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LIST OF COLLECTIONS

This alphabetical list contains information about manuscript and named collections in the UCSB Libraries Special Collections.  Entries are included for title of the collection, as well as major subject and geographical areas covered by the collection.  In many cases there are brief descriptions of the collection’s contents and, in some cases, hot links to detailed collection guides.  The list is updated on a periodic basis to include additional information about existing collections and entries for newly acquired collections.

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  • [Abolition].  Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth.  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. 1866.  (Wyles SC 78).
  • [Abolition].  Incomplete printed text of an anti-abolitionist tract addressed primarily to the "Freemen of Tennessee," n.d.  (Wyles SC 862).
  • [Abolition].  Larcom [Lucy] Collection, ca. 1846-1893.  Photographs, correspondence, cards, and clippings relating to Larcom (1824-1893), a Massachusetts poet, storywriter, essayist, abolitionist, and friend of John Greenleaf Whittier.  (SC 169).
  • [Abolition].  Lincoln, Levi [1782-1868; Massachusetts Governor, 1825-1834; Whig member of U.S. Congress, 1835-1841].  One letter (ALS) to Patience Earle, re abolition of slavery.  Washington, [D.C.], 20 Feb. 1837.  (Wyles SC 523).
  • [Abolition].  Lovejoy, Owen.  One note (AN) and one printed speech, “The Fanaticism of the Democratic Party,” delivered by the Hon. Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois, to the House of Representatives, Feb. 21, 1859, in which he takes a strong abolitionist stand and states that he has indeed harbored fugitive slaves.  (SC 179).
  • [Abolition].  National Anti-Slavery Standard.   One printed flyer from abolitionist Parker Pillsbury, soliciting subscriptions for the Standard, the official newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society,ca. 1865-1870.  (Wyles SC 462).
  • [Abolition].  Nineteenth Century Americana Collection, ca. 1754-1926.  Mainly correspondence from the eastern part of the U.S., especially New England, New Jersey and, Pennsylvania.  Subjects include slavery, abolition, Civil War, and overseas missions.   (Mss 2).
  • [Abolition].  Whyte, Annie Glenn.  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.  (Wyles SC 469).
  • Abyssinia Photograph Album, ca. 1936. 193 black/white snapshots taken by an Italian army officer during tour in Abyssinia (Ethiopia).  (Bernath Mss 228
  • ACCESS Collection.  Files pertaining to the Alternative Comprehensive Environmental Study System (ACCESS).  (SBHC Mss 29).
  • Acheson, Alexander Wilson.  One letter (ALS) 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 of Pennsylvania troops in the Civil War.  Acheson had been a private in the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Regiment and was transferred to the 140th Pennsylvania Regiment.  Talks about his experiences in the Civil War . Denison, Texas, 8 Jan. 1886.  (Wyles SC 1).
  • Ackerman [Marshall] Collection, ca. 1890s-1990s.  William McKinley memorabilia, including early and modern first day covers, other philatelatic items, medals, programs, tickets, postcards, souvenir cards, etc.  Includes some material re Spanish American War.  (Mss 216).
  • Acosta [Oscar Zeta] Papers, 1936-1990.  Personal and biographical information, correspondence, photographs, political and legal activity files, writings (reviews, articles and newsclippings) of the activist, attorney, and author of The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People. Some materials post-date Acosta’s mysterious 1974 disappearance in Mexico.  (CEMA 1).
  • Adams [Carlisle] Collection.  Approximately 5,000 vocal 78rpm sound recordings.  (PA Mss 23).
  • Adams [Fred] / Feraferia Collection.  (ARC Mss 27).
  • Adams [Perry] Papers, ca. 1980.  Files re unpublished study, Murder from Within, alleging United States Secret Service involvement in JFK assassination.  (Mss 1).
  • Aden and Egypt Photograph Album, [ca. 1890s].  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. (Bernath Mss 176). 
  • Aden – British Camel Battery Photograph Album, ca. 1902-1904.   48 albumen prints of British Camel Battery in action against Turkish forces, Aden (Yemen) countryside and villages, Arab men, women, and children, local Jewish population.  (Bernath Mss 143).
  • Aden [Yemen] Photograph Album, ca. 1937-1938   Album of a British airman, 90+ b/w 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 scenes, marketplaces, gardens, countryside, a Jewish shop, and a Christian Somali family in Crater. Also a few photos of Gibraltar, Malta, and Port Said.  (Bernath Mss 50).
  • [Afghanistan].  British Military in India and Burma Photograph Album, ca. 1930s-early 1940s. 300+ b/w images, album, apparently of a British soldier with the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, mainly snapshots of fellow soldiers, military camps, troops on the march, countryside and inhabitants of the North-West Frontier of India (now Pakistan and Afghanistan), and other parts of India and of Burma.  (Bernath Mss 67).
  • [Afghanistan].  British Soldier’s Waziristan Photograph Collection, ca. 1929-1932.  (Bernath Mss 282).
  • [Afghanistan].  Drosh Mule Corps Expedition Photograph Collection, ca. 1920s.  48 black/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, local people, mules, Kaffiristani carved effigies of horse and rider.  (Bernath Mss 237).
  • [Afghanistan].  Islamic Manuscripts Collection, ca. 1122-1700s.  Single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of the Islamic world, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Gulf States [Qajar], India, North Africa [Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia], Pakistan, Persia [Iran], Syria, and Turkey. There are four chronologically arranged series: History, Koran, Poetry, and Prayers.  (Mss 207).
  • Africa [Nigeria?] Photograph Album, ca. 1910s-1920s.   (Bernath Mss 214).
  • [Africa].  Abyssinia Photograph Album, ca. 1936. 193 black/white snapshots taken by an Italian army officer during tour in Abyssinia (Ethiopia).  (Bernath Mss 228).
  • [Africa].  Aden and Egypt Photograph Album, [ca. 1890s].  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. (Bernath Mss 176). 
  • [Africa].  Algeria Photograph Album, ca. 1910s.  (SC 938).
  • [Africa].  Algeria Photograph Album, 1923-1924.  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 Saharan areas of Biskra, Menâa, and Beni Ferah.  (SC 848).
  • [Africa].  Algeria Photograph Album, 1924.  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.  (SC 946).
  • [Africa].  Algeria Photograph Album, 1928.  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 Timgad (Roman ruins), Chetma (oasis), M’Choumech, Biskra, Touggourt, Temacine, Ghardaya (some of Tuareg), Bou Saada, and Algiers.  (Bernath Mss 280).
  • [Africa].  Algeria Photograph Collection, 1933.  55 b/w snapshots, with captions, of a 1933 tour in Algeria, containing images of Sidi Akba, Timgad (Roman settlement ruins), Biskra, and Bou Saada.   Includes street and desert scenes, markets, local inhabitants, residences, camel and horse riders, horse races, and dancers, as well as several of the tour members. (SC 841).
  • [Africa].  Angola Mining Photograph Album, [ca. late 1910s-early 1920s].  85 black/white photographs with handwritten captions in English, mainly southwest Angola, showing the arrival of the first geologists/miners/engineers by ship “S.S. Mozambique” at Mossamedes [now Namibe], the quay, street scene, and hunting; prospecting at Giraul, Mucungo, Lagoa da Mina, Muninho, Maiombo, Wanamandambi Camp, Pedra Grande region, Cambongue, Kune, and elsewhere, including images of camp life, buildings, geological formations, digging and mine shafts, ore [probably gold]; local population of Capanignube,  Mucubaes, Maiombo, Kune.  Also, views of Region Chapeu Armado [on the coast], including bay and bitumen deposits; construction of the Kune high-road; Boer wagons and cattle.  (Bernath Mss 233).
