Hazard-Dyson Collection, ca. 1860-1905, 1865-1905

Summary

Title:

Hazard-Dyson Collection, ca. 1860-1905

Dates:

1865-1905

Creators:

Hazard, George W. (George Washington), 1842-1914 Dyson, Verne, 1879-

Abstract:

Extent:

1.25 linear feet (Boxes: 3 letter, ov folders in mc-14)

Language:

Preferred citation:

Hazard-Dyson Collection, ca. 1860-1905. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Background

Scope and content:

Views of Los Angeles and environs collected by George W. Hazard and subsequently by Verne Dyson. See also panorama prints in mc-14.

Biographical / historical:

From: Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1914: George W. Hazard (1842-1914) was a historian who spent a lifetime compiling a history of his adopted city of Los Angeles. Born in Evanston, Illinois, he came to the city with his family in 1853. His brother, Henry T. Hazard, was city mayor. Hazard's historical research led him to amass the photograph collection. While Verne Dyson was preparing Hazard's book for publication, Hazard died before his goal was realized. From UCLA Dept. of Special Collections' Verne Dyson Papers, 1914-1962: Hazard began compiling his extensive collection of photographs of historical persons and places relating to the history of Los Angeles in the 1880s, which he planned to use in writing his "History of Los Angeles and vicinity." When Hazard died in 1914, Verne Dyson, a writer for the Los Angeles Times and manager of the Pasadena News Bureau, purchased the collection from the Hazard family. Dyson continued to add to the collection, with the intention of finishing and producing Hazard's work. Although Dyson did complete a manuscript (now in the Verne Dyson Papers, 1914-1962 (Collection 804) in UCLA Dept. of Special Collections), and issued a 30-p. prospectus for the work in 1914, it was never published. Verne Dyson (1879- ) was a feature writer for the Kansas City Star (1907), and joined the staff of the Los Angeles Times as manager of the Pasadena news bureau and Sunday editor. At the end of World War I, he went to Shanghai, China to become dean of Williams College. In 1921, he became professor of English and Chinese history at the University of the Philippines in Manila and helped to found the Philippine Academy of Social Sciences. The collection at UCLA consists of correspondence, research notes, unpublished manuscripts, books, pamphlets, clippings, maps, articles, scrapbooks, student compositions, photographs, postcards, and original prints of Verne Dyson, American journalist, teacher and author.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Finding aid created by Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County staff.

Date Prepared:

1865-1905

Date Encoded:

This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

Restrictions:

Research is by appointment only

Terms of access:

Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder

Preferred citation:

Hazard-Dyson Collection, ca. 1860-1905. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Location of this collection:

Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

900 Exposition Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90007-4057, US

Contact:

(213) 763-3359

seavercenter@nhm.org

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