Portfolio of German Kamerun (Cameroon) and Togo color prints. Purchase, Breuer
3 Civil War enlistment forms. Buffalo, New York, 1863. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Collection of 14 early printed fragments, ca. 1490-1597, including five leaves by Wynkyn de Worde. Gift of William P. Wreden, date unknown. Gave to Dave G. to examine 4/28/04. Asked about it 11/16/10.
One Civil War document: Poll-book for October Election, 1864. [Oversize boxed].
Three receipts, 1780s. Moved to SC 665, 8/18/09.
One Confederate Civil War document: Complete Roster, [1862-1865]. Lists ...
The collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, maps, realia, and newspaper supplements pertaining to the 1984 Olympic Games, held in Los Angeles and environs, including Santa Barbara.
17 American broadside sheets containing songs on a range of events and themes, circa mid 19th century....
Holograph Confederate Civil War document, charging Private William Price with desertion from Company E, 1st Regiment, Alabama. Signed by Captain John H. Wood at Meridian, Miss.
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, officer biographies, newspaper clippings, muster rolls, and other miscellany.
One Civil War document (ADS): General Orders, 5 July 1864. [Oversize boxed].
Includes contributions to a collaborative communal book. Created by UCSB students, staff, faculty and visitors during the three millionth volume celebration at the UCSB Davidson Library and the Arts Library.
One Confederate Civil War document (ADS): Soldiers' Pay Account, 12 Nov. 1861.
One Civil War document: Clothing account, 1865. [Oversize boxed].
One Civil War document: Poll-book for October Election, 1864. [Oversize boxed].
One Civil War document: Poll-book for October Election, 1864. [Oversize boxed].
Cards and flyer re Civil War reunions, 1908-1915, along with calling cards of Henry G. Potter and Major A. P. Bass. Found in unsorted Wyles SC.
One b/w Civil War group photograph, ca. 1861-1865.
One holograph letter written by A. A. Humphreys in Washington, D.C., concerning his Civil War service on General George McClellan's staff.
l ALS to Thomas Chandler re [apprenticeship/indenture?]. Ballitore, [Ireland?], 1 February 1704. [Returned to Ballitore Collection]
136 items: documents, receipts, promissory notes and bills of the Lanesborough, Massachusetts family. Gift of Wilbur Jacobs , 1968. Alpha list.
Typescript reminiscences "Memories of the Civil War," Feb. 12, 1936. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Includes images of Gibraltar, Egypt and Pyramids, Ceylon/India, Japan (Kamakura, Nara, and other), Yosemite, U.S. Southwest.
Three letters (ALS) to his father Abiel Abbot, clergyman of Bevely, MA and his sister Adeline Gould, describing his unfavorable impressions of Cumana, Venezuela.
Bronze plaques, bookends, paperweights, casts, and other items apparently acquired from multiple sources, some by purchase. Also, pair of gloves purportedly worn to a Presidential reception, shook hands with Pres. and Mrs. Lincoln.
Various flyers and promotional literature describing present-day programs. [dates?]
One black and white composite photo of Lincoln and family; also one black and white similar composite photo of George Washington and family. [Oversize boxed].
Executive Order [official copy] appointing Major General William T. Smith and the Honorable Henry Stanbury as Special Commissioners "to investigate and report ... upon the civil and military administration in the military Division bordering upon and west of the Mississippi."...
Printed Ohio Republican presidential election ticket, 1860.
The collection contains pamphlets, flyers, broadsides, articles, clippings, playbills, facsimiles of letters and addresses, poster stamps, and other items about Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1860s-1970s.
Facsimiles.
Copy of photograph taken in Aug. 1860. [Oversize boxed].
Memorial keepsake.
Mounted portrait and campaign leaflet, issued in Butte California, for the 1864 presidential election. [Oversize boxed].
One carte de visite by E. Anthony, from a photographic Negative, first portrait of Lincoln by M. B. Brady.
Photograph. Copy of last photograph of Lincoln. Move to Wyles Mss xx
Two cartes de visite: D. B. Spooner, Springfield, MA, 1864 and Lazier, Syracuse, NY, n.d.
Portrait - sketch by Alfred Stanley Harkness, Sr. Pencil inscription on back reads "Presented to Hannibal Hamblin 1864." [Oversize boxed].
The collection contains printed copies of Abraham Lincoln portraits, as a young man until his death, derived from photographs, engravings, drawings, and paintings, some framed. These are not originals, but copies from about the 1860s to about the 1960s.
Postcards of Salem State Park, Illinois.
Engravings, prints, picture postcards, flyers, pamphlets, photographs, political cartoons, and other illustrations with Abraham Lincoln in them, as well as buildings, monuments, and sites having some association with Lincoln.
193 black and white snapshots taken by an Italian army officer during tour in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Includes images of soldiers in uniform; scenic views; riverboats, ships, airplanes and tanks; monuments and Italian graves; and several photos of hangings and other...
The collection contains files pertaining to the Alternative Comprehensive Environmental Study System (ACCESS) project in Santa Barbara county.
One holograph document (AL). Laid in Abbé Proyart's Life of Princess Louisa (Salisbury, 1808). Alpha list.
One holograph letter written from Washington City to Samuel Guoiner about the author's visit to a Texas battle ground with General Gaines, shortly after the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, where he saw General Santa Anna and General Almonte...
Holograph account of the author's experience with William Walker and his fellow filibusters during their invasion of Roatán in the Bay Islands of Honduras in 1860. The account mentions meeting Walker and his filibuster officers Anthony Francis Rudler, Thomas Henry,...
One letter from Alexander Wilson Acheson (1842-1934), Civil War soldier, mayor of Denison, Texas, and physician, on letterhead stationery of The Missouri Pacific Railway Co., to the editor of the Philadelphia Press, re the editor's desire to write a history...
[Captain] (1881-1945). Two letters (TLS) from Achmed Abdullah, pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff , a Russian-born writer, to a Mr. Seidler, mainly about his novels and short stories. New York , 1924. Alpha list.
William McKinley memorabilia, including early and modern day first day covers, other philatelatic items, medals, programs, tickets, postcards, souvenir cards, etc. There is some material re Spanish American War.
The Oscar Zeta Acosta Collection contains material reflecting his work as a writer, lawyer and Chicano political activist. Acosta is most well known as the author of the classic Chicano books (1972), and (1973). Legal Proceedings, biographical documents, correspondence, writings...
One letter (TLS) to Oscar [?], mainly about the author of Frank's Ranche. UCLA, Department of English, 24 Nov. 1969.
One Civil War era document, for receipt of one keg, at the Chambersby agency, 6 Jan. 1865.
Files relating to Isla Vista organizations and issues; correspondence (1980) and typescript draft of Adams' unpublished study , co-authored with Fred T. Newcomb, alleging the JFK assassination was engineered by the U.S. Secret Service; and scattered issues of newspapers, mainly...
The collection includes photographs, playbills, posters, magazines, sound recordings, and programs.
Album of 48 black and white albumen prints, some faded, of the British Camel Battery in action against Turkish forces. Photos include brief captions in English. Images feature Aden countryside and villages; Arab men, women, and children; local Jewish population;...
Title on cover: "Arabien & Aegypten." 30+ albumen prints, with German and French captions, including panoramic view of Aden (Yemen) and other views of countryside; scenes of Cairo, pyramids, and Sphinx. Also several portraits of local inhabitants.
Photo album, ca. 1937-1938, of a British airman, 90+ black/white snapshots with captions, mainly of Aden [Yemen]. Includes shots of fellow British servicemen, military planes and ships, Aden police and military on camels, dhows and other local boats, many street...
Cite as: [Identification of item], Aden [Yemen] photograph album, SC 1015. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Two printed maps, including areas of Bald Peak and Mount Marcy, New York. Found in Romaine Trade Catalog Collection. Alpha list.
15 black and white aerial views, with captions, taken by the US Army Air Corps, 6th Photo Section, mainly military facilities and public buildings (Army and Navy Club, Bilibid Prison, Legislative Building and Walled City, ships (Asiatic Fleet, U.S.A.T. Republic...
Photographs of Africa Including South Africa, Mozambique, Egypt and elsewhere in North Africa and the Middle East [1890's].
16 glass slides (positives), no captions, of local inhabitants (several of women and children) engaged in daily activities and missionaries (one as Father Christmas), villages, buildings, compounds, location unknown.
Album contains 48 black and white photographs taken in rural Africa, possibly Nigeria. Images include indigenous peoples, some possibly Hausa and Yoruba; tents and thatched houses; river boats; people on horseback. The album's primary focus is the digging of a...
Album contains 180 black and white photographs taken in Nigeria, Gold Coast (Ghana), Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Niger, and Sierra Leone. Photos are captioned in English, and document travels around Africa, including a trans-Saharan journey. Images feature local peoples, such as...
From looks of two different cars and different photo paper, probably two different tours. L
Three black/white 8"x10" glossies of Steve Gibson and the Red Caps, the Haitian Voodoo Dances, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
41 cartes de visite, albumens, tintypes, watercolors and drawings, most unidentified portraits of African American men and women, one with inscription Mrs. [Sara?] Long. The cdvs are from various locations, including Wilmington, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, Columbus, Ohio, and Liverpool.
Includes several photos from E. Suffolk and Norfolk, Virginia.
60+ pieces of sheet music, featuring artists and composers such as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Stephen C. Foster, W. C. Handy, Isaac Hayes, Lena Horne, Ink Spots, Mahalia Jackson, Mills Brothers, and Jelly Roll Morton. Also caricature pieces, including blackface,...
Six printed items, some written in dialect, with titles such as "Shew Fly!" and "Song of the Negro Boatmen." .02 linear feet (1 folder). Oversize boxed.
The collection contains 20 b/w stereoview images of African Americans, possibly Louisiana, mounted on one large sheet, numbered but lacking captions. These appear to be staged scenes, with several images of children (sitting on steps, at play), men playing cards,...
24 stereoviews, various companies. Includes scenes such as "Cotton is King, Plantation Scene, Georgia...," and "Down in Dixie," along with many other stereotypical, racist views and captions.
5 portraits, unidentified man, woman, and children. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Bamako.; Marché de Bamako; Assistance médicale des soeurs noires.; Dispensaires des soeurs Noires; La Père Docteur Garnisson au dispensaire de Ougaougou (capitol of Burkina Faso); Visite chez les indigënes; Construction d'un église;. Album dated 1936; 38 original photographs (varying seizes)...
Album contains 172 black and white photographs with borders, each captioned with handwritten descriptions, placed double-sided in corner mounts onto 21 cardstock leaves. The majority of photographs measure 11cm x 7cm, with a few features measuring up to 16cm x...
26 original photographs depicting camp and village scenes, indigenous hunters and women at work; wild game hunting including gazelles, hippopotamus, and crocodile in the border regions of South Africa and Portuguese East Africa, Tembe, Delagoa Bay (Maputo Bay), Maputo River...
Album from the library of the French minister for the colonies. Marius Moutet 1876 - 1968 presented to him by the governor (Ferdinad Jacques Louis Rougier) in April 1937 when he visited Koulouba (the administrative seat in the capital, Bamako)....
Album of a trade fair from French West Africa (mainly Dakar in present-day Senegal). Full list of captions (in French) with album and in CF. "Foire expostion de l' A.O.F." (caption on first photo). A.O.F. most likely represents the acronym...
(Derived from the dealer description) Congo, ca. 1931. - 1947. The collection includes : One album (45 x 32 cm.) with 110 original photographs. (sizes vary from 22.5 x 8.5 / 14.5 x 9, 5 cm / 6.5 x 4.5...
A collection of hundreds of negative images and black and white photos from the same region, circa 1950-1959. All depicting Mali/Senegal and surrounding countries. Some with descriptions (most in French), others in envelopes. Photoque Ifan. (descriptive numbers?) (Musée de l'Institut...
One large folded document (muster roll) in folder. For the "127th Regiment (Company D) of Colored Troops" under the comand of Captain F. (Franklin) Cogswell. Contains information related to enlistment, deportment, payroll .
A joint UCSB / Jackson State project, part of a campus wide exchange program between the two institutions, with the aim to collect oral histories in Mississippi relating to race relations, and completed for a symposium to commemorate the 30th...
One letter (ALS) to Francis P. Farquhar of San Francisco (Dec. 30 , 1939) , along with three b/w snapshots, biographical sketch of her husband, George Horsfield (Director of Antiquities, Transjordan), and Christmas greeting card, with image of both of...
60 black and white photos, most with captions in English, of the Aguacate gold mines in Costa Rica and environs, buildings such as the saw mill, commissary, cabins, farms, superintendent and staff, workers, and families, as well as a few...
Typescript, "A Manuscript Crinkled by Dewfall, Bleached by the Sun," inscribed to Wallace Hebberd , 1968. [See also SC 134]. [SBHC]. Alpha list.
This collection consists of materials, dating from 1989 to 1997, related to the AIDS: Counseling and Assistance program (AIDS: CAP) of the Gay and Lesbian Resource Center of Santa Barbara, California.
Collection, compiled by Ala Story, American British Art Center board member and, later, Santa Barbara resident. Mainly correspondence from poet Marianne Moore, also a 1947 letter (ALS) from Robert Frost, and photographs of E. E. Cummings, ca. 1944-1966. Alpha list.
The collection contains a boxed set of 42 Aladdin stereographs of Japan (including Japanese in Manchuria) and Russia, with printed captions in English and distributed by Doubleday Page & Co. (New York), 1901-1905. Included are images of Japanese military officers...
Independent Catholic, non-U.S. (mainly Europe).
no description
(Secretary to Somerset Maugham). Two letters (TLS) to Laurence Brander, one praising Brander's book on Maugham, 1963, and one about Maugham's death, 1966. Villa Mauresque, 1963, 1966. Alpha list.
Includes approximately ninety audio recordings of programs given by Alan Watts and recorded at the Esalen Institute and by Pacifica Radio, among other sources.
Consists of 61 boxes containing records related to Third Woman Press, Helaine Victoria Press, and fempress including correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, photographs, research notes, grants, and reviews related to Third Woman Press. Other materials include academic records, academic journals, personal...
52 slides, including images of indigenous population, as well as miners and seal-fur company employees, reindeer wrangling, steamers in ice, and eruption of Mt. Katmai in 1912. Locations include Nome, St. Michaels, Fort Wrangle, Kodiak, and Port Clarence.
22 black and white snapshots, with pencilled captions in English. Includes images of Skagway (town and environs, "Princess Ena" at dock), Port Alice ("Princess Louise" barge, view from dock), Prince Rupert (wireless station VAJ), dock area at Barkley Sound, loading...
Cite as: [Identification of item], Alaska and Canada photograph collection, Wyles Mss 147. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The collection contains 63 black and white photographs from a disbound album, most of which are snapshots with no captions and many are of the coast of Alaska, including images of settlements such as Sitka, St. Michael Cathedral (a Russian...
About 800 photographs, loose and in three albums, captions in English, including photographers Eric A. Hegg, P. S. Hunt, H. G. Kaiser, P. Edward Larss and J. E. N. Duclos, Lomen Brothers, and Miles Brothers. Subjects include: boats, children, churches,...
Six b/w 4 1/2" x 6" ambrotype prints, tied together in a booklet, of Sitka harbor, Muir and Davidson glaciers, and other scenes, taken by McAlpin and Lamb Photo, ca. 1890s.
Approximately 50 b/w loose photos, many of Eskimos, sleds and dogs, settlements and scenes around Nome.
59 black and white photo postcards, mainly of local Eskimo men, women, and children, including portraits, group photos, settlements, hunting, fishing, day to day activities. Several with stamp of E. Mathews, Plattsburg, N.Y.
Nine-page handwritten account of an Alaska Trail sheriff during 1898. The author of the account is unknown, but the manuscript was sent from Adeline Teehan of Guelph, Ontario to Marshal Bond, Jr. of Santa Barbara, CA.
33 black-and-white photographs of an Inuit (Eskimo) or Aleut village, some with printed captions.
Papers of operatic soprano Licia Albanese (July 22, 1909-August 15, 2014).
Purchase, Carmen D. Valentino, 2005. .05 linear feet (1 folder). Monaghan funds.
One letter (TLS) to [Brand] Whitlock, re Whitlock's book Uprooted. Cannes, 24 Mar. 1926. Laid in Paine's Joan of Arc. Alpha list.
Copy of letter (TLS) to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, , re current research leading to development of the atomic bomb, 2 Aug. 1939. Part of first day issue of Einstein commemorative 8 cent stamp, 14 March 1966.
One 8x10 b/w photograph of Albert Einstein and his wife at the Santa Barbara Biltmore beach, with Dr. Ludwig Kast, their host for the visit, ca. 1940s. Photo by Obert's Photoshop, 536 Bath St., Santa Barbara.
Includes entries for voyage from China to NYC in 1851.
Approx. 42 letters. .05 linear feet (1 folder).
Correspondence to the master of a private school in Lowell, Massachusetts re recollections of Abraham Lincoln. Correspondents include Robert Todd Lincoln, Murat Halstead, James Tanner, Charles Francis Adams, Fitzhugh Lee, Henry Brewster, John McConnell, and Alva Adams.
[Private, Illinois Light Artillery, 2nd Regiment (Vol), Company L]. Copies of Civil War correspondence. 7 items. , Battery L, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, including description of his battery's participation in the Battle of Shiloh.
(1816-1860). One note (ANS) from English author, entertainer, and mountaineer Albert Smith to Gil [?], asking when he will come with Mrs. O'Beckett to see his show. On letterhead with stamp "Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc." Eggleston Hall, May...
Six framed color photographs, 1977, of Jorge de Sena and José Luis López Arangueren and others; also 27 slides of Jorge de Sena , youth to time in Santa Barbara, copies of photographs, courtesy of Mecia de Sena, July 1982....
(1924- ). Two letters (TLS) to poet Philip Whalen, one with extensive autobiographical information , 1963. Also, one b/w photo and other ephemera. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS), signed A. L. Huxley, to Sir John C. Squire, founder and editor of the London Mercury and a poet, pleading ignorance in relation to some bibliographical business in the London Mercury. London, 30 Dec. 1919.
One letter (ALS) to Richard Thoma, saying he is at the Hotel Berkeley, because his house is too full of relatives, and wondering when the two can dine together. Paris, 29 Dec. 1929.
One letter (ALS) to a Mrs. Gielgud, regarding problems with missing luggage of son Matthew on a train trip from London to Paris.. Paris, 11 Jan. 1930. Purchase, accessioned Nov. 30
One letter (ALS) to Henry Tracy, of Hollywood, saying that he is "...thinking about a novel I don't seem to be able to write, thinking about the linguistic basis of literature, thinking about politics in relation to psychology." . La...
One letter (ALS) to Bertram [Cl...?], saying he has no suitable item for anthologizing and decrying blood sports as "aesthetically disgusting and ethically wrong." [London?], 11 Feb. 1935. Order 1/27/87. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) to Dr. Sweet, saying that "I'm returning your cheque, as I don't know when I will be publishing another book & the chances are that between now and then I'd have lost your address...". San Cristobal, N.M.,...
One letter (ALS) to Mr. E. L. Morrow of Warwick, R.I., saying that he feels unqualified to pass judgment on Morrow's theory of space. Los Angeles, California, 29 Dec. 1957. Order 866,213, 2/21/80. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) to Miss Mary Dwyer, regarding her difficulty reconciling Huxley's statement in Tomorrow and Tomorrow that "God is love," with all the evil and suffering in the world. New York, 7 Oct. 1957. Also, one note (ANS) from...
One letter (ALS) to Miss Olive van Horn, saying that "...I am not an American citizen and, tho' in sympathy with what you are doing, feel that it is not for me to intervene in a matter of strictly American...
One letter (ALS) to a Mrs. Bell, declining invitation to speak. Berkeley, California, 6 Feb. 1962.
One letter (ALS), aerogramme to A. Srihari Rao, stating that "I don't wear spectacles & still think that practice of the Bates Method is in many cases very helpful." Los Angeles, California, 14 July 1963. Purchase, accessioned Feb. 27
One note (ANS) to Geoffrey Grigson, Assistant Literary Editor of The Morning Post, recommending Irving Babbitt's essay Buddha and the Occident, Greta Hort's Sense and Thought, and Mark Benney's Low Company. Postmarked London, 25 Nov. 1936.
One note (ANS) from Laura A. Huxley to J. G. Moore, re permission to quote and stating that Aldous' body was cremated. Los Angeles, California, 25 July 1965. Also four black and white b/w photographs of Huxley in Los Angeles,...
One black and white b/w photograph of Aldous Huxley, signed and dated 1959. Alpha list.
One inscribed poem, for Verne Jensen, entitled "Fifth Philosopher's Song." N.p., n.d. Alpha list.
Two manuscripts, same handwriting, bound together; the first about Alexis Petrovich, son of Peter the Great of Russia, who died in prison in 1718; the second about Don Carlos, son of Philip II of Spain and Maria of Portugal, who...
The collection contains materials relating to the career of UCSB Economics professor and administrator Alec P. Alexander, who served as Chair of the Department of Economics (1965-1970), Dean of the College of Letters and Science (1971-1973), Vice Chancellor of Academic...
Deed, Mississippi, 1826. [Oversize boxed].
One letter (ALS) and two stamped envelopes to Elliot Woodward, re copy of sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln. Cincinnati, 19 Apr. 1866. Laid in: Alexander Clark, Memorial Sermon... (Wyles E457.8 C59).
[Ohio Volunteers, 66th Regiment]. Collection of Civil War era receipts, essays, notes, poems, and obituary notice, ca. 1861-1862.
One document (AD): Account of provisions expended by the ship Alexander of Boston, on one of the Crozet Islands (located in the Indian Ocean, midway between Madagascar and the coast of Antarctica), 1805.
One letter from Alexander Wilson Acheson (1842-1934), Civil War soldier, mayor of Denison, Texas, and physician, on letterhead stationery of The Missouri Pacific Railway Co., to the editor of the Philadelphia Press, regarding the editor's desire to write a history...
Vitae, leaflets, papers
One letter (TLS) to J. G. Moore, re sending copy of the book Karezza. Bloomington, Indiana, 23 Mar. 1948.
One note, (ANS) from Munnings, English painter of horses, to George R. Adams of Santa Barbara, thanking him for his letter, July 18 , 1944. Alpha list.
Collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other printed ephemera relating to Alfred J. Shepherd's naval career in Taiwan, Japan, and Guam during and after World War II. Materials are primarily from his time in post-war Taiwan as a lieutenant in the...
One signed greeting card, n.d.
[Private, Kansas Mounted Infantry, 1st Regiment, Co. D; First Lieutenant, U.S. Colored Infantry, 79th Regiment]. 16 Civil War documents, including appointments, discharges, special orders, and muster roll, 1864-1865.
(1864-1949).. One letter (ALS) from former Smith College art professor, critic, and painter Alfred Vance Churchill, to Dr. [Stuart?] Atkins, re translation of German lyrics later in life. May 7 , 1948. Alpha list.
Photograph album, 82 black/white images, with captions in English, of a British family's trip to Algeria. Includes views of Algiers, Tipasa (Tipaza), Belle Fontaine, Forêt de Bainem, Bouzorea, Valley of the Oued Messous, Aïn Toya, Guyotville, Timgad, El Kantara, and...
61 b/w prints, captions in French, with some images of Europeans, but mainly local inhabitants and street scenes from Algiers, Biskra, Sidi Akba, Theniet el Had, Constantine, Sidi Said, as well as ruins of Timgad. Purchase, Krul
Album with 141 b/w photographs, captions in Dutch, and accompanying map with itinerary of unknown traveler. Includes images of people, street scenes, markets, gardens, festivals, Koranic schools, desert, oases, cavalry, and camel corps. Places include Constantine, Tizi Ouzou, El Kantara...
92 b/w photographs, captions in French, with views of local men, women, and children, residences, street scenes, government and other buildings, hospital, markets, mosque, gardens, military encampments, fortifications, French Foreign Legion, camel and horse transport, other French and Moroccan troops...
121 black/white snapshots, no captions. Images of port, ships (one with French flag), street scenes, local inhabitants, buildings (some with signs in French), roads, car with hand crank, desert with camels, ostriches, fields and agricultural equipment, railroad station (with sign...
48 b/w images, captions in English, of local inhabitants, street scenes, snow, markets, oases, and countryside, starting in Marseilles and travelling to Algiers, Cape Carbon, Bougie, Chabet el Akra, el Kantara, Biskra, and Sidi Okba.
55 black/white shapshots, with captions, of a tour in Algeria taken by two elderly English women, Mrs. Frank Payne and Mrs. William Spencer, Mar. 1933. Contains images of Sidi Akba, Timgad (Roman settlement ruins), Biskra, and Bou Saada. Includes street...
Eight black and white snapshots, including Oran street scene with children, countryside, Route de St. Antoine, local inhabitants, laborers loading ship, horse transport, and Oued (river) Sal Sal.
Mainly videotapes re dance, from a UCSB faculty member of dramatic art and dance.
One letter (TL), 1931, from Alice E. Andrews (daughter of Christopher Columbus Andrews) to Dr. Solon J. Buck of the Minnesota Historical Society, re earlier correspondence between her and Thomas L. Sullivan pertaining to republication of her father's Civil War...
