Oregon

Alaska

Wash.

Pacific NW

UtahNevadaArizona

New Mexico

Hawai’i

High Country News

interiorwest:MT, ID

WY, CO,

regionaltopics

Northern Plains

KS, IA, OK, MO,

Gulf Coast

NY State

OH, Wisc.

Detroit

Chicago

MS, AL, Florida

TVA

NewYorkCity

DC,Mid-

Atlantic

SoutheastRegions

WVA, VA, GA,Appalachia

NewEngland

WorldGeography

Geography theory

RadicalGeography

New England(cont.)

Penna.,NJ

Mammals

Los Angeles

GeneralCalifornia

Regions

natural history

California history

NorthernCalifornia

Indigenous Peoples

Water Projects

Deserts

old phone books

Columbia River

Places, Geographies, Histories

AGRICULTURE Atomic Energysolar energy

Nucleonics

Electrical West

Public Ownership

Reclamation Era (U.S. Reclamation

Bureau)

GE Review

Public Works

PUBLIC LANDS

PLANTS

AG BOOKS

USDA Reports

Fishing

CONSERVATION

FArMING& RURAL LIFE

Forestry

Forestry

Geology

Mining

Earth Science

Oil Industry

Plastics

massproduction

Popular Science

Popular Mechanics

Science & Mechanics

IndustrialArts

How-To — Mechanical

Mechanics Illustrated

Make

maker movement

NationalSafety News

Extraction

INTERNATIONAL

CARS

HISTORICAL

AUTOMOBILITY

Traffic Quarterly

Public Roads

blue books, green books

Road Trips: Travel

& Tourism

camping

Car Culture

ROAD CULTURE

Car Industry

Transportation

California Highways & Public Works

Highway Magazine

Roads & Streets

Overdrive

Good Roads

AviationNational Aeronautics

Aerial Age

Air Transport

FAA Aviation News

American Helicopter

Aero-Digest

aviation books

Rails

Bus Transportation

Bicycles

Railroadshistory

and culture

Metropolitan rail systems

Transit Journal

EnergyInfrastructure

Transactions of Am. Soc. of Civil Engineers

CivilInfrastructure

Sanitation,bridges,

public works

Planning and Civic Comment

Am. Planning and Civic Annual

Urban Studies

American City

Urban Land

New DealRegionalPlanning

urban studies books

parks,C.C.C.

Recreation

more books about HOME MAINTENANCE

BOOKS ABOUT HOUSES

Architecture

HVAC,LIGHTING

Decorative Art

Design Quarterly

Art for Industry

ID: Industrial Design

Artforum

General Topics, history

Contemporary &emerging Forms

Recent Books

Site-based ARt

Art + Politics

Large Format

Leonardo,Cabinet,

Public Art Review

Journal ofBiological Photography

Small format How-to books

[QSL Card Collection]

Sponsor

Adbusters

Propaganda AnalysisTelevision

TV History

TV Technology

TV Theory

TV Culture

AdvertisingPeriodicals

Advertising & Selling

Printer’s Ink

Display World

Modern Packaging

AdvertisingPeriodicals

Printer’s Ink

Printer’s Ink

Printing, Advertising & Media

Advertising

Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art

Typography

Signs, signage

Graphic Design

Book Arts

Information Design

InlandPrinter

1895–1958

CA

Graphis

Modern Lithography

SUBURBIA,HISTORY

& CULTURE

HOUSING POLICY,

HOUSING POLITICS

HOME

MAINTENANCE

& How-To

DIY Homecraft

HOMEMAKING

American Home

Good Housekeeping

Consumer Reports

Practical Home Economics

Home Economicsinstitutional &commercialbuildings

CLIMATE

WEATHER

AIR

WATER

waterways

NATURE/CULTUREINTERFACE

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM

environmentalpaperbacks

urban studies books

Infrastructure

ECOLOGY

Building

Trade

Periodicals

Adcrafter

Housing

BuildingTrade

Periodicals

&home plancatalogs

Interior

Decoration

Real Estate

Hospitality

Photo Era

Photography Books

Performance

drawing

Illustration

Painting

Art and DesignPHOTOGRAPHY

Fine & Applied Art

The Documents Annex holds supporting collections that expand the topic areas found

on the open shelves.

Documents boxes are not Self-Service. To request

Access, contact a host and allow the host physical

distance to pull and stage materials, then follow

posted handling guidelines.

Never Repack Documents Boxes.

