Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

Mission:

To identify, collect, preserve, exhibit and make available to the public information that documents the history of the City of Beverly Hills.

Gail Stein, Archivist, Eeverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection, at the L.A. as Subject Archives Bazaar

Beverly Hills Public Library
Historical Collection:

Collection spans the 1840s to the present

Photographs, correspondence, newspapers, telephone directories, biographies, maps, posters, government and political documents, architectural plans, data on public works, texts and ephemera.

Open to the public by appointment

Reproductive service available

Beverly Hills Public Library
Historical Collection:

Key collections:

Pierce Edson Benedict

Greystone (Doheny Mansion)

Will Rogers

Beverly Hills City Directories (1926-present)

Wright MacMahon Secretarial School

Cartography: Maps & Plans

Surveyor Field Books (1920s-1960s)

Beverly Hills High School yearbooks, newspapers and other city materials

The Historical Collection: uncover the fascinating early history of Beverly Hills...

Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas,The first property in Beverly Hills,

Photographs coutesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

Bean fields on Hammel and Denker Ranch, 1880s,

Photgraphs courtesy of the Beverly Hills Historical Collection

The History of the Beverly Hills Public Library in the Historical Collection:

Bessie Yancey, the first librarian of Beverly Hills

Photographs courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

Coldwater Canyon School, site of the first library

Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

Coutesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

c. 1963

Then...

Now...

Library building, opened 1965

Recent ExhibitsFBI Exhibit

Dining out in Beverly Hills exhibit

Photographs Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

Fine Arts Collection

The Friends made possible the founding of the original Art Research Library from a huge sale of hundreds of paintings in 1966...

Coutesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

Courtesy of the Beverly Hills Public Library Historical Collection

There are over 167 works of art
around the library...

Fine Arts Collection

Fine Arts Collection

Dorathi Bock Pierre Dance Archives

Databases including...

AFI Catalog

Art Bibliographies Modern

Art Sales Index

As of Fall 2006, the Arts Collection included...over 22, 822 reference volumes, over 200 artist's books, 507 catalogues raissons, 683 special collections volumes, 1541 scores, 26, 518 circulating items great selection of auction catalogs and salex indexes

Additional Library Special Collections

California history collections

Enchanted Woods children's collectionof rare books created byFriend of the Library Rita Lipkis

Enchanted Woods Collection

Enchanted Woods Collection

And don't forget the library's unique general circulating collections...

For example, the circulating collection contains approximately 2000 Persian books