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Guide to the De la Guerra Family Photographs
BANC PIC 1984.062--PIC
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Collection Title: De la Guerra family photographs
Date (inclusive): circa 1870-circa 1920
Date (bulk): (bulk 1880-1885)
Collection number: BANC PIC 1984.062--PIC
Creator:
Guerra family
Extent:
1 box (49 photographic prints)
49 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: Mainly 19th century studio portraits of members of the de la Guerra
family of Santa Barbara, California.
Languages represented: Collection materials are in English and Spanish
Physical location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored
offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the
location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research. Please use digital facsimiles when possible.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for
permission to publish or reproduce must be submitted in writing to the Head of
Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA
94720-6000. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or
imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original
materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], De la Guerra Family Photographs, BANC PIC 1984.062:
[item number]--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital reproductions of items are available.
Records of various court cases and individual pieces of correspondence related to
José de la Guerra y Noriega and Pablo de la Guerra are cataloged separately in
the collections of The Bancroft Library.
Facsimile copies of de la Guerra family papers are held by The Huntington
Library, San Marino, Calif. Theses facsimiles are from originals deposited in
the archives of the Santa Barbara Mission.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Guerra family.
Guerra, Pablo de la, 1819-1874 --
Pictorial works.
Guerra y Noriega, José de la, 1779-1858 --
Family -- Pictorial works.
Dibblee, Thomas B. -- (Thomas Bloodgood), b.
1823 -- Family -- Pictorial works.
Dwellings --California -- Santa Barbara -- Photographs.
Mexicans -- California -- Photographs.
Pioneers -- California -- Santa Barbara -- Portraits.
Mexican Americans -- California -- Photographs.
Hispanic Americans -- California -- Photographs.
Card photographs.
Photographic prints.
The de la Guerra family photographs were a gift to The Bancroft Library from California
historian and collector Joseph Armstrong Baird. Their earlier provenance is
unknown, but inscriptions suggest they belonged to a de la Guerra descendant.
Additional material is not expected.
The de la Guerra family photographs were cataloged by James Eason, Archivist for
the Pictorial Collections. The collection was processed for digitization as part
of the California Cultures project by Mary Elings, Archivist for Digital
Collections. The digitization was carried out by the Digital Imaging Lab at UC Berkeley.
The de la Guerra family of Santa Barabara were among the most prominent of Californio
families, holding extensive ranchos under Spanish land grants prior to California
statehood. Pablo de la Guerra (1819-1874), was a son of Don José Antonio Julian de
la Guerra y Noriega (1779-1858) and was active in politics and government during the
early decades of California statehood. The Casa de la Guerra adobe in Santa Barbara
survives into the twenty-first century and houses a local history museum.
Several daughters and granddaughters of José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega and his
wife, Maria Antonia Carrillo de la Guerra, married early Anglo-American pioneers of
California, bringing the surnames of Dibblee, Robinson, Ord, Hartnell and Lee, among
others, into the family. Other Californio families closely related by marriages are
Carrillo, Oreña and Sepulveda.
Scope and Content of Collection
Mainly studio portraits of members of the de la Guerra family, descendants of Don
José Antonio Julian de la Guerra y Noriega. Includes views of the family home in
Santa Barbara, member of the family of Thomas B. Dibblee and Francesca de la Guerra
Dibblee, Pablo de la Guerra, and others. Also included are two pamphlets about the
family home.
Photographers of the images present include I.W. Taber, C.E. Watkins, Rieman
& Co., Dames & Williams, W.N. Tuttle, Bradley & Rulofson,
Tuttle & Fitzgerald, Tuttle & Lee, A.M. Stringfield, [I.N.] Cook,
Hayward & Muzzall, G.D. Morse, Opposition Photographic Gallery, G. Larauza
(Barcelona), Jones & Lotz, Oriental Photographic Parlors (San Luis Obispo),
I. Ramirez, N.H. Reed, and Brewster's Gallery.