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Conway (Joel) / Flying A Studio photograph collection
SBHC Mss 78
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Title: Joel Conway / Flying A Studio photograph collection
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 78
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
18 linear feet
(33 document and shoeboxes, 3 flat oversize boxes, 1 album, 1 audiocassette)
Creator:
Conway, Joel
source:
American Film Manufacturing Company
Date (inclusive): approximately 1910-1997
Date (bulk): 1910-1919
Abstract: The collection mainly contains black-and-white prints and negatives relating to the Flying A Studios (aka American Film Manufacturing
Company), a film company that operated in Santa Barbara (1912-1920), as well as supporting documentation.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Joel Conway / Flying A Studio photograph collection, SBHC Mss 78. Department of Special Research
Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift from Pat Eagle-Schnetzer and Ronald Conway, and purchase from Joan Cota (Conway children), 2009.
The collection mainly contains black-and-white prints and negatives relating to the Flying A Studios (aka American Film Manufacturing
Company), a film company that operated in Santa Barbara (1912-1920), as well as supporting documentation. The collection materials
were acquired by Joel Conway from various sources, including the abandoned studio. Conway was a photographer who had come
from Chicago and who collected a large number of photographs over the years, including many with a Santa Barbara focus. He
also took photographs and made large numbers of copy negatives and prints. He sold enlargements of Santa Barbara images to
local customers and some of those enlargements can be found on the walls of places like Harry's Plaza Café in Loreto Plaza
Shopping Center, Santa Barbara.
The collection is divided into the following series: Series 1. General. Includes documentation by and about Flying A Studio
(Boxes 1-2). Series 2. Original Photographic Prints (Boxes 3-4). Series 3. Copy Prints and Other (Boxes 5-7). Series 4. Glass
Negatives (Boxes 8-33). Series 5. Film Negatives. Original and copy negatives (Boxes 34-36). Series 6. Audiovisual.
Related Archival Material at UCSB
Joel Conway / Early California Aviation Photograph Collection, SBHC Mss 79. About 400 separate images (many copy negatives
and copy prints) compiled by Santa Barbara photographer Joel Conway, the bulk relating to the aviation activities of the Christofferson
brothers and the Loughead (Lockheed) Aviation Company (headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA for a time in the 1910s), most depicting
early California aviation history, many related to Santa Barbara. Includes images of Flying A Studio actresses Mary Miles
Minter and Audrey Munson.
Joel Conway oral history, OH 30.
Joel Conway society photographs, SC 1163. Eleven negatives and one print of society photographs taken by Joel Conway Studios,
Santa Barbara, California (1945).
The Flying A [Studio], SC 984. Circular for the American Film Manufacturing Co. (Chicago), distributed by Film Supply Company
of America, [1912]. Includes: "Daughters of Señor Lopaz," "The Power of Love," "Nell of the Pampas," and "The Heart of a Soldier."
[4] p.
Walter A. Tompkins collection, SBHC Mss 18 (in Oversize Photographs - Panoramas). Santa Barbara National Guard, in old Flying
A Studio, 1936 (1 item).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Motion picture industry -- California -- Santa Barbara -- History
Audiovisual materials
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white photographs
Copy prints
Glass plate negatives
Conway, Joel -- Archives
American Film Manufacturing Company
American Film Manufacturing Company