  • [Africa].  Ashton Family World Travel Photograph Collection, 1892-1913.  2500+ b/w photographs in 53 Kodak albums, from numerous trips to far flung parts of the world, including Egypt.  (Bernath Mss 115). 
  • [Africa].  Belgian Congo Mining Photograph Albums, ca. 1920-1922.  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, Djoko, and Kinshasa.  Also a few images of Dakar and Tenerife, taken on the outward voyage.  (Bernath Mss 279).
  • [Africa]. Belgian Congo Photograph Album, ca. 1890s-1900s.  80 b/w snapshots, a few with captions, including images of local inhabitants and activities, as well as Belgian missionaries, and other Europeans.  (SC 842).
  • [Africa]  British in Egypt/ World War I Photograph Album, ca. 1917 -1919.  120+ b/w 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 British families at various social occasions and outings in the countryside.  Also a few images of Egyptians, street scenes and residences, and local boats.  (Bernath Mss 56).
  • [Africa].  British Military in Egypt and Iraq Photograph Album, ca. 1918-1922.  Album of Capt. R. E. Godfrey, 167 b/w snapshots, many with captions, recording service with the British 153rd Rifles in North Africa, 1918-1919, and in the Arab Revolt, 1920.  About 70 images from Egypt and surrounding areas (Suez Canal, Ismailia, Great Pyramids, Alexandria, Kantara, Mansourah) and about 30 Arab Revolt images from Iraq (Nasiriyah, Imam Abdullah, Kut, Baghdad).  (Bernath Mss 84).
  • [Africa].  Consul General to Liberia.  Two diaries, 1862-1863.  (Wyles SC 592).
  • [Africa].  “Diese Widmung,” 1907.  Portfolio of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) color prints.  (SC 859).
  • [Africa]East Africa [Tanganyika] Photograph Albums, ca. 1911-1921.  232 black/white photos in 3 albums.  (Bernath Mss 215)
  • [Africa].  Egypt Photograph Album, 1936-1938.  19 professional quality, artistic Egyptian scenes, including the Western Desert (people, tents, donkeys, camels), urban street scenes and people engaged in daily activities (barber, vendors with carts – possibly Cairo), as well as port and Nile River views, with people and cargo-hauling boats (feluccas).   (Bernath Mss 70).
  • [Africa].  Egypt Photograph Album, 1946.  (Bernath Mss 180).
  • [Africa].  Egypt Postcard and Stereoview Collection, ca. 1896-1920s.  51 postcards and 11 stereoviews.  (Bernath Mss 141).
  • [Africa].  Ethiopia Manuscript and Printing Collection.  (Printers Mss 51).
  • [Africa]Europe 1930s and WWII North Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1930s-1945.  185+ b/w photographs 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 War II (1942-1943), including Bougie, Constantine, Tunis (victory parade), Carthage, then on to Italy (1943), and back to North Africa (1944-1945), including Egypt (Timsah, Alexandria).  (Bernath Mss 31).
  • [Africa].  Evershed [J. A.] East Africa, Egypt, Palestine Photograph Album, 1924.  More than 140 b/w snapshots of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), including several of local schools and teachers.  Also, views of Port Said, Zanzibar, Mombassa, Djibouti, Aden, and Port Sudan.  Egypt views of the Pyramids and Sphinx, Cairo, and Suez Canal.  Holy Land (Palestine) shots of street scenes of Jerusalem, Jordan Valley, Dead Sea, Jaffa, and Bethlehem.  (Bernath Mss 63).
  • [Africa].  German East Africa Photograph Album, ca.  1910.  (Bernath Mss 296).
  • [Africa].  German East Africa Postcard Collection, ca. 1900-1920.  138 photographic postcards, most black/white but a few chromolithographic.  Includes scenes from Dar es Salaam and other parts of German occupied Tanganyika (now Tanzania), prior to and during the East African campaign of World War I.  (Bernath Mss 103).
  • [Africa].  German South West Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1900-1914.   48 black/white albumen prints from a disbound album, mainly of German soldiers and animal transport, Windhoek buildings, Angola mission station, Herero inhabitants, Okawayo military station, and Otjimbojo mines.  (Bernath Mss 127).
  • [Africa].  German South West Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1915.  43 b/w snapshots, including several of the WWI British campaign in South West Africa – now Namibia.  Also several of the South African Premier Diamond Mine workings, and cottages, rural scenery, and friends in what appears to be Great Britain.  (SC 840).
  • [Africa]Goodier [B. G.] India World War II Collection, 1942-1947.  The collection was assembled by a Maj. B. G. Goodier, B. Sc (Tech), Royal Engineers during his time in India (and South Africa) through the Second World War, 1942-1945.  Part of the collection includes a series of airgraphs, air letters, etc. from his arrival in India (via South Africa) for officer training, through his commission and receipt of command (as Major) assigned to projects relating to road building, and airfield construction. There are a series of miscellaneous photographs, mostly from Durban and Poona as well as his personal photo album (featuring Durban, South Africa and various locales in India). (Bernath Mss 93).
  • [Africa]Graham [Grace] and Katherine R. Spencer Jamaica and Africa Photograph Album, 1922, 1930.  (Bernath Mss 265).
  • [Africa]Hatch [Mary Prescott] Papers, ca. 1889-1956.  Primarily correspondence and drafts of Hatch’s writings, including essays and descriptions of travels around the world, including Europe and South Africa (based on her correspondence, ca. 1920s-1930s).  Hatch was a Santa Barbara resident later in life. (Mss 44).
  • [Africa].  Huxley [Elspeth] Collection, 1950, 1954, 1966.  Documents, letter, and clipping about East African affairs.  Acquired, along with a number of books, mainly Africana, from Huxley.  (SC 153).
  • [Africa].  Islamic Manuscripts Collection, ca. 1122-1700s.  Single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of the Islamic world, including North Africa [Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia].  There are four chronologically arranged series: History, Koran, Poetry, and Prayers.  (Mss 207).
  • [Africa]Koran [Sudan], 1964.  One volume, bound in traditional Koranic form, written in Khartoum, Sudan, in Sudani hand.  (Mss 198).
  • [Africa]Madagascar Photograph Album, 1901-1907.   139 b/w prints, with captions in French.  (SC 849).
  • [Africa]Mallory [Margaret] Collection, ca. 1910s.  Includes photographs of the Kasai District in the Belgian Congo and date books from Americans working in the region, 1914-1917, as well as a collection of West African postcards.  (Bernath Mss 5).
  • [Africa].  Middle East Photo Album, ca. 1930s-early 1940s.  150+ b/w images, including Egypt (Port Said, Ismailia, Alexandria, Memphis, Cairo, the Nile, Pyramids, Sphinx, National Museum). (Bernath Mss 68).
  • [Africa].  Minieh [Egypt] Photograph Album, 1914. Album by Photographie Zola, dated Feb. 20, 1914, with 24 black/white mounted photographs of officials and dignitaries, horse and camel trainers, riders, and races at an unknown celebration/festival during the last days of Ottoman rule in Egypt.  (Bernath Mss 185).
  • [Africa].  Moody [Margaret] Mbooni Mission Photograph Album, ca. 1927.   Photographs of Kenya.  (Bernath Mss 105).
  • [Africa].  Morocco Photograph Albums, ca. 1938-1940.   (Bernath Mss 227).
  • [Africa].  Mozambique (Beira) Photograph Album, ca. 1890s.  (Bernath Mss 183).
  •  [Africa].  Nigeria Photograph Album, ca. 1912- 1913.   48 black/white snapshots, likely taken by a British miner or geologist, including images of a trek to prospect for minerals, Baro market place, Kano horse race, Calabar sports, cattle and sheep from the northern Nigeria at Ibadan, views of the Cross River and villages along it, Frederick Lugard’s first visit to Calabar in Dec. 1912, the S.S. Munshi, views and buildings at Itu, Oron, Calabar, Opobo, Ibadan, Sapele rubber plantation, and the Lagos Railway.  (Bernath Mss 120).
