The Digitization and Special Collections department supports Los Angeles Public Library's mission by collecting, arranging, preserving, providing access to, stimulating appreciation for, and advancing knowledge of, the rare and unique collections that represent LA's diverse communities.
The Los Angeles Public Library's digital collection at California Revealed consists of text materials from early 1900s through the 1910s. The collection includes extensive runs of newspapers like the Los Angeles Graphic and Lodge Echoes, as well as a complete collection of The Liberator, a rare early twentieth-century Los Angeles news periodical that chronicled issues and events in Los Angeles's African American community.