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Preliminary Guide to the Joel Conway / Flying A Studio Photograph Collection
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Title: Joel Conway / Flying A Studio Photograph Collection
Dates: ca. 1910s-1997
Bulk Dates: 1910s
Collection number: SBHC Mss 78
Creator:
Conway, Joel
Collection Size:
15 linear feet
(33 documents and smaller boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 unboxed binder).
Online items available.
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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.
Physical location: Boxes 1, unboxed binder (3), 4-5, 8-36 (Del Sur); Boxes 2, 6-7 (Del Sur Oversize); audiotape (Annex 2).
Languages:
English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special 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.
Joel Conway / Flying A Studio Collection. SBHC Mss 78. Department of Special Collections, Davidson 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.
Arrangement
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. Audiocassette.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
American Film Manufacturing Company
Conway, Joel
Motion picture industry--California--Santa Barbara--History.
Conway [Joel] / Early California Aviation Photograph Collection, ca. 1909-1950s [bulk dates 1910s]. 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. actresses Mary Miles Minter and Audrey Munson. (SBHC Mss 79).
The Flying A [Studio].
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. (SC 984).
Tompkins (Walker A.) Collection. Santa Barbara National Guard, in old Flying A Studio, 1936 (1 item). Oversize Photographs - Panoramas [Map Cabinet 20/8].
(SBHC Mss 18).