California State University, Northridge, Special Collections

The Art and Print Collection was created by Special Collections and Archives staff and contains a variety of drawings, paintings, prints and other artwork donated to the library.

The scrapbook contains photographic postcards, graphic postcards with short correspondence, and a handwritten poem created by and collected by Eldon G. Burdick, Jr. of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This collection consists of three typescripts on the subject of Mary Baker Eddy, author, teacher, religious leader, and founder of Christian Science. Included in the collection are Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy by Adam H. Dickey, Mrs. Eddy as I knew her in 1870 by Samuel Putnam Bancroft, and The Unfolding Idea/The Power of an Endless Life by Blanche Hershey Hogue.

The Deaf Women's History Project Collection contains video interviews conducted by Evelyn L. Preston and Caroline Preston Bass as part of a grant-funded project to film deaf women about their lives during World War II.

Richard "Dickie" Embleton Lived in Hicksville, NY. His father, also Richard Embleton, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. His mother's name was Mary. At some point Dickie lived with his Aunt Laura, Uncle John, and cousin Patty. The Richard Embleton Correspondence Collection consists of personal correspondence primarily from Dickie's mother and father to him when he was a young boy. There are also some letters written to his Aunt, and to Dickie from other relatives. The letters from Dickie's father include many comical cartoons drawn by his father. A small amount of get-well-soon greeting cards are also included in the collection.

The Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera is primarily comprised of publications created by tourism bureaus in various European countries, including road and metro maps, booklets, brochures advertising specific sites, and tickets collected by Nathalie while on an organized student trip to Europe. The materials in the collection document tourism and travel after World War II from the perspective of an American college student.

The Lieutenant Commander Herbert Goebert World War II Collection includes a diary and other items from Goebert's time as a United States Naval Reserve surgeon on active duty from 1943 to 1944.

The Captain Forrest G. Houlehan Scrapbook contains photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, typed letters and other ephemera that document Houlehan's life from World War I up until the beginning of World War II in 1941. Many materials in the scrapbook relate to Captain Houlehan's work between the wars at car dealerships and the Civilian Conservation Corps.

The Incunabula and Early Printed Book Leaves Collection contains 67 individual 15th, 16th, and 17th century printed leaves dated between 1472 and 1618, the bulk of which are from incunabula dated between 1472 and 1499 from France, Germany, and Italy. Most leaves are printed in Latin, though some are in German, Greek, English, Italian, and other vernacular European languages. The collection also includes an undated vellum sheet of Gregorian chant printed in square notation with text in Latin, and 9 unidentified leaves. Many of the leaves are decorated or illuminated.

Sidney Lens was born in 1912 in New Jersey to Charles and Sophie Okun, Russian Jewish immigrants who came to the United States in 1907. His birth name was Sidney Okun. Lens married Shirley Ruben, a Chicago public school teacher, in 1946. Lens was an American labor leader, political activist, and author. The collection consists of photographs, some mounted, by Sidney Lens. Lens is depicted in some of the photographs.