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Neil Boyer Photography Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2017-015
Abstract
This collection contains photographs and negatives taken by Neil Boyer, a commercial photographer based in the South Bay Area of Southern California. Clients include: businesses and organizations; families; models; bands; and others who hired Boyer for portraits; public relations and marketing purposes; product photography; holiday and Christmas cards; and events. Material types include: black-and-white and color negative film; color transparency film; slide film; polaroids; proof sheets;...
Dates:
1971-2019; undated; Majority of material found within 1980-2000
Patton Family Property Papers
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2011-006
Abstract
This collection contains papers having to do with land plots in the Wilmington area of Los Angeles, California owned by sisters Maria Jesus De Shorb, Annie Wilson, and Ruth Patton. Included in the collection are declaration of trust papers, deeds and title papers, tax reports, receipts, statements, court papers, and correspondence.
Dates:
1909-1938
Random Lengths News Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-032
Abstract
This collection contains clippings, notes, correspondence, photographs, half-tones, press releases, flyers, invoices, meeting minutes, reports, published newspaper issues, and other material generated by Random Lengths News.
Dates:
1848, 1853, 1967, 1971, 1985-2024; undated ; Majority of material found within 1990-2004
South Bay History Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-1980-003
Abstract
The collection includes of brochures, flyers, newsletters, directories, reports, papers, newspapers, and newsclippings related to the communities of Carson, Davidson City, Gardena, Hawthorne, Lakewood, Lawndale, Lomita, Long Beach, Lynwood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, San Pedro, Terminal Island, Torrance, Wilmington, and Los Angeles. Subjects include historic preservation, municipal records, tourism, commerce, and transportation.
Dates:
1923-2005
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
Torrance Refinery Action Alliance (TRAA) Records
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2023-018
Abstract
This collection contains reports, flyers, fact sheets, articles, emails, memorandums, and other material regarding Torrance Refinery Action Alliance (TRAA), an organization formed in the aftermath of an explosion on February 18, 2015 at the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery (now PBF Energy’s Torrance Refining Company). TRAA's mission is to ban hydrogen fluoride (HF) and modified hydrofluoric acid (MHF) from two refineries (Torrance Refining Company and Valero Wilmington Refinery) in Southern...
Dates:
1979-2024; undated; Majority of material found within 2015-2022
Wilmington (CA.) Newspaper Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-1900-030
Scope and Contents
This collection contains bound volumes of Wilmington, California newspapers from the 1950s and 1960s. Newspaper titles include: The Press Journal and Harbor Mail(1964-1969)Wilmington Harbor Mail(1958), Wilmington Daily Press(1958, 1962), and Harbor Mail(1957-1958).
Dates:
1957-1969
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