Finding Aid to the La Casa de Aguirre of Santa Barbara, 1841-1884 MS.831
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 December 11
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: La Casa de Aguirre of Santa Barbara, 1841-1884
Creator:
Higgins, S. E. A. (Sarah Evelina Austin)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.831
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1896
Abstract: This collection contains a typed manuscript copy of
La Casa de Aguirre of Santa Barbara, 1841-1884 by S. E. A. Higgins, including copy prints of the photographs to be used in the publication. This collection also includes
a copy of the volume published by the Press of El Barbareno, Santa Barbara, California, 1896.
Language of Material:
English
.
Mrs. S. E. A. Higgins was for a reporter for the
Santa Barbara Independent newspaper for 15 years. She was also an officer for the Santa Barbara Grange, 1874; the Superintendent of Press Work, and
president, Santa Barbara County, W.C.T.U. of Southern California, 1888-89; and active in Pacific Coast Woman's Press Association,
1892. She coauthored a booklet of verse,
Flowers of the Sea, published 1895, and wrote the historical pamphlet
La Casa de Aguirre of Santa Barbara, 1841-1884, published in 1896.
Library has copy of the publication "La Casa De Aguirre of Santa Barbara, 1841-1884" at call number 979.491 H53c, 1896.
This collection contains a typed manuscript copy of
La Casa de Aguirre of Santa Barbara, 1841-1884 by S. E. A. Higgins, including copy prints of the photographs to be used in the publication. This collection also includes
a copy of the volume published by the Press of El Barbareno, Santa Barbara, California, 1896.
La Casa de Aguirre of Santa Barbara, 1841-1884, 1896, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.831.
Processed by Library staff before 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 December
11, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
The draft version of the manuscript was donated by Helen Kreidler, Hazel Harvey, and Elizabeth Mason, 1936 December. The published
version was added to this collection, 1973.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Typescripts
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Photographs