Muzza Eaton Collection, 1930-1946

Summary

Creators:

Eaton, Muzza

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.

Extent:

2.16 Gigabytes

Language:

English, Chinese, Russian

Preferred citation:

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Background

Scope and content:

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.

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.

Acquisition information:

Muzza Eaton, 2012

Processing information:

Mallory Furnier, 2020

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Documents
Ephemera
Photographs

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.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.

Preferred citation:

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Location of this collection:

California State University, Northridge, Old China Hands Archives

18111 Nordhoff Street

Northridge, CA 91330, US

Contact:

(818) 677-4594

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