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Del Amo Estate Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-1979-001
Abstract
This collection includes ledgers, business and financial papers, correspondence, photographs, maps, prints, newspaper clippings and other materials related to the incorporation, operations, and liquidation of the Del Amo Estate Company. There are also some personal papers of the company’s founder, Gregorio del Amo. The collection shows aspects of land use and development in Southern California, and is particularly interesting in detailing the construction and development of the Del Amo...
Dates:
1908-1978; Majority of material found within 1926-1964
Masumoto and Saito Family Photos
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-028
Abstract
The Masumoto and Saito Family Photos documents four generations of the Japanese American family in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Photographs depict the family’s businesses, trips, weddings, funeral, and others. Included are images of Jack Toshio Robert Masumoto’s trading company in San Francisco, Toraichi Okamoto’s produce store in Glendale, Southern California Sewing School in Little Tokyo, Japanese passenger ships, family outings such as trip to Golden Gate International...
Dates:
1920s-1950s
Rancho San Pedro Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-1970-002
Abstract
This collection contains legal and business papers related to the Rancho San Pedro and to its owners, the Dominguez family. The Spanish crown gave the Southern California lands of the Rancho San Pedro to Juan Jose Dominguez in 1784, and in 1858 the United States government granted a patent confirming Dominguez family ownership of the Rancho. A few items predate the 1858 patent, but the bulk of the collection is from 1900-1960. Some materials concern the Rancho San Pedro itself, including...
Dates:
1769-1972; Majority of material found within 1900-1960
Wien Dollar Stores Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-2020-039
Abstract
This collection contains 31 black-and-white photographs, 6 clippings, 1 report card, 1 flyer belonging to Julius and Mildred Wien. The photographs in this collection are images that were taken in Compton, California in the aftermath of an earthquake that hit near Long Beach, California in 1933; and images of the Wien Dollar Store taken when it operated in Compton, Inglewood, and Lynwood, California. There is also a flyer advertising Wien Dollar Store's move from Compton to Inglewood; and a...
Dates:
1931; 1933; circa 1935-1944; 1952; 1977
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- Beverly-Arnaz Land Company 1
- Cabrero, Eugenio 1
- California State University, Dominguez Hills 1
- Carson Estate Company 1
- Carson, George Henry 1
- Carson, Maria Victoria Dominguez 1
- Claretian Missionaries 1
- Cohn, Kaspare, 1839-1916 1
- Cotton, Hamilton H. 1
- Del Amo Estate Company 1
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- Del Amo, Susana Delfina Dominguez 1
- Del Amo, Jaime 1
- Dominguez Estate Company 1
- Dominguez Water Corporation 1
- Dominguez, Guadalupe Marcelina 1
- Dominguez, Manuel 1
- Dominguez-Wilshire Corporation 1
- Francis Land Company 1
- Francis, Maria Jesus de los Reyes Dominguez de 1
- Guyer, Ana Josefa Dominguez de 1
- Jarrett Estate Company 1
- Kaspare Cohn Commercial & Savings Bank 1
- Manzanar Incarceration Camp 1
- Marland Oil Company 1
- O’Melveny, Henry John 1
- Ramona Properties 1
- Reyes-Dominguez Company 1
- Richfield Oil Corporation 1
- San Pedro Ranch Nursery 1
- Union Bank & Trust Company of Los Angeles 1
- Valencia Spanish Tile Corporation 1
- Victory Oil Company 1
- Walter H. Leimert Co. 1
- Watson Land Company 1
- Watson, Maria Dolores Dominguez de 1
- Welton Becket and Associates 1
- Wien, Julius 1
- Wien, Mildred 1
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