Handwritten copy of Burton's diary, 1851-1938, written mainly in essay form, most sections pertaining to the 1850s and including a discussion of her father's [Rev. Daniel Saunderson Whitney] activities with the underground railroad and having fugitives in their home in...
The Juana Alicia collection chronicles the art, mostly murals, of the aforementioned artist. The dates of her artwork range from the early 1980's to the late 2000's.
Correspondence, with Wilbur Jacobs (UCSB Professor of History), re the Stephenson-Binkley Prize awarded by the Organization of America Historians, and various UCSB Library staff about his book collection, which UCSB wishes to acquire , 1964-1968. [did UCSB acquire?]. No alpha...
Manuscript narrative, 1945-1946, of American sailor Alden L. Allen's experiences in the Pacific, including Japan's surrender in Tokyo Harbor, visit to Nagasaki and other Japanese ports, and thoughts about dropping of the atom bomb....
. Mainly correspondence of the Allen Family of Providence, Rhode Island, including scientist Zachariah Allen, his wife Harriet Arnold Allen, their son Judge Henry Wilder Allen, and other family members. Correspondents include John R. Bartlett, Hiram Fuller, Chandos Fulton, Oliver...
The George Allen Collection of Radio Scripts of the American Radio Archives (ARA) houses the scripts collected by writer-producer George Allen. The collection extends 1.25 linear feet holding 101 radio scripts for the radio show between 1945-1954.
Photocopy of a typescript manuscript, abridged from the original, "Journal from Wheeling down the Ohio and Mississippi, 1817." Location of original unknown.
Collection contains a diary, photo album, and loose photos, detailing a mining engineer's trip from San Francisco to Vladivostok to work for Clarkson & Company, an American mining company establishing coal mines in eastern Russia.
Two almanacs, with daily entries by an unknown author, from the area around Concord, Massachusetts. Talks about chopping wood, plowing, planting, and other agricultural activities, and making occasional trips to Concord.
This is a discrete collection containing two boxes of miscellaneous materials that were collected by Charles Schermerhorn in relation to Carlos Almaraz and the Los Four. Almaraz was one of the members of Los Four, a group of influential artists...
Holograph letter written at Hatteras Island regarding what to do with his money if he doesn't return.
The collection mainly contains latter 1960s and early 1970s US newspapers, with an emphasis on California, but also some foreign titles. In most cases there are only single or scattered issues, not long runs. Included are newspapers devoted to African...
The collection contains books and printed materials on alternative religions and spiritual ideologies. Within these materials are writings describing ideologies, practices, history, and discourse surrounding known 20th century alternative beliefs and figures from related fields.
Alurista's collection consists of papers and literary manuscripts demonstrating his work as a literary artist. The collection contains certificates and awards, essays, articles, general correspondence, and correspondence relating to his book . His vast collection of research files show his...
Materials related to the courses Asian-American Studies 142 and 145, taught by Ambi Harsha from 1995-2017. At the end of each quarter, students in the class presented a stage presentation entitled Playsia.
[Union Army General]. One 1857 letter (ALS) to Col. (?) re getting the "Big Mail Contract" across the plains to California and asking for support for his proposal. Earlier, after the Mexican-American War, ca. 1848-1849, he was a lieutenant in...
Two engraved portraits, [ca. 1850s-1865].
Articles, C.V.
Eleven letters from American Presbyterian missionary Lowrie, from Canton and Shanghai, China, to Anna Dickenson, New York City. .05 linear feet (1 folder).
Words and music by George Clinton Baker. Sheet music. Liberty Publishing Co., Santa Barbara, CA. Schauer Printing Studio, Santa Barbara, CA. Purchase, [Selvaggio?]
149 printed almanacs from eastern parts of the United States, including some duplicates and variant issues.
Two receipts for contributions to the Missionary Packet, Morning Star. Boston, Missionary House, 1866. Alpha list.
Holograph list titled "Volunteer Organization 1861" with columns labeled Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and subcolumns labeled Regiment, Company, Pay per Month, Battery per Company, and Light Artillery. Under the column labels are rows listing army ranks, including Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major,...
One printed circular, re solicitiation of funds and invitation to form auxiliary societies. Washington, 25 Mar. 1843. 1999
One Civil War era document, war loan bond, 1 Apr. 1863.
Nine U.S. flags, ranging from 33 to 48 stars, plus one Confederate Artillery flag.
The collection contains 54 WPA related black and white photographs of musicians, singers, their homes and environs, from California and parts of the South, including Arkansas and North Carolina.
The collection contains correspondence, flyers, invitations, memoranda, notices, and other mailings, mainly relating to the American Institute of Graphic Arts [AIGA] Fifty Books of the Year Show and other organization activities. These mainly are items sent to Hobart Skofield, who...
One letter (TLS) from A. S. W. Rosenbach, President of the Society, to Sol Bloom, re membership in the Society and information about the Society's holdings relating to George Washington. Philadelphia, n.d. Alpha list.
Broadside, welcoming "our brave Volunteers..." and inviting them to the organization's headquarters and the Seaman's Mission Reading Room, where "Ladies will be in attendance to give full information regarding objects of interest in the vicinity of Yokohama and Tokyo," ca....
One printed certificate titled American Lloyd's Certificate of Classification No. 1719 to certify that the 1/2 Brig Mary M. Williams was built at Pembroke, Maine in November 1862 and was examined in New York in August 1877 and found to...
Souvenir album, with more than 150 black and white photos, presented to one of the officers visiting the American Military Mission Turkish War School, Dec. 30, 1947. Mainly images of officers and Turkish trainees in classroom and other campus settings....
The collection contains bylaws, membership directories and information, flyers, conference notices and programs, and other mailings relating to activities of the American Printing History Association (APHA), including the Southern California Chapter of APHA. These mainly are items sent to Hobart...
Approximately 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts mainly relating to 20th century non-traditional religions and splinter groups of larger religious bodies in North America. The core of the collection, assembled by J. Gordon Melton, includes major sections relating to Astrology, Buddhism,...
109 black and white snapshots, no captions, including images of crew and passengers on a Matson Line ship, Pago Pago and surrounding countryside, harbor, local inhabitants welcoming visitors, daily activities, gardens, houses and other buildings, street scenes, group shots, U.S....
Cite as: [Identification of item], American Samoa photograph album, Wyles Mss 173. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Cite as: [Identification of item], American Samoa Photograph collection, Bernath Mss 340. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
American G.I.'s in Iran during World War II, 1943.
107 uncaptioned black and white snapshots in a decorative black lacquer album. Includes images of fellow American and Korean soldiers, military base, Jeeps and other military vehicles; kennels, dogs and puppies; Norterounding area (exact location unclear); straw thatched huts; local...
Three pamphlets, ca. 1918-1919. [why Wyles?]. Moved to SC1039.
Three pamphlets, ca. 1918-1919. Transferred from Wyles SC 464). Alpha list.
One Civil War era document: Circular (printed) re relief for refugees of the war, 1865.
40 cartons of records from American Women for International Understanding (AWIU), a non-profit, non-governmental organization established in 1968 to create an international network of women to foster understanding and goodwill among nations. The collection includes minutes, scrapbooks, and correspondence, but...
Audiocassettes of broadcasts by Pastor C. O. Stadsklev of Hopkins, MN. Stadsklev (dates) was
[Lieutenant, Wisconsin Infantry, 7th Regiment (Vol), Co. K.]. Reminiscences derived from Civil War diaries, 1861-1866. Written ca. 1906.
One note (ANS) to Beverly Moio, saying Moio should visit, and that she is in the midst of Volume 5 (of her diaries). Los Angeles, June 1972. Purchase, accessioned Feb. 27
One photograph album with 46 black and white photographs, no captions, compiled by a C. R. W. Anderson, probably British, ca. 1904.
The collection includes papers of the Australian born actress noted for her stage, radio, and television work, particularly her Shakespearean roles. The collection includes scripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and correspondence.
Two holograph letters written to his mother regarding his experiences as a soldier.
Audio interviews for a book on the Esalen Institute and typescripts of this book and three others by author/journalist/political scientist Walter Truett Anderson.
Photocopy of a 40-page handwritten manuscript, "A Cruise in the Gulf of Mexico by an Ex-salt of the Texas Navy," Jan. 1856. Location of original unknown.
[Rear Admiral]. Two engraved portraits, 1865, n.d.
Engraved portrait, n.d.
One page from an unidentified newspaper, with several articles / letters to the editor re the proclamation. In-hand as of 6/16/11. Oversize boxed.
Portraits. [Oversize boxed].
Interviewer: David E. Russell, [1990?]. Interviewee(s): Andrew Meca.
Two Christmas cards by cartoonist Andy Gump, ca. 1920s. Laid in Sidney Smith's Andy Gump: His Life Story (Spec, Sweet PN6728.G8 S58 1924). Alpha list.
[Private, New York Infantry, 114th Regiment (Vol), Company F]. Four Civil War letters (ALS), 1863.
"Bio-bibliography" of an author who wrote mainly about Native American groups such as the Choctaw, including the Civil War and post-Civil War era. Oklahoma State University, Department of History, 1985.
The collection contains 159 b/w photographs (including a few cyanotypes), copies of a journal and correspondence, and related material of Philinda Rand Anglemyer, a Racliffe graduate who taught English in the Philippines in the early 1900s. It includes images of...
One album containing 85 black/white photographs with handwritten captions in English, mainly southwest Angola.
A graduate of the University of Chicago in 1936, Mrs. Anita J. Mackey recounts her career as a medical social worker for the Veterans Administration in Chicago, Los Angeles and, finally, in Santa Barbara. Interviewer: David E. Russell, 1994-1999. Interviewee(s):...
11 Civil War era letters (ALS) to Miss Ann Drew of Smithville, NC. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Letter and workshop program
One letter (ALS) from the abolitionist, lecturer, actress. playwright, and feminist Dickinson, re an invitation to speak - says her fee is $150 and her schedule is very busy, but she is willing to consider the offer. Philadelphia, 12 Sept....
One note (ANS) from Anna S. C. Blake, founder of a Santa Barbara manual training school which developed into the present-day University of California, Santa Barbara, expressing gratitude to an unknown recipient for the devoted care she/he has given to...
Diary of a young woman who lived with her family near Pottstown, PA and who describes her daily life, social engagements, and includes mention of abolitionist riots, 1857-1858. Brief guide, TL 12/23/2003.
Mainly correspondence, research files, and printed material collected by Shupe, re the Goddian Movement, founded by Lawrence A. Whitten.
[Illinois Infantry, 104th Regiment (Vols), Company D]. Six Civil War era letters (ALS), 1860-1862.
[Adjutant General, New Hampshire]. Seven Civil War era letters (ALS) from Colby's wife and others, re personal matters and various requests, 1863-1864.
Papers of composer Anthony Menk primarily recordings of his compositions as well as other musical performances.
Correspondence
Printed text of Resolutions and Address at the meeting. Syracuse, New York, January 9, 1851.
60+ flyers, handbills, newsletters, and other ephemera, mainly Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan area.
Two photograph albums and an article in UCSB Library's Soundings, primarily relating to mining engineer Anton K. Money's life in western Canada and Alaska from 1923-1964. Includes some related clippings, correspondence, and ephemera.
Life history of a mining engineer who fled war-torn Europe, to explore Canada's mining frontier during the 1920s. Interviewer: David E. Russell, 1982 [when did DER start at UCSB?]. Interviewee(s): Anton K. Money.
One note (AN) on George E. Littlefield (Boston, Mass.) stationery, re Johann Zainer, latter fifteeenth century Ulm printer who, among other things, printed Antonio Rampegolo's Aurea Biblia (1476). Laid in Rampegolo's, Aurea Biblia (BV4830.R33 1476), gift of Mrs. McKinley Helm....
." Tinted lithograph of a sketch made from the 'Beacon House' on Morris Island. Printed for the Benefit of the Sanitary Commission by the Lithographers' Association of New York.
Audio recordings, interviews re Bank of America burning in Isla Vista, next to UCSB, in Feb. 1970.
The collection contains 18 original etching plates [linoleum cuts], created and used by John F. Archer in his printed portfolio, (San Diego, CA: Atavistic Press, 1976). UCSB Special Collections also has an author's autograph copy of , no. 13 of...
Three letters (TLS), including two to Matthew J. Bruccoli, re literary matters such as John Dos Passos' reputation, 1969, 1971, n.d. Alpha list.
Printed catalog and systems documentation for the original cataloging project for the ARVM, now superceded by online catalog.
Seven B+W photos (approx. 7 ½ X 4 ½ ) of Arctic scenes: indigenous people in kayaks, hunting scene, a thatched hut, large group of people in front of a wooden structure, a western schooner-like sailing ship. N.D. No specific...
64 black/white photographs, mainly of the Eskimo population and environs of Alaska.
Research files of Harry Arends, producer, director, and editor of numerous film and television specials from 1977-2001. The files include show rundowns with production numbers, synopses, cast information, and sometimes broadcast dates.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Argentina, SC 1021. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Small leather bound album with 24 black-and-white images of Mendoza and Argentinian Andes.
52 apparently unrelated black and white photographs, some tinted, some mounted, mainly portraits and group shots depicting dress and photographic techniques of the times, from Buenos Aires, Bahia Blanca, and elsewhere in Argentina.
Typescript narrative journal written under the pseudonym Raul of the Andes, recounting the travels and observations of three young men, members of the Catholic social movement La Federación de Cículos Católicos De Obreros, which had been founded in Argentina by...
Civil War print. [Oversize boxed]. [date?]
Four items. United States, General Land Office, 1906-1909. [Oversize boxed].
Photocopies of Civil War affidavits, statements by residents re destruction and removal of property by soldiers, 1864.
One Confederate Civil War receipt for impressment of one hundred bushels of wheat, for use by the Army of Northern Virginia. Issued to John B. Tate.
U.S. Army Headquarters, Army of the Potomac -- 1 Civil War era ledger, 1864-1865, entitled Report of Names of Officers doing duty in the Quartermasters Department, including number of staff, line officers and enlisted men for duty; and number of...
One partial note (ANS), "With best wishes," signed by Toynbee, n.d.. Found in Kimball Young's copy of Toynbee's A Study of History (New York , 1947). Alpha list.
371 (circa 350) black and white photos plus several loose photos, some loose ephemera, one map etc. Date (1936) stamped on cover. "Around the Pacific" stamped on cove
Broadsides, flyers, newsletters, pamphlets and related items, collected by Arthur Hochberg. Includes Weather Underground Organization and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) materials. Most from the Bay Area (San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, CA) and Chicago. Hochberg was one of the...
One letter (TLS) to Mr. [?] Titus, re Meeker's radio speech and his book, The Ivory Mischief. Wayne, Illinois, 22 Jan. 1941. Alpha list.
(1863-1947). Three letters (ALS), laid in various books by and about Machen, re gifts and literary matters. London , 1924-1926. Alpha list.
(1863-1945). One letter (ALS) from English author and journalist Arthur Morrison, known for his gritty depictions of London's East End, to a Mr. [Stone?], mainly about Morrison's book A Child of the Jago (1896). Salcombe House, Loughton, Essex, England, December...
(1871-?). 11 typescript poems, signed , 1943. Laid in The Passing Show. Alpha list.
Two letters (ALS) from British poet, critic, and magazine writer Arthur Symons (1865-1945) re books and book orders; also, three signed holograph poems. Alpha list.
Collection of correspondence , 1931-1932, re his publication of Charles Lamb's Grace before Meat. Alpha list.
Drafts and notes for Humanistic Perspective, vol. II, a textbook edited by Warmoth.
This is an album of a soldier in the U.S. Army, Arthur Williams, who was stationed in Peking (Beijing) as part of the foreign military forces during the Boxer Rebellion. The photographs date from ca. 1905. Williams took many photos...
Primarily correspondence, clippings, and photographs collected by Margaret [?], re Robert Henri, William Merrit Chase, and Santa Barbara artists William Louis Otte and Della Shull, ca. 1907-1957. Alpha list.
Holograph letter written at Head Quarters, Fort Pickering.
Notebook of typed transcripts of diaries and other documents of D. R. [Delos Rodeyn] Ashley, Lansford W. Hastings, John Bidwell and Judge Benjamin Hayes, pertaining to journeys to California. Apparently a copy of material at the Bancroft Library (MSS C-B...
Addresses and speeches, awards, biographical information, correspondence, writings, photographs, audiotapes and videotapes of the newspaperman, writer, editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and executive for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Awarded the first double Pulitzer Prizes in history for...
2500+ black and white photographs in 53 Kodak albums, from numerous trips to far flung parts of the world, including India and Ceylon, Europe, West Indies, Latin America, the Middle East, Egypt, and the U.S.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Asia and Ireland travel photograph album, SC 1042. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Asia and Middle East tour album, SC 1101. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Asian American Dance Performances collection spans the years 1974 to 2006. The collection consists of posters, exhibit pamphlets, DVD and videotapes, photographs and informational material about the organization.
Eighteen zines and graphic novels created by California-based Asian American artists. Material dates from approximately 1997 to 2011....
The Asian American Theater Company Archives consists of eleven series distributed among 56 archival boxes that occupy approximately 25 linear feet of space. The archival materials include administrative/personnel records, grant applications, production files, correspondence, flyers, audio and videotapes, photographs, and...
This is a separate catalog to the productions and scripts found in the Asian American Theater Company Archives (CEMA 9) in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. As an annotated list of productions and scripts, the catalog provides information about...
Materials generated by the the San Francisco-based Asian American Woman Artists Association (AAWAA) in the course of its activities from approximately 1994 to 2014.
Album, with about 96 black/white numbered but uncaptioned photographs, of Asmara and environs during the period of Italian occupation. Images of street scenes, local inhabitants, Art Deco buildings such as the Cinema Impero, Jamia al Kulafae Mosque, railway linking to...
This collection contains sixteen diaries written by Charles H. Aspinwall, a founder of the New Thought Church in Southern California in the 1920s.
Ten printed pamphlets, programs, articles of association, and other items relating to the organization and activities of this group of California pioneers. .05 linear feet (1 folder).
Pamphlets, program brochures, and catalogs
This collection is comprised of the records of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, an association for "those whose thought and work express a humanistic orientation." Materials in the collection are arranged by series.
This collection contains organizational literature, correspondence, and writings from the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis.
Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, conference proceedings, flyers, brochures, newsletters, and bylaws generated in the course of activities by the Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA) from approximately 2001-2007.
Photograph album in a customized box labeled with the family name Astrinsky. The album contains 53 postcards, some in color, depicting a variety of people and places with messages handwritten in Yiddish. Many are from areas in Eastern Europe including...
Consists of pamphlets relating to astrology, palm reading, dream interpretation, and handwriting analysis.
The collection mainly contains invitations, programs, articles, reviews, and other items relating to the 1949 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bicentennial Celebration, which were collected by Goethe - scholar Stuart Pratt Atkins (1914-2000), UCSB professor of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies...
The collection contains two black cloth albums ca. 1920s, containing 260 b/w photographs, most with English captions (some of these descriptions seem rather speculative), featuring a number of scenes from various locales in China, Mongolia, and Manchuria. Among the photographs...
This collection contains pamphlets, brochures, flyers, and other ephemera pertaining to the "Atomic Age" in American response to the existence of atomic weapons.
Pamphlets, brochures, flyers, and other ephemera dealing with issues of radiation and fallout, bomb shelters, civil defense, U.S.-Soviet relations, government and religious response to the development of the atom bomb.
Six-page list, with many clergy represented, mainly New England, organization not named. [Oversize boxed ].
Printed catalogs of book auctions, mainly for Sotheby's, ca. 1938-1990.
One document (ADS), notice re sale of property of Jonathan Hopkins, 14 October 1800. Alpha list.
Auction of the steamer Beatrice (late Rappahannock). "Built by the British Government for a sloop of war in 1856..." [Oversize boxed].
(1840-1917). Two printed announcements in French: exhibit opening , 1900, and third anniversary of the death of Eugène Carrière , 1909. Alpha list.
(Governor of Illinois). Signed document, appointing Benjamin P. Hinch as Notary Public for Gallatin County, 1851. [Oversize boxed].
Scrapbook entitled "Civil War Time: Memories and Experiences...," with clippings from newspaper account by Smith, 1914.
Austin Method Builders prospectus containing 20 black-and-white photographs of newly completed Columbia Records office in Los Angeles, California.
Papers of Warren Austin (1911-1999), owner of the Val Verde Estate in Montecito, California. Austin was a close friend of Dame Judith Anderson, a patron of the Lobero Theatre (Santa Barbara, California) and a personal physician to the Duke and...
23 items, ca. 1902-1944, in denominations from 50 groschen to 10,000 kronen. From the von Luschen/Loschen (?) Collection. Alpha list.
Illegible signature. Found in unsorted SC.
Two sheets of autographs and signed documents, ca. 1859-1862. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
French printed, linen backed, folding map covering Luxembourg, and parts of France, Belgium and Germany.
HPA. Interviewer: David E. Russell, 9/25/91; 8/12/94; 1/18/96-1/20/96. Interviewee(s): Avanta Meeting (who present?), Marilyn Peers, HPA Avanta Network (who present?). Transcript: None found. Related materials: None found.
Bound volume, containing numerous documents, mostly in Portuguese (maybe some Spanish). Rough translation of title is "Goods/Property of the Order of St. Benedict of Aviz" which is in Portugal, Portalegre District.
Leaflets
This is a historical collection of eight videotapes that were acquired in 3/4 inch U-Matic format and document important Chicano historical events such as Chicano cultural arts performances in theater and music as well as Chicano protest marches. The tapes...
The Aztlán Collection spans from 1970-1988 and contains 8 U-Matic tapes and one audio tape that chronicle important cultural and political events within the Chicano movement.
Educational Survey of El Dorado County. Mimeograph report, mainly about a school system in northern California, and related newspaper clippings, ca. 1917. Deaccession?
Holograph letter signed by A. B. Thompson in San Francisco, [California] to F. D. Atherton, Esq. in Valpariso about difficulties with regard to a property claim which may be solved by Atherton's testimony. The letter asks Atherton to verify certain...
One letter (ALS) to Jonas Huddle, reflecting on the character of local "Yankie" (sic) residents. Cheyenne City, Dakota Territory, 8 Apr. 1868.
Primarily auction, company, dealer, and exhibit catalogs relating to scientific instruments, publications, and the history of science, from a UCSB history faculty member.
The collection contains a diverse assortment of badges, medals, pins, and buttons, ca. 1888-1918, including several Grand Army of the Republic items, political items like a William Howard Taft pin (1907), a Woman's Christian Temperance Union badge (1903), an Uncle...
This collection contains scripts from Art Baker's radio program (KFI, Los Angeles, 1938-1958), photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, as well as personal correspondence and memorabilia.
Ca. 1920s-1940s. Correspondence, photographs, postcards, clippings and other ephemera regarding Abraham Lincoln and Indiana.
This collection contains materials related to both the opinion held by the Supreme Court and the debate within the UC over the legitimacy of it's complaint. There was no definitive consensus among scholars as to the strength of weaknesses of...
41 b/w prints of Baku (now capital of Azerbaijan) and countryside, likely taken by a British family. Includes images of family and friends, street scenes, the port, local inhabitants with carriages, wagons, camels, and other forms of transport, wooden oil...
15 letters from brothers Samuel and Orange Baldwin, both with the 143rd Pennsylvania Volunteers. [Expand].
The collection is comprised of correspondence and photographs which provide insight into some of James Baldwin's social and political activism mainly in the 1970s.
Two photograph albums. 1933 album contains 36 black-and-white snapshots of a trip to Bali. 1937 album inscribed (twice) "Bali 1937" on inside page. Thirty six (including two loose) black-and-white photos of various locales in Bali, many featuring activities of inhabitants.
Materials collected by John Ballard that relate to New Age, Human Potential, and other spiritual and religious movements.
Mainly correspondence of the Irish Quaker Shackleton, Leadbeater, and Barrington families of Ballitore, Ireland. Includes material relating to Edmund Burke.
. One check for $34.25, payable to E. B. Gardette, signed by Richard Ashhurst & Sons. Philadelphia. 30 July 1834.
Interviews with Barbara Berendzen, a family member featured in one of Virginia Satir's filmed family reconstruction workshops. The oral history traces the family history since the reconstruction, in an attempt to assess the Satir Model as a form of family...
Publisher's publicity letter and 5x7 b/w glossy photograph, laid in signed uncorrected proof copy of American author Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven (Spec PS3561.I496 P539 1993). Alpha list.
Interviewer: David E. Russell, [1994?]. Interviewee(s): Barbara S. Uehling. Transcript: ?
The collection contains a diary, documents, 7 carte de visite photographs, and leather document case of Alfred E. Barber, a Civil War Union lieutenant, New York Infantry, 141st Regiment (Vol), Company G, ca. 1863-1864. Barber was the great uncle of...
Papers of Gay Swenson Barfield, former Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Person and Co-Director of the Carl Rogers Institute for Peace.
Found item, provenance unknown. Alpha list - title only. Oversize boxed.
This collection chronicles the life of Grover Barnes, the man whom Santa Barbara has dubbed "The Ambassador of Hospitality." His extraordinary charm and service as a "Bell Captain" at the Hotel Miramar Resort has made him famous in the community....
Programs, clippings, posters, flyers and ephemera relating to the circus.
Typescript and edited drafts, correspondence, proofs, sample chapters, as well as promotional literature and other miscellany, of a Santa Barbara area mystery writer. Also, signed first editions of his works, which are cataloged separately.
