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Finding Aid for the Santa Barbara Community Arts Association records, circa 1922-circa 1935
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Title: Santa Barbara Community Arts Association records
Identifier/Call Number: 0000172
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
31.22 Linear feet
(5 half record storage boxes, 4 oversize boxes and 4 flat file drawers)
Date (inclusive): 1915-1955
Location note: Box 1-6/ADC - regular Box 7-8/ADC - oversize* Box 9/ADC - oversize** Box 10/ADC - regular
creator:
Alllied Architects Association of Los Angeles.
creator:
Craig, James Osborne, 1888-1922
creator:
Craig, Mary McLaughlin, 1889-1964
creator:
Edwards & Plunkett.
creator:
Edwards, Plunkett & Howell.
creator:
Johnson, Reginald D., 1882-1953
creator:
Lockard, E. Keith, 1892-1968
creator:
Muir, Edla, 1906-1970
creator:
Santa Barbara Community Arts Association.
creator:
Smith, George Washington, 1876-1930, American Architect
creator:
Soule, Murphy and Hastings.
creator:
Soule, Winsor, b. 1883
creator:
Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1876-1946
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Santa Barbara Community Arts Association records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
The Santa Barbara Community Arts Association was a non-profit corporation, founded on April 24, 1922. The non-profit’s stated
purpose was “to afford individuals the opportunity of self-expression, training and education in Music, Drama and the Allied
Arts and to aid in the cultural improvement of the people and in the beautification of the City of Santa Barbara.” The Community
Arts Association contained four branches: Drama, Music, Plans and Planting, and the Art School. In November of 1922, the Community
Arts Association received a five year grant of $25,000 a year from the Carnegie Corporation. The grant was secured through
the efforts of Dr. Pritchett who at the time was the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and a current resident
of the city of Santa Barbara. The work of each branch was under the control of its own board, which in turn, was responsible
to the general board on which each branch had representation. The Santa Barbara Community Arts Association dissolved in the
mid to late 1930s.
The Santa Barbara Community Art Association records span 31.22 linear feet and date from 1915 to 1955. The collection is primarily
related to the Association's Plans and Planting section and contains architectural drawings and reprographic copies that were
entries for the various architectural competitions the Community Arts Association sponsored. The collection also includes
black-and-white photographs and negatives that document Santa Barbara community events and activities in the 1930s, ephemera
and letters regarding various competitions the Community Arts Association sponsored, the association’s budget for the year
of 1924, newspaper clippings, sketches, specifications for the houses submitted to the small house competition of 1926, presentation
boards, art supplies, photolithography blocks, VHS tapes, one DVCAM tape and original 35 mm film reels.
The following arrangement scheme for this collection was imposed during processing in the absence of a usable original order.
The collection is arranged in four series by material format: Manuscript material, Photographs and negatives, Drawings, and
Drawing and Printing supplies and Video. Each series is organized alphabetically within its subseries, except the Manuscript
materials series, which is arranged chronologically.
Related Archival Materials note
ADC Study collection, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Craig, James Osborne papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Craig, Mary McLaughlin papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Edwards, Plunkett & Howell drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Johnson, Reginald papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Muir, Edla papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Riggs, Lutah Maria papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Smith, George Washington papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Soule, Murphy and Hastings drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Vhay, Anna Louise Murphy drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Pearl Chase oral history, UCSB, Davidson Library, Special Collections
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chase, Pearl
Santa Barbara Community Arts Association.
Adobe houses
Architects -- California
Architectural drawings
Architectural firms -- California
Architectural photographs
Architecture -- California
Architecture -- California -- Santa Barbara -- 20th century
Architecture, Spanish Colonial -- California, Southern
Blueprints
California missions
Commercial buildings
Dwellings -- Design and construction -- Economic aspects -- United States
Exterior elevations
Floor plans
Landscape architecture -- California
Negatives
Photographic prints
Prefabricated houses -- United States
Presentation drawings (proposals)
Printed ephemera
Reprographic copies
Sketches
Spanish Colonial Revival
Specifications
Women architects