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Photographed by Wayne Thom for AC Martin, and now part of the USC Libraries’ Wayne Thom Photography Collection.

Widening Wilshire Blvd. through Los Angeles, 1927 / Part of the the California Historical Society Collection in the USC Digital Library

(Part of our Dick Whittington Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.)

(Pictured: pie-baking contest at the 1958 National Orange Show in San Bernardino, courtesy of our Los Angeles Examiner Collection.)

Halloween at L.A.’s Wabash Playground, 1931

The USC Libraries are taking part in Open Access Week, during which academic institutions across the world are discussing what open access publishing means for the future of scholarship. In a conversation held this afternoon in Doheny Library, panelists Tara McPherson, John Carlos Rowe, and Deborah Holmes-Wong spoke about the implications of the open access movement for humanities scholars.

1930 photo set from our Dick Whittington Photography Collection

Discover more here in the USC Digital Library.

WHEN: Wednesday, September 30, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm  WHERE: ONE Archives, 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles

This “heroic cat” was credited with saving a family from a fire in 1953, according to our metadata.

Los Angeles City Hall at night, circa 1951

Happy Fourth of July! Here’s a fun shot from our Examiner Collection, taken on Santa Monica’s Ocean Park Beach in 1952.

In 1934, 76 was known as Union Oil Co. of California, and the chain's famous Googie-style canopy didn't yet swoop over the intersection of Crescent/Little Santa Monica in Beverly Hills. (USC Digital Library/Dick Whittington Photography Collection)

Today the Walt Disney Concert Hall stands on this barren parcel of land, photographed in 1960. (USC Digital Library/Los Angeles Examiner Collection)

A trolley at Flower & Pico – the present day site of the Metro Los Angeles​ Pico Station – in 1897. (USC Digital Library/California Historical Society Collection)

1884 view looking east down First from Hill Street. The area pictured here is today part of the Los Angeles Civic Center. (USC Digital Library/California Historical Society​ Collection)

A Rio Grande filling station at Charleville & Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, 1935. (USC Digital Library/Dick Whittington Photography Collection)