62 black and white photographs, most snapshots, only one caption "This is your first victory garden 1942," likely taken by Corporal Bartony (probably with the United States Army Forces Far East) during his time in what appears to be somewhere...
The collection contains files from the earlier years when Noel Young owned and operated Capra Press, and later years when Robert [Bob] E. Bason owned and operated it.
This collection consists of over 300 books (many first editions) published by the Capra Press of Santa Barbara, California. The collection includes original signed contracts, photographs, notes, and advertising materials.
The materials described in the container list are part of a much larger collection of printed materials which have been cataloged individually and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB University Libraries online catalog....
Various documents and publications relating to funding and fundraising activities of a number of Santa Barbara-based educational and charitable organizations.
391 photographs documenting the activities of Battery "E" Eleventh Field Artillery in the Territory of Hawaii from 1927 to 1928.
Mounted, possible original watercolor, by unknown artist [initials G.E.P.], dated 1869, depicting the Oct. 21, 1861 battle near Leesburg, VA. No evidence this was a Currier & Ives, most of their Civil War lithographs being produced during the war, but...
One Civil War document (ADS), a notice warning against "Northern Secessionists and Traitors," posted outside John Folsom's store [?} after the Battle of Bull Run, 23 July 1861. Trade/purchase, accessioned Oct. 3, 1980.
Invitation from the Government of the United States to John A. Niebling, a Civil War veteran, to attend the 75th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg, June 29, 1938 to July 6, 1938, at Gettysburg, Pa.
Prospectus and order form for chromo lithograph, ca. 1869.
by V. Berezovski (St. Petersburg, 1898), translated from the Russian by Nicolai H. Hiller, 1942. Typescript carbon. Alpha list.
Holograph letter written from Little Rock, Arkansas by Elisha Baxter, who in 1872 became the tenth Governor of Arkansas, to Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth President of the United States, about the rumored resignation of William O. Stoddard as United States...
The collection includes documents, small flyers, handbills, collected research, publications, and newspaper and magazine articles, and ephemera (buttons) related to the Bay Area Black Panther Party.
This collection consists of a group of nine Bay Area Coalition Against Briggs Initiative (BACABI) handbills and brochures, opposing California Proposition 6, the "Briggs Initiative" of 1978. The collection also contains nine issues of the newsletter from January to November,...
One Civil War era letter (ALS) from James Asheton Bayard [U.S. Senator from Delaware], discussing mid-term election to replace Senator Thompson, arrests in Delaware, and incompetence of reporters. Washington, 14 Dec.1862....
(1825-1878). One holograph poem by American poet, literary critic, translator, and travel author Bayard Taylor, signed B.T., ca. 1870s. Alpha list.
Holograph note written and signed by Bayard Taylor, an American poet and travel author from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, about keeping an appointment to give a lecture on Alexander von Humboldt. The note is mounted behind a cardboard frame. One black...
Scrapbook of postcards, programs and ticket stubs of Wagner's operas from the 1938 Bayreuth Festival.
Collection of World War I era ephemera, ca. 1917-1918, including broadsides, programs, tags, stickers, and pins, as assembled by Mrs. H. S. (Marjorie W.) Bear. Many of the items are from Chicago....
43 illustrations depicting the story of drawn in Pécs, Hungary, by special needs high school students, many from the Beash Roma community, under the instruction of art teacher Ildikó Fodor in the 1980s.
Production files, mainly budget related, for the television series (1998-2004).
The collection contains photocopies of what were three unpublished works by Samuel Beckett and correspondence with Beckett and UCSB Library staff regarding permission to supply photocopies to researchers....
Includes various State Department records, e.g. material on the German War Documents Project (post-WWII), from an American scholar and Foreign Service Officer who spent his last years in Santa Barbara.
The collection contains biographical information, lists, prospectuses, printing specimens, and other ephemera, mainly about Peter Beilenson, Peter Pauper Press (Mount Vernon, NY), and the Walpole Printing Office (New Rochelle, NY). Early in his career, Beilenson was associated with the William...
The collection contains correspondence, documents, maps, photographs, and ephemera of Louis deKeyser Belden, a surgeon and captain in the Medical Corps during WWI. Belden was born Dec. 7, 1888, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1910....
Two albums, 93 b/w photographs, some captions in French, many of what appears to be early diamond mining in what was then the Belgian Congo, with images of laborers, European overseers, heavy machinery, and settlements. Places named include Mulomba, Bamba,...
One photograph album containing 80 b/w snapshots, a few with captions identifying individuals, apparently from the Zone de la Mongala (river area) of the Belgian Congo, ca. 1890s to early 1900s. Includes images of local inhabitants and activities such as...
One letter (ALS) from Rear Admiral H[enry] H. Bell, Commanding the U.S. Asiatic Squadron, to his second in command, Commander J[ohn] C[arson] Febiger on the 'USS Ashuelet', re suppressing piracy and preventing American citizens from engaging in the coolie trade....
Acquisition Information: Undetermined.
Photo album contains 28 black and white and sepia photographs, primarily portraits of the Benitez family taken in photography studios in Guadalajara. Also includes some photographs that are reproductions of paintings. Some photos have identifying information in Spanish on the...
One black and white 5" x 7 1/4" mounted print of Chapin as Abraham Lincoln in the play "In the White House," [ca. 1906].
One letter (ALS) to his father, Henry [?], and grandmother, re personal and family matters. New York, July 15, 1836. Alpha list.
Invitation to Mr. [George P.?] Tebbetts for presidential reception. Santa Barbara, 24 Apr. 1891.
Presidential Campaign - Cloth Momento, 1888. [Oversize boxed].
122-page Civil War autograph book belonging to Benjamin W. Johnson (15th Arkansas Regiment), with signatures and statements, mainly from fellow Confederate prisoners held at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, entries dated from April to July 1862. The book also includes...
The collection contains items mainly pertaining to Russian diplomat Axel de Berends and his career, latter 19th century, in Brazil, Sweden, Spain, and the Netherlands. Also included are notes and documents re research into the history of the family [de...
Five (5" x 7") black-and-white photographic prints (Fotografia "Perez", Mazatlán, Mexico) and six (4" x 4") Polaroid black-and-white prints of a fishing trip in Mazatlán in 1960. Photographs include Edgar Bergen, Fred H. Rohr, Roy Rogers, and unidentified persons aboard...
Collection of photographs from the Beringer Bros. Winery in St. Helena, California.
One album, 26 black-and-white photos, with related ephemera.
Research files of Bill Berkowitz concerning politically conservative issues and right-wing movements. Included are the articles, pamphlets, reports, research, and other documents he used during his time working with DataCenter.
Experimental recordings made by Emile Berliner. Includes nine 6" zinc masters (1891-1893), one 7" zinc master (1898) and one 7" shellac pressing (1898).
(1715-1808). Copy of diary, re Indian life in Pennsylvania area, Original in t he Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. [Provenance of copy?]. [See also SC 456]. No alpha list.
One letter (TL) 1953, and one letter (TLS) 1954, to Louis and Annette Kaufman, re projects he is working on. [Perf. Arts]. Alpha list.
Correspondence laid in Lincoln's New Sale, ca. 1926, 1949.
16 etchings of various buildings where Lincoln lived, ca. 1920s-1930s.
This collection consists of the diaries, correspondence, and other materials, of writer, teacher, literature and film critic Mashey Bernstein (1946-).
The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, articles, announcements, and reviews.
Bound typescript of poems and diary extracts, entitled Moods - Ever Changing and To Each His Gift, along with related correspondence and photo. Oral History 53 also relates to Kelley. Gift from Nes and Le Synadinos
This collection contains fan club newsletters, one membership card, and photographs relating to the Bertie the Bunyip Show.
Photocopy of one letter [TLS], from Frank L. Hieronymus, Dean of Faculty, Westmont College, to Dr. Rollin Quimby, University of California, Santa Barbara, re Jewish services during the Civil War. Laid in: Korn's Was There a Confederate Jewish Chaplain? Santa...
ca. 156 b/w prints of Spanish Colonial Architecture, taken by Harmer in 1925, the year of the Santa Barbara earthquake. Harmer was an architect who designed many of the Spanish-style buildings in Santa Barbara.
Newsletters, programs, pamphlets and ephemera related to puppetry.
pamphlets, including joke books (early 20c?).
English, 1549. Alpha list. [Oversize boxed]. [check if facsimile].
. 35 printed Bible Teachers' (New York) manuals, with titles such as "Revelation for the End of the Gospel Age" and "Who May Know the Secrets of God."
50+ small tracts by Bible Truth Publishers of Oak Park, Illinois, with titles such as "The Broken Safe," "The Destiny of Man," and "Which Church Saves?"
Genesis. Found item, provenance unknown. Alpha list. Oversize boxed.
Biblical Library of Stanley S. Slotkin, with 30 original leaves and accompanying printed text for 16th-18th century bibles and other religious works; also copies of articles about Slotkin, his collecting and gifts. Alph list. [Oversize, map cabinet 20/6]
One typescript, compiler unknown, of early English-language authors and their works, to mid-19th century, arranged chronologically by birthdates of the authors, with subject indices. Alpha list.
One holograph document (AD), "A key to some of the principal characters in the Bibliomania," apparently referring to English bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin's The Bibliomania, or Book-Madness ... (1809). Alpha list.
5 b/w snapshots. Purchase, eBay
One postcard size b/w photo of Oroville, California bridge completed in 1855, with materials brought around Cape Horn.
One scrapbook, with printed accounts of the Bidwell family, primarily from Massachusetts and Connecticut, including service in the Civil War, n.d.
Three printed leaves , 1968. Laid in Bissett's Awake in the Red Desert (PR9199.3 B45 A93). Alpha list.
Three psychedelic, color postcards/flyers, Wes Wilson artist, advertising events presented by Bill Graham at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco. Headliners include Jefferson Airplane and Butterfield Blues Band. Provenance unknown. Alpha list.
45 black and white albumen photographs from the Yenangyat area of Western Burma, including images of railroads, oil wells and workers, Buddhist temples and statues, other buildings, local inhabitants (men, women, and children), rural scenes, water buffalo, countryside, markets, boats,...
"The Making of a Radical." Student Radicalism and the 60s Counter Culture: The Personal View of a Participant (Santa Barbara, UCSB Oral Hsitory Program, 1982), 270 pp. In this account of the 1960s, William Timberman recounts his association with the...
The Robert Billigmeier collection holds some of the documents of the University of California's Evacuation and Resettlement Study begining in 1942. The collection contains reports conducted under the direction of University of California, Berkeley Professor Dorothy Swain Thomas. There are...
Color lithograph by the Orcutt Co, Lithographers, Chicago, executed for B. F. Larrabee & Co., [1893]. Found in misc. mss map drawer. Map cabinet 20/6. Alpha list.
One letter [ALS] and one photograph [carte de visite size] of General David B. Birney [Civil War Commander of the Tenth Corps], from his widow Antoinette Birney to General Davis, 17 June 1886....
Holograph letter written near White's Ford, Virginia.
Alpha list (title only).
Cite as: [Identification of item], Black-Jewish Information Center press releases, ARC Mss 38. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Blacks in film and television collection contains approximately 900 articles dating from 1960 to 1990. The collection has been arranged in four series: Film, Personalities, Television and General; in each series the articles have been ordered chronologically beginning with...
This collection consists of correspondence and other material, mainly legal documents, as well as a smaller number of personal items and ephemera. Correspondence includes that of Agustin Olvera (1818-1876), first judge of Los Angeles County. Legal documents cover the activities...
(1826-1884). One letter (ALS) from English writer, journalist, and newspaper editor Jerrold to unknown recipient, responding he regrets he cannot interfere in a personal matter. [London, 1882?]. Found in Jerrold's The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs (1882). Alpha...
Correspondence, cards, notes, photographs, and printed ephemera of English author Eric Walter Bligh, whose works included (1932), (1940), and (1961). Acquired by the UCSB Library in 1965, with Bligh's book collection of several hundred volumes focusing primarily on latter nineteenth...
(1861-1929). 1 note (ANS) from [?], re an unpublished poem on Christmas card by Carman, n.d. Gift from Martina and Randolph Sasnett, accessioned May 23
Photographic prints of Lotte Lehmann, family members, and acquaintances.
The collection contains correspondence to relatives, diaries, document (honorable discharge from the GAR), and artifacts (spoon/fork/knife eating utensil, oak leaf clusters, and a GAR pin)....
One letter (ALS) re request for admission. New York, 1878. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Holograph letter written by the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission in response to complaints about camp conditions.
Two World War I era flyers: "To Help Horses in War Time." London, ca. 1916-1918. Alpha list.
Files and videocassettes of a professor at UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, mainly pertaining to the Western Training Lab, tannebaum's work there with small group processes such as Sensitivity Training and T-Groups, and his career in organizational development.
Exhibit catalog from DeGolyer Library, SMU, 1989.
This collection contains subject files, manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, calendars, photographs and ephemera of Isaac Bonewits (1949–2010), writer, lecturer, and liturgist with considerable influence on the American Neopagan and Earth religion movements of the late 20th century.
The collection contains diaries, photograph albums, loose photographs, and a scrapbook relating to Mildred A. Bonham, wife of Benjamin F. Bonham, who was appointed U.S. Consul to British India, in Calcutta, 1885-1894.
1885 reproduction of July 2, 1863 issue of Vicksburg Daily Citizen, printed on wallpaper; piece of Confederate flag from Fort Dionelson; and related publication, The Campaigns for Fort Donelson.
One exhibit announcement (John Henry Nash, Printer) and one related letter (ALS) from W. R. K. Young to Averill (?), Sept. 22 , 1917. Printers Collection. Alpha list.
Bound manuscript.
(1856-1915). One letter (TLS) from Booker T. Washington, American educator, orator, author and leader of the African-American community, on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute stationery, to Charlotte Bowditch, noting he is to speak in Santa Barbara the following Tuesday. Los...
The collection contains bookplates purchased or donated by various individuals over a period of years from about the 1960s to 1980s. Most of the bookplates are 20th century American, including a number from Santa Barbara and other parts of California....
One bound ledger, with entries, ca. 1850s-1890s. Early pages are accounts of the Boston Farm School, 1853-1856, followed by a number of pages mainly listing charges for labor for various individuals. The last few pages include names of men who...
Grand Jubilee Concert program, in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863.
61 printed programs, with numerous advertisements, for the Boston Museum, Boston Theatre, Gaiety, and Globe Theatre. Includes such productions as Uncle Tom's Cabin (1876) and Edwin Booth in Hamlet (1877). Provenance unknown. Alpha list.
This collection consists of materials gathered by Bud Bottoms over the course of his involvement with GOO! (Get Oil Out!), an organziation formed in the aftermath of the 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel, in order to prevent...
One bound Ethiopian manuscript on vellum, inserted in green slipcase. Date unknown....
Primarily correspondence of a Civil War Union soldier, 4th Rhode Island Infantry, Co. H. .2 linar feet (1 box).
Holograph letter written in Baltimore regarding missing muster and descriptive rolls for new Afro-American soldiers who were joining the regiments near Alexandria.
Literary press material of American writer and illustrator Greg Boyd. The collection (1979-2012) covers Asylum Arts and the Unicorn Press, as well as the written and graphic work of Boyd himself.
13 b/w seemingly all of same boy, album from Boston/New England store. Incl. two images of African Americans - nanny and man holding horse. No captions.
Collection of teleplays, press kits, syndication kits and pilot production notebooks from Embassy Television and Tandem/T.A.T., including scripts for 227, Little house: a new beginning, and press kits for Archie Bunker's place, Diff'rent strokes, Gloria, One day at a time,...
One note (ANS), from Ohio municipal reformer, diplomat, journalist and author Brand Whitlock, conveying best wishes to unknown recipient. Cannes, 5 May 1931. Alpha list.
[General, CSA]. Two engraved portraits, n.d.
Large album contains 210 black and white snapshots and one postcard, with some captions in English, taken primarily in Brazil. Images feature shipboard views; stops along the journey to Brazil in Lisbon (Portugal), with shots of a monastery, harbor scenes,...
24 printed cordels (long narrative poems in booklet form, with woodcut illustrations on the cover) in Portuguese, mostly on contemporary themes and famous people. Authors include Abraão Batista, Allan Sales, José Soares, Marcelo Soares, and Paulo de Tarso.
The album contains 26 black/white photographs, with captions in German, of railroad construction in Porto Lucena; bridge of S. Joeio Curityba, Paraguay; harbor of Ultramar, Uruguay; Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre and eucalyptus groves; revolutionaries; ruins of Sao Miguel;...
130 black/white photographs, along with a few postcards, some with captions in English, from a British family, depicting their life on a banana and dairy plantation called Bemfica in Macuco, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Includes images...
One album with more than 40 snapshots and 50 postcards, captions in English, apparently from a British expatriate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who traveled to Brazil, then England (including Oxford) and Germany. From dealer description:
Correspondence from Duncan Brent to Lawrence Clark Powell, as well as a typescript draft and other materials pertaining to Powell's publication of [a remembrance of Brent]. Also, a collection of the Brents' books, mainly 19th-20th century literature and Californiana. A...
Sixteen letters (ALS) to Miss Nancy Bridges, from brother William and other cousins, relatives, and friends in various units and locations in Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, re day-to-day camp life, requesting items like boots, socks, and pants...
Records of the Bristol and Colorado Gold Mining Company.
. Mainly receipts, supply and equipment bills, and member lists of the Bristol Artillery Company of Bristol, Rhode Island. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
About 60 black/white snapshots and a few postcard views, most with captions. Most photos are of British and local soldiers at various locations near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border (North West Frontier), including Attock, Akora, Nowshera, and Kala-Bagh. Also photos of local...
Photograph album containing 72 black/white snapshots, World War I era ca. 1917, of Baluchistan and Waziristan (Pakistan), and Northern India (Ferozepore, Dalhousie, and Ranikhet). Includes military photos of soldiers, camps, and camel transport, as well as local scenes and people....
Album contains 188 black and white photographs with borders, mounted double-sided to 23 brown cardstock leaves, each separated with web-patterned tissue guard. Occasional manuscript captions. Photographs range in size, the largest measuring 22,5 cm x 14cm, the smallest measuring 6cm...
241 black and white photographs in large album commemorating the British Association for the Advancement of Science's meeting in South Africa. Images feature shots from the journey to and from Africa, including shipboard views and port scenes of Southampton (England),...
Six printed items: "A Computation of the Charge of the Militia, as Proposed by the Bill in Parliament...," n.d.; "Directions for Applying Godbold's Vegetable Balsam...,"n.d.; "Form of Association Agreed to by The Committee of Sixty-One...," 1780; "Proposals for a Subscription...
Photo album containing 112 black and white photographs of indigenous people of the Mombasa Tribes.
107 black and white photographs, some captions in English on reverse. Includes images of U.S. Engineers' Hospital, St. George Anglican Cathedral, Carnegie Library, scenes of Georgetown, drum and kettle band, market, roads, rivers, agricultural activities, Muslim cleric, bride and groom,...
12 b/w albumen prints, with captions, mounted in a small album. Includes image of the photographer, J. A. Teixeria, and views of New Amsterdam and Georgetown ... Accompanied by an Oct. 1939 issue of Geographical Review, containing an article, "An...
Photograph album, ca. 1917-1919, containing 120+ black/white photos, very few with captions, mainly of British (men, women, and children) in Egypt (possibly Alexandria) during World War I. Mainly troops in camps and on the march, hospital wards, sporting events, and...
One document on vellum, signed by Edward and Thomas Chalcroft, Surrey, 1720. Provenance unknown. [++Oversize boxed].
18th century, primarily relating to members of the Macdonald, Mackenzie, and Maclean families. Alpha list. [Oversize boxed].
Seven Liberal Party posters, with images of party leader Joseph Grimond, and three Labour Party posters, with images of party leader Harold Wilson. Provenance unknown. Oversize Map Cabinet 20/6. Alpha list.
Early 20th century British pamphlets and ephemeral guides of a practical nature to magic tricks, largely published by L. Davenport & Co.
Photograph album of Capt. R. E. Godfrey, containing 167 black/white snapshots, many with captions, recording service with the British 153rd Rifles in North Africa, 1918-1919, and in the Arab Revolt, 1920. About 70 of the images are from Egypt and...
Photograph album, apparently of a British soldier with the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, containing 300+ black/white images, mainly snapshots without captions, ca. 1930s - early 1940s. Includes photos of family, apparently in Britain, as well as many shots of fellow...
A photograph album depicting British Military operations in Waziristan, then a region of India, in 1922 and 1923, prior to the Pink's War. Photographs mainly relate to military camps and convoys throughout the region.
Album of over 110 small black-and-white commercial photographs with brief captions in English. Album covers are wooden and have a picture of Mosque of Omar on front and word "Jerusalem" on back. Many photos identified as a "Palphot" photograph on...
Acquisition Information: Purchase, 2004.
Album contains 96 uniform-sized photos. 8 x 6cm. Inserted four to a page in the pre-cut windows on both sides of 12 album leaves. No captions. Black oblong tied album. 25 x 17cm. Photos of animals, particularly domesticated animals. There...
Photograph album of a British soldier, with 150+ photos, mainly snapshots, some with captions, ca. late 1920s-1937. Contains a number of shots of friends and family, some taken in England, but most are set in India, including fellow servicemen, the...
4 albums and 7 loose photographs, Waziristan (Afghanistan/Pakistan border area). [expand].
The Broadcasting Biography collection consists of obituaries pertaining to the broadcasters that contributed to radio and television throughout the twentieth century.
The Broadcasting Pamphlet collection consists of about 550 pamphlets created throughout the twentieth century and encompasses 9 cartons.
The Broadcasting Photograph collection consists of about 4,300 photographs taken throughout the twentieth century and encompasses 15 record boxes.
A Looking-Glass for Traytors, re trial of those implicated in the death of King Charles I. London, 1660. Alpha list. [Oversize boxed].
One broadside, "A los Mexicanos - e Hispano- Americanos...," San Francisco, 1863. .02 linear feet (1 folder). Translation inserted.
More than 200 printed items, most American, English language, mainly poetry, many in limited editions, some signed.
Printed broadside from Office A. R. Q. M. [Acting Regimental Quartermaster] 49th Missouri Infantry Volunteers, Eufaula, Alabama, dated October 5th, 1865, states that in compliance with Special Orders, dated Head-Quarters, Sub. District of Montgomery, October 11, 1865, all horses, mules,...
Printed broadside of soldiers from New Hampshire who died during the American Civil War, with caption titles, We Honor The Brave and Our Fallen Heroes, and names listed as follows: 9th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, Company I, Died of Disease:...
Three printed broadsides, authorized by David Perkins, from New-England Union Volunteer Company in Concord, Lebanon and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The first broadside, printed on official stationery of the company and dated December 26, 1864, is about paying $775 for substitutes...
The collection contains correspondence, teaching and research materials, and some files on science organizations from Herbert P. Broida, UCSB professor of Physics.
Papers of David W. Brokensha, South African anthropologist and former University of California, Santa Barbara Anthropology professor.
Manuscript, typescript, and printed material relating to new religious movements.
This collection consists of cassettes and reels, of music, poetry and production files related to Philip Brookman’s documentary video production entitled . Includes documentation related to the conference (1982) at UC Santa Cruz. Included are some personal papers, ephemera and...
This collection contains 23 volumes of "lessons" in the three branches of occultism (astrology, alchemy, and magic), circulated for initiates of the Brotherhood of Light.
1 document (TD), declaration of Pam Shannon Wells re her membership in the Brotherhood of the Sun, Santa Barbara, California
More than 40 pamphlets printed by the Brotherhood of the White Temple, Inc. (Sedalia, Colorado), most by M. Doreal, with titles such as "Atlantis and Lemuria," "Symbolism of the Great Seal of the United States," and "Wisdom of the Kabbala."
Holograph letter written at Arlington Heights, Virginia, describing the First Battle of Bull Run.
The George I. Brown Papers contain publications, correspondence, professional and biographical files, subject files on confluent education and Gestalt therapy, and teaching files of the UCSB professor emeritus of education.
This collection contains materials relating to the vaudeville performers the Brox Sisters and jazz trumpeter Henry Busse.
These two boxes contain the manuscript and notes of Yolanda Broyles-González's novel titled
UCSB faculty.
Examples of printing, one as early as 1791, along with 20th century California programs, prospectuses, and examples and correspndence relating to the history of half-tone printing. Donation by McCurdy
Found item, provenance unknown. Possible link to Chris Brun, former Head of Spec. Oversize boxed.
One letter (TLS) re not being able to have lecture printed in Soundings. Portola Valley, California, 25 May 1984. No alpha list.
One Civil War era letter (ALS) from Hattie Bryant to N. H. Willets, re personal matters and reports of many Confederate soldiers being women dressed in men's clothes. Wonders if this is true. Also worries about the great many wives...
One note (ANS) to Lewis Strauss, re visiting him. New York, 13 Feb. 13, 1935. Alpha list.
Broadside, ca. 1862. [Oversize boxed].
Mutt and Jeff Joke Book , 1911. Alpha list. [Oversize, boxed].
Four pieces of correspondence, including one sent autographed letter, pertaining to James Budd, governor of California from 1895–1899.
Text of the Prajñāpāramitās and Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtras in Mongolian.
