About the College Archives

College Archives was established in 1971 and collects materials that document the history and institutional memory of Occidental College.

What we collect

Our holdings include campus publications, faculty and alumni files, photographs, scrapbooks, sound and video recordings, and architectural plans dating from the founding of the College in 1887 to the present in both print and digital format. Some materials are available online:

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Mary Norton Clapp Library
1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041