Guide to the Get Oil Out! (GOO!) collection SBHC Mss 10
Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision D. Tambo; 2016 addition arranged and
described by Wyatt Young, 2017.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
2016; 2017
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
Phone Number: (805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Title: Get Oil Out! (GOO!) collection
Creator:
Get Oil Out!
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 10
Physical Description:
36.2 Linear Feet
(75 document boxes, 4 flat oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1969-2014
Abstract: Office files (bylaws, minutes, fundraising, publications, newsletters), governmental action, legal, and subject files, mainly
pertaining to efforts to contain and monitor oil industry off coast of Santa Barbara, especially in the aftermath of the 1969
Santa Barbara Oil Spill.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Language of Material:
English
.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Get Oil Out! (GOO!) Collection, SBHC Mss 10. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Multiple donations by GOO!, ca. 1989, 1994, 2016.
Scope and Content
The collection primarily contains files on oil-related issues stemming from the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill. Materials are
grouped into the following series:
Series:
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Government Action/Response (Boxes 1-15) - local, state, federal, including hearings, reports, and legislation.
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Lawsuits/Legal Action (Boxes 16-20) - mainly court records and related material re lawsuits GOO was involved in or was monitoring.
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Office Files (Boxes 21-27) - including bylaws, minutes, fundraising, mailings, membership, newsletters, and publications.
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Subject Files (Boxes 28-71) - the largest part of the collection, arranged alphabetically.
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2016 Addition (Boxes 72-76) - GOO! Office files and historical photographs (prints and slides), mainly of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill.
Published materials, such as Environmental Impact Reports, have been transferred to the UCSB Libraries Government Information
Center (GIC). They have been cataloged and may be searched in the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
This collection has received preliminary processing only. A brief container list is available.
Related Collections at UCSB Library Special Research Collections
List of Collections
- California Coastal Commission Collection (SBHC Mss 39)
- George Clyde Scrapbooks (SBHC Mss 53)
- County Resource Management Office (CRMO) Collection (SBHC Mss 25)
- Robert O. Easton Collection (SBHC Mss 6)
- Oil Spill Information Center (OSIC) Collection (SBHC Mss 11)
- William Whitehill Rand Papers (SBHC Mss 46)
- Ruth Saadi Collection (SBHC Mss 14)
- Santa Barbara Oil Spill Scrapbook (SBHC Mss 52)
- Robert C. Sharp Collection (SBHC Mss 7)
- Robert Sollen Collection (SBHC Mss 33)
- Harriette Von Breton Papers (SBHC Mss 8)
- Weigand, et al, v. County, et al (Channel Island Drilling) Collection (SBHC Mss 31)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Offshore oil industry -- Government policy -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Offshore oil and gas leases -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Oil spills -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Environmental policy -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Environmental justice
Administrative records
Newsletters
Organization files
Photographs
Publications (documents)
Records (documents)
Reports
Get Oil Out! -- Archives
box 1, box 2, box 3, box 4, box 5, box 6, box 7, box 8, box 9, box 10, box 11, box 12, box 13, box 14, box 15
Government Action / Response
Scope and Contents note
Local, state, federal; includes hearings, reports, legislation
box 16, box 17, box 18, box 19, box 20
Lawsuits / Legal Action
Scope and Contents note
Mainly court records and related material re lawsuits GOO was involved in or was monitoring
box 21, box 22, box 23, box 24, box 25, box 26, box 27
Office Files
Scope and Contents note
Incl. bylaws, minutes, fundraising, mailings, membership, newsletters, publications
box 28, box 29, box 30
A (incl. air quality, Alaska pipeline)