  • [Africa].  Nigeria / West African Frontier Force Photograph Album, 1901-1905. (Bernath Mss 297).
  • [Africa].  North Africa Cruise Album, 1912.  Cruise album of a British couple, with about 100 photos and postcard views of Gibraltar, Morocco, Canary Islands, and Madeira.  (Bernath Mss 39).
  • [Africa].  North Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1904-1905.  96 b/w prints, no captions, of North African urban street scenes, local inhabitants and Europeans, buildings, churches, businesses, gardens, boats and harbors, railways, parades/processions, and soldiers.  Includes images from Tunisia and possibly other countries.  (Bernath Mss 89).
  • [Africa].  Partridge [David] Collection, ca. 1950-1964.  Correspondence, documents and related materials, re Kenya.  (SC 236).
  • [Africa].  Port Said and Mesopotamia Postcard/Photograph Album, ca. 1917-1919.  World War I era album, including 47 images of Port Said.  (Bernath Mss 49).
  • [Africa].  Roach [Charles A.] African Photograph Collection, 1943.  Two albums and loose photographs, many with captions, most taken by Rev. Charles A. Roach on a bicycle trip from Durban to Cairo in 1943, on the way back to his parish in Iraq, where he was Baghdad Chaplain and Oil Company Chaplain from 1939 to 1946.  Includes images of local men, women, and children, hospitals, schools, churches and fellow clergy, residences, roads, and scenic views through South Africa, Belgian Congo, Rwanda, Kenya (Nairobi), Uganda (Kampala), and Sudan.  Roach, an inveterate long distance cyclist, later developed a lecture/slide show based on his African journey. (Bernath Mss 119).
  • [Africa].  Senegal Photograph Collection, ca. late 1920s-early 1930s.   60 black/white photos, captions in French (Bernath Mss 242).
  • [Africa].  Shaw [W.B.] South Africa Photograph Album, 1918.  Album commemorating a visit of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Shaw to the C. J. Lappan family, at Shenfield house, in South Africa. 32 black/white photos, including Lappan and Shaw family members on the porch of Shenfield house, surrounding countryside, a shot of the family by a wagon with the caption "The Voortrekkers," as well as several images of local South African women, children, and their compounds.  (Bernath Mss 54).
  • [Africa].  South Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1892.  (Bernath Mss 133).
  • [Africa].  South African War through the Stereoscope, ca. 1900.  Set of 36 Underwood cards and accompanying Underwood stereoscopic viewer.  (Bernath Mss 92).
  • [Africa].  Sudan - Sennar Dam Photograph Album, ca. 1926.  Album, with 16 b/w photos showing construction of the Sennar Dam, on the Blue Nile, more than 200 miles south of Khartoum, Sudan. The project began after WWI and was completed in 1926. The first leaf of the album contains an invitation from the Governor-General of the Sudan, to a Mr. Jackson, to attend the official opening of the dam on January 21, 1926.  (Bernath Mss 62).
  • [Africa].  “Sunny Memories” Photograph Album, ca. 1903.   102 b/w photographs of various sizes, all accompanied by captions.  Apparently an album assembled by Albert R. Lennon, depicting a voyage from London to Australia and New Zealand, and return, although not all images appear to be in order.  Includes images of Cape Town, Suez Canal and Port Said. (SC 839). 
  • [Africa].   Swakopmund Eisenbahn-Baukompagnie No. 2 Denkschrift, 1907.  Report on railroad construction in the Swakopmund district of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia).  (SC 861).
  • [Africa].  Tele-Dinda Mining Expedition [Belgian Congo], Photograph Album, ca. 1911-1912.  105 b/w photos, with captions in English, of scenes in the Belgian Congo, taken by a member of the Tele-Dinda Mining Expedition which apparently was prospecting for gold and diamonds.  Contains images of mining operations, views of forests and forest clearing, construction of camps, and many of nearby villages and inhabitants including Gabata, Banalya, Kanwa, Edibe (some of pygmies), Kiambi, and Pweto.  Also scenes along the Congo, Aruwimi, Tele, Lindi, and Zambezi Rivers, Lake Moero, Stanley and Victoria Falls, Stanleyville, Kungalunga Plateau, and the Cape to Cairo Railroad.  (Bernath Mss 100).
  • [Africa].  University of California Africa Expedition Photograph Collection, 1947-1948.  (Bernath Mss 153).
  • [Africa].  Whaling Ship Manifests, 1864.  16 masters’ and shippers’ manifests (14 with revenue stamps) for outbound vessels from New Bedford, Massachusetts, destined for the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.    Also, related manifests listing provisions for ships bound for destinations such as Brazil and Africa.   (Wyles SC1026).
  • [Africa].  World Tour Photograph Album, 1907-1908.  458 b/w snapshots of a world tour by an unknown American woman, including images from Egypt.   (Bernath Mss 79).
  • [Africa]World War II North Africa Photograph Album, 1941-1945.  Mainly images of the western desert (Libya), and some of Egypt and Jerusalem, apparently taken by a British soldier who was associated with a theatre troupe.  (Bernath Mss 155).
  • [Africa].  “[Zwölf] 12 Ansichten aus Kamerun und Togo,” 1909.  Portfolio of German Kamerun (Cameroon) and Togo color prints.  (SC 860).
  • Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1930s-1952. (Bernath Mss 248).
  • African American Musicians Photographs, ca. 1940s.  Three black/white 8”x10” glossies of Steve Gibson and the Red Caps, the Haitian Voodoo Dances, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.  (Wyles Mss 1038).
  • African American Photograph Album, ca. latter 1800s.  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.  (Wyles Mss 130)
  • African American Photograph Collection, ca. late 1800s-1950s.  Includes several photos from E. Suffolk and Norfolk, Virginia.  (Wyles Mss 149)..
  • African American Sheet Music, ca. 1880-1971.  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, ‘coon’, and minstrel songs; ballads and spirituals.  (Wyles Mss 146).
  • African American Sheet Music Collection, 1833-1874.  Six printed items, some written in dialect, with titles such as “Shew Fly!” and “Song of the Negro Boatmen.”  (Wyles SC 1037).
  • African American Stereoviews, ca. 1890s.  24 steroviews, 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.  (Wyles Mss 144).
  • African American Stereoviews, ca. 1900. 20 b/w stereoview images, possibly Louisiana, mounted on one large sheet, no captions.  These appear to be staged scenes, with several images of children (sitting on steps, at play), men playing cards, eating sugar cane.  Possibly intended for a foreign audience, with  “FOREIGN TITLES” notations below some images.  (Wyles SC 989).
  • African American Tintypes, ca. 1860-1890.  Five photographic portraits, unidentified man, woman, and children.  (Wyles SC 1010).
  • [African Americans].  Age of Segregation Oral History Project, 1989.  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 Anniversary of CDGM (Child Development Group of Mississippi), the first Head Start Program in the state.  The interviews were conducted in Mississippi and in Oakland, California. (OH 49).
  • [African Americans].  American Colonization Society.  One printed circular, re solicitiation of funds and invitation to form auxiliary societies.  Washington, 25 Mar. 1843.  (Wyles SC 708).
  • [African Americans].  "Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Meeting."  Printed text of Resolutions and Address at the meeting.  Syracuse, New York, January 9, 1851.  (Wyles SC 799). 
  • [African Americans].  Bartlett [Thomas S.] Letter, 1847.  Possible freeman of color asking for work in Wilson County, Tennessee.  (Wyles SC 1019).
