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The Getty Library is located at the Getty Center.
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
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News and Stories
Getty Acquires Historical Prints, Posters, and Other Materials from 20th-Century American Movements
The Merrill C. Berman Collection contains 600 works related to American social justice movements and Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration Era
What Is an Archive?
And other burning questions for the people who care for the objects, papers, and more that come to Getty
Getty Library Acquires Major Private Collection of Published Material on African American Art and Artists
Collection of books and rare ephemera purchased from Lee and Whitney Kaplan, owners of Los Angeles bookstore Arcana: Books on the Arts