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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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- Inglewood (Calif.) 1
- Lakewood (Calif.) 1
- Long Beach (Calif.) 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Methodist Church buildings 1
- Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.) 1
- Public buildings -- California -- Compton 1
- Public schools -- California -- Compton 1
- Rancho Palos Verdes (Calif.) 1
- San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- Stores, Retail 1
- Terminal Island (Calif.) 1
- Torrance (Calif.) 1
- Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1 ∧ less
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- California State University, Dominguez Hills 1
- Wien, Julius 1
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