Guide to the Muzza Eaton Collection
Special Collections & Archives
University Library
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8326
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Muzza Eaton Collection
Creator:
Eaton, Muzza
Identifier/Call Number: OCH.MUE
Extent:
2.16 Gigabytes
Date (inclusive): 1930-1946
Abstract: The Muzza Eaton Collection documents
the lives of Muzza Rosenstein and her Russian emigrant family in Harbin, Dairen, and
Shanghai, China before they moved to the United States after World War II.
Language of Material: English, Chinese,
Russian
Biographical / Historical
Muzza Eaton was born in September 1930 in Harbin to Russian parents Osher Mendeley
Rosenstein and Polina Alexeevna Bykova. Her mother's name was changed to Lea Abramovna after
she converted to her husband's Jewish faith. Eaton lived in Harbin for six years, where her
father was part owner of the Palace Hotel. Her younger brother Mark Rand was also born in
Harbin. The family moved to Dairen, and she began school at the Maryknoll Academy. The
family then moved to Shanghai in 1939, where she attended the Public and Thomas Hanbury
School for Girls and the Shanghai Jewish School. In 1946 she moved to the United States to
attend Simmons College in Boston.
Scope and Contents
The Muzza Eaton Collection contains family photographs, correspondence, school records from
Public and Thomas Hanbury School for Girls and Shanghai Jewish School, Belmont Apartments
rental records, business records, and vaccination and immigration records. The family first
moved from Russia to Harbin, and later lived in Dairen and Shanghai. Most of the collection
relates to the Rosenstein family's daily life and work in Shanghai before they immigrated to
the United States.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Muzza Eaton, 2012
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual,
or see the
Citing Archival Materials
guide.
Processing Information
Mallory Furnier, 2020
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Documents
Ephemera
Photographs
Digital Folder
Belmont Apartments Rental,
1944-1945
Digital Folder
Business Records,
1944-1947
Digital Folder
Dairen Family Photographs,
1936-1941
Digital Folder
Harbin Family Photographs,
1930-1938
Digital Folder
Maryknoll Academy,
ca. 1936-1939
Digital Folder
Public and Thomas Hanbury School for Girls,
1940-1942
Digital Folder
Rosenstein Family Photographs,
ca. 1930-1939
Digital Folder
Rosenstein Family Vital Documents,
1936
Digital Folder
Rosenstein Immigration Documents,
1946-1953
Digital Folder
Rosenstein, Muzza Birth Certificate,
1949
Digital Folder
Rosenstein, Muzza Correspondence,
ca. 1947
Digital Folder
Rosenstein, Muzza Foreign Resident Certificate,
ca. 1939-1946
Digital Folder
Rosenstein, Muzza Vaccination Records,
1946
Digital Folder
Rosenstein, Osher Correspondence
Digital Folder
Shanghai Ashkenazi Jewish Communal Association,
1947
Digital Folder
Shanghai Family Photographs,
1945
Digital Folder
Shanghai Jewish School,
1943-1950
Digital Folder
USS General M.C. Meigs,
ca. 1946
