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California State University, Dominguez Hills is located in Carson, a city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County. Conceived in 1960 to serve the booming postwar population of the South Bay area, the institution opened as California State College, Palos Verdes in 1965, with classes held on the second floor of a bank building. The college soon moved, first to the temporary Watt Campus, and finally to a permanent site on Dominguez Hill, land which was once part of the historic Rancho San Pedro. The college was renamed California State College, Dominguez Hills, with the first classes held on the permanent site in October, 1968. The college was granted university status in 1977.

This collection contains digitized photographs, slides, negatives, clippings, and architectural drawings representing the school’s history from 1960 to the present. It includes images of the different campuses, buildings and their construction, the presidents, administrators, faculty, benefactors and students who have been associated with the university over the years.

The Yearbooks and Publications section contains scanned pages of all campus yearbooks. The first yearbook, Los Gitanos, was published in 1966, and future editions were published intermittently under different names through the 1990s. The Publications section also contains an online version of The Rainbow Years, a history of the university's first twenty-five years, written by Judson Grenier, historian and History Professor Emeritus at CSU Dominguez Hills.

View all yearbooks and publications by clicking on the Yearbooks and Historical Publications link (below). To view the annuals, click on Yearbooks or type Yearbooks as a search term in the box at the top right. Click on Rainbow Years to view that publication.

To view the photographs, choose a subject (linked below), browse the collection, or enter a search term in the box in the top right. You can also find a list of topics and perform a search from the Topics page.
Table Tennis
Watt Campus
Hard Hat President
Campus & Buildings
Gerth and Cain
Presidents & Dignitaries
Charnofsky with students
Faculty & Staff
Goders with art student
Classrooms
Toro batter
Athletics
Multicultural group
Students
Four graduates
Commencement & Events
Yearbook cover
Yearbooks & Historical Publications


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