The collection contains tapes and transcripts of interviews with Hobart O. Skofield, conducted by UCSB Library Oral Historian David E. Russell in 1982. Skofield discusses family and life history, working at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, life in Santa Barbara, California, collecting works on printing, donating and helping build the collection at the University of California Santa Barbara Library.

0.45 linear feet (1 document box, 4 audiocassettes)

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research 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.

The collection is open for research.