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  • Cabell, James Branch (1879-1958).  Three letters (TLS), to George Sterling, 1920; [?] Weymer, 1927; and Boyd [?], 1934.  (SC 45). Cabot [Thomas Dudley] Colombian Expedition Photograph Album, 1939.  (Bernath Mss 162). 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).
  • Califas: Chicano Art and Culture in California.  Video archives, with interviews of individuals such as Ralph Maradiaga, Victor Ochoa, Ernesto Palomino, Patricia Rodriguez, and Luis Valdez; festivals, performances, and other events; and  Califas conferences.  (CEMA 64).
  • [California].  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).
  • [California].  "Election Proclamation."  Broadside.  State of California, Executive Department, 1860.  (Wyles SC 802).
  • [California]. Gray [Ethel C.] California, Canal Zone, Cuba Photograph Album, 1935.  Album, approx. 100 pages, recording Ethel C. Gray’s six-week rail trip from NYC to the western U.S. (including Yosemite, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego), then by ship (S.S. Virginia) to the Canal Zone and Cuba.  Includes photographs, postcards, railroad timetables, hotel brochures, menus, and other ephemera.  (Bernath Mss 46).
  • [California].  Hart [Gary K.] Papers, 1970-1994.  Subject, bill, and general files, of a California state legislator representing the Santa Barbara area, first in the California State Assembly and then in the State Senate.. Subjects such as children/youth/women/families, crime, education, employer/employee issues, energy, law, legislative/legislature concerns, medical/health issues, natural resources (land use, oil, and water), public assistance, taxes, and transportation are covered extensively.  (Mss 41).
  • [California].  Rains [Omer L.] Collection, 1973-1982.  Bill files, committee files, legislation, campaign and election files, press releases, speech files, subject files, and binders with biographical information pertaining to Rains, a California legislator (State Senate), 18th Senatorial District (Santa Barbara/Ventura).  (Mss 102).
  • [California].  Rojas [Arnold R.] Papers, ca. 1964.  Corrected typescript, galley and page proofs for Rojas' The Vaquero, published by McNally and Loftin, Charlotte and Santa Barbara, 1964 Rojas also wrote several other works on the California vaqueros.  (SC 715).
  • [California].  “Scenes from California” Photograph Album, 1888.  Four albumen prints, including one of Santa Barbara Mission, in a handmade soft leather album.  Also, images of Helmet Rock (California coast); Soda Spring, Shasta; and oak trees (with elderly man seated), El Monte.  (SC 832).
  • [California].  Storer [James B.] Papers, ca. 1834-1882.  Photographs (of Storer and his family), 1853-1866 diary (Storer was in California during the Civil War), bills and receipts, 1866 commission in the California national guard, and 1834 book of common prayer (given to him by his father in 1844).  (Wyles Mss 77).
  • [California].  Vasconcellos [John] Papers, ca. 1946-2003.  Personal papers, legislative and campaign files of a California state legislator noted for his work with humanistic psychology and self esteem.  (HPA Mss 47).
  • [California].  Western Americana and Californiana.  Extensive holdings of printed materials, many in the Wyles Collection, but also including the J. J. Mitchell, Ruth Comfort Mitchell (California writer), and Charles Snow (prolific blind California author of westerns) collections.
  • [California].  Yosemite Photographs, 1906-1907.  Two black/white panoramic photographs: (1) Grizzly Giant Tree, Mariposa Grove.  Pillsbury Picture Co., No. 1005.   Oldest living sequoia, located at Wawona.  The image also shows visitors, standing, on wagons, and bicycle, by the trees.  (2) El Capitan.  Pillsubury Picture Co., No. 3012.  (Wyles SC 959).
  • California circus photographs, 1950s. Photographs of California circuses in the early 1950s, including Clyde Beatty Circus. (PA Mss 67).
  • California Coastal Commission Collection, 1976-1981.  Primarily packets assembled for Commission members, with agenda, minutes, and supporting documentation such as applications, reports, and fact sheets.  The issues generally pertain to Santa Barbara and nearby counties.  Much of the material has the letterhead 'South Central Coast Regional Commission,' which had offices in Santa Barbara at the time.    (SBHC Mss 39).
  • California Equal Suffrage Association Collection, ca. 1906-1918.  14 pamphlets.  (SC 348).
