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Gillingham (Robert C.) Papers
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Series I: Compton 1932-1960

Physical Description: 6 folders

Scope and Contents

Materials in this series relate to Gillingham's research and writing on the history of Compton, including correspondence, notes, and a full manuscript of Yesterdays of Compton.
box 1, folder 1

Gillingham's correspondence with pioneers and notes on early Compton history 1932-1941

box 1, folder 2

History notes, Compton undated

box 1, folder 3

First City Ordinances of Compton undated

box 1, folder 4

Notes on Compton businesses and banks undated

box 1, folder 5

History of Compton Junior College (draft) 1960

box 1, folder 6

"Yesterdays of Compton", Original Manuscript December 18, 1934 - September 17, 1935; undated

Scope and Contents

Contains portions of the original manuscript of "Yesterday's of Compton" by R.C. Gillingham.

Contains:

  1. No. 11: "Recent Record of the Dominguez Estate Company Oil Development"
  2. No. 17: "The Name: Compton"
  3. No. 19: "Early Business Houses"
  4. No. 22: "Early Compton Settlers: The Morton Family"
  5. No. 24: The Earliest School Buildings in Compton"
  6. No. 27: "Early Business Houses of Compton"
  7. No. 28: "Other Early Business Houses of Compton"
  8. No. 29: "The Incorpoation of Company"
  9. No. 30: "The Re-Incorporation of Compton"
  10. No. 31: "The Founding of Hopewell Bapist Church"
  11. No. 32: "Original Landowners of Compton Townsite"
  12. No. 33: "History of Woodlawn Cemetery"
  13. No. 34: "Early Landowners in the Temple and Gibson Tract"
  14. No. 36: "Other Pioneer Landowners in Early Compton"
  15. No. 37: "History of Early Compton Newspapers"
  16. No. 38: "Recent History of Compton Newspaper"
  17. No 39: "History of the Compton Postoffice"
  18. No. 40: "Early History of Compton Grammar School"
  19. No. 41: "History of the Tamarind Street School"
  20. No. 42: "The Telephone System in Compton"
  21. No. 43: "Origins of Compton Street Names"
  22. No. 44: "The Catholic Church in Compton"
  23. No. 45: "The Beginnings of Compton Union High School"
  24. No. 46: "The Building of Compton Union High School"
  25. No. 47: "Later History of Compton Union High School"
  26. No. 48: "History of Masonry in Compton"
  27. No. 49: "Other Early Compton Landowners"
  28. No. 50: "Sidelights on Early Compton History"
  29. No. 51: "Other Compton History Sidelights"
  30. No. 52: "The Stores of Early Compton"
  31. No. 53: "History of the Pathfinder Club"
  32. No. 54: "Early History of the Pacific Electric Railway in Compton"
  33. No. 55: "Later History of the Pacific Electric Railway in Compton"
  34. No. 55: "The First Bank in Compton"
  35. No. 57: "Later History of Compton Banks"
  36. No. 58: "Chronology of Compton History"
  37. "The Coming of the Railroad"
  38. "The Pacific Eletric Railway"
 

Series II: Rancho San Pedro 1944-1983

Physical Description: 89 folders (1.75 boxes)

Scope and Contents

This series consists of notes, correspondence, and manuscript drafts of chapters and sections in The Rancho San Pedro.
 

Sub-Series A: Research and Notes circa 1934-1980

Physical Description: 27 folders

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, and research collected for The Rancho San Pedro.
box 1, folder 7

Correspondence from historians, Anita Watson, the Watson Land Company; research requests 1950-1980

box 1, folder 8

Dominguez Water Company correspondence, statistics and drafts 1944, 1957, 1959

box 1, folder 9

Background materials, from Rancho San Pedro book undated

box 1, folder 10

Chronology of the Rancho San Pedro and Dominguez Family undated

box 1, folder 11

Data and notes on Rancho San Pedro grant undated

box 1, folder 12

Data and notes on Rancho San Pedro sources undated

box 1, folder 13

"The Estate of Manuel Dominguez" circa 1934

box 1, folder 14

Evidence of prior grant of Rancho San Pedro undated

box 1, folder 15

Data on Rancho San Pedro floods undated

box 1, folder 16

Data on provision for 11-league grants undated

box 1, folder 17

Early draft of "Rancho San Pedro" undated

box 1, folder 18

Notated list of Los Angeles ranchos, 1889, typed copy undated

box 1, folder 19

Notes on legal documents undated

box 1, folder 20

Petition of Cristobal Dominguez - source list undated

box 1, folder 21

Petition Regarding Alleged daughter of Juan Jose Dominguez undated

box 1, folder 22

Notes on the Dominguez Homesite undated

box 1, folder 23

Notes on the Dominguez Homesite, Chronology undated

box 1, folder 24

The Story of the Dominguez Homesite undated

box 1, folder 25

Data on the Dominguez family and 19th century floods undated

box 1, folder 26

Documents on the Dominguez Family (Appendix III) undated

box 1, folder 27

Genealogy Notes undated

box 1, folder 28

Genealogy notes on Carson family undated

box 1, folder 29

Documents list, by year undated

box 1, folder 30

Watson Family chronology undated

box 1, folder 31

Watson Family Genealogical Index undated

box 1, folder 32

"History of the Rancho San Pedro" Undated

Language of Material: English.
box 1, folder 33

"Your Schools 67" November 1967

Language of Material: English.
box 2, folder 1

"History of the Watson Family - 4. The Partition of 1885" undated

box 3

Lecture on the history of the Rancho and the Dominguez Family for slide show (two cassette tapes and one reel-to-reel) 1977

