Preliminary Guide to the James B. Storer Papers
Processed by Special Collections staff; latest revision, D. Tambo
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Guide to the James B. Storer Papers, ca. 1834-1890
Collection number: Wyles Mss 77
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff; latest revision, D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
-
22 October 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: James B. Storer Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1834-1890
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 77
Extent:
.3 linear feet
(1 half-size document box and 1 oversize folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur and Map Cabinet 1/6
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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
James B. Storer Papers. Wyles Mss 77. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains an 1834 book of common prayer (given to James B. Storer by his father in 1844). photographs of Storer
and his family, an 1853-1866 diary (Storer was in California during the Civil War), an 1866 commission in the California national
guard, and later bills and receipts (Riverhead, Long Island, New York), ca. 1872-1890.
Box 1: 1
Bills and Receipts, ca. 1872 - 1890
Abstract: [Some addressed to Mrs. Ann M. Storer, Riverhead, Long Island, New York]
Box 1: 2
Book of Common Prayer, 1834
Abstract: [Given to Storer by his father in 1844]
Box 1: 3
Diary, 1853 - 1866
Abstract: [First entry, April 5, 1853, enroute to California; in California during the Civil War; 1866 to New York - most entries very
brief, indicating where he was or where he was heading]
Box 1: 4
Cabinet card (in horse-drawn carriage), Stockton, CA, 1880
Box 1: 4
Carte de visite (in uniform), 1864
Box 1: 4
Lithograph - from a photograph taken in 1874, 1874
Box 1: 4
Oval portrait (in uniform), San Francisco, 1864
Box 1: 5
Family - 9 images, unidentified, some from Brooklyn and Riverhead studios, n.d.
Box 1: 6
[Map drawer 1/6] Commission as Lieutenant Colonel, Second Infantry Regiment, Second Brigade, National Guard, State of California,
Oct. 2, 1866
Abstract: [Signed by the Governor, Secretary of State, and Adjutant General of California]
Box 1: 6
[Map drawer 1/6] Photograph of officers of Washington Guard, C.M. (incl. Capt. J. B. Storer), ca. 1860s
Box 1: 6
Oversize (in map cabinet)