Four palm leaves containing Buddhist text in the Pali language (of Indian Buddhism) and Burmese script.
Augustus Caesar Buell was born in 1847, and fought in the Civil War as a member of Company L of the 20th New York Cavalry, having enlisted on August 21, 1863. Although he was promoted to corporal the following November,...
One oversize sheet, with names of officers and troops, for the U.S. 24th Infantry, Company K., April 30, 1874. .02 linear feet (1 folder). Oversize boxed.
One unsigned holograph letter from a Union navy sailor at Washington Navy Yard to his mother and father, Joshua Buffum, of North Billerica, Massachusetts. He recounts the Confederate capture of the USS Isaac P. Smith, commanded by Lieutenant F. S....
Correspondence from Bukowski to his publisher, John Martin, of Black Sparrow Press.
Collection of four letters [TLS] and accompanying envelopes from Bukowski to Santa Barbara resident and collector James F. O'Roark, Apr.- Dec. 1975, re visits to Santa Barbara, how writing is progressing, and daily trials and tribulations in Buk's life. Includes...
The collection contains 449 unpublished, unsigned, undated, mainly one and two-page typescript poems by Charles Bukowski, sent to his publisher John Martin at Black Sparrow Press over nearly 30 years, from about 1966 to 1994, the year that Bukowski died.
The collection contains four typescript volumes, with handwritten corrections/deletions by the editor, John Martin, of Charles Bukowski poems to be published by Harper Collins 2004-2007.
20 manuscript poems by Bukowski, with author's signature on most, as well as hand-corrections and other notes.
Collection contains 50 black and while photos/photo cards mostly of people and places in several locales in Bulgaria.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Bulgaria World War I frontier guard photograph album, SC 1059. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
23 black/white images, many photo postcards, captions in Bulgarian, including soldiers in groups and on horseback, military band, pontoon bridge, wedding.
The collection contains more than 200 World War II era b/w photos, varying sizes, many with captions, many of Burma, Burmese life, and the Engineer Battalion in Burma, ca. 1944-1945, apparently taken by Arthur Wunner of New Jersey. Also, some...
240+ pages, gilt covers, several color drawings.
96 silver gelatin or albumen photographs, various sizes, captioned.
49 black and white albumen prints, captions in English, taken by an unidentified British woman. Images of Buddhist pagodas and temples, Burmese women and children, houses, street scenes, markets, Irrawaddy River, leper asylum. Locations include Rangoon, Mandalay, Bhamo, and Bhiwani.
Large album contains 303 black and white photographs and several watercolors and sketches documenting the travels of a British family, primarily in Burma. Photographs illustrate a journey by ship from Marseille harbor and along the Riviera coast (France) to Port...
Three snapshot albums, ca. 1890s, with 70 b/w photos, no captions, including images of British teak harvesting operations in Burma, using elephants and water buffalo. Also, views of Burmese people and countryside, village scenes, houses on stilts with woven sides,...
101 black and white photographs: 49 mounted panoramas, Burma Oil Co., other Burma, Port Said, Chester and other England, one dated 1902); 1 7 ½" x 9 ½" mounted albumen of oil field with rigs (looks familiar - see other...
Eleven hand-colored images, no captions, people and scenes of Burma. Purchase: Margolis and Moss
Three black and white photographs and four photo postcards, some captions, incl. images of oil wells, (Burmah Oil Company) drillers, and Viceroy reception, with American and other flags flying.
186 black and white photos (most are approximately 3 ½ X 5 ½ format, but some are full page-size; includes one loose photo) mounted on detached album pages. Photos show indigenous inhabitants and various locales two of which appear to...
Cite as: [Identification of item], Burmese lacquer prayer book, Printers Mss 79. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Albums and loose photographs, most pertaining to Ray J. Burnap (Hartford, CT), including military training at Paris Island, SC (1917), with AEF in France (1918-1920); also Edison Lamp Work; also trips around the US, ...Includes many picture postcards - dealer...
Holograph letter written at his camp in the field.
In 1969 the UCSB Library purchased several autographed books and a small amount of manuscript material from the author, Vincent Godfrey Burns. Burns had lived in Santa Barbara for a time and several of his poems were inspired by or...
Four scrapbooks that consist of newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, correspondence and related material of Minister Edgar White Burrill's activites within the New Thought movement.
Collection consists of reprints of articles by psychoanalyst Trigant Burrow (1875-1950).
13 letters to Disciple of Christ preacher Bushrod W. Henry (Shelbyville, Illinois), from family and friends. .5 linear feet (1 folder). Removed from Montgomery Collection (Wyles Mss 9).
Holograph letter concerning the possibility of getting more troops for the 165th regiment.
The collection contains three letters (ALS) about various Civil War-related issues. The first, written in the spring of 1861, is addressed to the Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, and touches on Butler's concern for what he calls the "negro question,"...
Correspondence, depositions, documents and evidence, witness statements, California State Assembly hearings, and audiotapes relating to the 1970 Isla Vista disturbances. Collected by Rolfe G. Buzzell, UCSB graduate student at the time.
"Report on the Coal Properties in Moffat County, Colorado, Owned or Controlled by J. M. Martin." Typescript carbon, with photographs and map, ca. 1911.
43 black and white photographs taken by C. Dominguez of Peruvian men, women, and children of African descent. Photos are primarily candid portraits, including images of musicians, and agricultural and city backgrounds.
Four photograph albums (B+W photographs and some B+W post cards) concerning "Kenya pioneer," C.E. Lee and his descendents. The engineering firm Kenya Uganda Railways and Harbour (K.U.R.H.) employed Lee and at least one son, who maintained these photographic documents. Dated...
102 black and white snapshots, some with captions in English, most apparently in and around Richmond and Louisiana, Missouri. Includes street scenes and window display for Chautauqua (educational summer-camp movement), many images of young adults in groups, picnic and other...
One letter (ALS) to General [Joseph B.?] Carr re recommendation of a Colonel Austen to a position. New York, N.Y., 28 Nov. 1879.
One holograph letter from Charles W. Gibson, a Civil War Union soldier, describing his service with the Wisconsin Volunteers, 14th Regiment, Company R. Written from a camp near Providence, Louisiana.
Holograph letter written and signed by C. C. Washburn from Washington, D. C. to Will to acknowledge Will's favor of the 4th and to promise support for him over two other members of the 34th Congress, namely, Jim Thorington and...
The collection consists of 51 items from the papers of Hazel Kenward Pfleuger (whose husband was the forester O. W. Pfleuger) of Mont Alto and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, relating to investments in the Calamba Sugar Estate, in the Philippines, dated between...
This is an extensive video archive of 173 video cassettes and 10 audio cassettes with bound transcripts, originally acquired through purchase in U-matic format and later reformatted into VHS. It is also preserved in digital format and the videos are...
This collection includes photos and documents from historical African American/Chicano(a) figures in California. There are 21 black and white images of various historical figures. The collection also includes two book covers and miscellaneous writings from the 19th and 20th centuries....
Album of 45 original photographs of California and Colorado, circa 1890.
287 black-and-white photos (some captioned) of various scenes and locales in California, Hawaii, Guam and the Philippine Islands.
Includes 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Album contains 131 black-and-white photographs and two cyanotypes with handwritten captions of early California.
edited by Albert Dressler. Prospectus, describing the work as "Sixty-two pleasant and provoking pages of rare and original telegrams on various subjects, exchanged by the cinese to and from Downieville, Sierra County, California, during the year 1874 ..." along with...
The collection consists of photographic negatives of California circuses from 1945 to 1955, including the Clyde Beatty, Bell Brothers, Biller Brothers and Yankee Paterson Circuses.
One bill of sale, butcher bill, Ocean Market, San Francisco, 1865. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Packets assembled for members of the California Coastal Commission, with agenda, minutes, and supporting documentation such as applications, reports, and fact sheets. The issues generally pertain to Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and other counties in the region.
World War I era printed document: Treasurer's Report, Dec. 1918. Alpha list.
The collection consists of nine by-law booklets from various dairy associations across California between 1909 to 1924.
This collection consists of 35 mm color slides, dating, roughly, from 1969 through the 1990s, gathered by the California Department of Conservation documenting the history of offshore oil and gas islands and platforms, as well as oil spills and seeps...
14 printed pamphlets and flyers, with titles such as "Justice to California Women," "Women under California Laws," "Why California Women Should Vote," and "New Laws in Suffrage States." Purchase from Sun Dance
Cite as: [Identification of item], California gold miners' scale, Wyles Mss 142. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Seven-page handwritten letter in ink (ALS), to Capt. T. S. Holloway of Wickford, Rhode Island, from an unknown author who has prospered as a banker and merchant, discussing conditions in the mines, including different nationalities of the miners, and prospects...
The collection contains 18 handwritten sermons and other theological notes by a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Silas Solon Harmon, who established and maintained a church in Sonora, California from 1852 to 1863. Harmon came from New York State with his...
Nineteen black-and-white photographs relating to agriculture in the Imperial Valley, California.
Civil War document appealing for volunteers. San Francisco, 18 Sept. 1861.
Black-and-white photographs relating to agricultural workers and the harvesting, packaging, and transportation of produce and crops. Also consists of a few photographs depicting reactions to Prohibition.
Facsimiles, copies, etc. Map cabinet 20/6.++ Oversize boxed. Alpha list.
1 printed document, 4 pp., establishing the first official medical practice in California. Mexico, 6 Aug. 1836. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Rosa, D[on] Luis de la. 1 printed decree, 4 pp., originating in the Ministry of Finance, detailing the articles of tax collection and distribution. Mexico [City], 6 Aug. 1845. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Monthly ledger sheets, Feb. 1877 - Dec. 1878, for Consolidated Mining Co., Dardenelles Consolidated General Mining Co., and others, all located in Forest Hill, Placer County, California. Lists names, mining occupations, and duties, including one entry for a Chinese water...
39 color and black / white glass slides of California missions, including Santa Barbara mission; also Summerland Oil Wells, Los Banos, beach, olive trees, and Arlington Hotel in Santa Barbara. Photographers include: A. D. Handy (Boston) and Putnam & Valentine...
This collection consists of movie theater ephemera from throughout the state of California, including calendars, programs and programettes, flyers, and postcards. The bulk of the material dates from the 1930s through the 1940s.
One document (TDS), Founders' List. Los Angeles, n.d. Gift from International Bookfinders , 1967. Alpha list.
Official guide, daily program, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints leaflet, and water exhibit souvenir.
This California photograph album contains 74 black/white numbered photographs, some with descriptions, including coastal scenes, boats and fishermen, Garden of the Gods, Monterey, ostrich farm, Santa Cruz, San Gabriel Mission (Pasadena), Santa Barbara Mission (nos. 2264-2265), and several images apparently...
84 black and white snapshots glued in an album with wood covers, likely California, but very few captions. Many images of children, most in rural areas with flat terrain, some doing chores like carrying eggs, and with chickens, goats, and...
76 black-and-white photos (circa 1895) of San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sierra Nevadas, etc.
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.
Two black/white cabinet card photographs by [John Calvin] Brewster, Ventura and Santa Paula, CA, of churches in El Rio and Santa Paula, [ca. 1900].
Sepia prints. 15" x 20", three of Yosemite and one of the Mendocino Coast; 7 3/4" x 21", one of The Alhambra. Descriptions on back of each, including no. of the photograph. Photographer unknown; images Ansel Adams-like in appearance. [Oversize...
Album, ca. 1900, containing 45 black/white and color picture postcards. Mostly California, including several images of Santa Barbara (Potter Hotel, ocean front, mission, Santa Cruz Island), Los Angeles (court house, street scenes, parks), Santa Monica (Soldiers' home, pier), Catalina Island,...
17 items, including images of 1906 San Francisco earthquake and homes of Hollywood stars such as Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, and Jack Benny, ca. late 1930s.
Early 1900s picture album/real photo postcards.
Seven printed programs of movies shown at the California Theatre, "The Family Theatre" at 20 Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA , 1936-1937. Gift of Elizabeth Cobb. Alpha list.
One photo album with 50 original photographs of Southern California (with captions); inscribed 1900. Includes images of missions, Los Angeles, Pasedena, Santa Barbara and other locales....
Group photo, with list, 1899. [Oversize boxed].
Group photo, with list, 1899. [Oversize boxed].
Picture postcards (several from Illinois), facsimiles of nineteenth century newspapers, South Mountain Railroad Co. first mortgage bond, material relating to "America in the Making," an exhibit of original American documents, and other ephemera, including greeting card with drawing "Santa Barbara...
Album containing 65 black and white snapshots, with English captions on back, of Phnom Penh and the Hindu temple complex Angkor Wat. Angkor images include Phom Bakeng temple, reliefs and sculptures, the libraries, trees overgrowing the ruins, and Buddhas. Includes...
1862 Civil War era printed document [37th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Mis. Doc. No. 94], joint resolution protesting the continued use of slaves as servants to Confederate officers held as prisoners at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio.
One Civil War document (ADS), description of Camp Chase Prison, No. 3, Columbus, Ohio, by A. Davis, 1862. Davis notes that inmates come from all walks of life, including farmers, lawyers, doctors, judges, criminals, sheriffs, gamblers, painters, singers, and surveyors....
Correspondence, mainly editors' letters of acceptance or rejection, to poet and photographer Roger Camp, copies of poems by him, and issues of literary and poetry journals and reviews, usually containing poems or photographs by him. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Robert...
One printed group photograph of the commander and headquarters staff of Camp William Penn, used for organization of U.S. Colored Troops, 1863-1865. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Incomplete printed text of an essay on the Dred Scott decision.
Broadside, printed in color. [Oversize boxed].
One document: pay warrant from A. Campbell to M. McCarthy, Deputy Pay- Master General, for His Majesty's forces in Mauritius and Bourbon, 25 February 1813. Gift of William P. Wreden. Alpha list.
The collection mainly contains materials relating to Lou Cannon's book Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (1997). Some files are closed, pending review for confidential materials.
The collection mainly contains files for four of the books about Ronald Reagan written by Lou Cannon. Included are court documents, fact sheets, interview tapes and transcripts, newspaper and magazine articles, polls, pool reports, presidential statements, press briefings, press kits...
Alpha list (title only). Oversize boxed.
Collection compiled by Mark H. Capelli, National Marine Fisheries Service biologist and Executive Director of the Friends of the Ventura River. The bulk of the collection pertains to organizations and issues focusing on the Southern California Steelhead Trout population, primarily...
Two prints signed by Robert Caples.
Recordings of lectures and panel discussions presented or sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lois Capps (1938- ) was an American democratic politician who served as the U.S. Representative for California's 24th congressional district from 1998 to 2017. Spanning from 1989 to 2016, the collection consists of district office files, memoranda, government publications, bills...
Papers of Walter Holden Capps (May 5, 1934 – October 28, 1997), Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Representative of the 22nd district of California in the United States House of Representatives in 1997.
This small collection comprises materials separated from the Walter H. Capps papers (UArch FacP 47) including pamphlets published by the Vietnam Buddhist Research Institute, tourist guides, brochures and maps, and newspapers published by the Vietnamese American community.
16 Civil War documents, most from the Office of Chief Engineer, Military Division of West Mississippi, New Orleans, pertaining mainly to work on Fort Barrancas (overlooking the entrance to Pensacola Bay). Includes reference to use of "persons of African descent,"...
The Captain Midnight radio and TV Code-O-Graph collection consists of a small collection of promotional toy decoding devices, photographs, and memorabilia packaging, offering insight into wartime entertainment and its continued influence into the Cold War era.
The album contains 184 black/white photographs taken during a cruise on the steamship (German-American Line), with images of St. Thomas (Virgin Islands), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Jamaica, Panama Canal, Venezuela, Trinidad, Martinique, Dominica, San Domingo, Santiago and Havana (Cuba), and...
see notes; ca. 185 images.
(1707-1778). Two engraved portraits, with signatures, of Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, Carl Linneaus, n.d. Alpha list.
[aka Karl Pedersen]. One ms diary in Danish, re 1880 move from Denmark to Nebraska, with typescript translation. Copy of translation published in UCSB Libraries' Soundings. Alpha list.
HPA. Interviewer: David E. Russell, [dates?]. Interviewee(s): Carl Rogers; also former students and associates John Schlien, Alberto Zucconi, [and who else?], [dates?]. Transcript: The Quiet Revolutionary Related materials: HPA Mss Arrangement: John Schlien: Phone interview, Aug. 27, 2001: A19636-37/CS (digitized)
Papers of Manuel Carlos, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at both the University of California, Santa Barbara and California State Universtiy, Monterey Bay.
Essay for G. Wesley Johnson's H248 class, spring 1975, based on interviews with Carmen Camarillo Jones. Interviewer: Tomas A. Salinas. Interviewee(s): Carmen Camarillo Jones. Transcript: No, but index to tapes as appendix to essay. Related materials: None found.
One family scrapbook and one flyer belonging to family of performer of short stature Bertha Carnihan.
Barbara Carrasco is a Chicana artist and activist from Los Angeles, California. Her work critiques cultural stereotypes involving socioeconomics, race, gender and sexuality. Although Carrasco's works are mostly large scale, she is as equally comfortable as an artist in creating...
The Reynaldo J. Carreon Collection consists of two document boxes and one flat box, which contain photography, documents and newspaper clippings regarding Mr. Carreon's career as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, civic activities and travels.
This collection is comprised of collected publicity materials concerning film festivals, Chicano punk rock shows, Punk bands and art exhibitions in Los Angeles from the 80's to early 2000's. The collection spans one document box and one oversize flatbox.
One printed color map of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, issued by the Touring Club Italiano. Found in-houe
Carte de visite album in a mother-of-pearl album including family portraits and portraits of people in circus or theatrical costumes.
La Casa de la Raza is a non-profit community center on the Eastside of Santa Barbara, California. Founded in 1971, the mission of La Casa de la Raza is to develop and empower the Latino community by affirming and preserving...
Leaflets
The collection consists primarily of numerically arranged binders with plans, briefs, public hearings, permits, site investigations, laboratory results, and reports relating to the Superfund response action to the Casmalia Resources Hazardous Waste Management Facility. Also included are U.S. Environmental Protection...
The Casmalia Resources Superfund Site (CRSS) is an inactive hazardous waste management facility located in the northwestern corner of Santa Barbara County, California. The facility opened in 1973 and was used to treat and dispose of acids, bases, organic solvents,...
Holograph letter written and signed by C. M. Clay to W. H. Crook, Esq. in Washington, D. C. about receiving Crook's letter of March 16 and being glad to do anything to please his [Clay's] friend C. E. Kincaid, Esq....
The contents of the Ana Castillo Collection represent the beginnings of a prolific Chicana writer and teacher, whose body of work is expected to grow significantly as her career continues to develop. The material in this collection provides much insight...
Six issues of different newspapers [dates and places?]. Found item, provenance unknown. ++ Oversize boxed.
One letter (ALS) from unidentified author to Wilson re change in careers and other personal matters. [London], 24 Sept. 1928. Found in unsorted SC.
One holograph poem, "Flight of the Children," from Porphyry's Journey (1951). Laid in Hemley's Seas and Seasons. Alpha list.
(1835-1894). One short, signed holograph poem by American poet and story writer Celia Thaxter, 1883. Alpha list.
Set of ten printed cards, mainly engravings of buildings, celebrating the 1876 Exhibition in Philadelphia, produced by M. Burt, Cleveland, Ohio. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Printed card with engravings of the 1876 Philadelphia exhibition, distributed by Mills & Co.,Printers & Publishers, Des Moines, Iowa. .01 linear feet (1 folder).
Tapes of staff meetings and related material pertaining to the La Jolla center, home of the Carl Rogers Memorial Library, and advocates of client-centered psychotherapy and the person-centered approach Interviewer: [?], 1991. Interviewee(s): Nel Candel's name on at least one...
The collection mainly contains post-1961 administrative files which the Center had microfilmed, then shipped to Princeton University, and which subsequently were transferred from Princeton University to UCSB in 1999.
Records of the internationally renowned Santa Barbara-based think tank, emphasizing issues such as education, freedom of the press, international relations, public policy, religion, and science and technology in modern society. Included are materials relating to CSDI leaders such as Robert...
This guide is a supplement to a much larger finding aid to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) Collection, Mss 18.
Seminar in Athens, 1961, assembled by Carolyn Wack. Alpha list.
One printed map, "Sketch of Capt. Gunnison's Route to Sept. 20th, 1853. "Senate Ex: Doc: No. 29. 1 Sess 33 Cong." Probably removed from Gunnison and Beckwith .... Oversize boxed.
Adjustable cardboard wheel, showing days of the week for dates rom 1800-1899, along with lists of presidential electors (38 states at the time), and list of presidents of the U.S., ca. 1881.
One Italian document, birth certificate, Diocesi di Vicenza, Provincia di Padova, 1943, along with one letter (ALS, in Italian) , 1922, and one undated handwritten note (in Italian). Laid in Giovanni La Cecilia, Storie Segrete Delle Famiglie Reali (Main D...
Printed certificate of non-liability to the draft issued by the Board of Enrollment dated at Troy, Pennsylvania and signed by C. M. Monuler, Provost Marshal and President of Board of Enrollment, M. C. Grier, member of Board of Enrollment, and...
Certificate sent from Adjutant-General's Office, State of California to Captain O. D. Peck in Taylorsville, California. The certificate states that Captain O. D. Peck of the County of Plumas, State of California has made H. Lamott Jr. his true and...
Three certificates tied together with green and red ribbons, each with a pasted-on seal. The first certificate, dated July 30th, from the United States Department of State, is signed by William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States,...
About 200 black and white snapshots (with a few cyanotypes and black and white picture postcards), apparently taken by an American serviceman on board ship - the Buford - to Manila (Philippines) via Gibraltar, Malta, Suez Canal, Aden (now Yemen),...
51 black-and-white photos, mostly of locales and scenes in Egypt and Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka).
Photograph album of Walter C. Hansell, 1937, containing 100+ black/white snapshots and some picture postcards, all with captions. Included are ship-board views taken on the voyage from England to Ceylon [Sri Lanka], shots of Gibraltar, Port Said, the Suez Canal,...
Mostly subject files of journalist who wrote on religious topics for L.A. Times.
The Iris Chang Papers consist primarily of her research materials from her work on with a few files which may have been used for and . The content is broken down according to Chang's own notes. Chang was a meticulous...
Four issues of the Camarillo, California newsletter
The John Chapman papers comprises a mix of materials pertaining to independent filmmaker John Chapman (1946-1983). Materials include film footage, photographs and slides taken on location in Central America, dating from roughly 1978 to 1983.
Letters and documents apparently assembled by Charles A. Christian, a collector. Includes lists of his desiderata, a return for a battalion commanded by Major David Nye (1797, and cyanotype of a C[?] Stuart. Provenance unknown. Alpha list.
Two photograph albums with 88 black and white images, plus 67 other loose photographs [1 album], many with captions, most taken by Rev. Charles A. Roach on a bicycle trip from Durban to Cairo in 1943, on the way back...
Two albums, b/w photographs, of the travels of the Rev. Roach: 1938 (bicycling to Bucharest, with images of Cracow (and other parts of Poland), Czechoslovakia, Dobšina ice caves, Budapest, Jewish population at Puspokladany, Huedin, gypsies in Romania, Orlat, farms, Brasov,...
Collection of letters, photographic negatives, and clippings, mainly pertaining to Andersonville [Civil War] survivors, ca. 1911-1912. Gift of Mrs. T. M. Storke, n.d. Alpha list.
Two letters (ALS) from H. C. Chatfield-Taylor, in part about times at Cornell and one carte de visite of Storke as adolescent (Osh Kosh, WI photographer), n.d. Alpha list.
Manuscript 1866-1867 diary, in French, possibly by a relative of Montecito resident Muses. Includes description and sketch maps of Toth and Mogyorod, in present day Hungary. From the Charles Arthur Muses estate
One Civil War era letter (ALS) to Vincent Roberts, re McClellan report and other documents, Mar. 2, 1864. Also, biographical notes about Eldredge, a lawyer and Democrat Congressman from Wisconsin, 1863-1875. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
French identity card (with photo) for pilot and corporal , 1917, and passport, listing address as Tahiti , 1934. Alpha list.
The collection contains unpublished typescript carbon prose story, "The Lion", with holographic corrections by the author.
The collection contains the unpublished typescript carbon prose story, "The Night the Rapist Got Caught in the Washing Machine", with holographic corrections by the author.
62 original, signed poems by Charles Bukowski (including the last one he wrote, 5 Jan. 2004, two months before his death), sent to John Martin, publisher of Black Sparrow Press, 2003-2004; together with 34 original, signed contracts re foreign publication...
One letter (ALS) from Jon Welsh, Loujon Press, to John [Martin?] re publication of Crucifix in a Death Hand. New Orleans, 5 June 1965. Laid in Bukowski's Crucifix in a Death Hand (PS3552.U4 C7 1965). Alpha list.
(1726-1814). 1 ALS, January 1801. [Returned to Foot Collection]
One engraved portrait by George E. Perine, New York, [1890].
43 handwritten letters, in French, from ... Bernath Collection. Purchase, House of Mirth via eBay
One holograph letter from Charles Devens to an unknown recipient, summarizing his service in the Civil War. Written from Boston.
Mainly correspondence to Willson, manager of the El Mirasol Hotel in Santa Barbara, about hotel matters. Includes some correspondence relating to the 1925 earthquake.
