Series IX: Photographs and Objects, undated

The Del Amo Foundation Collection, Los Angeles, California, reflect the operations of the Foundation over its fifty years of management and distribution of the Del Amo Foundation Educational Trust over the years 1929 through 1980. The collection was donated by the Foundation to the California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 1979. The collection arrived in 1979 and 1980 in four filing cabinets, its contents arranged alphabetically except for a number of loose items including theses, reports, books, periodicals, and ephemera. A few theses and reports have been added to the collection since 1980. Approximately 20 percent of this collection is written or published in the Spanish language.

During the 1987 organization and processing of the Administrative Files, folders were separated according to types of subject matter, including administrative files, board member files, grantee files, theses and reports, institutional grants files, and miscellaneous files. Some books and periodicals were absorbed into the Cain Educational Resource Center's general and special collections. A complete list of de-accessioned material is listed below.

At the time of this typing, only the administrative files (Series 1) have been processed. Original folder titles have been preserved wherever possible and arranged in roughly the same order used in the original Foundation files. Folders titled "Del Amo ...," which contains the core of information of the Foundation's operations, have been placed in box 1.

The Foundation Collection consist mainly of correspondence of board members, grantees, and institutions; board agendas and minutes; Foundation tax records; and theses and reports of grantees and institutions. Items of special interest in Series 1 include the Declaration of Trusts (box 1, folder 1); a brochure for the Fundación del Amo (box 1, folder 17); Dominguez Air Meet Anniversary memorabilia (box 3, folder 11); and a copy of the magazine Highway Patrolman for December, 1977, containing an article on Dr. Gregorio del Amo (box 6, folder 10). Also of interest are folders on the Fundación del Amo building (box 5, folder 8) and on the restoration of the Dominguez Homestead (box 3, folders 9 and 10).