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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.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
A
- [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).
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[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
Hall. Grand 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 century. Approximately
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, 1885-1889. Biographical
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 Collection. More 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
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