Guide to the Mrs.Thomas Driscoll oral history OH 34

Finding aid prepared by David Tambo and Zachary Liebhaber, 2015.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2015 September 8


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.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Language of Material: The collection is in English.

Access Retrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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

[Identification of Item], Mrs.Thomas Driscoll oral history, OH 34. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

UCSB Special Collections Oral History Program, 1971.

Scope and Content

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.

Related Material

Driscoll [Thomas] Collection, 1836-1953 [bulk 1890-1918].

  1. 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).

Spaulding, Edward Selden

  1. 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

Box 1, Folder 1-2

Background Material

Box 1, Folder 1-2

Smith, Gibbs - "'But It Was 1906 and the Earthquake Came': An Exploration into the Oral History Method," Soundings (June 1972): 5-21.

Other Descriptive Information

Typescript and printed versions. This article also contains a brief description of the origins of the UCSB Special Collections Oral History Program.
 

Transcript

Box 1, Folder 3-4

Typescript (57 pages – two copies), of interview with Driscoll, by Smith 1971 April

 

Tape

item A9842/CS

Gibbs Smith interviewing Mrs. Thomas (Alice) Driscoll 1971 April