The Pepperdine University Libraries have established the Malibu Historical Collection as a repository for documents related to the history of the City of Malibu and its residents. The goals of this collection are to collect, preserve, catalogue, and exhibit materials related to the history of this region, thus making them accessible to a global audience.
Copies of the paper from its inception are available through Special Collections and University Archives. The run begins 1920
Pepperdine University Special Collections and University Archives is generally open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, whenever Payson Library is open. Advanced notice of your visit is recommended in order to ensure availability of materials and staff assistance.
The department is located in Room 326 on the second floor of Payson Library on Pepperdine’s Malibu campus. Please contact Melissa Nykanen at (310) 506-4434 or melissa.nykanen@pepperdine.edu to schedule an appointment or for any questions.
Special Collections and University Archives are open to all users who fill out a registration form and present a form of photo identification, subject to the following rules.
Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876
Access to selected newspaper pages from 1836 to 1922. Use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information on newspapers published between 1690-present.
Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2005.
The Library of Congress's web site, Chronicling America has a search engine that will identify what newspapers were available in a particular place and time for U.S. newspapers. Click on this link to search the Newspaper Directory.
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