  • [African Americans].  Bay Area Black Panther Party Collection, 1963-2000.  The collection was gathered by Richard Aoki, a founding member of the Bay Area chapter and the only Asian American to hold a formal leadership position as Field Marshal.  Notable items include several first issues of the Black Panther party newspaper, flyers from the Huey Newton Defense Fund (Committee), documents and handbills from Eldridge Cleaver’s U.S. Presidential bid with the Peace and Freedom Party, and the political manifesto from the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (Alabama), the logo for which became the Black Panther’s national symbol.   (CEMA 56).
  • [African Americans].  Black Civil War Era Covers.  (Wyles SC 1007).
  • [African Americans].  Blacks in Film and Television Collection.  Small collection of news articles about African Americans in popular films and television programs covering four decades. Coverage includes winners of Oscar, Emmy, and NAACP Image awards.  (CEMA 100).
  • [African Americans].  Black-Jewish Information Center Press Releases, 1979-1983.  (ARC Mss 38).
  • [African Americans].  Boston Music HallGrand Jubilee Concert program, in honor of the emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863.  (Wyles SC 749).
  • [African Americans].  Bowman, S[amuel] M[illard] Col., Pennsylvania Infantry, 84th Regiment (Vol)].  One Civil War letter (ALS) to Major C. Foster, re missing muster and descriptive rolls for new Negro soldiers who were joining the regiments near Alexandria.  Baltimore, 3 Aug. 1864.  (Wyles SC 405).
  • [African Americans].  Buffalo Soldiers Muster Roll, 1874.  One oversize sheet, with names of officers and troops, for the U.S. 24th Infantry, Company K., April 30, 1874.  (Wyles SC 1031).
  • [African Americans].  Burleigh [H. T.] Sheet Music Collection, 1914-1921.   12 printed items, the work of H. T. Burleigh, an African American composer, singer, and pupil of Anton Dvořák.  Burleigh introduced Dvořák to spirituals and Dvořák used some in works such as the “New World Symphony.” (Wyles SC 1036).
  • [African Americans].  Butler, Benjamin Franklin [Civil War Union General, lawyer, and Governor of Massachusetts].  Three letters (ALS), 1861, 1868, 1889 about various Civil War-related issues, including a hanging for treason.  Also, a copy of a transcript of an interview conducted 2 June 1862 between Butler and Capt. Homer B. Sprague re Sprague’s refusal to deliver an escaped slave, Caroline, employed as a laundress for the army, back to slave hunters.  After reviewing a recent Act of Congress, Butler decided in favor of Caroline being retained as a laundress.  (Wyles SC 46).
  • [African Americans].  CEMA.  Numerous collections in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA).  See: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/listguides.html
  • [African Americans].  Civil War Documents, ca. 1860-1865.   Five items, including one special order re equipment apparently pertaining to the 30th U.S. Colored Troops.  (Wyles SC 98)
  • [African Americans].  Civil War Recruitment Songsheets, ca. 1863.  Set of six printed songsheets published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruting Colored Regiments, with titles such as “The Colored Volunteer” and “The Black Regiment.”  (Wyles SC 1013).
  • [African Americans].  Clark [Claude] Oral History, 1995.  Interviews with the Oakland, California African American artist.  (OH 29).
  • [African Americans].  Colored Troops – Civil War Inquiry, 1888.  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, 38,000 from Missouri, and 4,500 from Tennessee.  (Wyles SC 1008).
  • [African Americans].  Dorchester Academy Photograph Album, ca. 1890s.  Album, with 60+ b/w photos, taken by a missionary schoolteacher at the Dorchester Academy in the African American community at McIntosh, Liberty, County, Georgia, ca. 1890s.  (Wyles Mss 104).
  • [African Americans].  1st South Carolina/33rd US Colored Troops Records, ca 1847-1923, 1983 [bulk dates 1850s-1860s].  Materials relating for the most part to the history and organization of the 1st. SC Volunteer Infantry, later designated the 33rd U. S. Colored Troops.  A significant portion of the material is related to Thomas Wentworth Higginson who served as the unit’s commander between 1862 and 1864.  There are both original primary source materials in the form of documents, correspondence (including items from William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley) and secondary source materials, mostly photocopies, including such things as regimental histories.  (Wyles Mss 30).
  • [African Americans].  Freedmen Department, 1864.  One document re renting rooms for colored schools, District of West Tennessee.   (Wyles SC 995).
  • [African Americans].  Gant [Eleanor] New Jersey High School Scrapbook, ca.1925-1930.  Includes KKK related photos and membership cards.  Also photos of African American classmates.  Graduated in 1929 but a few 1930 items included.  (Wyles Mss 153).
  • [African Americans].  Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.  Printed program, ca. 1873, "Slave Songs of the South, by the Hampton Colored Students," including note that Hampton [located in Hampton, Virginia]  is “Devoted to the preparation of Colored Teachers for the Colored Race and to Industrial Education” and that nearly all of its students were born as slaves.  Hampton’s most famous graduate was Booker T. Washington.  (Wyles SC 742).
  • [African Americans]. Irby [Charles C.] Papers, 1938-1987.  African American cultural anthropologist and ethnic studies pioneer. (CEMA 10).
  • [African Americans].  Jackson, Alfred T. [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.  (Wyles SC 422).
  • [African Americans].  Louisiana Slave Document.  One document (ADS), bill of sale, Madison Parish, 24 July 1852.  (Wyles SC 670).
  • [African Americans].  Mackey [Anita J.] Oral History, [ca. 1994].  Recollections of an African American graduate of the University of Chicago (1936) and her career as a medical social worker for the Veterans Administration in Chicago, Los Angeles and, finally, in Santa Barbara.  (OH 14).
  • [African Americans].  Mackey [Anita J.] Papers.  (CEMA 57).
  • [African Americans].  McRee [Rev. James F.] Oral History, 1989.   Life history, providing a glimpse into the internal workings of the Civil Rights Movement and the forces that led McRee to organize the first Head Start program in Mississippi.  Part of the Age of Segregation Oral History Project. (OH 63).
  • [African Americans].  Newton [Captain E. H.] Collection, 1864-1865.  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,” particularly the 97th U.S. Colored Infantry.  (Wyles SC 595).
  • [African Americans].  Phelps, A. C.  [U.S. Infantry Colored, 93rd Regiment (Vol), Company I].  Two Civil War letters (ALS), 1864.  (Wyles SC 434).
  • [African Americans].  Randolph, D. C.  One letter (ALS) to S. D. [Cabanip?] of Huntsville, re the sale of a slave named Dolly, who he reports to be in good health.  Also discusses her ‘nominal husband.’  Richmond, 5 Mar. 1859.  (Wyles SC 127).
  • [African Americans].  Reppert, B. B. B. [U.S. Infantry Colored, 83rd Regiment, Company D].  One Civil War letter (ALS) to his cousin.  Huntersville, Arkansas, 10 July 1865.  (Wyles SC 433).
  • [African Americans].  Republic of Texas, Austin County.  One document (ADS): Jury summons for slave trial, with list of  36 names.  13 Apr. 1843.  (Wyles SC 130).
  • [African Americans].  Santa Barbara African American Local History Collection, 1994-1997.   Documents, photographs, and interviews collected as part of a Black Santa Barbara Historical Calendar, a collaborative research project in the Black Studies Department at UCSB.  The aim of the calendar was to call attention to local personages and events important in Santa Barbara’s African American community. (CEMA 99).
  • [African Americans].  Santa Barbara African American Oral History Project Collection.  (CEMA 42).
  • [African Americans].  Shelton Watters & Co.  One document (ADS), agreeing to pay $160 for "hire of two negroes Anderson and Walker…"  [Virginia], 1849.  (Wyles SC 129).