Candy and SnackIndustry

Quick Frozen Foods

RestaurantManagement

Food

Cookbooks

Food Fads & Exposés

How to read this guide:

Words set in Copperplate are

Subject Titlesand

Topic areas

Words set inTimes Italic

are titles of periodicals

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Allow the host to review the protocols and this guide. This guide

is designed to permit self-guided (contactless) Library use. Please

follow the host’s directed guidelines for social distancing, vis-a-vis other

researchers who may be present.

Television

The Prelinger Library is a browsing- friendly research collection built to support on-site use and re-use by artists, scholars, activists, writers, and everyone.

Visitors are welcome to photograph materials and make scans of most materials on the flatbed scanner. Also, many library materials have been digitized at Internet Archive and are accessible as downloads from archive.org (indicated by book-marks in the books). This is not otherwise a lending collection.

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cartography

Environment

San Francisco Bay Area and California

San Francisco

Transportation

Neighborhoods

Natural History

Arts & Literature

Special Collection:19th Century Serial Sets

NaturalHistory

Nature Study Review

Birds

Inverts, Fungi

The Auk

WorldGeography

Landscapestudies

Landscapemagazine

nature books

Water Supply Papers for California and

Oregon

Oregon Historical Quarterly

Landscape

PeoplesChinese Diaspora

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2

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Please conserve bindings by

pulling books off the shelves from the middle of the spine.

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MSP October, 2020

LGBTQI

HIV/AIDS

Social Hygiene

Candy and SnackIndustry

Quick Frozen Foods

RestaurantManagement

Film Catalogs

RCA Review

National Union

Catalogs

Reference Guides

Filmographies

History,Technology& Culture

Books

Scanner Reference

BeginnerElectronics

Books

Monitoring Times

Allied Radio Catalogs

Broadcasting

Audio Engineering

ElectronicsPrint

Journalism

RCMA Newsletter

Electronics

Radio Age

Radio News

Radio & TV News

Music

Books About Music

Modern MusicAmerican

Cultural Historygeneral topics

Eras & Years

Fringe Subcultures

Survivalism

Sociology Books

Digest Magazines

Physical CultureWomens Studies

Ms.Independent Woman

Today’s SecretarySoviet Woman

Humor..

Language..

Folklore

.Gender

Topical

Theoretical

Film Books:

Nontheatrical

Theatrical

Womens studies Periodicals

Language, Gender

AdvertisingPeriodicals

FILM

Film

ReferenceBooks

Channels

Educational Screen

Business Screen

See and Hear

Film Reference

RADIO

Telephony

Bell Telephone Magazine

Bell Labs Record

Telephone Technology

and History Books

Bell SystemTechnical Journal

Telegraphy

Byte

2600

Datamation

Computers and People

Computing

Computing Books:

Technical

Social-impact

Historical

Wired

Computing Books

Broadcast and Networked Media

Jazz Journal

The Wire

Punk Planet

Proceedings of the IRE

Surveyand

Survey Graphic

Food

Material Culture

Cookbooks

Food Fads & Exposés

Progressive Grocer

Material Cultural

History books

more Cultural History books

Journal of the American Names Society

SignsAphra

Chrysalis

Feminist:ScholarshipLife Stories

ActivismTheory

Men

gender norms: conforming

& Nonconforming

Journal ofSocial Hygiene

Women’s Labor

Money

Currency

Economics

Business History

New Nation

Industrial Unionist

U.S. Commission on Indian Affairs documents

Topical Books (Much more in

PLACES sections)

Education

HistoricalTextbook

Collection

Youth

Family

Childhood

Hearings onUn-American

Activities

Co-Evolution Quarterly

Whole Earth Review

Sleep

Psychology

Parapsychology

Religion

Spiritualism

Personality Inventory

Mind

Business History

Abstract and Off-Earth

BlackHistory

Japanese America

Educational Forum

IndigenousPeoples

Global Conflict,Global Activism

20th & 21st Century

U.S. Immigration Policy History AtomicAge

Research andTesting

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Atomic Age Culture

Cold War

Modern Age Books

U.S. Political History

Radical America

Free World

Space Exploration

Geopolitics and Un-American ActivitiesUnion Organizing

Labor Fact Books

La Follette Hearings

Bulletins of the U.S. Women’s Bureau

20th Century Philosophy:

HermeneuticsCritical TheoryExistentialism

Intellectual“Property”

