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UArch FacP 17
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Title: Robert L. Kelley Papers
Dates: 1947-1993
Date (bulk): 1970-1990
Collection number: UArch FacP 17
Creator:
Kelley, Robert Lloyd, 1925-1993
Collection Size:
28.1 linear feet
(71 document boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Primarily correspondence, research files, and writings of Robert Lloyd Kelley, UCSB professor of history, director of the
UCSB Public History program, and scholar in the field of public policy, particularly California water history.
Physical location: SRLF.
Languages:
English
The majority of this collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.
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.
Robert L. Kelley Papers. UArch FacP 17. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Gift of the Robert L. Kelley family, 1993-1994.
Robert Lloyd Kelley was born on June 2, 1925 in Santa Barbara, California. After serving in World War II, he completed a B.A.
at the University of California, Santa Barbara College, then an M.A. and Ph.D. at Stanford University. During his studies
at Stanford he served in the Korean War. Kelley became UCSB history faculty in 1955 and taught for 38 years until his retirement
in 1993. He received many honors, including Guggenheim, NEH, Woodrow Wilson, and Fulbright fellowships, and is credited with
being a founder of the discipline of public history. His books include
Gold Versus Grain: The Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California's Sacramento Valley (1959),
The Transatlantic Persuasion: the Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone (1969),
The Cultural Pattern in American Politics: The First Century (1979), and
Transformations : UC Santa Barbara, 1909-1979 (1981). Kelley died in Santa Barbara on August 29, 1993.
For more information, see the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11.
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
The collection contains the following series:
I. Administrative Files [UCSB]
II. Bio-Bibliographical Files
III. Consulting
IV. Correspondence
V. Courses
VI. Organization Files
VII. Public History Program [UCSB]
VIII. Research
IX. Writings / Speeches
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Kelley, Robert Lloyd, 1925-1993
University of California, Santa Barbara
Public history.
Monographs by Kelley are cataloged separately and are searchable in Pegasus.
See also in Special Collections:
- UCSB Department of History, Public Historical Studies Program Records, UArch 41
- UCSB Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11
Biography on
In Memoriam website:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/in_memoriam/index4.html
Robert Lloyd Kelley Papers at the UC Berkeley Water Resources Center Archives