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Terminal Island (Calif.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Judson Grenier Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2007-002
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs used by Dr. Judson Grenier of California State Dominguez Hills for educational and research purposes. Photographs of paintings, dioramas, landscapes, and people depict the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area from its foundation through the 1980s.

Dates: 1870-1980

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

Dale Ann Sato Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-011
Abstract The Dale Ann Sato Collection documents the progression of research and preparation for four projects to which oral historian and educator Dale Ann Sato contributed. Initial research and interviews were recorded for community Nisei oral histories, which led to her contribution to the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP). The findings of the initial research also led to the Japanese American Historical Mapping Project (JAHMP), which paved the way for an Arcadia...
Dates: 1800-2012; undated; Majority of material found within 1930-2008

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 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

Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-036
Abstract

The Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection features one transcribed oral history, one autobiography, and one possible rough draft edition of a book entitled, "Terminal Island: An Island in Time, Collection of Personal Histories of Former Islanders 1994-1995". All of the materials in this are available online.

Dates: 1994-1995

Terminal Island/Port of Los Angeles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-042
Abstract

This collection contains of over 400 black-and-white negatives and photographic prints of Terminal Island, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, Port Hueneme, and Catalina Island, taken between 1938 and 1947. Photographs include businesses, residences, airports, warehouses, coastlines, railroads, and neighborhoods. The collection has been digitized and most of the material is available online.

Dates: 1938-December 1947

Tomoji Wada Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-029
Abstract This collection contains materials regarding Tomoji Wada’s business on Terminal Island, California, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Included are taxes, receipts of expenses, and ledgers, receipts for his donations to Japanese American organizations, photographs, journals, notebooks, books, a metal seal stamp for Terminal Island Credit Union, immigration documents of Tomoji and Kan Wada, WRA documents, and wood carving tools and...
Dates: 1903-2016; undated

Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-010
Abstract

The Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka photographs collection (1916-1990, bulk 1937-1941) includes digital reproductions of family photographs primarily documenting the life of Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka in the years before, during, and after World War II. The collection also includes digital reproductions of a short essay written by Hatsuko Mary Yoshioka Higuchi, redress papers, and a handout from a sewing class at Poston Incarceration Camp. All materials in this collection are digital reproductions.

Dates: 1916-1990; Majority of material found within 1937-1941