Nation’s Business

American Business

Journal of the BritishInterplanetary Society

Historical Books

NASA ProgramHistories

Human Spaceflight

Robotic Exploration

International Spacefaring

Technologies & Cultures

Space World

Missiles & Rockets

EbonyFreedomways

Negro Digest

Black World

Black Scholar

Scholarship

Life Stories

Civil Rights Movement

Theory

History

Race and Ethnicity

LatinxStudies

arte y Culturade la Frontera

ActivismoTheoría

Whiteness: White Anti-racism, White Supremacy

Race Traitor

General Topics

U.S. InternalDissent

Gun Culture

Right Dissent

Left Dissent

Social Movements

Schism

Ramparts

New Times

Soldier of Fortune

Ebony

State Apparatus

Civics, Post Office

Carceral State:

Prisons, Police,Resistance

Militarization of the Public Sphere

Surveillance

Civil Liberties

The FBI

Police

FDA Consumer

U.S. OverseasConflicts

War in Vietnam

Vietnam Veterans

U.S. Army Culture

World Wars I and II

PeaceMovements

Anti-militarism

One World Movement

Co-op MovementCo-operator

Communes and Utopias

Futurism

Anarchism

The Dial

Advocate of Peace

Communities

InternationalCommunism

DomesticCommunism

LaborHistory

New Deal

Hermenaut

Mathematics

Physical Sciences

Human Health annex

Lesbians!

ReferenceOversize, Special Collections, and OverflowBooks About

Libraries,Archives,

& Information

Reference Works

Almanacs

Yearbooks

Special Collection:Punk Flyers

Oversize Periodicals:

San Francisco Chronicle, 1915

Works Produced Using This Library

5

4

6

OverflowScience

Periodicals

OversizeCity Plans

(boxed)

Special Collection:CCC Camp

Newsletters

Special Collection:PoliticalButtons

Special Collection:ArtistsBooks

Finding Aid available

Atlases

OversizeBoxed

DocumentsFinding Aid available

OversizeBooks

Arranged by Row number corresponding

to the open shelves

Special Collection:Whole Earth

Catalogsand

Derivative Works

OversizePeriodicals

Afterimage

Boxed Maps

Oversize PeriodicalsArgonaut

Akwesasne Notes

DearbornIndependent

Ken

Look

Garden Magazine

Better Homes & Gardens

American Home

AmericanAgriculturalist

Militant

Life

Fortune

Candy &Confectioners

Journal

Living for Young Homemakers

Holiday

CooperativeConsumer

Science FictionPeriodcals

Science FictionPeriodcalsand Novels

Children’s Literature

Children’s Reference Works

Special Collection:FoldedMaps

(boxed) Special Collection:FoldedMaps

(boxed)

Oversize& OverflowPeriodicals

Full Cry

Factory, Industrial Management, & associated titles

Aviation Week

Analog Science Fiction & Science

Fact

other overflow

Special Collection: zines

Epicenter ZoneZine ArchiveFinding Aid available

Special CollectionsThe Library holds several Special

Collections, materials that stand on their own apart from the thematic flow

of the open shelves. They stand alone in terms of their uniqueness and in

terms of their respective identities as sub-collections. Typically they also are

best accessed with the help of a host, as they may require special handling.

Finding Aids are available for some collections.

Many Special Collections are worthy of sustained focus. Visitors are

invited to arrange in advance for access to these Collections, to permit

hosts to retrieve and unpack materials in advance of a visit.

Some Special Collections include:

MapsThe Library holds thousands of

folded maps in document cases, as well as many historical USGS topo-

graphic maps that are housed in the two flat files in the back of

the room. Ask for Help.

ZinesThe Library holds multiple zine

collections, notably the Epicenter Zone zine archive. The zine

collection expresses an enormous range of social, political, and personal

expression from the 1990s and 2000s. Please ask for help.

QSL CardsQSL cards are postcards that express written confirmation of a successful

radio link, either a two-way link between citizens band

operators, or a one-way link between a broadcast and a listener.

The Library’s collection expresses the personalities, cultures, and politics of

20th-century CB operators.

The Therkelson Collection

Since the late 1940s (ongoing in 2020), a man named Norman Therkelson has clipped and organized articles from

newspapers around California and the Bay Area, assembling more than 80

clippings books on topics relating to landscape, infrastructure, and the built environment. The Therkelson

clippings books are housed on freestanding shelving in the back of the room. Please ask

for help.