Dickens ephemera, including a note (ANS), possibly with Dickens signature. In hand, provenance unknown. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) from Dickens' son, also named Charles Dickens, to [?] Gay, re visiting the Union League Club, 1887. Laid in: Charles Dickens, Bleak House [Spec PR4556 .A1 1853d]. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) from Dickens' son, also named Charles Dickens, to [?] Massell, regretting to inform him that he has long since given away every scrap of his father's writings. London, 27 Oct. 1880. Alpha list.
. [3rd Texas Vols.]. Two Civil War letters (ALS): one from Annie Anna Hallock to her cousin, Charles E.Baker, re personal news, 1861, and one from Baker to his mother, noting he still has not received the boots or shirts...
One brief holograph letter from Charles Phelps requesting that his residence be listed in a directory as the Willard [hotel] lobby.
Flyer re Radio League of the Little Flower. Laid in Father Coughlin's Radio Discourses. Royal Oak, Michigan, [1932]. [ARC].
Typed letter from Charles F. Adams, who served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War, congratulating Charles M. Smith for being made President of the First Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry Association and informing him that a...
29 cartes de visite, with inscriptions, of Dr. Charles F. Winslow and others, many from Lima, Peru. .05 linear feet (1 folder).
[Private, New York State Infantry, 21st Regiment (Vol), Company F]. One Civil War document [ADS]: Discharge. Buffalo, 18 May 1863.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Charles G. Cutter Cycling in Europe collection, Bernath Mss 373. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
[Rev.] Engraved portrait, 1835.
One black and white photograph by Pereira, of the author of The Circus of Dr. Lao. Alpha list.
Address by Halpine to [?], re Civil War, n.d.
One Civil War note (ANS) from Headquarters, Department of the Tennessee re order to report to duty at Huntsville, Alabama. Nashville, Tennessee, 20 Feb. 1864.
Fifteen open-reel films and dozens of cassette recordings, on humanistic elements in management.
One letter (TLS) to Dorothy Crawford, thanking her for his use of her writing on his NBC radio program "Cheerio" and asking permission to include it in his proposed inspirational book of days. New York, Sept. 14 , 1940. Laid...
(1856-1944). One letter (ALS), to Mr. [?] Payn re his book [The Hawarden Horace?}. London, 2 Feb. 1895. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) from military historian Peirson to "Pen" re writing, publishing, and other matters, Dec. 23, 1905. Found in unsorted Wyles SC.
.1 linear feet (1 folder).
One account book, 1824-1825. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Prospectus for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927).
(1808-1890). One letter (ALS), in French, from French historian and writer Nisard, to an unknown woman. Found in Nisard's Les Gladiateurs... (1860). Paris, 28 February 1854. Alpha list.
(1814-1884). One signed inscription, "All men think all men mortal but themselves," 6 Dec. 1879. Alpha list.
(1814-1884). One autograph, [n.d.] and one letter (ALS) from English novelist and dramatist Charles Reade, re purchase of the stock of his publications Peg Woffington a nd Christie Johnstone, [London], 8 May n.y. Alpha list.
Editorial files, correspondence, and research files about pagan, witchcraft, 'cult' subjects. Also, a number of serials that have been incorporated into the ARC Serials holdings.
Editor Paul Delaney's working archive of Ricketts' Pages from a Diary in Greece, published by Tragara Press in 1978. Includes typescript of author's text and editor's introduction and notes, with holograph corrections, deletions and additions; complete corrected galleys; and incomplete...
One holograph letter written on official stationery of the State Treasurer's Office, Saint Paul, Minnesota to Abraham Lincoln, President elect of the United States, to recommend George A. Nourse, Esq. to the position of United States District Attorney for the...
One letter (TLS) from Harry Robb, author of Poddy, the Story of a Rangeland Orphan (1947) to western writer Charles Snow, mainly re Robb's earlier life in the west. Kingsburg, CA, July 12 , 1950. Laid in unidentified Snow book....
Two albums, beginning 1893 in n. Yorkshire [?], ...
One holograph letter, dated 13th July 1859, written and signed by Charles Sumner in London about his improving health, his return for the opening of Congress, and how much he detests slavery. One photocopy of a holograph letter, dated 4th...
Holograph poem written and signed by Charles Sumner, United States Senator from Massachusetts, to Charles W. Sanger of Waterville, Maine about the country moving forward not by violence but by the majesty of peace, justice, and freedom.
One letter (ALS) from A. Ro[?], mainly about payment to a Mr. Charles Willing, for rum to replenish a ship's supply. London, 26 June 1763. Alpha list.
Two letters (TLS) and one letter (ALS) to Harvey Taylor , 1942, and clipping, laid in Dunshee's Through the Ages [Spec PS3507.U926 T5]. Alpha list.
One document (TDS), permit allowing Charlotte M. Endicott of Canton, MA, to collect plant specimens from areas of the Metropolitan Park Commission. Boston, May 22, 1894. Alpha list.
. One souvenir booklet with black and white illustrations. Chattanooga: T. H. Payne & Co, 1885.
(1834-1928). One note (ANS), re a speech by Depew, president of the New York Central Hudson River Railroad Co. and, later, Republican senator from New York.. [New York], 28 May 1886. Alpha list.
One typewritten account of Depew, re his role as Secretary of State of the train carrying Lincoln's body from Albany. Notes, for example, that "Wherever the highway crossed the railway track the whole population of the neighborhood was assembled... Huge...
Papers transferred from the UC Santa Barbara Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration to the UC Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Research Collections. Included in this collection are the papers generated in the course of research by area...
The Vernon I. Cheadle Papers contain biographical material, correspondence, subject files, and academic files from Cheadle's time as a faculty member before and after his days as Chancellor.
Primarily the writings of Clara Jane Cheney-Minard, the collection includes her journals, correspondence poems, and re-copied essays, among other things. Most of her writing focuses on personal and family-related matters such as her descriptions of nature, descriptions of school, thoughts...
Collection of documents, invoices, and receipts of a Massachusetts doctor, ca. 1809-1836. Alpha list.
Four items. Purchase, Books on the Orient
[Admiral]. One black and white photograph of the Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri, in Tokyo Bay on 2 Sept. 1945, inscribed by Nimitz to the Library of the Santa Barbara College of the University of California. [Oversize boxed].
Album of 50 black and white photographic postcards, with captions. Includes images of local men, women, and children, buildings, parks, railroad, airfield, panoramic views, and street scenes of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapa de Corzo, Tonalá, Comitán de Domínguez, Tapachula, Arriaga, and...
Two printed flyers offering land in Minnesota and Dakota, promoting "The most healthy climate of the world ...Settlements of Americans, Germans and Scandinavians; Odd Fellows' and Catholic Colonies...LANDS SOLD ON LONG CREDIT!" ca. 1870s.
A project started in 1975 at Institute for the Study of American Religions to gather materials relating to the large Chicago area community engaged in the study and practice of paranormal phenomena. The files contain newsletters, flyers and posters, newspaper...
This is an artificially created small collection that draws together in one place a quantity of published articles, news clippings and ephemera that had been compiled over the years as research files in the offices of the California Ethnic and...
This collection includes articles that were published in un-indexed Latino community newspapers, as well as those appearing in major regional newspapers, art magazines, journals, and various anthologies and exhibition catalogues. There are interviews with artists such as Guillermo Gomez Pena,...
This collection consists of twenty cartons containing photocopy reproductions of journal articles and book chapters, ranging in date from 1928 through the 1990s. Topics include economic conditions, civil rights, and education of Indigenous peoples and Latinos in the United States....
Graphic novels and zines created, illustrated, and/or written by Chicana and Chicano artists.
This collection consists of six cartons of news clippings collected by the UCSB Library's Colección Tloque Nahuaque. The materials range in date from 1969 to 1989 and are relevant to Latino and Chicano studies. They are chronologically arranged. Each item...
The pamphlets were originally part of the Colección Tloque Nahuaque (CTN), the Chicano Studies research library collection in the UCSB Library. They were collected from 1967 thru 1990 and contain publications such as informative, educational brochures, unpublished bibliographies that are...
This collection contains photographs related to the East Los Angeles Chicano punk rock scene in 1980 taken by artist, photographer, and actor Daniel Villarreal of Los Angeles, California. Additional materials include magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, exhibition programs, flyers, and one...
This collection began with the acquisition of a set of 71 slides (the photographer is unknown) that suggest a possible ethnocentric study on gang life in San Gabriel Valley, California. Included in the slides are images of tattoos and tattooing,...
40+ small illustrated pamphlets by Jack T. Chick, with titles such as "Creator or Liar?" "The Passover Plot?," "This Was Your Life," and Is There Another Christ?"
This collection contains 24 mounted b/w photographs of Civil War sites such as Missionary Ridge, showing the locations where Louisiana troops fought. Issued by the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park Commission, Louisiana Committee, with printed descriptions on the back...
Consists of newsletters, pamphlets, and other material relating to the Children of God.
Album contains 33 commercial albumen prints of Valparaíso, Santiago, Iquique, Arica (Chile), and St. Vincent (Cape Verde Islands) with captions in German and Spanish. 17 photos of Valparaíso feature panoramic and street views, buildings and monuments, local peoples, and casualties...
16 color picture postcards with images of public buildings, parks, street scenes, and panoramas.
The Frank Chin papers contain personal and professional materials of Frank Chin from 1940-2001. The collection is divided into five series spanning 122 archival Boxes. The bulk of the collection consists of Chin's manuscripts, including essays, articles, novels, scripts (film...
Photograph album, with black lacquered wooden covers, containing about 120 b/w photos, most with captions, of a young officer on the British river boat 'Robin', stationed in the Canoton/Samshui area in 1913. Includes photos of the 'Robin', river scenes, and...
Cite as: [Identification of item], China and Hong Kong photograph album, Bernath Mss 308. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Cite as: [Identification of item], China and Japan photograph album, Bernath Mss 357. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
396 black/white snapshots, captions in English, of the voyage out, including Cape St. Vincent, Gibraltar, Marseilles, Port Said, Indian Ocean, Colombo, Sumatra, Penang, Singapore, and Hong Kong. China images include Shanghai (Bund, street scenes, funeral, boats and river),Tientsin (border regiment,...
Photograph album containing 34 black and white small format photographs and one pencil drawing. Locale appears to be northern China and Mongolia. Chinese are in Qing period attire. Scenes of city gates and walls, ships at port or river banks,...
Photographs of China and Pacific Coast Americas. Photographic views taken by and documenting a British Sailor on his travels and with the Royal Navy to China, c. 1900s.
Archive/collection of Margaret Gillespie Fagg, wife of Rev. Dr. John Gerardus Fagg, missionary to China and minister of the Middle Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New York City. Included in the collection are: Seven diary journals, over 100 photographs...
Purchase, Pat Zadina Books, 2006. .05 linear feet (1 folder).
Primarily black and white photo album of a Chinese PLA soldier from an army reserve training school in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
Photograph album, mainly of Han-Keou (Han-kow), China, ca. 1906. 13 black/white mounted photographs, most with extensive captions in French, including street scenes and buildings in Han-Keou, a pagoda, the Russian Orthodox Church, towers for raising irrigation water, shots of a...
The album contains 102 black and white photographs, 87 of which are of scenes of the late Qing Dynasty China. Most of the China-based photos appear to be from the time following the Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901). Additional 15 photographs appear...
Large album contains 141 black and white photographs (some loose), possibly taken by a staff member of a British legation in China. Images include river and canal views; temples, churches, priests; chancery and related buildings; scenic views; horse races, tennis,...
25 black/white photos, captions in English, of lakes, rivers, boats, tea houses, pagodas, and streets scenes with local inhabitants. Locations include Mootoo, Soochow, Tahu Lake, Hangchow, Shanghai, Ningpo, and Nanziang.
Cite as: [Identification of item], China photograph album, SC 1014. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Three lacquer albums, ca. 1905-1907, containing 224 b/w photographs, few with captions. Mainly snapshots taken by German soldier(s) stationed in China, including areas such as Tsingtau [Qingdao], with images of individual soldiers and groups, troops on the march, boats, harbors,...
These three photo albums show various aspects of Chinese life, society and political events at the turn of the century from the perspective of members of western military units (presumably German) stationed in China during the Boxer Rebellion and its...
Two albums, captions in English, no dates.
The collection contains 14 b/w photographs of scenes of various locales in turn of the century China.Some photos have handwritten captions, in English, on the back. Photographs of western troops on horseback suggest timeframe may be period of Boxer Rebellion...
22 stereoviews of Peking (gardens, temples and other buildings, port and boats, countryside, Chinese men, women and children) and 8 stereoviews of Shanghai (temples, boats, street scenes), ca. 1900-1910. Some images have brief handwritten descriptions in Dutch....
missionary calendars, ...
Album contains 48 black and white photographs, primarily of boats on the Yangtze River. Other images include men engaged in "deck cricket" onboard the H.M.S. Royal Arthur; a sporting event with tug-of-war and hurdles; houses; temples; scenic views. Album probably...
Photo album with black and white photos of Qing era China.
Three cards, one for the play "My Partner," one for linen goods, and one for laundry service (with stereotypical character), all ca. late nineteenth century, apparently New York and Boston. Asian American Fund Purchase, June 2000. Pegasus ID: ALP1559-1561. Alpha...
The Chinese American Democratic Club Archives covers the period from 1988 to 2000. It contains campaign material, such as election fliers, endorsements and candidate questionnaires or interviews. San Francisco local politics are viewed from this group's interaction with politicians, political...
The Chinese American Political Association is a non-profit political organization spanning more than two decades starting in the middle of the 1980's. Aimed at increasing voter awareness and participation, this collection consists mostly of newsletters issued by the organization over...
The Chinese American Voters Education Committee (CAVEC) Archives covers the period from 1985 to 1996. In this collection there is overlap between CAVEC and the Chinese American Democratic Club (CADC). Most of the documents are Chinese American Democratic Club related...
Photograph album documenting the life of George S. Eng, a Chinese American World War II veteran and leader in the American Legion in New York City.
1 b/w 8" x 8" [copy] print of father feeding son, n.p, n.d. Could just as likely be in China.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Chinese ceremonial papers Printers Mss 67. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
One document (ADS) sent by one En Ze to one Mei Zhang, acknowledging receipt of one brick of gold, to be deposited in various banking institutions. Qing Dynasty, 1904. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
many photos.
Purchase, eBay
Album with Chinese postage stamps, various dates ranging from 1957-1987.
This collection consists of Chinese propaganda posters on a variety of subjects and themes, ranging from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Chinese woodblock print book collection, Printers Mss 68. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Two photograph albums, 1917 and 1921, containing 133 black/white snapshots, many with captions, apparently taken by Patrick Choules, a British colonial official in Poona, India. Most of the images are of Poona and vicinity, including buildings, streets, landscapes, gardens, sporting...
Engraving of Staircase Hall, at Christchurch College, Oxford. No alpha list.
The collection contains biographical information, documents, financial records, and photographs pertaining to Goleta, California residents Vernon (Verne), wife Carolyn, and son Kevin Christensen. Also included are several poetry and tech (computer software) notebooks, and loose copies of poems and songs...
Cite as: [Identification of item], Christian Anti-Communism Crusade collection, ARC Mss 11. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Black and white portrait, on foam board, of Chris Brun, Head of UCSB Special Collections, ca. early 1960s-1989. Oversize boxed. Alpha list.
The collection consists of over 100 periodicals, pamphlets, books, programs, and other printed ephemera regarding American Christian Conservative groups' philosophies, mainly Christian Identity, as well as Far Right wing politics and election propaganda.
Includes copies of early Christian Science serials.
One card (TNS) to Tom Willis, UCSB Audiovisual Department, re taping of lectures. Santa Monica, 27 Jan. 1961. Alpha list.
One signed black and white portrait photo (stamped Gilberts of Goleta) and one black and white photo of a line drawing of Isherwood , 1965-1966. Alpha list.
(1890-1957). Printed essay "A Bookseller's Breviary," with holograph inscription, Nov. 1936.
One letter (TLS) to Professor [?] Wells, responding to his request to reprint the essay "A Casual of the Sea." New York, 26 June 1928.
One letter (ALS) re gift of photographs to the cathedral library, from the Duke of Northumberland. Salisbury, [England], 27 Sept. 1920. Found in Wordsworth's The Old Service Books of the English Church (London , 1904). Alpha list.
10 color examples of work by Santa Barbara-based Chroma Litho printers. Found in misc. mss map drawer. Map cabinet 20/6. Alpha list.
Materials related to longtime Santa Barbara-based Chinese restaurant, Jimmy's Oriental Gardens.
This collection documents the presence of the Church of Scientology in the United Kingdom. Items include official bulletins from the Hubbard Communications Office and course materials for various Scientology courses for advancing in the hierarchy.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Cilley [Greenleaf] papers, Wyles Mss 124. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The collection contains advertisements, telegrams, and lists of towns played, for circuses, vaudeville and minstrel shows, including W. P. Hall Shows, 1905; Guy Brothers Minstrels, 1910; and "Circus Day" itineraries for several circuses such as Ringling-Barnum, Clyde Beatty, Buck Owens,...
Printed broadside of a two-feature event at the Palace Theatre, with Fiestas Trained Animal Circus and Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur," with lecture by Prof. Wayne. Alpha list.
One handwritten invoice re furnishing half bushel of lime to repair the barracks in the citadel of Detroit [part of the Northwest Territory of the United States since 1796], 14 Oct. 1797. Alpha list.
This collection contains fifty-eight boxes of records and audiovisual materials created by the Citizens Planning Association from 1960-2010.
Constitution and By-Laws, incorporated Nov. 2 , 1936, and revised Feb. 8 , 1960. Alpha list.
Nine sheets containing about 180 color slides of the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969. The slides all contain the label "Oil Spill Collection" with hand written dates and captions. A label on the first slide sheet reads: "Start. Gift...
Civil rights photograph album containing 83 prints documenting the struggle for equal rights, New York, approximately 1960. Images include Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, and Roy Wilkins, New York Congresswoman Liz Holtzman, Thurgood Marshall, and Kenneth B. Clark, as well as...
One Civil War era printed document, an amnesty oath, signed by J. H. Westcott, stating he will "faithfully defend the Constitution of the United States and the States there-under; and that I will in like manner abide by and support...
13 items - bills, notes, letter, re Purchase of guns from Baltimore arms dealer, Magruder, Taylor & Roberts. Includes mention of Colts, Whitneys, Smith & Wessons, as well as cartridges and powder flasks. Some orders are from Southern buyers in...
One of Gen. Jubal A. Early, 7 Sept. 1885, and one of Gen. Gabriel Rene Paul, 1 Jan. 1864.
The collection mainly contains engravings, lithographs, and color prints of Civil War battles and battlefields, from diverse sources. Includes original printed items (some disbound), as well as later (some recent) reproductions.
35 printed cards, with color illustrations, containing biographical sketches of prominent Union and Confederate officers such as Admiral David G. Farragut, General James A. Garfield, General William T. Sherman, and General Pierre G. Beauregard, ca. late 1800s.
"A few facts to be considered before voting for President," 1864.
"Died, Near the South-side Railroad, on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, The Southern Confederacy, Aged Four Years ...," printed by James B. Rodgers, Philadelphia. Has old Wyles broadside catalog number: b E 489 D5.
Two printed poems, "Meagher's Letter on the American War," written from the perspective of Irish soldiers fighting for the Union, and "A Dream of Napoleon." Liverpool, ca. 1864-1865.
"Proclamation of Emancipation . . . by President Lincoln, January 1st, 1863." Advertisement for copy of the document, lithographed by Rosenthal, and published by L. Franklin Smith, Philadelphia, ca. 1865.
4 lithograph reproductions of Civil War era ordnance drawings.
"Soldier's Depot - Wash & Bath Room (Basement)," by Major & Knapp, New York, printed for D. T. Valentine's Manual, 1864.
"Famous Union Battle-Flags." [same as Wyles SC 557?]
4 items. Found in unsorted Wyles SC.
Nine letters (ALS), acquired as a lot, but only some related to each other. .02 Linear feet (1 folder).
One unused Civil War cover, 1861, with the verse"Jeff Davis and Stevens may come with their troops, But when our boys give them a set to, Their proud flag of treason they'll twist into ropes, And bang them upon their...
Six printed envelopes, ca. 1861-1865. Five are used. One is Confederate and one is addressed to a Kingsley Wyles, Washington, D.C....
The collection contains a scrapbook with approximately 136 unused Civil War Union covers (envelopes), ca. early 1860s. All covers are illustrated, many printed in one or more colors, usually blue or red. Many are patriotic in nature, portraying figures such...
Includes U. S. fractional currency and Confederate currency [revise].
Roll of men on extra duty at post bakery in Houston, Texas and Salem, Dent County, Missouri. Aug. 1862.
One document (ADS): Morning Sick Report of the 1st Brigaded of General Ruggles Divison. [Tangipahoa?], Louisiana, 30 July 1862.
One document ( ADS), signed by 34 men who declare they have received $150 for enlisting. Marshfield, Massachusetts, 15 Sept. 1862.
Special Requisition No. 40, for wagon tongues, horse shoe nails, horse collars, paper, envelopes, pens, and other. Gainesville, Virginia, 22 Oct. 1863.
Manifest for steamer at Jacksonville, Florida, April 1864. Found in unsorted Wyles SC. Alph list.
One document (ADS), U.S.S. Powhatan, requisition from the engineer's department for naval stores. Key West, Florida, 1 Apr. 1864.
General Orders, No. 15 (printed) re level of pay equal. Head Quarters, 3rd Division, 18th Corps d'Armee. Camp Hamilton, Virginia, 1 May 1864.
Annual Report, Fifth Company, Court Martial for 1864." New York, 1 Jan. 1865. [Oversize boxed].
Eight Civil War era documents, affidavits re exemptions from military service by reason of age or occupation (e.g. potter, tailor, preacher, justice of the peace), Sebastian County, Arkansas, 1862-1863. The affidavit by the tailor, Henry Kuper of Fort Smith, for...
. Two items: Volunteer Enlistments. Buffalo, New York, 1863.
Eight documents (ADS): Final statements of colored volunteers, 1864.
16 documents (ADs): Reports of enlisted men employed as servants, cooks, waiters, and hostlers. Various Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee regiments, 1865.
Five items, including one special order re equipment apparently pertaining to the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, ca. 1860-1865.
U.S. documents pertaining to various regiments and units of government, acquired from multiple sources.
Various designs, used in the Civil War and printed by Hapgood, Boston.
Collection of engravings, Union and Confederate officers, 1860s.
Ten items, carte de visite size, mainly of Civil War figures.
Collection of four items, including questionnaire re Ash Palmer; document "Schedule of Coupons..." presented for payment to Ezra Lincoln, Assistant Treasurer, U.S., Boston, 1863; and photo of George Armstrong Custer in uniform.
Two letters (ALS) from [Al??] to his sister Maria, requesting news and other personal matters. Found in unsorted Wyles SC.
Leather field surgeon's pocket instrument kit, from the Civil War era, containing reusable hypodermic needle, knives, needle and thread, and other unknown instruments.
Color lithograph "Famous Union Battle-flags," by A. D. Worthington & Co., Hartford, CT, n.d.
Author's signature illegible.
Two printed items, ca. 1861-1865. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
One hand-drawn map in pencil of Winchester, [VA], with location of various Union regiments, on the reverse of a printed broadside, "Carrier's Annual Address to the Readers and Friends of the Wiinchester Republican, January 1, 1862." Includes note from a...
Includes printed maps and drawings, from diverse sources.
One handwritten sheet, ink on paper, of "Just before the Battle Mother," by George F. Root, n.d. [Oversize boxed].
Muster rolls from various regiments.
Philadelphia, 19th Ward Bounty Fund, with list of committee members and receipts with amounts and names of recruits, 1864.
Twelve documents: Pensions, 1884-1889, n.d. [for several Civil War ? veterans].
The collection contains three scrapbooks of clippings about the Civil War era and its participants. Newspapers represented include the , , , and Many of the clippings are about Civil War memorials, Abraham Lincoln's death, eulogies for Civil War veterans,...
17 printed copies, with captions, from the Photographic History of the Civil War. Patriot Publishing Co., 1910. [Ovesize boxed].
15 print reproductions from The Photographic History of Civil War (1910). [Oversize box].
Ten cartes de visite, including soldiers in uniform, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and John Wilkes Booth.
Small slip printed with words to Civil War poem "Temptation".
Printed poem, "A Mother's Prayer for 1863," by A. V. P. [?]. West Chester, 2d month [Quaker date], 1863.
"A Soldier's Dream before a Battle." Camp Smith, Tennessee, Oct. 28, 1864.
Five-page handwritten draft of an untitled poem that the unidentified author says was based on a series of dreams. N.p., Feb. 25, 1865.
Handwritten poem: "The Land of Rest," 22 Sept. 1865.
]. "Taking Up Quarters," with handcolored engraving of the U.S.A. General Hospital, Patterson Park, Baltimore, ca. 1861-1865. 02 linear feet (1 folder).
. Two handwritten Civil War era poems, one entitled "Increase Our Pay and Rations" and the other written on board the gunboat 'Osceola' the night before the fight, ca. 1861-1865.