  • California Feminist Presses Collection.  Copies of printed works mainly by southern California presses, including Bluestocking Books, Clothespin Fever Press, Odd Girls Press, Post-Apollo Press, Trilogy Books, Wildcat Press, and Women’s Institute for Continuing Jewish Education.
  • California Gold Miners Scale, ca. 1850s-1860s.  (Wyles Mss 142).
  • [California Gold Rush].  Spaulding Family Papers ca. 1824-1961 [bulk dates 1849-1936].  Correspondence, journals, ledgers, logbooks, photographs and other material relating to the Spaulding family of Boston who, later (1929-1931), also maintained a home in Santa Barbara.  Of particular interest is the 1849 California gold rush era diary of Mahlon Day Spaulding  (1827-1888), who joined 149 other men from New England, formed a mutual stock company, bought a ship, and traveled around the Horn to California.  With the money earned in California, he successfully invested in the wholesale grocery business and the later in the sugar refinery business.  After his death, his two sons, William S. Spaulding and John T. Spaulding, took over the sugar company and later sold it to the United Fruit Company.  The Spauldings became socially prominent Bostonians and were some of the most important art collectors in the United States.  (Wyles Mss 141).
  • California Gold Rush Letter, 1850.  (Wyles SC 972). 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).
  • [California Mexican Government Document].  One printed document, 4 pp., establishing the first official medical practice in California.  Mexico, 6 Aug. 1836.  (Wyles SC 936).
  • [California Mexican Government Document ].  Rosa, D[on] Luis de la.  One printed decree, 4 pp., originating in the Ministry of Finance, detailing the articles of tax collection and distribution.  Mexico [City], 6 Aug. 1845.  (Wyles SC 937).
  • [California Miners’ Payroll].   Monthly ledger sheets, Feb. 1877 – Dec. 1878, for Consolidated Mining Co., Dardenelles Consolidated General Mining Co., and others, all located in Forest Hill, Placer County, California.  Lists names, mining occupations, and duties, including one entry for a Chinese water carrier, “Wa Saiuf.”  (Wyles SC 939).
  • California Opera Company.  One document (TDS), Founders’ List.  Los Angeles, n.d.  (SC 46).
  • California Photograph Album, ca. 1890-1910.   74 black/white numbered photographs, some with descriptions, including coastal scenes, boats and fishermen, Garden of the Gods, Monterey, ostrich farm, Santa Cruz, San Gabriel Mission (Pasadena), Santa Barbara Mission (nos. 2264-2265), and several apparently of a mother and daughter, perhaps on vacation at various locations.  (SBHC Mss 71).
  • California Picture Postcard Album, ca. 1900.  45 b/w and color picture postcards, mainly California, including several images of Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Catalina Island, San Diego, and Pasadena.  Also a few from New Mexico and Kingman, Arizona (SC 823).
  • California Picture Postcard Collection, ca. early 1900s.  (Mss 231).
  • California Self -Esteem Task Force Meetings, 1987.   Humanistic psychology project.  (OH 114).
  • 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).
  • Cambodia – Angkor Wat Photograph Album, ca. 1920-1925.  (Bernath Mss 152).
  • [Cambodia].  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).
  • Camp William Penn.  One printed group photograph of the commander and headquarters staff
  • of Camp William Penn, used for organization of U.S. Colored Troops, 1863-1865.  (Wyles SC 902).
  • Campbell [Joseph] / Keleman [Stanley] Oral History, ca. 1976-1989.  Dialogues between Campbell and Keleman, conducted over a period of several years.  Humanistic psychology project.  (OH 25).
  • Camplís [Francisco] Papers, 1967-2000.  Mainly files pertaining to professional activities, and photographs, of the Chicano artist, photographer, and filmmaker. (CEMA 47).
  • [Canada].  Alaska and Canada Photograph Collection, ca. early-mid 1900s.  (Wyles Mss 147).
  • [Canada].  Grenfell [Wilfred] Labrador, Newfoundland Photograph Collection, ca. 1908-1909.   Includes numerous photos of Eskimo population, sled dogs, deer as pack animals.  (WylesMss 140).
  • [Canada].  Klondike and Atlin [British Columbia] Gold Rush Photographs, ca. 1898-1899.  (Wyles SC 1013).
