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The AIDS Poster Collection
The 625 posters in this collection, held by the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections, come from forty-four countries. They illustrate attempts by a variety of "institutions" to educate and warn their citizens about AIDS and offer advice and information in visual form about the still deadly autoimmune disease. These public health posters reach out to various at-risk groups as well as the general public. Some are more blunt and graphic than others, and they come in many styles.

American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields
Proceedings of the Los Angeles meeting held January 5-9, 1999

Architecture and Urban Design
Images from the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design's collections (UCLA only)

Archive of Popular American Music
Sheet music from the UCLA Music Library’s Archive of Popular American Music

Campaign Literature Archive: A Century of Los Angeles Elections
Ephemeral election materials such as posters, pamphlets, and copies of Web sites, from the Campaign Literature Collection in the Charles E. Young Research Library.

Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-90
Featuring more than five thousand of the three million images contained in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives housed in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, this collection chronicles the history and growth of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1990.

Comitatus (Now published through the California Digital Library eScholarship Repository)
Annual publication of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, devoted to publishing the work of young scholars.

Corpus Juris Canonici (1582)
A digital facsimile edition of the Decretals of Gregory IX as they appeared with marginal commentary in the rare Corpus canonicum glossatum promulgated by Gregory XIII in 1580. A collaboration with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Drew Primary Care Research Project Papers
Online database of medical student research, documenting original projects conducted by Drew/UCLA medical students, focusing on primary care issues

Hoover Collection: Images of UCLA
From the Thelner and Louise Hoover Collection of Photographs of UCLA, 1927-82; photographer Thelner Hoover was UCLA Class of 1930.

Index of Medieval Medical Images
Medieval manuscript images with medical components held in North American collections.

Japanese American Research Project: Ishigo Papers
Archival materials relating to Estelle Ishigo's life in the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming, during World War II, and her postwar resettlement in Southern California.

La Protesta Humana (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1897-1902)
One title from the Charles E. Young Research Library's Department of Special Collections' extensive collection of anarcho-syndicalist newspapers published in Latin American cities during the late nineteenth century.

Minasian Collection of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts
The Caro Minasian Collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections is one of the most extensive post-classical Islamic manuscript collections in the United States. It contains important works relating to the study of Shiite theology, Arabic and Persian language and literature, and Islamic science and philosophy.

Patent Medicine Trade Cards
These small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards tout a particular medicine and its many cures. The illustrations often have little to do with any of the ailments purported to be cured but are pure advertising. The era of patent medicine began to unravel in the U.S. with the passage of the first Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. The collection is held by the Biomedical Library History and Special Collections.

Rats Spinal Cord Image Archive
This set of 640 images of neurons from the spinal cords thirty-six rats were created for use in Psychology 116, the psychobiology laboratory course, to train students in data analysis and interpretation. This image collection has also been used to test the transfer of digital objects between the Library's digital image collection and course management software systems.

S. Charles Lee, Architect
Photographs relating to Lee's professional career including his work as a developer and the most prolific architect of art deco movie palaces in Los Angeles.

Sheet Music Consortium
Using the Open Archives Initiative protocol, this project provides integrated access to digital sheet music collections at UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, the National Library of Australia, the Maine Music Box, and the Library of Congress.

Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings
A collection of 78rpm phonograph recordings from the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence.