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Irene and John Burns Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-002
Abstract
This collection contains material belonging to the Burns family who are based in Southern California. A majority of the collection contains letters that were written from 1943-1946 by John J. Burns and sent to Irene Burns while John was serving in the United States Marine Corps. Also included are material related to John and Irene's wedding such as RSVPs and greeting cards; as well as family photograph albums, Woodrow Wilson High School yearbooks (1940, 1942), and a personal diary belonging...
Dates:
1890s- 1960s, 1987, 1989, 1997, 2007, 2015, 2020-2021; undated; Majority of material found within 1940s-1960s
Long Beach Fireman's Historical Museum Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2009-005
Abstract
Negatives and photographic prints documenting the history of the Long Beach Fire Department. Included are images of the department from its earliest days in the early 20th century through to 1971. Images focus upon department personnel, apparatus, fires, and fire prevention. Also includes photographic prints and negatives which document the history of the city of Long Beach, including documentation of the March 10, 1933 earthquake and documentation of early drilling activities including...
Dates:
1840-1971; Majority of material found within 1906-1971
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- Apartment houses -- Fires and fire prevention 1
- Automobiles -- Collision damage 1
- Commercial buildings -- Fires and fire prevention 1
- Compton (Calif.) 1
- Correspondence 1
- Fire departments -- California -- Long Beach -- History 1
- Fire departments -- Employees 1
- Fire departments -- Equipment and supplies 1
- Fire departments -- Public relations 1
- Fire ecology -- California -- Long Beach 1
- Fire engines -- California -- Long Beach -- History 1
- Fire extinction--California--Long Beach 1
- Fire fighters -- Training of -- California -- Long Beach 1
- Fire fighters--California--Long Beach--History 1
- Fire investigation 1
- Fire prevention -- California -- Long Beach 1
- Fire stations -- California -- Long Beach 1
- Fires -- California -- Long Beach -- History 1
- Fires -- Casualties 1
- Fires -- Social aspects 1
- Housing -- Fires and fire prevention 1
- Human ecology -- California -- Long Beach 1
- Long Beach (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point (N.C.) 1
- Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (Calif.) 1
- Marine Corps Air Station New River (N.C.) 1
- Oil fields -- California -- Long Beach 1
- Oil fields -- Fires and fire prevention 1
- Santa Catalina Island (Calif.) 1
- Ships -- Fires and fire prevention 1
- Social ecology -- California -- Long Beach 1
- South Pacific Islands 1
- Traffic accidents -- California -- Long Beach 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1 ∧ less
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- Jennings, Irene 1
- Long Beach (Calif.). Fire Department 1
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