Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Mrs.Thomas Driscoll oral history
- Dates:
- 1971
- Creators:
- Driscoll, Thomas, Mrs. (Mrs. Thomas (Alice) Driscoll) and Smith, Gibbs
- Abstract:
- The collection contains one audiocassette and one transcript of an interview conducted by Gibbs Smith in April 1971, for UCSB Special Collections, with Mrs. Thomas (Alice) Driscoll, prominent Santa Barbara resident.
- Extent:
- 0.22 linear feet (1 half-size document box, 1 audiocassette)
- Language:
- English and The collection is in English.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of Item], Mrs.Thomas Driscoll oral history, OH 34. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains one audiocassette and one transcript of an interview conducted by Gibbs Smith in April 1971, for UCSB Special Collections, with Mrs. Thomas (Alice) Driscoll, prominent Santa Barbara resident, re family history and their association with Admiral Farragut, Cyrus McCormick, Mark Twain, and Theodore Roosevelt. Also personal experiences of Santa Barbara elite society ca. 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Also included is a copy of an article by Smith about the interview, which appeared in the UCSB Libraries publication, Soundings, June 1972.
- Acquisition information:
- UCSB Special Collections Oral History Program, 1971.
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2018-01-03 14:14:33 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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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:
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[Identification of Item], Mrs.Thomas Driscoll oral history, OH 34. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062