Subject and Biographical Files Subject Index

Collection of typed and handwritten cards compiled by Local History Center staff and volunteers indexing local and area newspapers and magazines including the Palos Verdes Peninsula News, Daily Breeze, Los Angeles Times, Palos Verdes Social Review, Palos Verdes Review, San Pedro News Pilot, Peninsula Magazine and Peninsula People.  Collection also includes brochures, miscellaneous reports, etc. This index was the primary finding aid for the Local History Center. 

While material is being added to the Subject and Biographical files, index cards were no longer created after 2012.  New material added to ArchivesSpace.

Early indexes include abbreviations based on paper or magazine names: South Bay Daily Breeze (DB), Hollywood Riviera Review (HRR), Los Angeles Times (LAT), Peninsula Breeze (PB), Palos Verdes News (PVN), San Pedro News Pilot (SPN) and Westways (WW).  

This Subject Index indexes Local History Collection 013 Subject and Biographical Files as well as Point Vicente Docent Papers.  Biographical material filed in individual folders by name or in an A-Z run of folders called Biography.  Cards referring to Obituary consolidated into the Biography folders or in individual folder by name of individual. 

Consists of twelve drawers A-Z of index cards.  The cards have been reproduced as they appear in the card catalog drawer. 

Digitization by Local History Center volunteers.