Printed pamphlet: "Souvenir: Poetry of the War," for an event described as "The Spectacular and Historical Allegory." Includes numerous advertisements for Grand Rapids, MI businesses, 1891.
Printed cartoon entitled "The Peninsular Campaign," with Gen. McClellan seated backward on a donkey, extensive captions and sign reading "Harrison's Landing, July 7, 1862."
One October 1864 election poll-book for Company H, of the 192nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, held at Gallipolis, Ohio. In-hand as of 8/3/11. Oversize boxed.
Includes engraved group shots and composite images, mainly of generals, cabinet members, politicians.
The collection mainly contains engravings, lithographs, and color prints of Civil War scenes (other than battles) such as views of forts, artillery emplacements, ships, officers' quarters, McLean's House at Appomattox, and domestic scenes. Includes both originals and reproductions, ca. 1860s-1980s,...
Maps, flyers, and other ephemera, ca. 1960s.
One Civil War sketch map of Vicksburg and one carte-de-visite photograph of Fred B. Shell, a war correspondent for Harper's Weekly who was with Ulysses S. Grant's army during the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863.
Reference to evacuation of Columbus (Ohio) and promotion of Major General Buell. .01 linear feet (1 folder).
Holograph Civil War era letter written from the Planter's Hotel, mentioning the evacuation of Columbus and the promotion of General Buell, and discussing the high cost of writing paper and the prevalence of shinplaster currency.
Various etchings, engravings, lithographs. [Oversize boxed].
Broadside, with lyrics to "New Patriotic and Comic Song, on the Sinking of the Pirate Alabama, by the U.S. Gunboat Kearsarge ...," written by Silas S. Steele, 1864.
Broadside, song lyrics of "A Nation Mourns Her Martyr'd Son," 1865.
"The Battle of the Wilderness." One leaf, with [hand-colored?] illustration. Published by Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., N.Y., n.d.
Three holographic copies of Civil War era songs, titled "The Prisoner's Hope," "The Soldiers Are Coming Home," and "The Sour Apple Tree," the latter regarding the capture of Jefferson Davis.
One printed item, "Songs for the Crisis," ca. 1861-1865. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Includes individual and composite engravings. [Oversize boxed].
Unbound scrapbook format, with typescript accounts, clippings, memos, newsletters, and other ephemera, ca. 1933-1934. Gift of G. B. McReynolds of SB
49 letters, written to Clara A. Nichols, mainly from family members [see dealer description} ...
Manuscript and typed letters written from June 28, 1930 to July 15, 1931 by Clarence V. Carruth, Jr. of Scarsdale, NY and New York City, while traveling as a young American utilities executive with portfolio to purchase existing utilities in...
33 black and white photographs of the Hartman Exploration & Development Company's coal mining operations at the Clark Ranch, north of Denver. Colorado, near Lafayette. Includes images of ranch buildings, the initial drilling, starting the375 foot mine shaft, timbers used...
Correspondence, manuscripts and proofs of writings (monographs, poems, reviews, essays), notebooks, research and teaching files, audiotapes, and ephemera of American poet Tom Clark, who lived in Santa Barbara for several years and published several works with Black Sparrow Press. Correspondents...
119 original black and white photographs , mostly taken in East Africa by a British Army Lieutenant from 1941 to 1943, most captioned as well as five original views of Victoria Falls circa 1906. Photographs vary in sizes, the smallest...
Holograph letter written at Harrison's Farm, near Norfolk, Va.
Interviewer: David R. Russell Interviewee(s): Claude Clark. Transcript: Transcripts : yes, for tapes 1-2. Related materials: some background/research material.
Interviewer: DER? Transcript: None found. No paper files found. Related materials: None found. Arrangement: Paul Williams, n.d.: A19659-60/CS (digitized).
(1889-1961). Five letters (ALS) from English novelist to J. G. Wilson, mainly re sending copies of Houghton's books to various parties including the Queen of Yugoslavia , 1932 , 1943-1949. Alpha list.
The Federico and Bertha Claveria Collection is made up of administrative records, subject files, correspondence, clippings, photographs and negatives, ephemera and other miscellaneous memorabilia documenting activities of the life of Federico Claveria, his family, and La Tolteca Tortilla Factory and...
The collection contains 7 letters and notes concerning the duel between Secretary of State Henry Clay and Senator John Randolph on April 8, 1826. The correspondents are Clay, Randolph, and their seconds, Col.Edward F. Tatnall and Gen. Thomas J. Jesup....
[Congressman from Ohio]. Printed Civil War speech, delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 3, 1862.
(1841-1904). One letter (ALS) from English theatre critic, playwright, and travel writer Clement Scott, to J. L. Toole, asking him to forward [an article?] to the editors of the Dramatic College Annual. [London?], 18 June 1866. Alpha list.
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Climatological data sheets from Point Mugu, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria; also shorter runs of data, in folders, from areas such as Coal Oil Point, Ellwood, Punta Gorda, Rincon Point, Goleta, Carpinteria, Summerland, and Montecito. Includes hourly data on wind, sky...
Contains black and white snapshots and a few commercial photos, some captions (in English), as well related brochures, maps, coupon books, menus, and other ephemera of a trip apparently taken in conjunction with an international gathering of physiologists. Locations, mostly...
The collection contains correspondence; organizational and administrative files; research, subject and teaching files; writings; and photographs of the UCSB biogeology professor Preston Cloud.
Singer Hall Clovis (b. 1900) began his career in Omaha singing operettas. He later moved to New York where he sang the lead in the premier of Ernest Trow Carter's Blonde Donna, recorded for Gennett records with the vocal quartet...
Collection of 35 assocrted photograph of various performers in Barcelona and region, circa 1910-44. Includes five real-photo cards, 19 publicity photos and nine other photos. Also 11 illustrated posters from various shows, 1943-1944 featuring Trio Kariki.
The collection contains three large scrapbooks with clippings of oil stories, many relating to the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, but also earlier and later articles, from 1965 to 1976. The clippings are from the , as well as other...
Holograph letter written at Hilton Head, S.C., requesting overdue statements of hospital discharges.
This collection consists of the records of the Coastal Resources Information Center (CRIC) of Santa Barbara California, dating from the 1970s to 2012.
74 picture postcards, most black and white, of Cambodia (Phnom Penh), Laos, and mainly Vietnam (Hanoi, Haiphong, Hue, Saigon), many of local inhabitants, daily activities, street scenes, dances, and buildings.
Derwent letter facsimile and accompanying essay, from University of Arizona Library, 1977.
Collection of Bernard Herrmann material belonging to director Larry Cohen, including the complete original manuscript score to by Herrmann, as well as Herrmann's sixty-three page music cue sheet, twelve photographs from the score recording sessions for the 1974 film, one...
Mainly 19c U.S. coins, some with holes drilled in them; also a few Chinese coins.
California and Santa Barbara area ephemera, including the Santa Barbara High School newspaper, (1917-1918), Lobero Theatre posters, and Franklin School photograph....
Three letters (ALS) re family history. Baltimore, 1886-1887. Alpha list.
Shipboard diary, 1868-1869, of Thomas Stephens Collier (1842-1893), boatswain on the 'Shenandoah' from July 1868 to April 1869, and previously on the 'U.S.S. Oneida,' May 1867-July 1868. Photograph of Collier glued in the diary, with caption "[U.] S.S. Monocacy, Yokohama,...
Holograph letter written by a superintendent of the United States Sanitary Commission requesting the discharge of a rebel prisoner.
The collection contains two copies of Collins' diary, mainly relating to UCSB affairs, and especially events relating to Isla Vista during time of unrest, from the perspective of a university administrator and faculty member.
22 b/w snapshots, with inscriptions, mainly group photos, missionary families, and street scenes, most in or around Cali, Colombia. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
229 B+W photographs, varying sizes, all small-format, of people and locales in Colorado and Wyoming. Rural scenes, family snapshots, some photos relating to oil industry and mining. Locales mentioned include Craig, Mule Creek (Colorado) and Jackson Hole (Wyoming).
Business card of Frank Smith. Colorado City, Colorado, n.d.
(From the dealer description) Correspondence between Seth Taber and David B. Suave, officers of the Flora Bell Mining Company from 1911-1916. Twenty seven letters, primarily correspondence of Taber and Suave with three letters from D. E. Carpenter of Scranton, PA,...
Eleven-page scrapbook with dried and pressed samples of Colorado wild flowers, with names such as "Prickly Poppy" and "Butterfly Flower." Found in Romaine Travel box, 8/13/09. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) from the Adjutant General's Office, War Department, in response to a question from George May Powell, reporting that on or about Apr. 1, 1862 there were 2,300 colored troops from Delaware, 26,000 from Kentucky, 9,500 from Maryland,...
Preliminary report compiled by N.L. Taliaferro for C. F. Nickle of Commonwealth Petroleum Corporation., covering sites in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino Counties in California. "Based on field examination made during the latter part of November, 1919." Includes information...
Bibliography and annotated proofs/drafts from psychologist and educator Arthur W. Combs.
Production rundown sheets to television series (1978-1983).
This collection consists of production videocassettes (U-matic) from television series (1978-1983).
Two letters (ALS) from A. Comey to his children (Albert B. and Ann E.) in Woodville, Mass., from the California goldfields, 1853, 1854. Talks about immigrants arriving, including women and children, sometimes with large herds of cattle and sheep. Says...
Journal, originally recorded in 1852 and copied in 1880s, recounting voyage to America by a family of English immigrants.
Materials produced and collected by the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (CFMN), Inc., from its founding in the early 1970s to present.
The collection includes correspondence, newsletters, articles, fundraising proposals and publicity.
One printed postcard soliciting Civil War photographs and prints. Boston, Aug. 1904.
This collection represents the political campaign files documenting the founding of the Santa Barbara California's Committee for Measures A and B and its successful work in gaining voter approval of parcel tax measures to benefit the elementary and secondary schools...
Conference Brochure, November 19-21
Also known as the Pearl Chase collection, focusing on Santa Barbara history in the 20th century. Included are papers relating to several hundred local organizations (especially pertaining to architecture, gardens, housing, land use, and planning), as well events such as...
This collection consists of several types of resources including clippings, history and events files, board minutes, Earth Day documents, administrative files as well as numerous photographs and audiovisual materials generated in the course of activities by the Community Environmental Council...
99 b/w images, captions in English, of local inhabitants, desert, oases, wells, irrigation, early all-terrain vehicles, camels, caravans, tents, street scenes, markets,mosques, city gates, and ruins of southern Tunisia and Algeria, beginning with Tozeur, then el Oeud, Ferjane, Touggourt, Ouargla,...
[CONAKRY, FRENCH GUINEA] DESCHACHT, A."Conakry" La Perle de l'A.O.F. [Conakry, French Guinea Photograph Album with Sixty-Nine Photographs]. Ca. 1915.
The collection contains technical reports and research files created and compiled by Rebecca Conard, founding partner of PHR Associates and, 1988-1993, sole proprietor.
The manuscript collection contains copies of brochures, catalogs, conference guides, exhibit notices, flyers, lists, posters, programs, and prospectuses, mainly European, collected by Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, founder of Wild Hawthorn Press. This is part of a larger collection of...
This collection contains videotapes relating to dance, created by Alice Condodina.
1 letter (TLS), from the Secretary of the Navy to C. E. Harrington of New York, re capture of the Confederate blockade runner "Florida" by the "U.S.S. Pursuit" during the Civil War, on 6 Apr. 1862. Department of the Navy,...
One Confederate broadside, "To the People of Western Virginia," issued by Maj. Gen. [William Wing] Loring, noting recent victories at Fayette C. H., Cotton Hill, and Charleston, imposing martial law, and calling upon citizens to join the Confederate army. The...
Printed engraving, portraits of Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders, 1864.
CSA Civil War era documents pertaining to various regiments and units of government, acquired from multiple sources.
Includes documents, correspondence, currency and photographs.
$20 bill.
Etching by Charles B. Hall, 1897. [Oversize boxed].
Includes individual and composite engravings. [Oversize boxed].
Ten Confederate Civil War documents (ADS), vouchers re payments made for stage passage, wagon teams, Negro wages, ship 'Alonzo Child' dismantling, Confederate service, food delivered, and other. Vaughans Station and Yazoo City, Mississippi, Jan.-Feb.1863....
Printed bond with handwritten additions, in the amount of $5000, signed by Robert Tyler, Register of the Treasury. Richmond, Oct. 1, 1862.
Eleven Confederate States of America Civil War items, mostly tax forms, assessments, and receipts from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, 1862-1864. Included are 'Tax in Kind' forms for tobacco and agricultural products....
Twelve Civil War era lithographs, "approved by the War Department."
This collection consists of two series that document the history of the Confederation of La Raza Organizations within Santa Barbara. It is mostly comprised of newsletters, publications, action plans, announcements, and correspondence from the organization.
This collection consists of ten pocket diaries dating from 1891 to 1909, documenting the daily life of Mary Estella Perrigo Conger (1858-1918), of upstate New York.
1 holographic document, State of Connecticut to Barlow & Babcock for printing costs, 1785.
Four Civil War documents (ADS): Circulars re various matters such as wearing uniforms when off duty, 1865.
[Winchester, VA]. Civil War regimental newspaper, vol. 1, no. 2, 22 Mar. 1862.
Research data, field notes, writings, correspondence, and other related materials regarding Joseph Connell's ecological research. The papers collected here mostly focuses on Connell's work with tropical rainforests, coral reefs, and marine intertidal communities.
This collection documents the career of Margaret Connell, a public servant in Santa Barbara County who held roles on the Santa Barbara School Board, with Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, the Goleta City Council, and as the first Mayor of...
The collection contains a typescript autobiography, with photographs, of Albert G. Conrad, professor of electrical engineering and the first dean of the College of Engineering at UCSB (1961-1970). Conrad previously was professor and chair of electrical engineering at Yale University...
One note (AN), "With the author's compliments & sincere respect," to poet, novelist, and literary critic Andrew Lang, [ca. 1911]. Found in Constance Mary Pott's Francis Bacon and His Secret Society (London 1911). Alpha list.
Disbound printed documents, first and second parts, 4 pp. Stamp of Bibliateca Particular. Cordoba (Spain), [ca. 1700s]. Transferred from uncat Special., 10/2/09 Acquired 1969. Alpha list.
First monthly report of the Contention Gold Mines Company in Colorado containing information about the company's stocks, operational costs, and a financial prospectus for Contention stock at founders' price.
Files from DeKoven Foundation of Ohio, Inc. pastor, Roderic B. Dibbert, concerning clergy connected with the 'Continuing Church' movement and some of the jurisdictions within the movement.
This collection contains one 16mm film reel composed of 10 black and white home movies of Converse M. Converse with his friends and family including footage of California, the East Coast of the United States, and internationally.
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.
Eleven negatives and one print of society photographs taken by Joel Conway Studios, Santa Barbara, California.
Primarily correspondence of Edward Leigh Cook, a resident of Nunday, N.Y. Cook was a Civil War Union soldier who served with the 100th New York Infantry, Co. F. and Co. H. The letters date from September 17, 1862 to September...
Family correspondence, financial papers, passport, and photographs (mainly b/w family and cruise snapshots) of Santa Barbara resident Margaret Frances Case Cook. Also, a journal inscribed to Mrs. E. E. Kellogg, wife of John Harvey Kellogg, from her adopted daughter Helena,...
Consists of fifteen journals written by Reverend Thomas Cook, a Methodist preacher, who wrote about his experience growing up during the Western Expansion, Civil War, and life as Reverend preaching across the mining towns of Colorado.
Two letters (ALS) from Civil War financier Jay Cooke (1821-1905), dated 1875 and 1884 or 1886, the latter declining an invitation to write about the financial aspects of the war, saying he feels it still is premature. During the Civil...
One note (ANS) by Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928), poet and niece of Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism). Purchase, n.d. Alpha list.
Papers of award-winning poet Marsha Truman Cooper, including correspondence with other poets, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, chapbooks and serials (cataloged separately).
Printed pamphlet for "Self Respecting, Self Supporting, Small Salaried Women," San Francisco, CA, ca. 1899-1900. Gift of Allen Adrian. Alpha list.
This collection consists of materials related to the seagoing diesel yacht "Happy Days," designed for Ira C. Copley (October 25, 1864 – November 1, 1947) American publisher, politician, and utility tycoon, by Cox & Stevens Inc.
Coptic uncial Christian manuscript, with Arabic in margin.
One matted b/w photograph, inscribed "To Hon. Cecil R. King, with highest esteem, Cordell Hull."
(Secretary of State). Telegram to Rita Fikkert, advising that Gloria Fikkert and grandparents are well and remaining in the Netherlands. Washington, D.C., 13 July 1940. See also: Rita Fikkert Collection (Bernath Mss 26 and PA Mss 8). Alpha list.
(1710-1753). 1 ALS. London, 18 July 1740. [Returned to Foot Collection].
In early 1980 Mario García began work on a seminal biographical piece of American history, to illuminate the lifehistory of Bert N. Corona, a Mexican American labor leader whose life and work embody the remarkable character of Mexican American communities...
Lucha Corpi is a celebrated Chicana author born in Jaltipan Veracruz in 1945. She has received numerous literary awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Latino Hallmark Book Award. Her papers are composed of four series...
Miscellaneous letters (ALS) from various unidentified correspondents, most re personal, financial, and legal matters. Alpha list.
Three typed letters between Joseph H. Barnard and Stanley F. Horn dated 2 May 1944, May 13, 1944, and 27 May 1944. The letters pertain to Barnard's book "The Army of Tennessee" and include Horn's anecdotes, gathered during his time...
This collection consists of correspondence between poets Walter Clark, Jr. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and John Ridland (University of California, Santa Barbara), dating from 1953-2008.
Original studio audio and video recordings for KQED (San Francisco, Calif.) television special "Corridos."
The collection contains studio audio and video recordings for KQED (San Francisco, Califonia) television special "Corridos."
This collections consists of three signed photos of Lita and Anita Gamez who were known as "The Cortez Sisters." They were popular performing artists in the 1930s.
Collection contains several sightseeing guidebooks and bulletins featuring photos of landmarks, travel information, maps, and other data.
A group of eight catalogs and related ephemera (circa 1940s)pertaining to costumes, fabrics etc., many seemingly connected to theater and dance suppliers. Includes sheets with swatches of decorative fabrics and samples.
Parts 2 and 3: Nos. 111 and 130 of the Tract Society of the Medodist Episcopal Church. New York, ca. 1830s. Transferred from uncat. Special, 10/2/09. Alpha list.
Environmental News packets of photocopied clippings offered by the subscription service run by the [Santa Barbara] County News Service. The clippings are taken from several Santa Barbara and area newspapers.
Papers of Santa Barbara-based composer Mildred Couper an early proponent of quarter-tone music. The collection includes musical scores, photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence (including correspondence with her Husband Richard Couper and grandfather Thomas Ball), personal writings, financial documents, concert programs, recordings...
This collection consists of abstracts and research files, dating from the 1970s through the 1980s, related to commercial and scientific underwater diving training and safety, collected by deep sea diver, trainer, and writer Ellis Royal (E.R.) Cross (1913-2000).
Papers of Ricardo Cruz, former Chicano rights attorney active in Los Angeles, California during the Chicano Movement era, and a founding member of Católicos por La Raza.
One note (AN), re sending a review copy of The Bounty of Sweden, 13 July 1925, and one list of hand printed books, [ca. 1947]. Printers Collection. Alpha list.
Contents include black and white photographs, color photo postcards, booklets, flyers, cards, and receipts, often with typed captions, mainly from a January 1942 Havana trip, along with photo postcards from the return trip through Florida (Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Palm Beach,...
A photograph album with 109 b/w prints, most with captions in English, apparently compiled by an American sailor attached to the USS Wright on its visits to Cuba and Haiti during the late 1920s. Includes a number of photos of...
Six images, Santiago and Havana, Cuba. Purchase, Howard Karno
16 mounted cabinet cards depicting scenes in and around Havana, Cuba, just after the Spanish-American War, 1899.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Cuba [Havana] photographs, Wyles Mss 111. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Photo album with 33 B+W photos. This is most likley the S.S. Yorck, a steamship built in 1906 by F. Schichau Shipyard, Danzig, Germany for Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd), for the Bremerhaven to New York service. Under the command...
Two albums with 61 black and white photographs, some duplicates, some captions in English, apparently taken by an American tourist on a visit to Cuba. Includes images of Havana Harbor, boats, Havana coast, Moro Castle, Fort Cabanas, rural areas, banana...
41 Black-and-white photographs of Cuba, some with handwritten captions on the front or back.
Three mounted black/white albumen photographs, pack mules transporting sugar cane after the Spanish American War. Alpha list.
Collection contains guidebooks, travel brochures, picture viewbooks, maps, and other ephemera from the first half of the 20th century. Materials relate primarily to Havana, Cuba.
From dealer description: Photo album: Summer 1936 in a Cuban resort. A photograph album measuring 7 by 10 inches. Contains 32 leaves, each with a 4 3/4 by 7 1/4 inch photograph tipped-on, and one extra photo. A penciled inscription...
Holograph letter written in Washington, D.C.
Includes files (correspondence, clippings, articles) relating to hundreds of religious groups, as well as internal administrative, financial, and legal files of a cult watchdog group which ceased operations in the mid 1990s.
Photo album containing 19 black/white photographs with extensive captions, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Mission, at Kanazawa, Japan, 1906. Includes images of staff and grounds, girls at the mission school, local Japanese Christian converts, Kanazawa street scenes, and a Buddhist monastery...
This collection contains original scripts by various playwrights including Anthony (Tony) Curiel, Luis Valdez, Josefina Lopez, Carlos Morton, and others. There are records and production files produced by El Teatro Campesino. Also within the collection are Curiel's personal research notes...
Scrapbook, mostly photos, from Peru; and 1 folder of family correspondence, telegrams, and biographical notes, mainly relating to Lauro Curletti, ca. 1921-1926, 1969. Also, letterbook of José /Giuseppe Curletti, 1869-1870, written in Spanish and Italian, with letters from South American...
Two partial, printed, mounted bills stating that "The Possessor of this Bill, shall be paid by the Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, Nine Pence, Lawful Money, by the first Day of January, A.D. One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty-two..."...
"Grand Banner of the Radical Democracy, for 1864." Hand-colored lithographic print, 1864. Item 2681 in Currier & Ives: A Catalogue Raisonne. [Oversize boxed].
One hand-colored print by N. Currier, "Bombardment of Vera Cruz, March 25th, 1847." [Oversize, boxed].
Holograph letter written on back of gold wrapping paper at camp in Mississippi.
Prospectuses, slides, and other materials mainly relating to artists and artists' books, many French, esp. Iliazd.
Includes some Montecito images. Arrangement: artificial collection assembled by dealer; some groupings of items. Includes some Montecito, CA images.
(1809-1884). Calling card of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper, with address of 20 East Burton Place, [Chicago], n.d. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) to UCSB Librarian, Allen B. Veaner, decling invitation to be 1983 Corle speaker. Berkeley, 21 June 1982. Alpha list.
(David Herbert). One bookplate, n.d. Alpha list.
One letter (TL) and one typed form , 1937, together with a page of notes re detention by U.S. Customs Service of a package containing the book The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence, based on a controversial 1929 London exhibit....
159 items: Primarily correspondence and research files (including notecards, typed transcripts, clippings and photostats) relating to Alpheus Thompson, a Maine sea captain who moved to Santa Barbara and married a daughter of Carlos Antonio Carillo. Brown edited the book China...
One holograph letter written and signed by D. T. Van Buren, Colonel and A. A. G. (Assistant Adjutant General), from Head Quarters, Department of the East, New York City, to First Lieutenant R. G. Wells about dispatching two orderlies whose...
Vicksburg, Mississippi). Newspaper, July 2, 1863 issue, printed on blank side of wallpaper. [Oversize boxed].
Pre-publication copies (lightly annotated) of psychiatrist Dennis C. Daley's 1988 book .
Interviewer:?, Oct. 3, 1972. Transcript: None found. Related materials: None found.
262 photos in an album compiled by an American serviceman at Danang Air Base, South Vietnam, 1966-1969.
Two holograph letters of a predominantly personal nature, written to his wife.
Vellum-bound volume, collection of political aphorisms taken from Greek and Latin historians, handwritten in Italian by Lambert Daneau (ca. 1530-1595), professor of theology.
[Civil War Major General]. Three letters (ALS) to A.G. Peterson mainly about financial difficulties and a letter to the editor of the National Tribune from an unidentified writer, pleading Sickles' case, all 1913. Also, an obituary from the National Tribune,...
Correspondence and financial materials, including Civil War era, of Daniel S. Hardenberg, Assistant Surgeon of the 56th New York Infantry. .05 linear feet (1 folder).
(1782-1852). Autograph of American statesman Daniel Webster, on envelope with Washington, D.C. stamp, Mar. 13, [1842]. Alpha list.
The collection contains recorded and transcribed interviews conducted by Douglas Daniels regarding the life and career of musician Lester Young in preparation for his book, , and also regarding the history of the Santa Barbara Blues Society.
Album with pasted-in photographs and clippings from newspapers and copies of flyers including underground leaflets. (Ephemera and clippings in Danish language, some in Norwegian). Contains also: National Air Force, air balloons, helicopters, various Danish, German and British aircraft, the sinking...