  • [African Americans].  Shepard [Isaac F.] Collection, ca. 1830-1880s [bulk dates 1861-1873].  Commander of the 52nd U.S. Infantry, Colored, from 1863 onwards, making him ranking regimental officer (initially as Colonel, later as Brigadier General) of all colored troops in the Union.  Includes an 1863 diary, Court of Inquiry Papers, and related correspondence, which document a seminal incident in which Shepard defended his troops against hostile treatment by white Union troops, was arrested, but subsequently had all charges dismissed by Gen. Grant and was restored to his command.  (Wyles Mss 74).
  • [African Americans].  Slave Child Cartes de Visité, ca. 1863.  Two cdvs [photographs] of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, described as a redeemed slave child, 5 years old, from Virginia.  Baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863.  (Wyles SC 1016).
  • [African Americans].  Slave Documents, 1813-1865.  Printed and manuscript documents, including purchase and shipping of slaves, tax forms, slave hires, estate appraisal, slave burials.  (Wyles SC 1002).
  • [African Americans].  [Song Sheets].  24 printed song sheets, mostly nineteenth century British parodies of American Negro dialect.  (Wyles SC 872).
  • [African Americans].  U.S. Colored Infantry, 69th Regiment.  One Civil War document (ADS): Special Orders from General Superintendent of Freedmen re change of command.  Memphis, 6 Feb. 1864.  (Wyles SC 421).
  • [African Americans].  U.S. Colored Troops Documents, 1865.  Three immediate post-Civil War documents re accusation against Sgt. Alexander Shepard and 15 members of Company L, 4th U.S.C. Hvy. Artillery, for stealing $6,000 in gold from a Tennessee resident.  (Wyles SC 1025).
  • [African Americans].  U. S. Colored Troops, Massachusetts 54th Regiment.  One stereoview of the Civil War survivors of the Massachusetts 54th, marching in parade, Washington Street, 17th July 1875.  Photographer: g. J. Raymond & Co., Boston.  (Wyles SC 1030).
  • [African Americans].  U.S. Colored Troops, 30th Regiment, Company D.  One Civil War document: "Inventory and Inspection Report of Unserviceable Stores…"  Includes items such as bayonet scabbards, cartridge boxes, rifles, and belts.  (Wyles SC 15).
  • [African Americans].  Vigilance Committee.  One printed circular, re the Fugitive Slave Law.  Boston, 3 Mar. 1851.  (Wyles SC 707).
  • [African Americans].  [Virginia].  One printed document, signed by Governor Walker of Virginia, re ratification by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, of the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States.  (Wyles SC 880).
  • [African Americans].  Whitney [Daniel S.] Papers, 1864 –1977.  Includes Civil War correspondence and diary of the Reverend Daniel Saunders Whitney, Massachusetts abolitionist.  Several of the letters are written from the Colored Hospital, City Point, VA, then the Base Hospital Army of the James Point of Rocks, VA, where the U.S. Sanitary Commission had stationed Whiney, and where he attended to the spiritual, as well as dietary, needs of the patients.  The diary also contains numerous entries describing medical conditions, patients, and surgeons in the hospital wards.  (Wyles SC 298).
  • [African Americans in Eighteenth-Century America].  One letter (ALS) from A. [Vanderhorst ?], re the Council “drawing an ordinance for the better government and regulation of the Negroes in the city…” (said city unidentified - possibly New York?), 21 Nov. 1785.  (Wyles SC 4).
  • Age of Segregation Oral History Project, 1989.  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 Anniversary of CDGM (Child Development Group of Mississippi), the first Head Start Program in the state.  The interviews were conducted in Mississippi and in Oakland, California. (OH 49).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Argentina [Tucuman] Sugar Plantations Photographic Journal, 1905.   (SC 906).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Calamba Sugar Estate - Philippines Collection, 1928-1943.  Mainly business records of an American operated sugar and coconut plantation, destroyed during World War II. (Wyles Mss 137).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  California [Siskiyou County] Ranching Photograph Album, ca. 1910-1915.  (Wyles Mss 148).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Calkins [James A.] Collection.  Family and local history collection of b/w photos and clippings relating to the Calkins family and Santa Barbara area, including Zaca Lake Ranch.   (SBHC Mss 24).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Easton [Robert E.] Collection, ca. 1893-1968.  Mainly papers and ledgers re Easton's business dealings, especially the Sisquoc Ranch Co. (SBHC Mss 55)
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Easton [Robert O.] Papers, ca. 1911-1990s.  Correspondence, research and subject files (including Chumash, natural resources, wilderness, and women’s issues), drafts of writings, and related materials of the Santa Barbara author of Black Tide (on the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill), Love and War: Pearl harbaor through V-J Day,and the acclaimed multi-volume Saga of California series.  Also includes materials on Sisquoc Ranch and Zaca Lake.  (SBHC Mss 6).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching]. El Teatro Campesino Archives, 1964-1988.  Scripts, photographs, posters, printed materials, audio and videotapes,  and other materials, constituting the largest archival collection on Chicano theater.  Includes biographical/historical information pertaining to playwright and director Luis Valdez, theater company players, and interactions with many important cultural, political, literary, and artistic individuals since its founding in 1965.  Documents the development of Teatro, from the early farm workers' strike years in 1965 through 1967, establishment of the San Juan Bautista center, and commercial theater and film productions from 1977 to 1988.  (CEMA 5).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Farmworker Movement Collection.  (CEMA 096).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Hartwell [William H.] Papers, ca. 1860s-1913.  Family history, correspondence, photographs, documents, and mss articles of Hartwell, a Civil War Union soldier, New Hampshire Infantry, 9th Regiment (Vol.), Company I.  Also, manuscript of "Two years of ranch life on the Santa Fe Road."  (Wyles Mss 37).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Hartwell [William H.] Papers, ca. 1860s-1913.  Family history, correspondence, photographs, documents, and mss articles of Hartwell, a Civil War Union soldier, New Hampshire Infantry, 9th Regiment (Vol.), Company I.  Also, manuscript of "Two years of ranch life on the Santa Fe Road."  (Wyles Mss 37).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Hoyt [Dibblee] Collection, ca. 1930s-1940s.  Horse racing records, photos, and clippings from Rancho San Julian, near Lompoc.  (SBHC Mss 70).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Huffman, L. A.  Four black/white copy prints of a Montana roundup, taken by Western photographer Laton Alton Huffman, of Miles City, Montana, ca. 1905, 1913.  (Wyles SC 656).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Indochina Rubber Plantations Photograph Albums, ca. 1925-1930. 99 black photographs in two albums.  Album 1 contains views of French rubber plantations at Quan Loi and Xacam (Vietnam), showing various facets of rubber production, including factory interiors, workers, and local villages.  Album 2, entitled “Compagnie du Cambodge,”contains views of plantations at Tonlebett, Chup, Pean Cheang , and Thmar Pitt (Cambodia), with images of the Mekong River, roads, forests, felled trees, replanting, lumber mill, local villages, rubber tapping and processing.  (Bernath Mss 216).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Indonesia Photograph Album, ca. 1949.  169 b/w photographs, captions in Dutch, of destroyed and rebuilt sugar, rubber, and coffee factories and plantations during the early period of Indonesian independence.  Includes images of Krian, Djatibarang, Pangka, Karang Soewoeng (sugar); Agrabinta, Tendjo Resnu, Pasir Badak, Tjikareo, Sankyang Damar (rubber); Panadjaran, Petaeup Omboh, Soembir Agoeng, Kali Bakar, Soember Gesing, Lebak (coffee, rubber, and other).  (Bernath Mss 278).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Jendarata Rubber Company Ltd Photograph Album, ca. 1914.  