Descriptive Summary
Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: California Photograph Collection
Dates: 1870s-1950s
Bulk Dates: early 1900s
Collection number: Mss 252
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: The collection contains 98 mainly black and white photographs, including cabinet cards, cartes de visité, picture postcards,
snapshots, a stereocard, and tintypes, loose and in a partially dissembled album.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages:
English
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
California Photograph Collection. Mss 252. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2007.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 98 mainly black and white photographs, including cabinet cards, cartes de visité, picture postcards,
snapshots, a stereocard, and tintypes, loose and in a partially dissembled album. The photographs may have been compiled
by Mrs. Percy W. [Georgie] Stebbins, who lived in several California locations, and who is the recipient of several of the
postcards. The album contains images of rural/farm scenes, residential streets, children, young adults, palm trees, parade,
early 20c automobiles; locations include Los Angeles and Visalia. Also, loose photographs of the Bower, Childs, Eakin, Lavelle,
and Lloyd families, as well as other unidentified possible family members; and commercial photographs from firms in California
(including Berkeley, Tulare, and Ventura), Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, and Vermont.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
California--Pictorial works.
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Visalia (Calif.)