(1883-1966). One letter (TLS) from Dard Hunter, American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, to Matthew J. Bruccoli, American scholar and professor of English, re visit of latter. Chillicothe, Ohio, 4 June 1962.
This small collection consists of assorted postcards depicting Scottish entertainer Sir Harry Lauder (1870-1950), best known for his humorous songs sung in Scottish brogue, recording for most of the major recording companies including the Gramophone Co., The Victor Talking Machine...
The collection contains printed and manuscript materials, photo albums, correspondences, pamphlets, diaries, and various ephemera by and relating to Charles Darwin and others interested in natural history and the theory of evolution. Includes material by Bernard Darwin, Francis Darwin, Thomas...
The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War is a national organization whose membership, according to their charter, is composed of the female, lineal, direct descendents of all "honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Union...
The bulk of the collection consists of journals of the organization's annual convention....
The collection contains the correspondence, research files, lecture notes, slides, and videos of Biology and Zoology professor Demorest Davenport.
Speech, September 9
[Massachusetts Cavalry, 1st Regiment (Vol)]. One Civil War document (ADS): descriptive list of a detachment of recruits being transferred to Camp of Rendezvous (Barrett is the only person listed), 4 Jan. 1864.
Two letters (TLS) from David Davies to A. F. Pollard and one letter (TL) response from Pollard, re Davies' book, The Problem of the Twentieth Century , 1930. Found in Davies' The Problem of the Twentieth Century. Alpha list.
(1801-1870). One photoengraving. [Oversize boxed].
Printed address, memorializing Civil War admiral Farragut.
(1862-1943). Bound volume, holographic writing in German, entitled "Mechanik," lectures of German mathematician David Hilbert, while he was at the University of Göttingen, 1905-1906. Alpha list.
Oration delivered to the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, at Middlesex Center, 4 July 1862.
Four items, ca. 1970s, from or by American poet David Kheridian, including one letter (TLS), mimeographed poetry magazine: Mary Fisk School Poetry, flyer, and wedding invitation. Alpha list.
Box 1 located at Annex 2. Inquire at Special Collections for access.
The collection includes research files used in writing "Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier (Official National Park Handbook, 1983), correspondence, diaries, and treaties.
Typescript of article by Lavender, "How Historical Can a Historical Novel Be?" along with signed copy of the 1982 issue of Soundings, describing Lavender's appointment as William Wyles Collection consultant, and including a bibliography of Lavender's publications. .02 linear feet...
The collection contains several maps prepared for publications of David Myrick, on western railroad history, ghost towns, and San Francisco.
Correspondence, documents and related materials, re Kenya. Alpha list.
Vitae, Notes on Transpersonal Psychology; Misc. Unpublished Papers; Underground Magazine, Vols 1-4 [writing as z. Dee]
One letter (ALS) from Harold S. Edwards (Marysville, CA, 5 June 1957, thanking Lavender for introducing his son to the Concord Philosophers, along with a leaf from a scrapbook with clippings about the Concord School of Philosophy and Henry D....
Clippings, ca. 1931, about Jordan, Stanford University's first president, and other Stanford ephemera, including three picture postcards of 1906 earthquake damage. Alpha list.
The collection contains research files (notes, articles, clippings), bibliography cards, and picture postcards, mainly relating to concepts of time throughout history and among various cultures. Donald C. Davidson was University Librarian at UCSB for many years (1947-1977) and the collection...
Books and papers of an historian and editor of Yale University Press, primarily relating to 20th century German history, including the Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Holocaust, Nuremberg trials, international war tribunals, and the Cold War period.
This collection contains papers, publications, audio and video files, as well as scrapbooks that document the history of Rampart Records and multicultural rock and roll bands in the Los Angeles area. As an ongoing collection owner, Hector Gonzalez continues to...
Holograph diary of F.B. Davis, a Union sailor who served on the USS Quaker City. The first dated entry is for Jan. 1, 1863; the last is Dec. 31, 1863. His diary begins at his home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. In...
This collection contains one travel diary compiled by Oliver M. Davis from June to September 1900.
2 exam blue books belonging to Smith College student Ruth Davis.
Screenplay and television script library of American screenwriter and producer Walter Halsey Davis, active between the 1970s and 2000s.
Artifacts, an autobiography, correspondence, documents, maps, several thousand photographs (prints, negatives, and slides), reports, travel files, and writings of Enzo de Chetelat, a mining engineer, who visited and worked in numerous countries, often French colonies at the time, from the...
A collection of Latina lesbian magazines donated by bi-cultural writer and activist tatiana de la tierra (Tatiana Barona) on December 2006. and are revolutionary Latina lesbian magazines created to stimulate dialogue and creativity within the Latina lesbian community.
Photograph album, dating to around 1900, containing approximately 85 albumen prints of a family vacation at Matilija Springs in Ventura County California, as well as albumen prints of various places in Southern California, including Catalina Island and Coronado Island in...
The collection relates mainly to de Mille's research and writings on Carlos Castaneda. The collection was received in 1980 and the correspondence (mostly photocopies) was restricted until 1990. Footnotes to Chapter 40 of (1980) provide an early, brief description of...
The collection contains two small manuscripts, in French, of misprints and corrections to Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand's Civil War experiences, (1867), later translated as . ...
This collection contains 16 broadsides printed by Chandler O'Leary of Anagram Press and Jessica Spring of Springtide Press, in honor of the social and political power of women throughout history.
Set of 20 oversized postcard reproductions of the ongoing Dead Feminists series.
One letter (TLS) to Hamilton Von Breton re regional foreign policy conferences. Washington, [D.C.], 14 Jan. 1963. Alpha list.
The Allen G. Debus collection focuses on early entertainers, pioneer recording artists, vaudeville, minstrelsy, and the popular musical forms of the late 19th and early 20th century. The collection includes sheet music, photographs, correspondence, ephemera, and other primary source documents,...
Black-and-white photographs of a recording studio and record pressing facility in Brussels, Belgium.
London, 1653. [Gt. Brit. Sovereigns, etc. 1649-1658 (Oliver Cromwell)]. Printed by Henry Hills and William du-Gard. Wing C-7077. Oversize boxed. Alpha list.
The collection contains correspondence files pertaining to a festschrift being prepared to honor Alexander DeConde (1920-), UCSB professor of history and expert in American foreign relations....
Program and other material relating to the 250th anniversary celebration of the town, 1886. Laid in: Proceedings at the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Deham Massachusetts [Main F74.D3 D5]. Purch
Broadside, with portraits of Lincoln, George Washing, Andrew Johns, Sherman, Grant, Sheridan, Porter, Faragut, and Dahlgreen, n.d. [Wyles Map Cabinet 1/1].
Scrapbook documenting the Delaware (Shellpot Park) Dance Marathon of 1932. The scrapbook contains photographs, clippings, and contestant histories. The scrapbook is accompanied by a clipping of a 1997 article from the New York Times, entitled "Stepping into the past with...
This collection consists of materials gathered by members of the Delco Retirees Group, including memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, historical documents, oral histories, and corporate publications, documenting the guidance systems work for NASA's Apollo lunar program that took place at Delco Systems...
. Correspondence, newsletters, lists, clippings and articles, many by Haverland., a former UCSB librarian, about the early days of the William Wyles Collection. Donated in the memory of Della B. Haverland and Stella Haverland Rouse. Latest donation by S. Raby,...
Guest Pass, Seventh Session, with engraved portrait of Woodrow Wilson. San Francisco, 28 June 1920. Alpha list.
One letter (TLS) to Allan and Mrs. Nevins, re trip to Pasadena, the Huntington, Santa Barbara, and elsewhere, doing research. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 12 June 1960. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) to Dave [?], re an interview he conducted with her and her impressions of L.A. New York, n.d.
One letter (ALS) on Denishawn letterhead stationery, to Miss Wirt Hicks, thanking her for becoming a founder subscriber to the Denishawn Magazine. New York, [ca. 1924-1925].
Poetry and ephemera by Holt, sent to Philip Whalen. Alpha list.
One poem, "For IV." Santa Barbara
Interviewer: David Russell. Interviewee(s): Dennis Lynds. Transcript: Yes, for Tapes 1-8. Related materials: Background/research materials.
Diaries, account books, photos, documents, correspondence, engineering blueprints and architectural drawing templates (among other items) relating to the career of A.L. (Leon) Dennison.
Deposit form for bonds purchased from the Confederate States of America, issued in 1885. This document summarized CSA bonds deposited with the National Safe Deposit Company, Limited of England.
The collection contains typescript, printed copies of autobiographical and other writings by Barbara Blanchard DeWolfe (1912- ), professor of zoology at UCSB, 1946-1977. DeWolfe's publications also include several ornithological studies on sparrows. Additional copies of some of these writings have...
Pamphlet and map from the Diamond Oil Company of San Francisco.
The collection contains over 100 pamphlets, booklets, cards, and flyers cut in shapes such as animals, books, bottles, boxes, cans, fruit and vegetables, hats, oysters, and shoes. Many of the items are highly illustrated and printed in vivid colors. Most...
Papers of an American composer and former UCSB professor that range from the 1940s through to 2008 and include many of her compositions in manuscript, audio recordings, extensive business and personal correspondence, programs, clippings, and contracts.
Portfolio of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) color prints. Purchase, Breuer
Seventy-five social justice-themed screen prints and posters by Dignidad Rebelde, produced between 2002-2021.
The collection primarily contains the papers of Byron Diman (1795-1865), governor of Rhode Island (1846-1847) and prominent merchant of Bristol. It includes correspondence, shipping records, and business papers of Devol, Diman, & Co.; correspondence with the D'Wolf family of Bristol,...
The collection contains historical accounts of and administrative records produced by Direct Relief International (DRI).
Santa Barbara organization. Interviewer: Dale Carlisle? [check tapes]. Interviewee(s): Dennis Karczag, David Green, Mr. [?] Tulsi. Transcript: None found. Related materials: Org chart, grant proposal, Speakers' Bureau list. Related collection: Direct Relief International Collection (SBHC Mss 22; Dennis Karczag Papers...
Discharge certificate for Corporal Frank A. Hofmann in Peter Snooks' Company Q, 56th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, who was enrolled on December 25th, 1862 to serve two years during the war. The certificate states that Hofmann is hereby discharged from...
Discharge certificate for Private H. V. Latham signed by Charles A. McCall on official stationery of Mount Pleasant, U. S. Army General Hospital from Washington, D. C. and signed by C. A. McCall (Charles A. McCall), Assistant Surgeon U. S....
Printed Civil War document: "Argument for absent owners in the matter of the Newborn seizures," re merchandise seized by combined U.S. Government land and naval forces in and around Newborn, North Carolina in March, 1863. Found in unsorted Wyles SC.
Photographic scrapbook of the 1974 theatrical production based on the Tragical history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlow conveived and directed by Arthur Joe Lopez and photographed by Ernest A. Smith and John Rodriquez.
Relating to land owned by William Lock the Elder and William Lock the Younger in Kerry County, Ireland, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Alpha list. [Oversize boxed].
Mainly financial and legal documents, most from U.S. east coast. Alpha list.
Mainly financial and legal documents, most from U.S. east coast. Alpha list.
Mainly financial and legal documents, most from U.S. east coast. [Oversize boxed]. Alpha list.
Mainly financial and legal documents, most from U.S. east coast. Alpha list.
Holograph letter written on the south side of the Rappahannock.
Papers of William Dole (1917-1983), American abstract collage artist born in Angola, Indiana, and former Professor of Art at UC Santa Barbara. This collection includes exhibition catalogs, correspondence, gallery records slides and photographs, teaching files, press clippings, and Dole's personal...
One letter (TLS) from Don Farran, President of the Iowa Authors Club, to Carl Van Doren, promoting Farran's Ballad of the Silver Ring. Hampton, Iowa, April 18 , 1935. Also one 1935 newsclipping re Iowa Authors Club. Laid in Don...
One charcoal drawing, with quote by Bert Kessler, from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Transfer from Main, via Carol Gibbens, through Jane Faulkner, 5/1/06. Oversize, Map Cabinet 20/6. Alpha list.
From his vantage point as University Librarian, Professor Donald C. Davidson traces the evolution of the UCSB Library, explaining the origins of each collection and describing the trials he faced in keeping pace with the academic needs of a growing...
Scrapbook and loose papers, including correspondence, travel accounts, b/w snapshots, documents, maps, and tourist brochures, mainly about trips to Mexico, including Guyamas and Hermosillo areas. Alpha list.
Correspondence, notes, flyers, clippings and other printed material, color prints, and a few microcassettes, primarily relating to Don Hamilton's work as a homeless advocate.
Picture postcards, b/w and color, many mailed, with messages.
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, albums, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia of vaudeville performer Kitty Doner (1895-1988).
This mixed-media collection consists of Jim Dong's graphic artwork, photographs, and slides of the Asian American Theater Company, Kearny Street Workshop, Asian American Dance Collective, and the Asian American Jazz Festival. Other ephemera in the collection includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets,...
One typescript in binder and one set of handwritten notes in binder, re Lewis' The Bents and the St. Vrains as Pioneers in the Trade of the Southwest. Dissertation, UC Berkeley, 1924.
Typescript copies of reminiscences and family history, early 19c to mid 20c, re Jacob Glendenin Adams, Nancy Hamilton Adams, Joseph Copley Alter, Wells E. Bigelow, Ralph Oliver Reiner (Santa Barbara resident), and Marjorie Ward. Includes accounts of 19c journey to...
Album of several hundred black and white snapshots, with typescript captions in English, compiled by the son of a missionary family posted to Colombia. Includes many images of the Cali and Bogota areas; also some of Costa Rica, El Salvador,...
Holograph letter written at the Cumberland Hospital in Nashville regarding family news.
Letter to Col. W.B. Wooster written by John H. Doolittle.
The collection primarily contains materials relating to Sanford Dorbin's , manuscript drafts of his poetry and other writings, and files pertaining to his poetry magazine (1973-1978), in which some of Bukowski's poems appeared.
One photograph album, ca. 56 b/w photos, along with 5 loose b/w photos, taken by a missionary school teacher at the Dorchester Academy in the African American community at McIntosh, Liberty, County, Georgia, ca. 1890s.
Collection of Vaudeville performer Dorothy Rae (born Dorothy Pfeiffer; also performed as Dorothy Adams), originally of Chicago, Illinois. The collection is primarily photographs, a 1927 National Vaudeville Artists Year Book and other ephemera. In the Year Book Rae is listed...
Collection of correspondence from Dorothy Pound, wife of Ezra Pound, to Kirgo's Books, re purchases. Washington, [D.C.] , 1950-1953. Accessioned 6/18/84. Alpha list.
[wife of explorer/journalist Henry Morton Stanley]. One letter (ALS) to Mr. Thomas, re husband's lecture tour, her nomadic life, other authors, and plans for the summer. Midland Hotel, Bradford, England, 15 May 1891.
Writings, biographical and promotional materials, workshop materials, and audio cassette recordings from Jacobs, a humanistic educator whose work focused on movement and expression.
This collection was created in CEMA from internal files about Dos Decadas de Artistas Chicanas (1972-1990): Envisioning and Transforming Culture, an exhibition co-sponsored by CEMA held in the Women’s Center Gallery on the University of California Santa Barbara campus.
The collection consists of audiocassettes and transcriptions of Maria Velasco's opening remarks, the slide lecture and event publicity (handbill, press release and news articles.).
One letter (ALS) from author John Dos Passos to Michael Heskett (Santa Barbara, CA) re 1920s literature, disagreeing strongly with the characterization of it being the 'lost generation.' Westmoreland, VA, Apr. 22, 1966. Also, photocopy of one letter (ALS), to...
The collection contains correspondence, Christmas cards, stock certificates and ephemera of Robert Loos Dothard, ca. 1938-1963, mainly relating to the printing firm of William E. Rudge's Sons, Inc. Dothard was one of the five original partners of the firm and...
The collection primarily contains printed ephemera from the Zamorano (Los Angeles) and Roxburghe (San Francisco) clubs, collected by Robert Ormes Dougan, former chair of the Friends of the UCSB Library and director of the Huntington Library, 1958-1972....
Papers of Santa Barbara theater director and author. Harmer directed plays at the Alhecama theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif., edited a Santa Barbara bilingual magazine Don Quijote and later became the chief information officer for the Naval Construction Battalion Center...
As a student at the University of Kiel, Professor Douwe Stuurman recalls his experiences in Nazi Germany and how Hitler's programs compromised the academic integrity of the university. He describes his military assignments during World War II, which led to...
This collection is housed in two boxes, containing correspondence files, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The collection is arranged in two series. Series one, Personal/Biographical Information is arranged alphabetically by assigned folder titles. It offers information about Downey's personal life, writing...
Holograph letters written to his brother, Philip, during December, 1861 and January, 1862. All were written from Camp Griffin, Virginia, with one adding the address of Head Quarters, 6th Maine Regt.
Collection of a Latin American specialist in the DRA and a UCSB faculty member; includes typescript of book Latin America: An Interpretative History, files from Dozer's government service in the 1940s, and newspaper clippings (mostly about Argentina).
2 ALS, from Edith G. Hawthorne, 1935, and Millicent Todd Bingham, 1945; and 1 print, "Vine", a page from A Common Botany, designed, engraved, and hand-printed on Sekishu, a Japanese rice paper, by Walter Stein, Boston, 1956. [move to othe...
The manuscript portion of the collection contains two hand-printed leaves, on Japanese rice paper, from A Common Botany (1956).
The Dr. Pauline E. Brooks and Abye family collection consists of early Black film actor Clarence Ahart Brooks' personal collection of films, early Black scripts and plays, documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, lobby cards, and advertisements pertaining to the Lincoln...
The collection contains one audiocassette and one transcript of an interview conducted by Gibbs Smith in April 1971, for UCSB Special Collections, with Mrs. Thomas (Alice) Driscoll, prominent Santa Barbara resident.
Driscoll served as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army's 91st Division during and after World War I. Collection includes photographs, pamphlets, intelligence reports, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Also includes Theodore Roosevelt correspondence, Gen. Sheridan letter, and some nineteenth century...
48 black and white photographs by a member of a British expedition in the mountainous area of Hindu Kush (now northern Pakistan/Afghanistan), near the Russian frontier, including images of Drosh fort and bazaar, mountain views and passes, river gorges, bridges,...
This collection contains 65 silkscreen prints, including 37 prints by Richard Duardo and 28 prints by other artists such as Carlos Almaraz, Barbara Carrasco, Leo Limón, Carmen Lomas Garza and John Valadez. The dates range from 1976 to 1986. Duardo...
The collection mainly contains correspondence between Ralph M. Duenewald and Hobart Skofield, re the William Edwin Rudge printing firm, ca. 1971-1983. Duenewald worked with Rudge for about eight years, ca. the 1930s, and was known for his color lithography. He...
This is a small but significant Chicano literary collection that highlights María Iris Duke dos Santos' relationship to various Chicano writers over four decades. The collection adds understanding to the development of Chicano letters and writing and its international growth....
Bio/personal files, sketch books, slides, photographs and other material of a local artist who created many public art works in Santa Barbara.
Photograph album of the Dutch East Indies [Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea], by the Wurffel Photostudio, Batavia, ca. 1920. Contains 113 black/white professional photographs of varying sizes, with calligraphed captions in white ink. Includes images of Bali (women, some palaces...
Photograph album of a Dutch traveler from his trip to Dutch East Indies, dated Mendoet (village of Mendut), July 1923, measuring approximately 5.25 x 7 inches (13 x 17.5 cm). Contains 20 sepia photographs, measuring approximately 3.25 x 4.5 inches...
162 black and white photos mounted in 6 albums of Java and Sumatra.
Collection contains five black and white photograph albums, mostly of images on tour around Sumatra Island of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Photographs begin in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands then continue to coastal Europe (Italy, Gibraltar) on a...
136 black and white mounted photographs, printed Dutch captions, in an album entitled "Banka-Album," presumably referring to Bangka Island, east of Sumatra and site of one of the world's largest tin-mining operations. Locales include Muntok, Djeboes, Blinjoe, Soengeiliat, Merawang, Pangkalpinang,...
One album with 250+ black/white photographs of Dutch New Guinea (now Papua province of Indonesia), some with Dutch captions, most snapshots likely taken by a Dutch non-commissioned officer.
One letter (TLS) to Harold S. Chase re gift of two volumes of Edward Borein's (Santa Barbara artist) reproductions. White House, Washington, [D.C.], 11 May 1953. [from CDCC]. Alpha list.
One letter (TLS) to Paul C. Stark re Advisory Board of the National Council for Community Improvement. White House Washington, [D.C.], 24 June 1954. Alpha list.
Artifacts (housed in a sliding wooden container) include a letter, a comb, a dog tag, coin and other items.
Handwritten diary, in ink, approximately 129 pages, Sept. 5 - Nov. 23, 1862, by E. C. Ambler, Chaplain with the [New York?] 69th Regiment. Writing from Annapolis, talks about parole camp, widespread illness, visits to the hospital, camp news and...
270+ black and white prints and color slides. Locations include Bali, Burma, Cambodia (Angkor Wat), Laos (Vientiene), Malaysia (mainly Malacca and Penang), Shanghai, and Thailand (including South Thailand - Kra Isthmus). Images feature street scenes; agriculture, countryside, and river views;...
Two handwritten ledgers with manuscript documents and maps pertaining to the E. Conway & Company purchase of lands in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Contra Costa counties, with early information about oil development in California.
Holograph telegram written and signed by E. G. Wheeler, Major Commanding Post., on official stationery of the South-Western Telegraph Company, from Okolona, [Mississippi] to Capt. L. D. Sandidge about having no reliable news, [with the enemy] reported to advance by...
[Civil War Union Sergeant, E.S. Maryland, 2nd Regiment (Vol)]. One document (ADS), re payment of transportation charges. Baltimore, 10 May 1864. Moved to SC 544.
Holograph letter written from Boston, regarding the visit of his son, Robert S. Littell, to Washington, D.C.
Cite as: [Identification of item], E. R. Jim Blakley Backcountry oral history collection, SBHC Mss 81. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The collection contains ca. 6708 stereoviews, 179 other photographic images (most photo postcards), one videotape about stereoviews, 11 stereoviewers, and related books and issues of , assembled by George D. Eagleton. The stereoviews, some exceedingly rare, include images from many...
(Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court). One holograph speech re new UCSB campus, [ca. 1956]. Alpha list.
(Governor of California). One letter (TLS) to Victor G. Loly re recommendation to State Board of Cosmetology. Sacramento, December 19 , 1947. Alpha list.
One letter (TLS) to [Curtis] Freschel, re successful investments. Santa Barbara, CA, 25 July 1922.
Three large-format manuscript documents dated 1785, 1799, and 1809 representing legal contracts known as indentures. Issued in New Jersey.
This collection consists of nine pages of description given by Chester Davis on September 28, 1961, concerning the settlement of the Upper Sisquoc River in Santa Barbara County, California, between 1895 and 1903.
San Jose (California) photograph album documenting everyday life of female cannery workers at the Sunnyvale Cannery, 1913.
The collection consists advertising, trade, and catalogs from the early twentieth century.
One typed manuscript (TMS), 94 pages, "The Life of John W. Earnest (1824-1913)," by his son William W. Earnest, including an account of John W. Earnest's overland trip from Illinois to the California goldfields in 1850, experiences there, return east...
232 black and white photographs in three albums, apparently spanning the German and British colonial periods. Images include indigenous peoples; markets; colonial officers; boats and railways; street scenes; countryside views; animals including cattle, lions, elephants, and antelopes.
Photo album with 49 B+W photos taken during a journey on an unnamed German steamship ( North German Lloyd registry), originating in Europe in 1930. Scenes of various locales in Europe and Asia including Gibraltar, Stromboli, the Suez Canal, Singapore,...
The collection consists of items from and related to China and Japan. These include:...
40 b/w photos of Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Macao, ca. 1910-1920s. Most appear to be of Japan and China, many of scenery, shrines, and buildings, but a number of people as well, including some children. About half have captions....
The bulk of the collection consists of papers and ledgers regarding Robert E. Easton's business dealings, especially the Sisquoc Ranch Company.
This collection contains correspondence, research and subject files (including Chumash, natural resources, wilderness, and women's issues), drafts of writings, and related materials of Robert O. Easton.
Third Ohio Infantry.
Earl Ebi (1903-1973) was a TV producer, director and actor. He is well known for his work with the Lux Video Theatre. His papers include 1 linear foot of matrerial from his life and career between 1952-1972.
One document (ADS) to Captain Thomas Harris re stores shipped on board the ship Juno. Boston, 17 January 1799.
100 black-and-white photos/photo postcards of Ecuador, circa 1920.
5 albums and xx loose photographs, incl. a few panoramas. Includes images of what appear to be oil wells - taken by the photographer who may have been associated with one of the oil companies? Not sure yet if all...
One note (ANS) from American writer and philosopher Saltus to [?] Allen re a libelous aricle about Saltus. Laid in Eden: An Episode. [11 Apr. 1888]. Alpha list.
Correspondence and autographs from actors and actresses, to a San Francisco autograph collector. Alpha list.
(1729-1797). 3 ALS, 1781, 1793. [Returned to Foot Collection]
(1816-1906). One letter (ALS) to a Mr. [?] Baxter, inviting him to visit and have lunch. Boston, Feb. 25, 1888. Found in Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, ill. by Slafter (1880). Alpha list.