52 b/w photos, with captions in Danish, showing the Jendarata rubber plantation and factory in Lower Perak, then part of the Federated Malay States (now Malaysia), which was established by Danish engineer Aage Westenholz, uncle of Karen Blixen (Out of Africa), whose farm in Kenya he also helped fund. Also includes images of Danish managers and local population (described as Javanese), countryside, musicians and instruments, religious festivals, Malacca, and Bornam River.  (Bernath Mss 274).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Kiewit [John S.] Photography Collection, ca. 1968-2000.   More than 10,000 color and black/white prints, color slides, and black/white negatives, taken from about 1968 to 2000.  Numerous images of rural settings and themes, including barns and farms, Big Sur, buildings and building elements (doors and windows), Central Coast [CA], Channel Islands, Death Valley, fences, ghost towns, Hollister Ranch [CA], and landscapes.  (Mss 228).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Miller Plantation Company Photograph Album, 1902-1904.  83 b/w prints of the Miller Plantation Company of Cuatotolapam, Veracruz, Mexico, depicting sugar cane production and refining, and related ranch activities.  Includes “field and interior factory views of production machinery, indigenous plantation workers and cowboys, and horse-mounted field supervisors.  Diverse views of the company’s vast sugar fields, railroad spurs, refining factory (large-scale vats, kilns, and other machinery), factory village with housing, group shots of indigenous factory workers.  (Bernath Mss 173).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Mitchell [John J.] Collection, ca. 1828-1945.  Early 19th century documents registering cattle brands in California, as well as 1945 correspondence, and a 1939 guestbook relating to Zaca Lake Ranch, California.  The collection also contains a number of books pertaining to California and the American West, which have been cataloged separately.  (Mss 83).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Mitchell [Ruth Comfort] Collection, ca. 1879-1961 [bulk 1930s-1940s].  Correspondence, typescripts of articles, newspaper clippings, photographs and ephemera of author Ruth Comfort Mitchell, mainly pertaining to her research and writing on the migrant question of the late 1930s, after the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, from the perspective of the area farmers.  (Mss 84).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Montgomery, William Pinckney / Locust Plantation Collection, ca. 1822-1883 (bulk 1830s-1860s).  Bills, receipts, indentures, yearly cotton sales records of Montgomery, a planter and plantation owner in Washington County, Mississippi, who declared bankruptcy during the Reconstruction period of 1869.  (Wyles Mss 9).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching]. Old Town Goleta Oral History Project, 2000.   Interviews with: Fermina Murray – Architectural Review; Cathy Jo -The Pagliotti Family: An Italian American Story; Raphael Trancoso: Ranch Foreman and Pioneer Merchant; Al Jaramillo: Life on the Bishop Ranch; Gil Garcia: Life in Old Town Goleta; Joe Kunze: Pioneer German Merchant; Ernestine Ygnacio De Soto   (OH 73).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching]. Photograph Album - Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, England, ca. late 19th centuryApproximately 150 b/w photographs with handwritten captions, of areas such as Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania, Wandiligong, Fernshaw, Dandenong, Yorkminster Cathedral, Malmsbury, Kolo Kemp (N.G.), Little River.  Includes several images of camps, farms, ranches, and indigenous populations.  (Mss 181). 
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Rancho Life in California, n.d.  20 b/w photographs with captions.  (SC 729).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Roach [Charles A.] Photograph Albums, 1938, 1948.  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, Ploesh, Bucharest, the Danube, Venice, and England) and 1948 (Norwegian holiday, with images of Stockholm, Oslo, Lillehammer, Gjendesheim, hiking and mountain climbing, Sulheim manor, traditional dress, Naevodalen, Voss, farming, Osterbo, and Steinberdalen). (Bernath Mss 290).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Romaine [Lawrence B.] Trade Catalog Collection.  27 boxes on agriculture (incl. bee culture, chocolate industry, citrus industry, swine diseases, strawberries, fertilizers, barns, dairy farm equipment, haying equipment, poultry housing, gas and steam engines, agricultural exhibitions, fertilizer and chemicals, implements, insecticides, herbicides, mills and milling machinery, tractors, plows, cultivators, and other agricultural machinery, silos, and greenhouses).  (Mss 107).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Sisquoc Ranch Photograph Album, ca. 1899-1900.   Approximately 76 b/w images and handwritten captions, mainly of Sisquoc Ranch [Rancho Sisquoc], Santa Barbara County, California, including the land, buildings, work such as branding cattle, and the Lucius E. Greene and Vicente Castro families.  (Wyles SC 588).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Skofield [Hobart] Oral History, 1982.   Recollections of Skofield, re his years as an apprentice with the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, experiences with the Rancheros Vistadores, development of what is now the Skofield Printers Collection.   (OH 6).
  • [Agriculture and Ranching].  Touton [Rush D.] Tobacco Collection, ca. 1924-1981 [bulk dates 1930-1960].  Includes material on tobacco industry in Puerto Rico and Sumatra; many photographs, mainly b/w and in U.S.  (Bernath Mss 112).
  • Aguacate Mines Photograph Album, ca. 1900.  60 b/w photos, most with captions, 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 images of San José, including the National Theatre. (Bernath Mss 137).
  • Aladdin Stereographs: Japan and Russia, 1901-1905.  Boxed set of 42 Aladdin stereographs of Japan (including Japanese in Manchuria) and Russia, with printed captions in English.  (Bernath Mss 86).
  • [Alaska].  Arctic Scenes Photograph Album, ca. 1899-1903.  64 black/white photographs, mainly of the Eskimo population and environs of Alaska.  (Wyles Mss 136).
  • [Alaska].  Ewald, Henry L.  One letter (TLS) from S. Halvorsen and accompanying b/w photographs of whales and Akutan Whaling Station, Alaska, 7 Sept. 1937.  (SC 103).
  • [Alaska].  Smith [Ben] Alaska Yukon Gold Rush Collection, ca. 1882-1915 [bulk 1898-1901].  Papers of Ben Smith, from Redwood City, California, who went to the Alaska Yukon goldfields ca. 1899-1900, and then apparently returned to California.  Includes correspondence, diaries/journals, documents, financial records, maps, and other ephemera, much of it relating to Smith’s stay in Alaska.  (Wyles Mss 1).
  • [Alaska]Swineford [Alfred P.] Papers, 1885-1889Biographical sketch of Alfred P. Swineford, copies of correspondence from him, to his daughter, Nelly Flower Stafford (Mrs. E. O. Stafford), a manuscript entitled “A Cruise of Ten Thousand Miles in Alaskan Waters,” and a description of Ketchikan.  The often lengthy letters describe in detail Swineford’s impressions of Alaska and its inhabitants in the era immediately preceding the Gold Rush there.  (Wyles Mss 14).
  • Alaska and Canada Photograph Collection, ca. early-mid 1900s.  (Wyles Mss 147).
  • Alaska / Klondike Magic Lantern Slides, 1898-1912.  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 includeNome, St. Michaels, Fort Wrangle, Kodiak, and Port Clarence (Wyles Ms 143).
  • [Alaska – Nome].  One letter (TL), from Hudson (?) to family, re trip from Seattle and impressions of Nome.  Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields, Nome, Alaska, 23 June 1929.  (Wyles SC 6).
  • Alaska Photograph Collection, [ca. 1890s-1900s].  (Wyles Mss 150). 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, coastline, countryside, dogsleds, Eskimos (Tlingit / Haidu - portraits, daily activities, dances, hunting, schools, villages, and other), glaciers, gold mining and milling, harbors, houses, icebergs, Klondikers, mountains, parades, railroads, reindeer, rivers and river steamers, settlers and homesteads, ships and shipwrecks (incl. Thetis), school classes, skiing,  totem poles, towns and villages (Anchorage, Circle City, Cordova, Dawson, Eagle City, Fairbanks, Fort Wrangell, Howkan, Juneau, Kennicott, Ketchikan, Metlakahtla, Nome, Port Simpson, St. Michael, Seward, Sitka, Treadwell, Valdez, White Horse), and winter scenes (Wyles Mss 150).
