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SOUTH BAY PHOTO COLLECTION,
circa 1880-1967
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Title: South Bay Photo Collection
Dates: circa 1880-1967
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Collector:
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Extent:
520 photos
7 linear feet
10 boxes
Repository: California State University, Dominguez Hills
Archives and Special Collections
Archives & Special Collection
University Library, Room G-145
1000 E. Victoria Street
Carson, California 90747
Phone: (310) 243-3013
URL: http://archives.csudh.edu/
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.
Language: Collection material is in English
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Title of item], South Bay Photo Collection, Courtesy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections. University Library.
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Photos were acquired over many years through donations and collecting by Archives staff.
The South Bay Photos Collection was created from the photographs originally collected in the Compton History Collection, the
Heritage House Collection, and the South Bay History Collection. Many of the photos are assumed to be from the collections
of Robert Gillingham and other local historians of Compton and the South Bay. These photographs were then arranged to parallel
the South Bay History and Compton History Collections.
The South Bay is defined in this collection as the area south of the Los Angeles International Airport and the Glenn Anderson
Freeway (CA 105) and west of the San Gabriel River Freeway (CA 605). Generally, the cities in this collection are within the
borders of the Rancho San Pedro land grant, made in 1784.
The collection covers all areas of the South Bay, as well as communities in the Los Angeles area, including Glendale, Burbank,
Santa Monica, and downtown Los Angeles. A majority of the photos 5x7 or 8x10 in black and white. Many of the photographs of
people are professional portraits, including two tin-types. Most of the negatives have been created from the photographs and
are not original film. All of the aerial photos were shot professionally, the second set being created by Pacific Air Industries.
Arrangement
The collection has been organized into 12 series:
- Series I. Carson, circa 1944
- Series II. Compton, circa 1880-1967
- Series III. Dominguez, no dates
- Series IV. Lakewood, 1945
- Series V. Lynwood, 1913, 1921, 1926, 1928
- Series VI. Palos Verdes, circa 1920s, no date
- Series VII. Redondo Beach, circa 1880-1925
- Series VIII. Regional, 1932-1959
- Series IX. San Pedro, 1883-1932
- Series X. Terminal Island, 1933
- Series XI. Torrance, 1902, 1910, 1924
- Series XII. Wilmington, circa 1880s, no date
Carson (Calif.)
Compton (Calif.)
Dominguez Hills (Calif.)
Lakewood (Calif.)
Lynwood (Calif.)
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.)
Rancho Palos Verdes (Calif.)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Terminal Island (Calif.)
Torrance (Calif.)
Wilmington (Calif.)
Agriculture--Farm Produce
Agriculture--Harvesting
Earthquake damages
Methodist Church--Buildings
Public schools--California--Compton
Public buildings--California--Compton
- Compton History Collection
- Heritage House Collection
- Robert C. Gillingham Working Papers Collection
- South Bay History Collection