This box contains publications, pamphlets, maps, notes, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera related to the 1984 23rd Olympics. Publications and newsletters include The Olympic Supporter, Olympic Update (published by the Los Angeles Olympic Committee), Olympic Rundown (published by Arco), Communication Arts magazine, which contains an article on design work for Olympics, and a special issue of Sports Illustrated (Vol. 61, No. 4).

Booklets include “Opening ceremonies,” “84 Olympic Villages UCSB,” “Stars in Motion No. 1-6,” a staff handbook, a ticket information book and order forms, and membership directories. Pamphlets include “Games of the 23rd Olympiad, Los Angeles;” “Ticket buyers guide;” “Ticket update;” “Carry the torch;” “Short-term staffing opportunities;” “Olympic countdown – 200 days to go;” “U.S. Postal Service guide to Los Angeles;” “Olympic Access TV viewers’ guide;” a guide to UCLA events; equestrian sports guides; a pamphlet for the rowing competition at Lake Casitas; and an official Olympic souvenir program. There are maps for the University of California Santa Barbara campus and Olympic village, the University of Southern California, the University of California Los Angeles’ Olympic village, Olympic competition and training sites, and maps published for tourists by Fuji Films.

Ephemera includes tickets, Cynthia Ellison’s notes and papers related to her volunteering, Cynthia Ellison’s handwritten account of the Olympic events, notes and handouts given to staff, memos for staff, calendars and proposed schedules, bumper stickers, sponsor tickets, and participants’ stickers, a sheet of commemorative stickers. Additional materials include correspondence to the Ventura County Historical Museum from the Olympic Committee, and 5 boxes of photographic slides and negatives depicting the rowing events, closing ceremonies, and some unidentified images.