  • "Alaska Scenery."  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.  (Wyles SC 629).
  • Alaska Scenes Photograph Collection, ca. 1900-1920.  Approx. 50 b/w loose photos, many of Eskimos, sleds and dogs, settlements and scenes around Nome.  (Wyles Mss 155).
  • "Alaska Trails."  Nine-page handwritten account of an Alaska Trail sheriff during 1898.  (Wyles SC 5
  • [Aldrich, Daniel].  UCSB.  Office of the Chancellor. Chancellor’s Records, ca. 1923-ongoing.  Files of UCSB chancellors and their predecessors, including Clarence L. Phelps, Clark Kuebler, Samuel Gould, Vernon Cheadle, Robert Huttenback, Daniel Aldrich, Barbara Uehling, and Henry Yang.  Includes correspondence, memos, reports, speeches, subject files, and related materials.
  • Alejo Petrowitz Czarewitz …and Don Carlos de Austria, ca. early 1700s.  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 was mentally unstabled, imprisoned by his father in 1568, and died shortly thereafter.  (Mss 191).
  • Alexander [Alec P.] Papers, 1959-1994.  Mainly copies of letters and memos pertaining 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 Affairs (1973-1978), and Acting Chancellor (July-Dec. 1977).  (FACP 1).
  • Alexander [John] Collection. Collection of Dame Judith Anderson memorabilia, including her unpublished autobiography dictated to Robert Wallsten, letters, photographs, clippings and scripts.  (PA 2001-006).
  • Alexander [Ship].  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.  (Wyles SC 477).
  • [Algeria].  Bennet [Robert] Mediterranean Photograph Album, ca. early 1930s. About 200 b/w photographs, many commercial, captions in English compiled by United States Merchant Mariner Robert Bennet.  Includes images of Egypt (Cairo, Pyramids, Alexandria), Lebanon (Beyrouth/Beirut), Palestine (Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem), Syria, Italy (Naples), Gibraltar, Marseille, Morocco (Casablanca), Algiers, and a bull fight in Seville.  (Bernath Mss 276).
  • [Algeria].  Compagnie Transatlantique North Africa Tour Photograph Album, ca. 1920s. 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, Ghardaïa, Laghouat, Figuig, Tlemcen, and Mausoura.  (Bernath Mss 292).
  • [Algeria].  Islamic Manuscripts Collection, ca. 1122-1700s.  Single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of the Islamic world, including what is now Algeria.  There are four chronologically arranged series: History, Koran, Poetry, and Prayers.  (Mss 207).
  • [Algeria].  North Africa Photograph Album, ca. early 1900s.  96 b/w images, minimal captions in English, of local inhabitants, city views, street scenes, ports, boats, Roman ruins, in Algeria (Timgad, Lambise, Constantine, Tebessa), Tunisia (Dougga), and Morocco (Fez). (Bernath Mss 293).
  • [Algeria]. North Africa Photograph Album, 1924.    38 b/w snapshots, captions in English, of local inhabitants, desert, oases, village, market, and street scenes from Morocco (Amizmiz, Fez, Marrakesh, Taza), Algeria (El Oued, Khabylie, Tlemsen, Touggourt), and Tunisia (Kairwan, Tunis). (SC 960).
  • Algeria Photograph Album, ca. 1900-1902.  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 returning from border patrol.  Places include Salsa-Maghria (El Maghria), Ain-Sefra (a few miles east of the Moroccan border; founded in the 1880s as a French garrison town), Tlemcen (northwest Algeria), Djenan-ed-Dar, Beni Ounif, and Oase de Figuig (oasis near the Algeria/Morocco border).  (Bernath Mss 281).
  • Algeria Photograph Album, ca. 1910s.  (SC 938).
  • Algeria Photograph Album, ca. 1920s.  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. (Bernath Mss 291).
  • Algeria Photograph Album, 1923-1924.  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 Saharan areas of Biskra, Menâa, and Beni Ferah.  (SC 848).
  • Algeria Photograph Album, 1924.  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.  (SC 946).
  • Algeria Photograph Album, 1928.  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 Timgad (Roman ruins), Chetma (oasis), M’Choumech, Biskra, Touggourt, Temacine, Ghardaya (some of Tuareg), Bou Saada, and Algiers.  (Bernath Mss 280).
  • Algeria Photograph Collection, 1933.  55 b/w snapshots, with captions, of a 1933 tour in Algeria, containing images of Sidi Akba, Timgad (Roman settlement ruins), Biskra, and Bou Saada.   Includes street and desert scenes, markets, local inhabitants, residences, camel and horse riders, horse races, and dancers, as well as several of the tour members. (SC 841).
  • Alishouskas [John Joseph] World War II Fiji Photograph Album, 1942-1944.  (Bernath Mss 277).
  • Allen [Alden L.] Japan Notebook, 1945-1946.   Manuscript narrative of an American sailor’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. (SC 851).
  • Allen Family Papers, ca. 1822-1894.  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 Wolcott Gibbs, John M. Johnson, William Barton Rogers, and Charles S. Sargent.  Also includes legal document re courtmartial proceedings against William Allen, 1863.  (Wyles SC 885).
  • Allen [S. H.].  One Civil War era letter [ALS] to brother James P. Allen, May 9, 1865.   {Wyles SC 1033].
  • [Almanacs]American Almanac Collection, 1820-1829.  149 printed almanacs from eastern parts of the United States, including some duplicates and variant issues.  (Mss 224). 
  • [Almanacs]English Almanacs, 1767.  14 printed English almanacs, bound together in one volume.  Includes 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 Speculum Anni: or, Season on the Seasons.  (Mss 234).
  • Almanacs, 1853, 1856.  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.  (SC 5).
  • Almanacs and Works about Time.  Primarily early American items such as the The Ladies Diary, or, Woman’s Almanack for …1753; The Gentleman’s Diary, or, The Mathematical Repository: An Almanack for … 1753; An Astronomical Diary, or, Almanack (1780); The North-American Calendar: or, The Rhode-Island Almanack …for 1787; Hutchin’s Improved, Being an Almanack and Ephemeris (1808); The New England Farmer’s Almanack and Repository (1815); The Temperance Almanac for the Year of Our Lord, 1834, 1836; New England Anti-Slavery Almanac (1841), Affleck’s Southern Rural Almanac, and Plantation and Garden Calendar, for 1851; and The Soldier’s and Sailor’s Almanac for 1864.  Also, the Almanach de Gotha, a genealogical, diplomatic, and statistical gazetteer for all countries of the world(1800-1944).  An associated manuscript collection, the Donald C. Davidson Collection, focuses on concepts and writings about time.  The Davidson endowment has funded acquisition of many of these works.
  • Almaraz, Carlos, and Los Four Ephemera Collection.  (CEMA 111).
  • Alternative Press Collection. ca. 1966-1977.   Mainly U.S. 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 American, anti-war, Chicano/Latino, environmental, feminist, gay/lesbian, literary/poetry, radical/conservative, and religious themes and issues.  (Mss 169).
  • Alurista [Alberto Urista] Papers . Scripts, correspondence, photographs, autographed books and ephemera of the Chicano artist and poet, one of the leading literary figures of the Chicano Movement era, who helped to establish The Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego. (CEMA 21).
  • Ambler [E. C.] Civil War Diary, 1862.  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 rumors, doubts about his usefulness, nahding out tracts and paper so soldiers can write home.  (Wyles SC 1027).
  • American Almanac Collection, 1820-1829.  149 printed almanacs from eastern parts of the United States, including some duplicates and variant issues.  (Mss 224). 
  • American Colonization Society.  One printed circular, re solicitiation of funds and invitation to form auxiliary societies.  Washington, 25 Mar. 1843.  (Wyles SC 708).
