Online Exhibits, Research Projects and Digital Repositories

The following sites are research projects, exhibitions, and digital repositories which draw upon the primary resources at the special collections department. Many projects are produced in collaboration with faculty and students in class or independent study.

Featured
History of Equity and Diversity at Occidental (2014)
CTSJ 320 students launch research into 5 eras between 1938-2014 to gather and analyze historical documents.
History of Equity and Diversity at Occidental: Roots of Programs (2017)
How programs for underserved students at Occidental College were implemented and institutionalized.
Oxy United for Black Liberation (2016)
Student activism leading up to and during the occupation of the AGC administration building in the fall of 2015.
Building Occidental: The Road to Eagle Rock
A pictorial essay presenting the three campuses of Occidental College from 1887 to 1914.
Oxy in the Neighborhood
This exhibit covers 1910 to 1923 when Oxy and its surroundings were changing in the transition between semi-rural to suburb of Los Angeles.
At the Crossroads of Latinx Heritage and LGBTQ+ Identity
A collaboration with Intercultural Community Center, this exhibit centers the lives of LGBTQ+ Latinx people living in L.A. from the 1970s through the 1990s.
A Klan at the College?
A class project investigates Oxy student organization Ku Klux Klan.
Alphabetized
American Frontiers
Historypin: Highland Park Through the Ages
Archive-It: Northeast Los Angeles
Historypin: Mary Norton Clapp Library: A Visual History
Archive-It: Occidental College
Historypin: Occidental College Archive's Collection
Archive-It: Occidental College Student Life
Historypin: The Historic Theater of Eagle Rock
Archive-It: Special Los Angeles Events
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive
Banned Books: Shakespeare Uncensored
Japanese American Relocation During World War II
Barack Obama, U.S. President and Alumnus (1980-1981) Digital Archive
John Speed Maps (1611)
Bessie Beatty Digital Archive
Lincoln's Legacies
Bessie Beatty: An Exhibition of Twentieth Century Oxy Alumna and Journalist Bessie Beatty
Miniature Books: Then and Now
Bessie Beatty: Frontline Journalist
NELA Newspapers
Bill Henry And The News
NELA Stories: Interviews with Community Members of Northeast Los Angeles
Bill Henry Digital Archive
Obama & Popular Culture
Building Occidental: The Road to Eagle Rock
Occidental College Historical Campus Photos
Campus Design Digital Archive
Ortelius Maps (1579)
Chuck Jensvold: Writer
Oxy in the Neighborhood
College Archives Moving Image Digital Archive
Oxy United for Black Liberation (2016)
College Archives Sound Recordings Digital Archive
OxyCorps: Alumni Stories of Student Life
Ernesto Galarza
OxyCorps: Student/Alumni Interviews Collection
F. Ray Risdon Collection of Lincolniana and American Political Life
Railroading Digital Archive
Friezer Photography
Robinson Jeffers: Oxy's Poet Alumnus
Global Crossroads
Stereographs: Images of War
History of Equity and Diversity at Occidental (2014)
Student Publications
History of Equity and Diversity at Occidental: Roots of Programs (2017)
The Young Years: An Occidental College Founding Family
Historypin: Eagle Rock Through the Ages
Transportation as Media: The Epistemology of Train Culture
A Gallery of Famous Fictional Sleuths & their Authors
College Archives Photographic Collections