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Preliminary Guide to the Robert Siddell Collection
Mss 110
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Title: Robert Siddell Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1903-1922
Date (bulk): (bulk 1908-1909)
Collection Number: Mss 110
Creator:
Siddell (Robert)
Extent:
.4 linear feet
(1 document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
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 Siddell Collection. Mss 110. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Mae K. Siddell, 1969.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains more than 200 picture postcards, black/white and color, from a 1909 trip that Robert Siddell took
to South America (Guyana - then British, Dutch, and French Guiana) and the West Indies (Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica,
Martinique, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Virgin Islands - then the Danish West Indies), as well as other places
such as Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia), Turkey (Constantinople), and the U.S. (Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan) at other
times. Also included are a few letters, photographs, and ephemera, some relating to the American College for Girls in Constantinople
during and just after World War I.
The collection was donated by Mae K. Siddell, wife of Robert Siddell and Santa Barbara resident, in 1969.