Box 1
Container
Contains 17 Results:
Photographs of Compton in the aftermath of the 1933 Long Beach, California, earthquake, 1933 March 10
Series — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content
23 items.
Dates:
1933 March 10
Letters to the Editor
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Content
Clippings of Letters to the Editor written by John A. Sanborn and published in the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Clippings deal primarily with Long Beach civic issues, including sewage drainage and the build-up of the Port of Long Beach. (25 items.)
Dates:
1909 - 1942
Articles about health and religion
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Content
Clippings about health and religion. Many of the clippings were taken from Sanborn's diaries and are marked on the back with the day from which they were taken.
Dates:
1909 - 1942
Articles about the 1933 earthquake
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Content
Clippings of the coverage of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. (10 items)
Dates:
1909 - 1942
Articles about state and national affairs
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Content
Clippings about state and national affairs. (27 items)
Dates:
1909 - 1942
Articles about people and places of Southern California, primarily Compton and Covina, California and inspirational and poetry columns.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Content
Clippings about people and places of Southern California, primarily Compton and Covina, California and of inspirational and poetry columns. (49 items)
Dates:
1909 - 1942
Ticket to Los Angeles Olympic Games, 1932 August 4
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This collection contains the diaries kept by John A. Sanborn, a farmer and resident of Covina and Compton, California, for the years 1909-1942. For every day from January 1, 1909, until his death on July 24, 1942, Sanborn kept a brief record of his cash account, the weather and his activities. Most of the clippings and other ephemera found in the diaries have been separated into subject files and annotated with the date by which they were found. Included in the collection are clippings...
Dates:
1932 August 4
Birthday Postcard
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This collection contains the diaries kept by John A. Sanborn, a farmer and resident of Covina and Compton, California, for the years 1909-1942. For every day from January 1, 1909, until his death on July 24, 1942, Sanborn kept a brief record of his cash account, the weather and his activities. Most of the clippings and other ephemera found in the diaries have been separated into subject files and annotated with the date by which they were found. Included in the collection are clippings...
Dates:
1909 - 1942
Father's Day card
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This collection contains the diaries kept by John A. Sanborn, a farmer and resident of Covina and Compton, California, for the years 1909-1942. For every day from January 1, 1909, until his death on July 24, 1942, Sanborn kept a brief record of his cash account, the weather and his activities. Most of the clippings and other ephemera found in the diaries have been separated into subject files and annotated with the date by which they were found. Included in the collection are clippings...
Dates:
1909 - 1942