Guide to the Mabel Haynes Collection
Special Collections & Archives
University Library
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8326
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Mabel Haynes Collection
Creator:
Haynes, Mabel, 1918-
Identifier/Call Number: OCH.MBH
Extent:
0.21 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1943-2001
Abstract: Mabel Haynes was born in Shanghai in
1918, and lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong until 1949, when she and her husband
fled from the new Communist regime. The collection consists of items collected by Haynes
related to Shanghai and the Old China Hands experience, including correspondence, articles,
and photographs.
Language of Material: English,
French
Biographical Information:
Mabel (Bloomfield) Haynes was born in Shanghai in 1918, to a British-Jewish father and a
Japanese mother. She was one of six children, and attended the Shanghai Jewish School and
the Public School for Girls on Yu Yuen Road. After graduating, Haynes began working at
Andersen, Meyer & Company, a company that represented various manufacturers in China.
She worked in their Hong Kong office for three years, before returning to Shanghai in 1941
to be closer to her family in the wake of World War II. As a British citizen, she lost her
job when the Japanese invaded Shanghai, and was eventually sent to the Lunghwa internment
camp along with two of her siblings in August of 1944. After the camps were liberated she
worked as a secretary for the American military, and got married. She and her husband stayed
in Shanghai until the Communists took over in 1949, whereupon they moved to Australia, and
eventually ended up in Los Angeles, California. Haynes has remained active in the Old China
Hands community, even helping put on an Old China Hands reunion in Anaheim in 1996.
Scope and Contents
The
Mabel Haynes Collection consists of items collected by
Haynes related to Shanghai and the Old China Hands experience. This includes correspondence
and articles on aspects of life in Shanghai like the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, Japanese
internment camps and the Jewish community, as well as articles on modern Shanghai and its
economic development. The collection also includes photocopied and original pictorials of
historic Shanghai, and correspondence, photographs, and articles related to the Jewish
organization, Igud Yotzei Sin.
Conditions Governing Access:
The 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
Mabel Haynes, Rose Horowitz.
Preferred Citation:
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual,
or see the
Citing Archival Materials
guide.
Processing Information:
Jessica Geiser, 2013
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Documents
Photographs
Box 1, Folder 1
Benis M. Frank Correspondence and Articles on the Shanghai Volunteer
Corps,
1991-2001
Box 1, Folder 2
Igud Yotzei Sin Bulletin Articles,
1996, 1998
Box 1, Folder 3
Igud Yotzei Sin Kadoorie Memorial Fund,
1996-1997
Box 1, Folder 4
Articles on Japanese Internment Camps in China,
1943-1945
Box 1, Folder 5
Articles on Shanghai and its Jewish Community
Box 1, Folder 6
Articles on Pudong, Shanghai,
1998
Box 1, Folder 7
Photographs of Shanghai - Web Print-outs,
1998
Box 1, Folder 8
Photocopied Pictorials of Shanghai
Box 1, Folder 9
"Made in China" -
Flaunt Magazine,
March 1999
Box 1, Folder 10
Contact List - 3 1/2" Floppy Disk (PC)