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City of Gardena Japanese Cultural Show Photograph Albums

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Identifier: SPC-1900-032
Abstract

This collection includes five photograph albums from the City of Gardena Japanese Cultural Show sponsored by the Gardena Valley Gardeners Association. The albums contain newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and invitation letters for the event. Topics include Japanese American gardeners, bonsai, ikebana, Japanese gardens, martial arts, and other topics related to the event and the Nikkei (Japanese American) community.

Dates: 1980-1986

Collection of Japanese Language School Textbooks

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Identifier: SPC-2022-003
Abstract

This collection includes Japanese grade-school textbooks and textbooks from The Compton Japanese School. Also included is a Chinese penmanship table.

Dates: 1957-1963

Collection of Nisei Week Festival Programs

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Identifier: SPC-2019-040
Abstract

This collection contains programs from the Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Little Tokyo, California. Some items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: August 1949-2019

Dorman L. Commons Collection

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Identifier: CSU-053
Abstract The Dorman L. Commons (1918-1987) Collection documents the activities of the California State Board of Education from 1962 through 1970. As a member of the California State Board of Education, Commons’ collection includes materials on California schools K-16, State Board of Education, Max Rafferty as Superintendent of Public Instruction, serving two terms during Commons’ time on the Board of Education, and the election campaign of Wilson Riles, the first African American elected to statewide...
Dates: 1962/1970

Del Amo Estate Company Collection

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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

Dominguez Land Company

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Identifier: SPC-2009-004
Abstract

Records of the Dominguez Land Company (1911-1941). Included in the collection are contracts and grant deeds detailing the sale of land throughout the city of Torrance, CA, as well as related correspondence and legal documentation. Also includes documentation of the history of the Dominguez Land Corporation, and details of its sale to Remco-Real Estate Management Company in 1941.

Dates: 1911-1950

Filipino Americans/Florante Peter Ibanez Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2020-024
Abstract

This collection contains programs, flyers, reports, newspapers, magazines, books, DVDs, VHS tapes, t-shirts, and other material belonging to Florante Peter Ibanez. A majority of the material in this collection relates to Filipino American events, organizations, history and culture. This collection also contains material related to Chinese American, Japanese American, Hawaiian; and other Asian American and Pacific Islander events and organizations.

Dates: 1938-2020; undated; Majority of material found within 1970-2009

Japanese American Community Publications

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Identifier: SPC-2023-014
Abstract This collection consists of booklets and newsletters published by Japanese American community-based organizations in Southern California, including Japanese cultural institutes, Japanese women’s society, religious organizations, Aikido Center of Los Angeles and United States Aikido Federation, Japanese American Republicans, Radio Little Tokyo, Southern California Gardeners' Federation, INC., and National Bonsai Foundation. These organizations have published newsletters and compiled...
Dates: 1960-2014

Kenjinkai Publications

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Identifier: SPC-2019-027
Abstract This collection consists of publications by prefectural associations, that is, "県人会 kenjinkais," in Southern California and Japanese Prefectural Association of Southern California, "南加県人会協議会 Nanka Kenjin Kyogikai." The organizations have compiled commemorative publications to celebrate their major anniversary milestones, and those publications are not widely known about but distributed among the members only. Anniversary booklets include an overview of their history, historical images,...
Dates: 1955-2014

Hisashi Matsue Tanka Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2023-005
Abstract This collection comprises tanka poems authored by Hisashi Matsue, who is a master of tanka poetry, an instructor for the California Tankakai in Los Angeles, California, which mainly consists of the Japanese and Japanese American poets in Los Angeles, and the editor for their periodical magazine. Included are a complete set of the California Tankakai’s magazine, "California Tanka," published quarterly (1979-2021) and semiannually (2022-present) since 1979, a set of special issues published...
Dates: 1979-2024

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California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections 17
California State University Archives 1
University Archives 1
 