box 34, box 35
B-C (incl. blowout report, Burmah Oil and Gas, Channel oil activities, Coastal Commission, Coastal Plan, coastal protection)
box 40, box 41, box 42, box 43
box 45, box 46
J-L (incl. Japan, Korea, LNG, Local Coastal Plan, Los Padres National Forest)
box 47, box 48
M (incl. maps, marine sanctuary, marine terminal facilities)
box 48, box 49
N (incl. natural gas, natural seeps, North Sea oil, Norway)
box 49
O (incl. Oceanic Society)
box 50, box 51
OCS (Outer Continental Shelf)
box 52, box 53, box 54
Offshore (incl. Alabama, California, and other countries such as Australia, China, Japan)
box 55, box 56
A-M (incl. depletion allowances, export laws, fact sheets, imports)
box 56, box 57
O (incl. oil projects, oil reserves, oil sands, oil shale, ordinances)
box 58
S-T (incl. shortages, sources, supply, tax)
box 60, box 61, box 62, box 63
P (incl. Phillips PRC, pipelines, Planning Commission, platforms, policy, politics)
box 64
R (incl. recycling, refineries, refining)
box 65, box 66, box 67, box 68
S (incl. Santa Barbara Oil Spill, Save Our Shores, seismic survey, Lois Sidenberg, Robert Sollen, South Coast Consolidation,
speeches, Standard, State Oil and Gas Board, Stearns Wharf, superports, supertankers)
box 68
T (incl. tankers and tanker traffic, tar on beaches, Texaco pipeline, toxic waste, Katherine Tremaine)
box 69, box 70
U (incl. Unocal, US Coast Guard, USGS)
box 71
V-Z (incl. Vandenberg AFB, vessel traffic, wastewater use for oil production, water resources, wilderness areas leasing)
2016 Addition
Scope and Content
This addition contains office files, comprising newsletters, mailers, mission statement and outreach documents, clippings
and scrapbooks, correspondence, board minutes, as well historical photographs (prints and slides) of the 1969 Santa Barbara
oil spill. Included in this series is a collection of 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill photographs taken by Santa Barbara area
writer and conservationist Dick Smith (1920-1977).
Office Files
1969-2014
Scope and Content
Materials include correspondence, clippings and cartoons relating to the oil spill, Board of Directors platform, policy and
mission statements, mailers, and petitions, newsletters, congressional and city (Goleta) certificates of recognition, Un-Oil
Stock (novelty mock-up shares), song sheets, anniversary and celebratory materials,
Davey and the Giant Oil Monster children's book mock-up, by Bud Bottoms.
box 72, folder 1
Geology of Platform A blowout
1969
box 72, folder 2
City of Goleta, Certificate of Special Recognition
2009 January 30
box 72, folder 3
Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition, signed by Lois Capps
1999 January 30
box 72, folder 4
County of Santa Barbara Certificate of Recognition
2014 August 6
box 72, folder 5
Davey and the Giant Oil Monster, by Bud Bottoms
circa 1990s
box 72, folder 7
Anniversary and celebratory materials
box 72, folder 9
GOO! mission statement, bylaws, fundraising and outreach
box 72, folder 10
GOO! Newsletter
1995-1997
box 72, folder 11
GOO! Newseltter
1996-1997
box 72, folder 13
Platform planks and flyers
1972-2004
box 72, folder 15
Point Conception preservation reports clippings and letters regarding oil
box 72, folder 16
Un-Oil stock (novelty mock-up share)
box 73, folder 1
Cartoons related to the oil spill
circa 1969
box 73, folder 2
Clippings (oil spill, Unocal)
box 73, folder 3
Unfiled correspondence, legal material, and Board of Directors material
Photographs
approximately 1969-2000s
Scope and Content
Oil spill aftermath, clean up, and demonstrations
Scrapbooks
circa 1969
Dimensions: Ring-bound, 24" high x 18" wide
Scope and Content
Two large scrapbooks containing clippings from the Santa Barbara News-Press covering the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill.
Dick Smith
Creator: Smith, Dick (1920-1977)
Scope and Content
Photographs taken by Dick Smith (1920-1977) of the aftermath of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, including aerial photographs,
clean up crews on Santa Barbara beaches (Santa Barbara News Press), oil covered animals, including bird and sea Lions, oil
derricks from the channel, coastlines, and other photographs attributed to Dick Smith (Santa Barbara News Press)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Photographs separated from the Dick Smith Collection (SBHC Mss 56).
flat-oversize 77
Oil spill aftermath photographs
1969
flat-oversize 75, flat-oversize 76
Oil spill aftermath photographs (oversize)
1969