Pasadena High School's yearbook was first published in 1896 as The Item.  In 1917 the title changed to the Chronicle Annual and was available in hard cover.  In 1926 when the campus offered 11th-14th grade, the yearbook was titled The Annual, Pasadena High School-Junior College.  The next year there were two college campuses and two yearbooks, The Campus and The Pirate.  The Campus lasted until 1954 when the yearbook's final name was chosen--The Pageant.  The Pageant ceased publication in 1968.                           

In 2022 the Pasadena City College Archives received a Community Excellence Grant to digitize a 100 plus year run of the campus newspaper beginning with Pasadena High School's Chronicle in 1915 and running through Pasadena City College's Courier in 2016. Back Stage Library Works completed the digitization and alums of the Digitization Skills for Libraries and Cultural Heritage certificate program, Daniel Lott and Katie Gronenthal assisted with preparing the materials for shipping, loading the digital files into the database, and adding the necessary metadata.   

The collection includes Inscape, and its former title Pipes of Pan, PCC's student-run, literary journal which has been in continuous print since 1943.    PRISM, another literary journal published between 1975 and 1984 is the second title in this collection.  Lastly, Bool Dawg was created by the campus Cartoon Club in the 1920's and featured drawings, jokes, puns and proverbs. 

College catalogs dating back to 1954.  

Class schedules dating back to the 1960's.

Photographs and ephemera for music, dance, and stage productions

Launched in 1953, PCC’s registered nursing program was one of only five pilot programs in the nation to address the need for qualified nurses. The collection includes photographs from its very early days to the present.

Photographs, ephemera, programs from both men and women's sports dating back to 1907.

New images are being added weekly to this collection which documents the program beginning in 1952.

Dating back to the 1930's this collection includes photographs of field trips in which geology and anthropology students ventured across the Western United States to view firsthand examples of fossils, geological processes and forms. 

Included in this collection is a selection of images that showcase the campus' history from the 1900 to the 1980's

The Archives at Pasadena City College houses a number of scrapbooks that have been created by student organizations, academic departments, as well as individual students.  Keep watch as this collection continues to grow.  

Included here are user-contributed mini collections that enrich the Archive’s digital collection.  Examples include photographs from PCC alum and older brother of Jackie Robinson, Mack Robinson; a scrapbook from Coralee Burson Davis, one of a select group of women who served in the military during World War II and performed in Tars and Spars, a touring Coast Guard musical production; as well as photgraphs from several prominent Japanese American families.

Material that has been scanned at the request of a library user.   

Photographs and directories of Pasadena High School, Pasadena Junior College and Pasadena City College employees are available in this collection.