos (Firm). 1923-1955. 16 photographs
• Album of Los Angeles, Cal. and vicinity, 1888 
• Artists of Los Angeles. 1948-1951. Lou Jacobs, Jr., photographer.
• Camilo Vergara views of Los Angeles, 1980-1994 
• Charles Brittin papers, 1914-2004, bulk 1950-1975. Photographic and printed material documenting the Los Angeles art scene. 
• Edward Ruscha photographs of Los Angeles streets, 1974-2010
• Edward Ruscha photographs of Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard, 1965-2010
• Harry Drinkwater photographs documenting Los Angeles art and architecture. 1950-2010
• Interior decoration of residences in southern California. Harold Grieve. ca. 1928-1934. 9 albums (133 photographs)
• Jerry McMillan photographs of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s and 1970s. 
• Julius Shulman photography archive, 1936-2009  
• Julius Shulman Resources (Frequently Asked Questions and Selected Bibliography)
• Karl Gernot Kuehn photographs of Los Angeles. Photographed between 1978-1988.
• Laemmle Gallery photographs documenting the Laemmle art business, Munich and Los Angeles 
• Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles, 1947-1998 (bulk 1947-1957)
• Linear city. 2004-2005. Lane Barden, photographer. 131 inkjet prints and 141 digital images. The Linear city portfolio is comprised of three related photographic projects that document major geographic and transportation arteries of Los Angeles: The Los Angeles River (57 images taken in 2004 June); Trench (30 images taken in 2005 August of the Alameda supply corridor); and Wilshire Boulevard (43 images taken in 2005 August).
• The Olympic freeway murals : 30th anniversary edition. 2014. John Humble, photographer
• Photographs and postcards of Los Angeles, California and vicinity, ca. 1857-1940. Collected by J. Paul Getty.
• Photographs documenting Hollywoodland. 1923-1929. 37 photographs.
• Photographs documenting the Wyvernwood Garden Apartments. ca. 1939. 37 photographs.
• Photographs of buildings by Los Angeles architects. C. Gregory Walsh, photographer. ca. 1945-1955. 235 photographs.
• Survey of Wilshire Boulevard. 209 photographs by an unknown maker document the appearance of Los Angeles's Wilshire Boulevard in the 1950s.
• University of Southern California collection of Julius Shulman photographs and drawings, 1943-1952.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 Photo caption: Windward Avenue, Venice, California, 1965. Charles Brittin papers (2005.M.11)