 

Sub-Series B: Stories of the Rancho San Pedro undated

Physical Description: 59 folders

Scope and Contents

Drafts of chapters and sections from The Rancho San Pedro.
box 2, folder 2

List and foreword to "Stories of the Rancho San Pedro" series undated

box 2, folder 3

"Original Setting in California (1)" undated

box 2, folder 4

"Original Setting (2)" undated

box 2, folder 5

"The Name Dominguez (2)" undated

box 2, folder 6

"Spanish Occupation of California (2)" undated

box 2, folder 7

"The Name Dominguez (3)" undated

box 2, folder 8

"The Laws of the Indies (4)" undated

box 2, folder 9

"Rancho Grants in California (5)" - draft and final undated

box 2, folder 10

"Early Land Surveys and Records (6)" undated

box 2, folder 11

"Settlement of Rancho Titles (7)" undated

box 2, folder 12

"Juan Jose Dominguez: Soldado de Cuera (8)" undated

box 2, folder 13

"Original Grant of the Rancho San Pedro (8)" undated

box 2, folder 14

"Juan Jose Dominguez: Ranchero (9)" undated

box 2, folder 15

"The Will of Juan Jose Dominguez (11)" undated

box 2, folder 16

"The Career of Cristobal Dominguez (12)" undated

box 2, folder 17

"The Record of Manuel Gutierrez" (13) Undated

box 2, folder 18

"The Re-Grant of the Rancho (14)" undated

box 2, folder 19

"The Record of Manuel Dominguez (14)" undated

box 2, folder 20

"The Family of Cristobal Dominguez (15)" undated

box 2, folder 21

"Early Life of Manuel Dominguez (16)" undated

box 2, folder 22

"Manuel Dominguez: Mexican Official (17)" undated

box 2, folder 23

"The Argument Over Los Palos Verdes (18)" undated

box 2, folder 24

"Mexican War and the Constitutional Convention of California (19/20)" undated

box 2, folder 25

"Partitions and Sales of Rancho Lands (20)" undated

box 2, folder 26

"Other Sales of Dominguez Lands (23/24)" undated

box 2, folder 27

"The Claim of Nasario Dominguez (25)" undated

box 2, folder 28

"The McFarland Claim to the Rancho (26)" undated

box 2, folder 29

"The Petition for a Patent (27)" undated

box 2, folder 30

"Rancho Boundary Disputes (28)" undated

box 2, folder 31

"The Patent of the Rancho San Pedro (29)" undated

box 2, folder 32

"The Earlier Grazing Era on the Rancho (30)" undated

box 2, folder 33

"The Later Cattle and Sheep Era (31)" undated

box 2, folder 34

"Farming Activities on the Rancho (32)" undated

box 2, folder 35

"Farm Labor and Water Supply (33)" undated

box 2, folder 36

"Rancho Land Valuations (34)" undated

box 2, folder 37

"The Railroad through the Rancho (35)" undated

box 2, folder 38

"Completion of the Railroad (36)" undated

box 2, folder 39

"Interest and Tax Rates (37)" undated

box 2, folder 40

"Later Years of Manuel Dominguez (38)" undated

box 2, folder 41

"The Passing of Manuel Dominguez (39)" undated

box 2, folder 42

"The Estate of Manuel Dominguez (40)" undated

box 2, folder 43

"Later Sale of Dominguez Lands (42)" undated

box 2, folder 44

"The Older Daughters of Manuel Dominguez (43)" undated

box 2, folder 45

"The Family of Maria Victoria Dominguez (44)" undated

box 2, folder 46

"The Del Amo Family (45)" undated

box 2, folder 47

"Maria Jesus de los Reyes Dominguez (47)" undated

box 2, folder 48

"Dominguez Estate Company [and subdivisions] (48)" undated

box 2, folder 49

"Dominguez Water Company (49/52)" - drafts and final copy undated

box 2, folder 50

"Story of Dominguez Hill (50)" undated

box 2, folder 51

"Recent Sales of Rancho Lands" undated

box 2, folder 52

"Dominguez Water Corporation" (52) Undated

Language of Material: English.
box 2, folder 53

"Aviation Meet on Dominguez Hill (53)" undated

box 2, folder 54

"Results of Aviation Meet (54)" undated

box 2, folder 55

"Dominguez Estate Company" undated

box 2, folder 56

"The Sale of Redondo and Rattlesnake Island" undated

box 2, folder 57

"The Watson Family" undated

box 2, folder 58

"The Old Dominguez Homesite" undated

box 2, folder 59

"The Name: Dominguez (2)" undated

box 2, folder 60

"The Del Amo Family" undated

box 2, folder 61

"The George Carson Family" undated

box 2, folder 62

"Rancho Activities in the 19th Century" Undated

Language of Material: English.
box 2, folder 63

"The Watson Family (46)" undated

box 2, folder 64

"The Watson Family" undated

box 2, folder 65

"The Will of Manuel Dominguez" undated

box 2, folder 66

"The Dominguez Homesite on the Rancho San Pedro" undated

 

Sub-Series C: The Rancho San Pedro 1961-1963, 1981-1983

Physical Description: 3 folders

Scope and Contents

Correspondence on the publication of The Rancho San Pedro, including reviews and the second edition/reissue.
box 2, folder 63

Copyright, printing, reviews of "The Rancho San Pedro" 1961-1962

box 2, folder 64

Correspondence on "The Rancho San Pedro" 1961-1963

box 2, folder 65

Correspondence on the reissue of "The Rancho San Pedro" 1981-1983