(1810-1876). Holograph poem, untitled and undated, by the Massachusetts Unitarian parish minister and author of the carol "It Came upon the Midnight Clear." Alpha list.
(1819-1861). Newspaper supplement, with text of speech by Randolph, Californian and southern sympathizer, at the Theatre in San Jose, [CA] 1861. [Oversize boxed].
Three letters (TLS), to Harriet von Breton, re oil spill issues, 1969. Also, one note (TNS) re water quality improvement act, 1969. Alpha list.
One holograph letter written and signed by E. Schriver, who at the time was Captain at Headquarters of Eastern Department of the U.S. Military, to Major R. L. Baker about receiving Baker's report and asking him whether he has sent...
Two Lincoln photos (copies), with accompanying letter (TL) by Jay Monaghan (1957), explaining the context in which they were taken, and one letter (ALS) from V. S. Lovell to J. H. Williamson (1892), talking about one of the photographs.
The Educational Broadcasting Collection consists of catalogues, trade magazines, pamphlets, educational materials, manuscripts, and ephemera that serves as an overview of the broadcasting industry during the golden age of radio. The bulk of these materials range in date from 1933-1946....
One letter (ALS) from Edward A. McClemand's father to Mrs. Julia Trumbull, re appointment of Edward to the Military Academy at West Point. Springfield, IL, Apr. 13, 1866. Found in unsorted Wyles SC.
Six letters (ALS) by circus writer Seago to [Raymond Toole-]Stott, mainly about articles he is working on. Laid in correspondence to: Toole-Stott Circus Collection]. Alpha list. Transfer to Toole-Stott?
One black and white inscribed photograph of western artist Edward Borein. Santa Barbara, California, 16 Sept. 1930. [Oversize boxed].
Poster advertising The Pinto Horse, by Charles Elliott Perkins; illustrated by Edward Borein. First edition was published in 1927. Alpha list.
Two prints: "Moving Camp" and "Blackfeet Women." [Oversize boxed].
Correspondence, telegrams, assessments, contracts, inspections, reports, and other material relating to U.S. business interests in Latin America pertaining to property and commodities such as rubber, bananas, coffee, and coal, much of it apparently relating to the activities of Edward C....
Collection of copies of documents from Mexican War and Civil War, ca. 1846-1861. Originals in the National Archives.
Holograph letter written by Edward D. Baker, a friend of Abraham Lincoln and a Senator from Oregon, stating his desire to sell notes to raise five hundred dollars. He asks the letter's recipient to be his agent.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Edward David Isenberg / Isla Vista Town Crier collection, SBHC Mss 73. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
[Lieutenant, New York Cavalry, 5th Reg. (Vol.), Co. F]. Copies of Civil War correspondence, 1861-1863.
One document (ADS) re the history of the Independent Corps of Cadets (Guards of the Governor) of Massachusetts and their role in the Civil War, n.d. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
(1822-1909). One letter (ALS) re his study of Spanish language and paper on the archives of Spain and Mexico. Boston, 24 Nov.1879. Alpha list.
[American author and Unitarian clergyman]. One letter (ALS), responding to unknown woman's letter and sending her some religious tracts he has written. Intervale, N.H., Aug. 10, 1908.
Urban renewal. Interviewer: DER and Joe Bill. Interviewee(s): Edward J. Logue. . Transcript: Uncorrected transcript.
One sheet, ink on paper, by British craftsman Edward Johnson, considered one of the fathers of modern calligraphy. Transferred from Special Collections cataloging backlog. Alpha list.
Surgeon's journal, much of it written by Dr. Hill's orderly, Mr. McEvoy, 1861-1863. No publication without written permission of the donors. .05 linear feet (1 folder).
Architectural history - introduction to design, of Gropius and Broyer. Interviewer: David Russell. Interviewee(s): Edward Larabee Barnes. Transcript: Unedited first draft.
Collection contains audiotapes of UCSB English professor, Edward Loomis, including master tapes of tape collages (Zendada, Utopia) and long form poems (Tex-Mex Iliad, Everyman, Archiolator). Also included are reels of found sound source material, inverviews (Kenneth Rexroth), monologues, dialogues, and...
(1866-1934). Two letters (ALS) and accompanying newspaper clipping, from American author and poet Edward Lucas White, to Santa Barbara resident Roger Boutell, thanking him for his appreciation of his (White's) work , 1925-1927. Alpha list.
(1866-1934). Four page typescript carbon re the Robertson brothers, adventurers and merchants in Paraguay, as noted in the dedication to Edward Lucas White's El Supremo: A Romance of the Great Dictator of Paraguay (1916). Laid in El Supremo: A Romance...
One typescript note (TNS) re autograph volumes of Captain Bissell and World War I.. N.p., 15 Nov.1928.
Rewards of merit, weekly report, and catalogue of Ellington School [Connecticut], where Manning attended. Alpha list.
38 slide carousels containing 2000+images of Edward Mendell's travels around the world, photographing endangered species for the World Wildlife Fund, and also of people in far-flung places such as Bhutan, Burma, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Iceland, Mali, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Orissa...
Typed letter on official stationery of the United States Shipping Board, Washington, by Edward N. Hurley thanking Dan D. Griffiths of the Chicago Athletic Association for his congratulations.
One letter (TLS) to Elizabeth M. Spencer, re bibliographical fine points and book collecting. Philadelphia, 9 Oct. 1928.
One letter (TLS) to John A. Berger, re book collecting. Philadelphia, 17 Apr. 1929. Alpha list.
Collection of recent copy prints and identification list, with geographic locations, including California. Source unknown, for the originals and the copies.
One letter (ALS) from Santa Barbara author and first headmaster of Laguna Blanca School, Edward Selden Spaulding, to Alice (Mrs. Thomas) Driscoll, talking about stories he has written. [Santa Barbara, CA] , 1968. Laid in Spaulding's Venison and a Breath...
(1900-1949). One letter (TLS) from Secretary of State Edward Stettinius to G. William Gahagan, Assistant to the Director, Pacific Bureau - Office of War Information, San Francisco, thanking Gahagan for courtesy cards to the Press Club and Bohemian Club. Washington,...
One document [ADS], U. S. land grant in Kansas, 5 Feb. 1890. [Oversize boxed].
Award ceremonies, for 9th-13th Contests, 1972-1976. Transcript: None found. Related materials: Corle Contest and Lecture files in University Archives. Arrangement: Chronological
Calling card and autograph, January 18, 1865, of Edwin Booth, famous nineteenth century American actor and brother of John Wilkes Booth.
One letter (TLS) from John Lipsey, Western Books, re mutual friend and proposed visit , 1955. Laid in: Patrick Floyd Garrett, Pat F. Garrett's Authentic Life of Billy the Kid [Spec, Wyles F786.B6 G7 1927]. Alpha list.
Typescript and manuscript text re Stoughton's Civil War career, which ended after being captured by John S. Mosby at Fairfax [VA] Court House. See dealer's description for further details.
(1844-1915) [Artificer, New York Engineers, 50th Regiment (Vol), Company B]. Papers, including Civil War diary (1865), discharge, and typescript biographical sketch.
Clippings and related material re donation of tapestry to UCSB Library Curriculum Lab , 1968. No alpha list.
One letter (TLS) to Allan Nevins thanking him for his encouraging comments about Wolf's Rosenbach biography. Philadelphia, January 16 , 1961. Found in Wolf's Rosenbach: A Biography (Cleveland , 1936). Alpha list.
95 b/w ... (see dealer's description)_.
World War II Era photos taken in Egypt, Cape Town and the Western Desert (Libya) [1942?]
Photograph album with 19 professional quality, artistic Egyptian scenes, some with brief captions, 1936-1938. Includes images from the Western Desert (people, tents, donkeys, camels), urban street scenes and people engaged in daily activities (barber, vendors with carts - possibly Cairo),...
110 black-and-white photographs of various scenes and locales in Egypt, circa 1920.
Album contains 230 black and white snapshots with brief captions in English on the backs of a few. Album possibly belonged to a postwar U.S. civil service worker, and many photos include colleagues/friends sightseeing and at parties, as well as...
Ten black/white, captions on back, people at work and scenes of Egypt. Purchase: Margolis and Moss
Collection contains 49 color postcards, 2 black and white postcards, 8 black and white stereoviews, and 3 double-sided color stereoviews. Stereoviews feature ancient sites in Egypt (Cheops, Heliopolis, Luxor, Giza, Memphis), Cairo, and other locations in Egypt; as well as...
Papers of Fritz Ehrenfeld, Austrian national, documenting his travels in China and Japan from 1911-1917.
Papers of composer Henry Eichheim.
English and French
The collection contains 124 volumes (in 71 incomplete sets) of French tragic, comedic, and vaudeville plays from the 17th and18th centuries, including many from the revolutionary era.
Mainly magazine articles, along with posters, bumper stickers, bulletins, and other ephemera relating to Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th United States president (1953-1961).
Papers of environmentalist and teacher Frederick Eissler (1922-2014). Files relate to the Santa Barbara Airport, Crosstown Freeway, Goleta Slough/Goleta Valley Flood Control Project, and the Sierra Club. In addition to these files, a large component of the collection contains Eissler's...
Small, oblong cloth-backed cedar wood album with seventeen photos and one illustration of El Arish on the Sinai peninsula.
71 black-and-white photographs relating to El Camino Rancho in one album.
The archives of El Teatro Campesino are the largest archival collection on Chicano theater, consisting of approximately 157 linear feet of archives and manuscripts. They include a variety of formats, dating from the Teatro's founding in 1965. They include primary...
(1856-1915). One letter (ALS) to William [Winter?], on personal stationery watermarked with his portrait. [Roycroft], East Aurora, New York, 7 March 1912.
The manuscript part of the collection contains two series: Catalogs and lists; and Photocopies of the title pages of Paul Elder imprints. The printed part of the collection contains nearly 200 titles, some in UCSB Special Collections, others in the...
Includes KKK related photos and membership cards. Also photos of African American classmates. Graduate in 1929 but a few 1930 items included.
Album contains 169 black and white photographs and postcards of the Middle East belonging to a British female traveler. Captions are handwritten in English. Includes images of excavations at Ur; British diplomatic and army personnel and their wives; archeological sites...
One letter (TLS), appeal for support of the United Nations Fund, signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and Ralph J. Bunche. New York, 17 Nov. 1950. Found in one of the [?] Kelley books. Alpha list.
(1820-1879). Photocopies of typescripts "Journal of a Journey to California from Lake County, Illinois, 1850," and "1859: Journal of Incidents Enroute from Waukegan, Ill. To Pikes Peak Gold Diggings."
Sample Ballot. Alpha list. [Oversize, map cabinet 20/6]
Broadside. State of California, Executive Department, 1860. [Wyles Map Cabinet 1/1].
Two National Union tickets for Abraham Lincoln / Andrew Johnson and one Democratic ticket for George B. McClellan / George H. Pendleton. Also one clipping of Civil War era poems. .02 linear feet (1 folder).
Two local Republican tickets and one national electoral ticket for Grant and Colfax, ca. late 1860s-early 1870s.
One letter (TLS) to J. E. Gay, Union League Club, re promotion of a Col. Wheelan. War Department, Washington, [D.C.], 9 Nov. 1901. Alpha list.
[Pennsylvania Infantry, 110th Regiment (Vol), Company A]. One Civil War document (AD): Clothing Account, 1863-1865.
Photocopies of typescript transcriptions of correspondence from geologist and chaplain at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1818-1820. Gift of Judith M. Ishkanian. No alpha list.
Correspondence to Bartlett, poetry editor of Etc., from Sy Gressor, James Laughlin, Tyndale Martin, Paul Ramsey, Knute Skinner , 1964-1966. Alpha list.
(pen name Eleanor Norton). One letter (ALS) to Mrs. [Wefer?], one clipping, and one postcard (1953), all re Stern and her work on Mahatma Gandhi. Laid in Stern's The Women in Gandhi's Life (1953). [ARC?]. Alpha list.
Life history of an English suffragette who moved to California. Subjects include suffrage, Margaret Sanger, birth control movement, Anglo-Irish relations, Greenwich Village, Pasadena Playhouse, and Santa Barbara. Interviewer: Joyce Baker, Aug. 1976; Diane Nassir, Mar. 3, 1977 Interviewee(s): Elizabeth G....
One handwritten letter (ALS) from [?] to Elizabeth L. Lincoln of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, re news of mutual friends or family. Hillsboro, [?], May 13, 1844. Removed from Montgomery Collection (Wyles Mss 9). Alpha list.
Eight postcards, with messages, and four snapshots, from Japan, Philippines, India, Tibet, China, and Burma. Purchase. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) to Mr.[?] O'Day re her book Abelard & Heloise (San Francisco: Paul Elder , 1911, c. 1907). Alpha list.
One typescript manuscript by Ellen Beckman re Kansas in the 1850s.
Interviews with the UCSB Dean of Women, re her career 1934-1974, including a stint during WWII when the Dept. of the Interior requested her services as administrator of temporary housing in Washington, D.C., for wartime employees. Also traces her academic...
Correspondence of author Harlan Ellison, with the UCSB Library, re his Edwin and Jean Corle lecture at UCSB, 1983. Talks about being frustrated by categorizations that prevent him from reaching his intended audience. Also, a copy of the lecture, "A...
Portrait of the organizer of the 11th New York Volunteers Infantry Regiment (New York Zouaves), who had studied law in Lincoln's law office, helping him with the 1860 presidential campaign and accompanying him to Washington, and who was the first...
One letter (TLS) from Vice-Chancellor Noble and accompanying map of University of California, Santa Barbara College. Goleta, California, October 3 , 1958. Laid in Santa Barbara Community Study, conducted by the Pereira and Luckman firm. (LD800.S292 P4 1958). Alpha list.
Interviews with the UCSB provost and professor of zoology, re his life, the University of California in the 1930s, and his academic career at UCSB. UCSB's Noble Hall is named after him. Interviewer: Rick W. Sturdevant, UCSB Library Oral History...
One printed Civil War broadside, "Standard--Extra. Hillsdale, November 7, 1863...," giving names [including Reynolds] of those drawn in the Hillsdale Co. [MI] draft. This copy from the family of Reynolds.
Documents, letter, and clipping about East African affairs. Acquired, along with a number of books, mainly Africana, from Huxley. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) from Hocking (Professor of Romance Languages at Northwestern University) to Aaron Schaffer (Professor of Romance Languages at University of Texas, Austin) re Hocking's book on Ferdinand Brunetière. Evanston, Illinois, March 20 , 1936. Alpha list.
(1838-1909) [Captain, New York Infantry, 140th Regiment (Vol), Company D]. Civil War diary, 1863, and four documents (AD), mostly accounts, ca. 1863-1864.
One printed engraving, "Signing the Emancipation Proclamation" and two copies of the same image, "The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet," [1862-1863].
Copy designed by Bruce Rogers, n.d. [Wyles Map Cabinet 1/1].
One letter (ALS) from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Daniel Ricketson, thanking him for his book , and mentioning, re Henry David Thoreau, "We were all concerned that Mr. Thoreau would [prod her ?] at the Music Hall on Sunday. From...
One letter (ALS) from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Mr. [Slack?] requesting his assistance in obtaining newspaper coverage for a lecture. Concord, Mass., 3 Dec.1861....
One holograph letter written by Emily B. Perry in response to Mary's inquiry about a Mr. Vinton. She claims to have no knowledge of him but she did meet the Rev. Francis Vinton, Assistant Rector of Trinity Church, New York...
One letter (ALS) in French from French pamphleteer, diplomat, spy and political adventurer de Launay, in a hand difficult to decipher. N.p., 6 febrier [ca. late 1700s-early 1800s]. Alpha list.
[Lieutenant, New York Infantry, 120th Regiment, Company D]. Copy of Civil War manuscript re spending last year of war in Washington, [D.C.].
Empty 17th century Italian leather binding with Latin text on pastedown.
Materials relating to the biological research of Dr. John (Jack) Engle.
Partial leaf of a printed document, in English and French, with subheadings such as "The King's Pardon to his People of divers Debts...". Provenance unknown. Alpha list.
The collection contains fourteen printed English almanacs, bound together in one volume, with titles such as: "The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; The Ladies' Diary": or, Woman's Almanack"; "Parker's Ephemeris, Poor Robin; The English Apollo, or, Useful Companion" and...
The collection contains fourteen printed English almanacs, bound together in one volume.
The collection contains twelve printed English almanacs, all dated 1772, bound together in one volume.
29 early eighteenth century mounted portraits of earlier seventeenth century figures, prominent in the English Civil War, several done by Michael van der Gucht. Oversize, boxed. Alpha list.
Five early eighteenth century mounted portraits of earlier seventeenth century figures, prominent in the English Civil War. Oversize, boxed. Alpha list.
58 engravings, people and places, including a number of London.
One photo album, containing 49 black/white images with captions, ca. 1920s-1930s. Includes scenes, mostly buildings, bridges, and streets, of Albany, Aldbury, Cambridge, Canterbury, Ely, London, Maidenhead, Oxford, St. Albans, Stoke Poges, Tunbridge Wells, and Wycombe....
The collection mainly pertains to the activities of the Community Council to End the War in Vietnam and other peace efforts in the Santa Barbara area.
One engraved check with a portrait of Native American Seneca chief Red Jacket from Mohawk Valley Bank, State of New York, No. 814, signed by F. E. Spinner with pay to the order of Dexter Burton for $62.31. Spinner was...
Three items, with copies of signatures, for George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, and Isaac Shelby.
Unknown male. Found in unsorted SC.
. Three engravings: "Plan of the Principal Floor ..." and "Plan of the Ceilings...", B. H. Latrobe and Chas. Bulfinch, principal artchitects, ca. early 1800s; also "Interior of the Hall of Representatives," ca. mid 1800s. [Oversize boxed].
15 engravings of Winchester, England (town, cathedral, Market Cross, and other), ca. late 1700s to mid 1800s. Alpha list.
Organizational records of the Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara, including administrative and production files, as well as press releases, playbills, clippings, and photographs.
This collection contains the organizational records of the Environmental Defense Center (EDC), a Santa Barbara, California, public interest law firm and citizen environmental advocacy group, documenting its activties from 1969 to 2013.
(1896-1964). Papers, mainly letters, picture postcards, business cards and other ephemera, ca. 1935-1957. Includes one letter from Fidelino de Figueiredo (laid in Figueiredo's Pyrene) , 1935; two letters (ALS) from Robert H. Lowie (laid in Lowie's The Origin of the...
Correspondence and leaflets
Carbon typescript re the Socialist Party - Social Democratic Federation of Ohio and Fromm's socialist manifesto, as delineated in his Let Man Prevail, ca. 1961. Found in Let Man Prevail (1960). Purchase , 1969. Alpha list.
Mainly copies of correspondence between Edward O. Erickson and Hobart Skofield, both William Edwin Rudge Press alumni, about the history of Rudge and other printing firms, and associates such as Ralph Duenewald, Milton Glick, and Bruce Rogers....
Typed and handwritten "Catalogue of Books belonging to E. F. Ward," also including lists of other family member, many titles religious in nature, n.d. Connection to abolitionist Ward family unknown.
One letter (ALS) from Alfred and Else [Gellhorn ?]. In German. Barcelona, 14 Dec. 1964. Alpha list.
Primarily lists, articles, and government publications relating to censorship issues. Part of a much larger collection of printed materials, about 700 titles, which have been cataloged separately.
Two bound volumes, numerous 'bound-with' items.
This collection contains the Esalen Archives of Extraordinary Human Functioning.
This collection represents ephemera created by the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.
The collection contains copies of all of Esau's publications and research notebooks. There is also personal and biographical material including her awards, correspondence, and family history.
Papers of Alicia Escalante (1933-2022). The bulk of the material ranges from the 1960s–1980s, and consists of correspondence, speeches, articles, publications, and internal organizational files that document her activism and sociopolitical involvement as a Chicana activist who championed welfare rights,...
The collection primarily relates to Eschelbach's bibliography of Aldous Huxley.
Two scrapbooks containing black and white snapshots, postcards, maps, currency, pressed flowers, menus, and correspondence, all with typed captions, detailing a trip on the S.S. Contessa from New Orleans to Cuba, Panama and canal zone, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Journey appears...
Three bound volumes relating to Christian mystic Ruth Robinson Starns, known as Estreletta, Keeper of the White Rose Grotto, as compiled by Bennett William Palmer. Included are correspondence to/from/about Estreletta, a biographical sketch by Palmer, a typescript autobiography by Estrelletta,...
Cite as: [Identification of item], Ethel Leatherbee collection, Mss 65, Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ethiopia Manuscript and Printing Collection.
Purchase, Pablo Butcher, £252
(comp.). One bound typescript, Unpublished Letters of Officers in the Little Big Horn Campaign, n.d.
Correspondence, articles
Correspondence, articles, clippings, and other ephemera mainly relating misattribution of Abraham Lincoln quotations. .2 linear feet (1 folder). NYT issue, Nov. 20, 1864 separated to newspapers section.
Photograph album containing more than 185 black/white photographs, with some brief location captions, of a 1930s bicycle tour through Europe, including Germany (Dresden), Venice, Vienna, the Dolomites, Yugoslavia, Roumania (Bucharest), and Bulgaria (Sofia), as well as North Africa during World...
Album of photographs documenting travel by an American family in Russia, Germany , France, Hungary Poland, Sweden and Austria in 1910, with 86 photographs of pre-revolution St. Petersburg and Moscow; images are identified by white ink captions.
Primarily correspondence, including some from the Civil War era, Includes letter (ALS) from American transcendentalist W[illiam] H[enry] Channing, then in Switzerland, to his uncle, Rev. Dr. [?] Channing of Boston, 1835. The Channing and Eustis families appear to be related,...
Holograph letter written at camp near Kelly's Ford, Va.
This collection consists of papers documenting the career of American pyrotechnician Gene Evans (1937-2008). Included in these papers are show files, marked scores, audiovisual materials, personal/biographical items, pyrotechnical manuals, trade catalogs, and artifacts.
Photograph album of a young Englishman, J. A. Evershed, who took a trip down the east coast of Africa on the S.S. Guildford Castle and back up on the A.R. Garros, then to Egypt and the Holy Land. More than...
One letter (ALS) to W. Higgins, re Tempest's World War I history of the Sixth Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. Bradford, [England], Aug. 6 , 1921. Alpha list.
Broadside announcing sale of "a negro girl named Mary, aged about 13 years," by executors of estate of Squire C. Titus, Clay County, Missouri, 1860. [Oversize boxed].
Printed catalogs for exhibitions on books, graphic arts, papermaking, presses, printing, typography, and related topics, ca. 1940s-1970s.
The collection contains bio-bibliographic files; correspondence; lectures, readings, and performances; research; UCSB and some Oberlin academic files; and writing files of UCSB German literature professor Richard Exner.
Three photograph albums with 378 original photographs taken During Otto Nordenskiöld's expedition to West Patagonia in 1920-1921.
Album contains 94 black and white snapshots of the French Colonial Exposition on the outskirts of Paris in 1931. The exposition displayed the spoils of the French colonies, including indigenous peoples, traditional crafts, and reproductions of buildings. Images include buildings...
Several printed items, including a 17 mm sound recording (La Brebis Galante de Benjamin Péret), exhibition catalog, cards, pamphlets, stamps, and other emphemera relating to the Exposition, held in Paris. Alpha list.
Volume 1.1 of a 'zine by and for Progressive Generation Xers.' Santa Barbara, CA, Mar. 1996. Alpha list.
Photos, record disc inserts, press clippings, posters and sheet music related to Argentinian and Peruvian musical recording artists from the early to mid 20th century.
One note (TNS) to Dr. Rene Taupin, re possibility of English translation of Taupin's work. Rapallo, Italy, 12 Feb. 1930.
One note (TNS) to M. J. Tambimuttu, asking if they have met. Rapallo, Italy, 4 March [1939]. Alpha list.
One note (ANS) to Arioste L. Finlay, Greenwich Village poet and protege of Pound, requesting poems from Finlay and other personal matters. Washington, D.C., 26 Dec. 1947.
1 typescript manuscript, "Firdusi: Complaint of his Old Age," translated by Basil Bunting and with holograph notes by Ezra Pound and Louuis Zukospskyl, ca. 1932. Alpha list.
One typescript ms signed, with holograph annotations, "HAFIZ: Ghazal," a literal translation between the couplets, n.d. Alpha list.
One letter (ALS) to unknown party, soliciting support for his bid for Comptroller. Mohawk, Sept. 22, 1875. Found in unsorted Wyles SC.
96 black and white snapshots, most Tanganyika (Tanzania) and some Uganda, taken by C.M.S. (Church Missionary Society) .... Locations include: [see dealer description for details].
One lengthy letter (ALS), six leaves, from author F. Scott Fitzgerald to [Maxwell] Perkins, thanking him for agreeing to publish his first book ["This Side of Paradise", 1920] and wondering if it will be possible to bring it out soon,...
Album contains 200 black and white snapshots taken by a British soldier of the 2nd Essex Regiment, stationed in the Northwest Frontier Province of British India (now Pakistan). Images include scenic views; portraits of fellow soldiers, local peoples, Indian and...
One typescript carbon, "Placerville Highway," re early development of roads over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. N.p., ca. latter 1920s.
Anstellungsreverse [Declaration of Employment] von Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig
Broadside, n.d.