The Library's Charlotta Bass Collection includes many interesting historical documents and memorabilia, such as her California Eagle press card, her address books, and her personal correspondence. A selection of some of these historical documents is below.

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Bass's receipt from the journalism course she took at Columbia in 1926/1927.		Program and petition from the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, which Bass was a member of.
Bass's press card from the California Eagle.		Bass was the featured speaker at an event on behalf of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born in 1951.
Invitation to meet Bass, president of the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, in 1952.		Bass's acceptance speech on being nominated to run for U.S. vice president on the Progressive Party ticket.
Coaster for Bass and Vince Hallinan on their 1952 vice presidential/presidential campaign.		Bass's Progressive Party card for her 1952 vice presidential campaign.
Program issued at the release of Bass's memoirs Forty Years in 1960.		Invitation to the opening of Bass's Elsinore Community reading room in 1964.
Postcard from Shirley and W.E.B. Du Bois to Bass.		Program from the funeral service held for Bass in 1969.