Patricia Ortlieb collection on Eliza L. Tibbets
Finding aid prepared by Eric Milenkiewicz, Manuscripts Curator.
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Patricia Ortlieb collection on Eliza L. Tibbets
Date (inclusive): circa 1850-2009, undated
Date (bulk): 1850-1950
Collection Number: MS 374
Creator:
Ortlieb, Patricia
Extent:
11.98 linear feet
(12 boxes, 1 flat file folder)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Abstract: This collection contains research notes, articles, photographs, documents, and other material compiled by Patricia Ortlieb,
author and great-great-granddaughter of Eliza L. Tibbets, as she conducted research for the book "Creating an Orange Utopia:
Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry" that she co-authored with Peter Economy. Includes material
related to the people, places, and events that shaped the life of Eliza L. Tibbets and the generations of her descendants
that followed.
Languages: The collection is in English.
Access
Boxes 1-8, 10-12 of this collection are open for research.
Access to the material in Box 9 is restricted due to preservation concerns. Reproductions of this material can be found in
Box 10.
Publication Rights
Copyright Unknown: Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction,
and/or commercial use, of some materials may be restricted by gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and
publicity rights, licensing agreement(s), and/or trademark rights. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by
copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions
apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for
obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], [date if possible]. Patricia Ortlieb collection on Eliza L. Tibbets (MS 374). Special Collections
& University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Patricia Ortlieb, 2012.
Processing History
Processed by Eric Milenkiewicz, Manuscripts Curator, 2012.
Biographical Note
Eliza L. Tibbets (1823-1898) is most widely known for her role in introducing the first Washington navel orange and founding
the citrus industry and cultural landscape of orange groves in California. Eliza L. Tibbets was a horticulturist, early California
pioneer, spiritualist, abolitionist, suffragist, and renowned citizen of Riverside, California.
Patricia Ortlieb is a great-great-granddaughter of Eliza Lovell Tibbets and a docent at the San Diego Museum of Art, where
she has volunteered for the past ten years. She served for more than two decades as a trainer, counselor, and teacher specializing
in training skills and therapeutic behavior modification, including assertive and humanistic psychology. She is also a licensed
family therapist, an artist, and an author. She earned her BA in education and art history at California State University
and her MA in social science at Azusa Pacific University. She lives in San Diego.*
*excerpt taken from "Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry" by Patricia
Ortlieb and Peter Economy. Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2011.
Collection Scope and Contents
This collection contains research notes, articles, photographs, documents, and other material compiled by Patricia Ortlieb,
author and great-great-granddaughter of Eliza L. Tibbets, as she conducted research for the book "Creating an Orange Utopia:
Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry" that she co-authored with Peter Economy. Includes material
related to the people, places, and events that shaped the life of Eliza L. Tibbets and the generations of her descendants
that followed.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged by box number.
Related Material
The following related item is cataloged and available in the UCR Libraries.
"Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry" by Patricia Ortlieb and Peter
Economy. Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2011. [call number: SB370 O7 O78 2011]
Separated Material
The following publications that contain supplemental information on the individuals and families related to Eliza L. Tibbets
have been removed from the collection. Both publications are available online in their digitized form.
"Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens" by Charles Theodore Greve. 1904
"An illustrated history of Southern California: Embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange,
and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of
their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers
and of prominent citizens of to-day." 1890
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Tibbets, Eliza Lovell, 1825-1898
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Citrus
Citrus fruit industry
Riverside (Calif.)
Spiritualism
Suffragists
Genres and Forms of Materials
Articles
Documents
Photographs
Research notes
Box 1
Research notes, articles, documents, and other material regarding families and individuals related to Eliza L. Tibbets. Includes
information on the Downes, Lovell, and Summons families. (includes photocopies)
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 2
Research notes, articles, documents, and other material regarding families and individuals related to Eliza L. Tibbets. Includes
information on the Summons, Tibbets, and Wilbur families. (includes photocopies)
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 2
Research notes, articles, documents, and other material regarding issues and events related to Eliza L. Tibbets. Includes
information on the American Civil War, religion, and citrus. (includes photocopies)
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 3
Research notes, articles, documents, and other material regarding issues and events related to Eliza L. Tibbets. Includes
information on citrus, spiritualism, women's suffrage, and the United States government. (includes photocopies)
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 3
Research notes, articles, directories, documents, and other material regarding the cities and states that Eliza L. Tibbets
lived in and/or visited. Includes information on Boston, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Washington D.C. (includes photocopies)
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 4
Research notes, articles, directories, documents, and other material regarding the cities and states that Eliza L. Tibbets
lived in and/or visited. Includes information on Washington D.C., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Riverside, California. (includes photocopies)
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 5
Research notes, articles, directories, documents, and other material regarding the cities and states that Eliza L. Tibbets
lived in and/or visited. Includes information on Riverside, California. (includes photocopies)
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 5
Research notes, articles, newspapers, documents, and other material regarding Eliza L. Tibbets, the Lovell family, Archibald
Shamel, and the United States Department of Agriculture. (includes photocopies)
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 5
Manuscript titled "Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets, Abolition, Women's Rights, and the Navel Orange" by Patricia Ortlieb
and Peter Economy (this is an earlier version of the published titled "Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and
the Birth of California's Citrus Industry").
2009.
Box 5
Correspondence, documents, and other material regarding Minnie Tibbets Mills. (includes photocopies)
undated.
Box 5
Documents and other material regarding the Tibbets, Summons, and Lovell families. (includes photocopies)
undated.
Box 6
Photographs, documents, and other material regarding Luther Tibbets, Eliza L. Tibbets, and the Lovell family (includes photocopies).
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 6
Correspondence (handwritten originals) from Eliza Lovell Tibbets to her granddaughter, Clara (quantity, 6).
1884-1892, undated.
Box 7
Photographs, documents, and other material regarding the Summons family and orange crate art (includes photocopies).
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 8
Photographs, documents, and other material regarding the Wilbur family, the Lovell family's participation in the Swedenborgian
Church, and the Eliza L. Tibbets statue as well as her involvement with citrus (includes photocopies).
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 9
Ambrotypes and tintypes of the Tibbets, Lovell, Summons, and Olmsted families.
undated.
Access
Access to the material in Box 9 is restricted due to preservation concerns. Print and digital reproductions of these images
can be found in Box 10.
Box 10
Reproductions of ambrotypes and tintypes of the Tibbets, Lovell, Summons, and Olmsted families (originals found in Box 9).
undated.
Box 10
Scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, and other material regarding Eliza L. Tibbets as well as the Olmsted, Wilbur, and Summons
families.
circa 1850-1950, undated.
Box 11
Binders that originally contained the material housed in boxes 6-8.
undated.
Box 12
Binders that originally contained the material housed in boxes 6-8.
undated.
Flat-File-Folder 1
Poster for Eliza Tibbets statue, "Sower's Dream" by Guy Angelo Wilson
2011
