Joel Conway / Flying A Studio photograph collection, approximately 1910-1997, bulk 1910-1919
Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Conway, Joel and American Film Manufacturing Company
- Abstract:
- The collection mainly contains black-and-white prints and negatives relating to the Flying A Studios (aka American Film Manufacturing Company), a film company that operated in Santa Barbara (1912-1920), as well as supporting documentation.
- Extent:
- 18 linear feet (33 document and shoeboxes, 3 flat oversize boxes, 1 album, 1 audiocassette)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Joel Conway / Flying A Studio photograph collection, SBHC Mss 78. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection mainly contains black-and-white prints and negatives relating to the Flying A Studios (aka American Film Manufacturing Company), a film company that operated in Santa Barbara (1912-1920), as well as supporting documentation. The collection materials were acquired by Joel Conway from various sources, including the abandoned studio. Conway was a photographer who had come from Chicago and who collected a large number of photographs over the years, including many with a Santa Barbara focus. He also took photographs and made large numbers of copy negatives and prints. He sold enlargements of Santa Barbara images to local customers and some of those enlargements can be found on the walls of places like Harry's Plaza Café in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center, Santa Barbara.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift from Pat Eagle-Schnetzer and Ronald Conway, and purchase from Joan Cota (Conway children), 2009.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is divided into the following series: Series 1. General. Includes documentation by and about Flying A Studio (Boxes 1-2). Series 2. Original Photographic Prints (Boxes 3-4). Series 3. Copy Prints and Other (Boxes 5-7). Series 4. Glass Negatives (Boxes 8-33). Series 5. Film Negatives. Original and copy negatives (Boxes 34-36). Series 6. Audiovisual.
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Joel Conway / Flying A Studio photograph collection, SBHC Mss 78. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062