  • American Flag Collection, ca. 1859-1910s.  Nine U.S. flags, ranging from 33 to 48 stars, plus one Confederate Artillery flag.  (Wyles Mss 152).
  • American Folk Music Photograph Collection, 1930s.  54 WPA related b/w photographs of musicians, singers, their homes and environs, from California and parts of the South, including Arkansas and North Carolina..  Some are stamped “California Folk Music Recorded by the Music Dept. of the Unive. of California, in Cooperation with the Archives of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress under Works Progress Administration.”  Identified photographers include James L. Hall, Sidney Roberts and Dick Weston.  (Mss 229).           
  • American Institute of Graphic Arts Collection, ca. 1923-1977 [bulk dates 1971-1977].  Correspondence, flyers, invitations, memoranda, notices, and other mailings, mainly relating to the AIGA Fifty Books of the Year Show and other organization activities. (Printers Mss 3)
  • American Ladies of Yokohama.  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. 1900-1910.  (Wyles SC 752).
  • American Lloyd's.  Certificate of classification for the 1/2 Brig "Mary M. Williams," built November 1862 and metalled December 1873.  New York, 18 Dec. 1877.  (Wyles SC 211).
  • American Military Mission War School – Turkey Photograph Album, 1947.  Souvenir album, with more than 150 black/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. Additional photos of similar military visits to other [Turkish?] locations, and loose collection of photo postcards of officers in various settings, including jeep-top picnic. (Bernath Mss 145).
  • American Printing History Association Collection, ca. 1974-1983.  Bylaws, membership directories and information, flyers, conference notices and programs, and other mailings relating to activities of APHA, including its Southern California chapter   (Printers Mss 4).
  • American Religions CollectionMore than 30,000 books, as well as a large number of serials and 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, Christian Science, Evangelical Christian, Hindu, Islam, Magick, Mormon, New Age, Spiritualism, Theosophy, and numerous other groups and movements.  ARC includes a number of discrete manuscript collections, which are listed separately. 
  • American Soldier’s South Korea Photograph Album, ca. early 1960s.  107 uncaptioned black/white snapshots in a decorative black lacquer album.  Includes images of fellow soldiers, military base, surrounding area [exact location unclear]and local men, women, and especially children.  (Bernath Mss 263).
  • American Union against Militarism.  Three pamphlets, ca. 1918-1919.  (Wyles SC 464).
  • [American West]Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California Collection, 1875-1890.  Ten printed pamphlets, programs, articles of association, and other items relating to the organization and activities of this group of California pioneers.  (Wyles SC 979). 
  • [American West]Bowen, T. M.  One letter (ALS) to his mother, re trip west.  Cheyenne, Wyoming, 28 June 1882.  (Wyles SC 31).
  • [American West]California and the West Picture Postcard Collection, ca. early 1900s.  Includes 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.  (Mss 231).
  • [American West].  California Gold Rush Sermons, ca. 1852-1863.  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.  The sermons generally focus on theological issues, emphasizing moral rectitude and only referring obliquely, at best, to the problems of the day.  Harmon’s final sermon, “Farewell at Sonora,” dated May 3, 1863, however, reflects frankly and in detail on the often trying circumstances of establishing and maintaining a church in such a setting.  (Wyles Mss 22).
  • [American West]California [Siskiyou County] Ranching Photograph Album, ca. 1910-1915.  (Wyles Mss 148).
  • [American West]Easton [Robert O.] Oral History.  Recollections of re his youth on the Sisquoc Ranch and the real life experiences he used in writing his novels.  Also, his Harvard University days during the Depression, where he edited The Harvard Lampoon, his military service in World War II, and the relationship he had with his literary mentor and father-in-law, western author Max Brand.  (OH 9).
  • [American West]Easton [Robert O.] Papers, ca. 1911-1990s.  Correspondence, research and subject files (including Chumash, natural resources, wilderness, and women’s issues), drafts of writings, and related materials of the Santa Barbara author of Black Tide (on the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill), and the acclaimed multi-volume Saga of California series (SBHC Mss 6).
  • [American West]Grey [Zane] Travel Photograph Album, 1923.   629 b/w photographs in an album inscribed by Zane Grey to his secretary Mildred Smith, noting “This is a photographic record of our wanderings from May until Nov. 1923….”  Includes Southwestern scenes, Pacific Northwest hunting, and deep-sea fishing scenes.  (Wyles Mss 120).
  • [American West]Gwin Mine.  Four documents and one blueprint re workings of the goldmine, owned by William M. Gwin, located near Valley Springs, California, ca. 1874-1886.  (Wyles SC 104).
  • [American West]Hockett [Homer C.] Collection, ca. 1902-1903.  Includes course notes for Frederick Jackson Turner's "History of the West" course, when Hockett was an assistant to Turner.  (Wyles Mss 73).
  • [American West]Huffman, Laton Alton.  Four black/white copy prints of a Montana roundup, taken by Western photographer Laton Alton Huffman, of Miles City, Montana, ca. 1905, 1913.  (Wyles SC 656).
  • [American West]Huffman, Laton Alton.  One black/white framed photograph, by western photographer Huffman, of a cowboy on horseback, and cattle, n.d.  (Wyles SC 596).
  • [American West]Huffman, Laton Alton.  One b/w 8" x 10" mounted print of Yellowstone River, 1906.   (Wyles SC 637).
  • [American West].  Huffmann, Laton Alton.  One mounted copy of a black/white photo, “Old Cheyenne ‘’Two Moons,’ Blind and Aged,” 1910.  (Wyles SC 913).
  • [American West]Jacobs [Wilbur R.] Papers, ca. 1937-1987.   Correspondence, research and teaching files, and writings of a UCSB history professor and scholar of the American West.  (FACP 16).
  • [American West]Kiewit [John S.] Photography Collection, ca. 1968-2000.   More than 10,000 color and black/white prints, color slides, and black/white negatives, taken from about 1968 to 2000.  Color slides constitute the bulk of the collection. The images reflect what Kiewit saw on his travels throughout California and the West, as well as trips to other parts of the U.S. and the world, including France. (Mss 228).
  • [American West]Lavender [David] Fort Laramie Collection, ca. early 1980s.  Research files from David Lavender, used in writing Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier (Official National Park Handbook, 1983).  Mainly photocopies and typed notes of correspondence, diaries, reports and other documents from the latter 19th century.  (Wyles Mss 3).
  • [American West]Lewis, Donna May.  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.  (Wyles SC 581).
  • [American West]Linderman [Verne] Oral History, 1977.   Family history and reminiscences of a Santa Barbaran who grew up in Montana; and whose father was Frank Bird Linderman, well-known western author. Central Coast Regional Projects.  (OH 59).
  • [American West]Lueg [Henry] Collection.  Citizenship application, 1866; photocopy of translation of 1867 journal describing journey from St. Cloud, Minnesota to Helena City, Montana; reprint of C. S. Kingston," The Northern Overland Route in 1867: Journal of Henry Lueg," Pacific Northwest Quarterly (July 1950).  (Wyles SC 573).
  • [American West]Lyon [Farnham] Collection, ca. 1885-1926.  Correspondence to Farnham Lyon, prominent hotel proprietor, from late 1885, and an autograph book that he kept. Also, numerous newspaper clippings relating to Farnham Lyon, Elizabeth B. Custer, the death of Margaret Custer Calhoun Maugham, George Armstrong Custer's career, and the 1910 dedication of a Custer memorial in Monroe, Michigan.  (Wyles Mss 28).
  • [American West] Mallory [Margaret] Collection, ca. 1910s.  Includes some framed Western Americana. (Bernath Mss 5).
  • [American West] Mitchell [John J.] Collection, ca. 1828-1945.  Early 19th century documents registering cattle brands in