Subject
Japanese Americans -- California, Southern 8
California, Southern 3
Japanese -- California, Southern -- History 3
Japanese Americans -- California 3
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 3
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California, Northern 2
Community organization 2
Gardena (Calif.) 2
Gardens, Japanese--California, Southern 2
Japanese American gardeners -- California, Southern 2
Japanese American poetry 2
Japanese Americans 2
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 2
Oil and gas leases -- California, Southern 2
Torrance (Calif.) 2
Arizona 1
Asian Americans -- United States 1
Associations, institutions, etc. 1
Blueprints 1
Bonsai 1
Buddhism 1
Buddhist temples 1
Buddhist youth 1
California 1
California -- History 1
California State University, Dominguez Hills. University Art Gallery -- Exhibitions 1
Carson (Calif.) 1
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) 1
Colorado 1
Commercial real estate -- California -- Torrance 1
Compton (Calif.) 1
Contracts for deeds -- California -- Torrance 1
Deeds -- California -- Torrance 1
Education -- California 1
Education -- Political aspects 1
Family-owned business enterprises 1
Festivals 1
Festivals and events 1
Filipino Americans 1
Filipinos -- United States 1
Flower arrangement, Japanese 1
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Impressionism (Art) -- California, Southern -- Exhibitions 1
Industrial real estate -- California -- Torrance 1
Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History 1
Japanese American evacuation and resettlement 1
Japanese American families 1
Japanese American farmers -- Los Angeles 1
Japanese Americans -- California 1
Japanese language -- Study and teaching (Elementary) 1
Japanese language -- Study and teaching 1
Land grants -- California -- Torrance 1
Land use -- California, Southern 1
Landscape gardening 1
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Long Beach (Calif.) 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History 1
Maps 1
Nevada 1
Oil fields -- Valuation 1
Oil inspection 1
Oil wells -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Oil wells -- Maintenance and repair 1
Pacific Islander Americans 1
Painting -- California -- Exhibitions 1
Painting, American -- California, Southern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Periodicals 1
Petroleum industry and trade -- California 1
Photograph albums 1
Photographic prints 1
Photographs, original 1
Programs 1
Real estate business -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Real estate business -- California -- Torrance -- History 1
Real estate development -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Real estate development -- California -- Torrance -- History 1
Real estate transactions 1
Real property -- Valuation 1
Redondo Beach (Calif.) 1
Religion in the public schools 1
Residential real estate -- California -- Torrance 1
San Francisco (Calif.) 1
School districts 1
School integration 1
School superintendents 1
Senryu 1
Sex education 1
Shopping centers 1
Shopping malls 1
Shopping malls design 1
State boards of education 1
Student movements 1
Sumo 1
Terminal Island (Calif.) 1
Waka 1
Women in Buddhism 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese 1
Wrestlers 1
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Language
English 17
Japanese 8
Filipino; Pilipino 1
 
Names
Chanslor-Western Oil and Development Company 2
Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai. 南加福島県人会 2
Standard Oil Company of California 2
Amo, Gregorio del, 1858-1941 1
Bischoff, Franz 1
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Botke, Jessie Arms, 1883-1971 1
Braun, Maurice, 1877-1941 1
Brown, Benjamin Chambers, 1865-1942 1
Cabrero, Eugenio 1
California State University, Dominguez Hills. University Art Gallery 1
California. State Board of Education 1
California. Superintendent of Public Instruction 1
Claretian Missionaries 1
Clark, Alson Skinner, 1876-1949 1
Commons, Dorman L. 1
Curtis, Leland 1
Del Amo Estate Company 1
Del Amo Foundation 1
Del Amo Nurseries 1
Del Amo, Jaime 1
Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946 1
Dominguez Land Company 1
Dominguez Land Corporation 1
Filipinas Magazine 1
Forsythe, Vic, 1885-1962 1
Frost, John, 1890-1937 1
Gardena Valley Gardners Association 1
Gidra 1
Gila River Incarceration Camp 1
Gleason, J. Duncan (Joe Duncan), 1881-1959 1
Hansen, Armin C. (Armin-Carl), 1886-1957 1
Harris, Sam Hyde, 1889-1977 1
Hinkle, Clarence Kaiser 1
Ibanez, Florante Peter 1
Jerome Incarceration Camp 1
Johnson, Frank Tenney, 1874-1939 1
Kosa, Emil, 1903-1968 1
Los Angeles Unified School District 1
Nanka Hiroshima Kenjinkai 1
Nanka Mie Kenjinkai 1
Nanka Wakayama Kenjinkai 1
Neugass Saunders, Babette (Heller) 1
Nielsen, Peter 1
O’Melveny & Myers 1
Payne, Edgar A. (Edgar Alwin), 1882-1947 1
Philippine-American Los Angeles Democrats (PALAD) 1
Poston Incarceration Camp 1
Puthuff, Hanson Duvall 1
Remco-Real Estate Management Company 1
Rich, John Hubbard 1
Rungius, Carl, 1869-1959 1
San Pedro Ranch Nursery 1
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 1
Schofield, Walter Elmer, 1867-1944 1
Scott, Clyde Eugene 1
Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) 1
Shell Oil Company 1
Smith, Jack Wilkinson 1
Stern, Jean 1
Swinnerton, James Guifford 1
Takano, Itsuhei, 1887-1967 1
Title Insurance and Trust Company (1893-1968) 1
Union Oil Company of California 1
Wachtel, Marion Kavanagh, 1876-1954 1
Wada, Joe, 1930-2013 1
Wada, Kan, 1889-1974 1
Wada, Marion 1
Wada, Tomoji, 1882-1964 1
Welton Becket and Associates 1
Wendt, William, 1865-1946 1
White, Orrin A. 1
Whitely, John H. 1
Zimmerer, Kathy 1
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