Community Archive

The David H. Portillo Collection documents personal, familial, and community histories from El Salvador through photographs, objects, ephemera, and newspaper clippings spanning multiple generations.

A collection that chronicles decades of life in Los Angeles and a pivotal chapter in Houston's Fourth Ward—a historic Freedmen’s Town. Through photography, Chartouni documents the people, places, and experiences that informed her understanding of community, identity, and belonging as a Salvadoran-born American.

Photographer Joaquin Romero documented the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s - 1990s in Los Angeles, a critical period in the city's history that brought together churches, celebrities, and refugees in a shared effort to advance more humane public policies and social justice.

Honoring Abigail Annette Hedman from Belize