California Photograph Collection, 1870s-1950s, bulk early 1900s

Summary

Abstract:

The collection contains 98 mainly black and white photographs, including cabinet cards, cartes de visité, picture postcards, snapshots, a stereocard, and tintypes, loose and in a partially dissembled album.

Extent:

0.2 linear feet (1 half-size document box)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

California Photograph Collection. Mss 252. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains 98 mainly black and white photographs, including cabinet cards, cartes de visité, picture postcards, snapshots, a stereocard, and tintypes, loose and in a partially dissembled album. The photographs may have been compiled by Mrs. Percy W. [Georgie] Stebbins, who lived in several California locations, and who is the recipient of several of the postcards. The album contains images of rural/farm scenes, residential streets, children, young adults, palm trees, parade, early 20c automobiles; locations include Los Angeles and Visalia. Also, loose photographs of the Bower, Childs, Eakin, Lavelle, and Lloyd families, as well as other unidentified possible family members; and commercial photographs from firms in California (including Berkeley, Tulare, and Ventura), Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, and Vermont.

Acquisition information:

Purchase, 2007.

Physical location:

Del Sur.

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Places:

California--Pictorial works.
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Visalia (Calif.)

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

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:

California Photograph Collection. Mss 252. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US

Contact:

(805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

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