Guide to the Santa Barbara College of the University of California, Department of Women's Physical Education Scrapbooks

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Guide to the Santa Barbara College of the University of California, Department of Women's Physical Education Scrapbooks, ca. 1937-1945

Collection number: UArch 95

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara
Processed by:
Special Collections staff; latest revision A. Demeter
Date Completed:
May 7, 2010
Latest revision:
Apr. 27, 2012
Encoded by:
A. Demeter
© 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Santa Barbara College of the University of California, Department of Women's Physical Education Scrapbooks
Dates: ca. 1937-1945
Collection number: UArch 95
Creator: Santa Barbara College of the University of California. Dept. of Women's Physical Education
Collection Size: 0.9 linear feet (3 oversize flat boxes)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection contains six scrapbooks documenting the Women's Physical Education Department's dance concerts from 1937 to 1945. The scrapbooks contain clippings, programs, reports, memos and correspondence, and other related material.
Physical location: Del Sur, University Archives, 30B.
Languages: English

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

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

Santa Barbara College of the University of California, Department of Women's Physical Education Scrapbooks. UArch 95. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Undetermined.

Scope and Content of Collection

The program of Women's Physical Education was "designed to produce a highly skilled professional person in the field of physical and health education and also a better, wiser, and more cultivated individual." (From "Statement of criteria which establish the professional nature of the curriculum offered," box 15, folder 2. UCSB College of Letters and Science records, UArch 66.) Courses offered included archery, tennis, swimming, dance, softball, basketball, badminton, golf, and preparatory courses for teaching physical education.
Physical Education is now managed by the Department of Exercise and Sports Studies. They maintain a website: http://www.essr.ucsb.edu/ 
Dance instruction is now managed by the Department of Theater and Dance. Website: http://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/ 
The collection contains six scrapbooks documenting the Women's Physical Education Department's dance concerts from 1937 to 1945. The scrapbooks contain clippings, programs, reports, memos and correspondence, and other related material.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
University of California, Santa Barbara. Dept. of Women's Physical Education

Related Material

Files on Department of Women's Physical Education (and Men's Physical Education) in College of Letters and Science records, UArch 66.
Files on Department of Ergonomics and Physical Education, and dance concerts / dance series in Office of Public Information subject files, UArch 12.
Files on dance concerts in Committee on Arts and Lectures records, UArch 16.
Review of Department of Ergonomics and Physical Education in Academic Senate records, UArch 13.
Department of Ergonomics and Physical Education collection, UArch SC 31.
Physical Education dissertations are searchable in the online catalog, Pegasus.
Department of Exercise and Sports Studies website: http://www.essr.ucsb.edu/ 
Department of Theater and Dance website: http://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/ 

Box 1

Dance concert scrapbooks (3), c. 1937-1945

Box 2

Dance concert scrapbooks (2), c. 1937-1945

Box 3

Dance concert scrapbook, 1939-1945