  • [Canada].  Money [Anton K.] Oral History, 1982.  Life history of a mining engineer who fled war-torn Europe to explore Canada’s mining frontier during the 1920s.  (OH 68).
  • [Canada].  Railroad Ephemera Collection, ca. 1870s-1970s.  A variety of ephemeral items relating mainly to railroad companies, but also some bus and other transportation companies.  Included in the collection are passenger tickets, railroad forms, transfer tickets, bond coupons, baggage claim checks, company passes, time cards, service pins, tokens, dining car napkins, cancelled paychecks, postcards, and reports.  More than 70 companies from all regions of the U.S. and Canada are represented.  (Wyles Mss 128).
  • [Canada].  Siddell [Robert] Collection, ca. 1903-1922.  More than 200 picture postcards from a 1909 trip to South America (Guyana – then British, Dutch, and French Guiana) and the West Indies (Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Martinique, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Virgin Islands – then the Danish West Indies), as well as Canada, the U.S. and Turkey (Constantinople).  Also, letters, photographs, and ephemera, some relating to the American College for Girls in Constantinople during and just after World War I.  (Mss 110).
  • [Canada].  Thomas [Norman] Photograph Collection, 1948-1964 [bulk 1958-1964].  Several thousand b/w prints and negatives, taken by photojournalist Norman Thomas, who was based in New Orleans in the late 1950s to early 1960s.  The largest number of photos are from Mexico.  There also is an earlier series of photos from the 1948 Nahanni Expedition to northern Canada, and some U.S. photos, including Cape Canaveral, Florida, and a Navajo Reservation Health Program.  (Bernath Mss 97).
  • [Canal Zone].  Gray [Ethel C.] California, Canal Zone, Cuba Photograph Album, 1935.  Album, approx. 100 pages, recording Ethel C. Gray’s six-week rail trip from NYC to the western U.S. (including Yosemite, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego), then by ship (S.S. Virginia) to the Canal Zone and Cuba.  Includes photographs, postcards, railroad timetables, hotel brochures, menus, and other ephemera.  (Bernath Mss 46). 
  • [Canary Islands]South Pacific Photograph Album, ca. 1901-1902. 140+ b/w photographs of a voyage, probably by a British passenger embarking at London, on the New Zealand ship S.S. Rakaia.  Includes images of Tenerife (street sweepers, bullock cart, bull ring, harbor, panorama of Santa Cruz; fruit hawkers at Laguna).  (Bernath Mss 283).
  • Canton Sketches, 1850-1852.  (Wyles SC 971).
  • [Cape Canaveral].  Thomas [Norman] Photograph Collection, 1948-1964 [bulk 1958-1964].  Several thousand b/w prints and negatives, taken by photojournalist Norman Thomas, who was based in New Orleans in the late 1950s to early 1960s.  The largest number of photos are from Mexico.  There also is an earlier series of photos from the 1948 Nahanni Expedition to northern Canada, and some U.S. photos, including Cape Canaveral, Florida, and a Navajo Reservation Health Program.  (Bernath Mss 97).
  • [Cape Horn].  South Pacific Photograph Album, ca. 1901-1902. 140+ b/w photographs of a voyage, probably by a British passenger embarking at London, on the New Zealand ship S.S. Rakaia.  Includes images of Cape Horn.  (Bernath Mss 283).
  • [Cape Verde Islands].  South Pacific Photograph Album, ca. 1901-1902. 140+ b/w photographs of a voyage, probably by a British passenger embarking at London, on the New Zealand ship S.S. Rakaia.  Includes images of Cape Verde Islands (St Vincent harbor, coaling boats, boys selling shells).  (Bernath Mss 283).
  • Caribbean Photograph Album, ca. 1903. 184 black/white photographs taken during a cruise on the steamship Oceana (German-American Line), with images of St. Thomas (Virgin Islands), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Jamaica, Panama Canal, Venezuela, Trinidad, Martinique, Dominica, San Domingo, Santiago and Havana (Cuba), and Nassau (Bahamas).  Includes coastal and city views, streetscapes, buildings, railroads and steamships in ports, and local men and women at work and at leisure.  (Bernath Ms 184).
