Digital Archives of Local Public Libraries

The Southern California Library Cooperative’s Digilab project is live! Click here to access the digital archives of local public libraries. Check out Commerce Library’s digitized historical collection which includes newspapers, photographs, annual reports, and calendars dating back to the 1960’s. Keep checking the website as we will continue to upload more historical documents. 

Explore the City of Commerce's history. Travel to 1980 and see the City's 20th-anniversary celebration events. Or get a glimpse of the City's industries that have since relocated outside municipal boundaries.  The Online Archive of California contains images from approximately 100 years of life in and near the City of Commerce surrounding its incorporation on January 28, 1960.