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Title: Mrs.Thomas Driscoll oral history
Identifier/Call Number: OH 34
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Creator:
Driscoll, Thomas, Mrs. (Mrs. Thomas (Alice) Driscoll)
Creator:
Smith, Gibbs
Physical Description:
0.22 linear feet
(1 half-size document box, 1 audiocassette)
Date: 1971
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.
Language of Material: The collection is in English.
The collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of Item], Mrs.Thomas Driscoll oral history, OH 34. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
UCSB Special Collections Oral History Program, 1971.
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.
Driscoll [Thomas] Collection, 1836-1953 [bulk 1890-1918].
- Driscoll [Thomas] Collection, 1836-1953 [bulk 1890-1918]. Mainly World War I photographs, pamphlets, intelligence reports, newspaper clippings, and correspondence (also incl. Theodore Roosevelt and Gen. Sheridan letters), as well as some 19c photographs of Brazil, collected by Driscoll, who served as in the U.S. Army's 91st Division during and after the war. (Bernath Mss 7).
- One letter (ALS) from Santa Barbara author and first headmaster of Laguna Blanca School, Edward Selden Spaulding, to Alice (Mrs. Thomas) Driscoll, talking about stories he has written. [Santa Barbara, CA], 1968. Laid in Spaulding's Venison and a Breath of Sage (1967). (SC 547).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiocassettes
Interviews
Transcripts
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
Oral history
Twain, Mark