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Rozelle Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2017-008
Abstract The Rozelle collection, ranging from the late 1860’s to the 1980’s contains correspondence, photographs, official documents, newspaper clippings, and genealogy information pertaining to the family of Bazil Tillson Rozelle (paternal grandparent of former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle). Other family names associated with this collection are Dr. William Owens, of Anderson, Indiana; and Dora Whaley, of Paramount, California. Photographs include family vacations in Catalina Island circa 1890s;...
Dates: 1868-1988; undated

South Bay Newspapers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-1900-003
Scope and Contents The South Bay Newspapers Collection (1935-1969) contains 183.85 linear feet of microfilm and bound volumes of South Bay newspapers during the 1930s to 1960s. Included are both daily and weekly newspapers. Newspaper titles include "Compton Herald"(1935-1957), "Compton Herald American" (1941-1956), "Compton Journal" (1942-1949), "Compton News Tribune"(1946), "Dominguez News" (1965-1967), "Habor Mail" (1957-1958, 1961) "Wilmington Press Journal" (1962), "Wilmington Daily Press Journal" (1962),...
Dates: 1935-1969

South Bay Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-1900-024
Abstract The collection consists of color and black and white photographs, negatives, postcard-backed photos, and tin-types. Subjects of the photographs include people, businesses, churches, houses, schools, farming, transportation, and natural disasters. Communities covered in this collection include Compton, Torrance, Carson, Dominguez, Redondo Beach, Lynwood, Lakewood, San Pedro, Wilmington, Los Angeles, Terminal Island, and the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Material from the collection is available...
Dates: circa 1880-1967

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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Public schools -- California -- Compton 9
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Earthquake damages 5
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Compton (Calif.) -- Newspapers 3
Family-owned business enterprises 3
Public buildings -- California -- Compton 3
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California -- History 2
Carson (Calif.) 2
Genealogy 2
Glendale (Calif.) 2
Japanese American evacuation and resettlement 2
Japanese American farmers -- Los Angeles 2
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History 2
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Newspapers 2
Lynwood (Calif.) 2
Maps 2
Oil wells -- California -- Los Angeles 2
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.) 2
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Pomona (Calif.) 2
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Fire investigation 1
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Foreign workers 1
Germany 1
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Historic buildings -- California -- Compton 1
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Human ecology -- California -- Long Beach 1
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California State University, Dominguez Hills 4
Amo, Gregorio del, 1858-1941 2
Chanslor-Western Oil and Development Company 2
Del Amo Estate Company 2
Dominguez Estate Company 2
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Dominguez Water Corporation 2
Gillingham, Robert C. (Robert Cameron), 1896- 2
O’Melveny & Myers 2
Shell Oil Company 2
Standard Oil Company of California 2
Union Oil Company of California 2
Allison, Alexander 1
American National Fur Breeders Association 1
Associated Oil Company 1
Beverly-Arnaz Land Company 1
Blanton, Charles 1
Bromark, Violet Elizabeth 1
Cabrero, Eugenio 1
California Fur Breeders Association 1
California State University and Colleges 1
Carpenter, William Kenneth, 1913-1984 1
Carson Estate Company 1
Carson, George Henry 1
Carson, Maria Victoria Dominguez 1
Centennial High School (Compton, Calif.) 1
Claretian Missionaries 1
Clark, Ira 1
Cohn, Kaspare, 1839-1916 1
Compton College (Compton, Calif.) 1
Cotton, Hamilton H. 1
Del Amo Foundation 1
Del Amo Nurseries 1
Del Amo, Susana Delfina Dominguez 1
Del Amo, Jaime 1
Dollarhide, Douglas 1
Dominguez Water Company 1
Dominguez, Guadalupe Marcelina 1
Dominguez, Manuel 1
Dominguez-Wilshire Corporation 1
Ebony Magazine 1
Eilers, Charles H. , 1875-1948 1
Fellows and Stewart Inc. 1
Francis Land Company 1
Francis, Maria Jesus de los Reyes Dominguez de 1
Grenier, Judson 1
Guyer, Ana Josefa Dominguez de 1
Harley-Davidson Motor Company 1
Heritage House Museum 1
Jarrett Estate Company 1
Jet Magazine 1
Kaspare Cohn Commercial & Savings Bank 1
Kroll, Dennis 1
Long Beach (Calif.). Fire Department 1
Long Beach Fireman's Historical Museum 1
Los Angeles Times (Firm) 1
Marland Oil Company 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
Native Daughters of the Golden West 1
Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) 1
Owens, William , Dr. 1
O’Melveny, Henry John 1
Ramona Properties 1
Reyes-Dominguez Company 1
Richfield Oil Corporation 1
Rozelle, Bazil Tilson 1
Rozelle, Edith Owens 1
Rozelle, Elmer Donald 1
Rozelle, Helen Whaley 1
Rozelle, Pete 1
San Pedro Ranch Nursery 1
Schrader, Martha 1
The Crisis (magazine) 1
Union Bank & Trust Company of Los Angeles 1
University of Southern California 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
Whaley, Dora Grace Scott 1
Wien, Julius 1
Wien, Mildred 1
Wilshire-New Hampshire Corporation 1
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