  • [Carpinteria].  Strong [Isobel Field] Scrapbook, ca. 1926-1930.  Scrapbook of Isobel Field Strong, daughter of Fanny Stevenson and stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson.  Includes photographs of Carpinteria area, some of Serena, the Field home.  (SBHC Mss 64).
  • Carrillo [Sean] Collection.  Materials relating to the Chicano musician.  (CEMA).
  • Carruth [Clarence V.] Balkans Correspondence, 1930-1931.  (Bernath Mss 124).
  • Case [James T.] Collection.  One letter (TLS) from Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Battle Creek, Michigan, 10 July 1938, re medical research.  Also one b/w portrait of Case, 1905; one b/w photo of Case with [x-ray machine ?], 1917; and one later color photo of [Case?], n.d.  (SC 50).
  • Castillo [Ana] Papers, 1953-1990.   Journals, clippings, postcards, memorabilia, personal and professional correspondence, photographs, silkscreen drawings and mss of published and unpublished writings of Chicana writer and teacher Castillo. (CEMA 2).
  • Center for Studies of the Person (CSP), 1991.  Tapes of staff meetings and related material pertaining to the La Jolla center, home of the Carl Rogers Memorial Library, and advocates of client-centered psychotherapy and the person-centered approach.   (OH 24).
  • Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Audio Archive.  Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI are available on the web for listening and downloading. Dating back to the early 1960s, the topics covered in these tapes remain as critical today as they were then. Issues include peace and war, democracy, dissent, community action, ecology and the environment, elections and the electoral process, freedom of the press, immigration, international relations, law and order, the media, race and ethnicity, and religion.
  • Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Collection.  Records of the internationally renowned Santa Barbara-based think tank, emphasizing issues such as education, freedom of the press, international relations, public policy, religion, and science and technology in modern society.  Included are materials relating to CSDI leaders such as Robert Hutchins, Harry Ashmore, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, W. H. Ferry, Frank Kelly, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, and Harvey Wheeler.  Also includes papers, talks, correspondence, and other materials relating to hundreds of other well known figures such as Mortimer Adler, Alexander Comfort, William O. Douglas, Mircea Eliade, J. William Fulbright, Hubert H. Humphrey, Clark Kerr, Eugene McCarthy, Gunnar Myrdal, Reinhold Niebuhr, Linus Pauling, James A. Pike, B. F. Skinner, Adlai Stevenson, Arnold Toynbee, UN Secretary-General U Thant, and Earl Warren.  (Mss 18).
  • Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) Scrapbook, 1961.   Scrapbook of the 1961 CSDI Seminar in Athens, assembled by Carolyn H. Wack.  (SC 793).
  • Centro Cultural de La Raza Archives.  Slides and other materials relating to the San Diego artists' collective, co-founded in 1970 by Chicano poet Alurista and artist Victor Ochoa.  Known as a center of indigenismo (indigenism) during the Aztlán phase of Chicano art in the early 1970s.  (CEMA 12).
  •  [Ceylon].  China/Ceylon Photograph Album, ca. 1910s-1920s.  About 120 b/w photos, most with captions, taken by a young British officer, some ca. 1920s of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), including Trincomalee and the Royal Naval Camp at Diyatalawa.  (Bernath Mss 34). 
  • [Ceylon].  India and Ceylon Photograph Album, ca. 1900.  (Bernath Mss 208).
  • [Ceylon].  India and Ceylon Photograph Album, ca. 1900.  241 hand-colored photographs with captions in Russian, including scenes of  Agra (including Taj Mahal) and Kandy, Ceylon.  (Bernath Mss 250).
  • [Ceylon].  “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.  It includes images of the voyage (on board the ‘Hesperus’, Bay of Biscay, Cape Town, Teneriffe, Suez Canal, Port Said, Gibraltar, Ceylon), with the bulk being of Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, other parts of New South Wales) and New Zealand (Wellington, New Plymouth, Urenui, Akaroa, Northern Wairoa, and Napier).  (SC 839). 
  • [Ceylon].  World Tour Photograph Album, 1907-1908.  458 b/w snapshots of a world tour by an unknown American woman with images from Gibraltar, Spain, France, Egypt, Ceylon, India, Burma, Java, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Hawaii, and San Francisco Bay.  Includes many images of street scenes, waterfronts, palaces, temples, and other buildings, processions and festivals, American missions, and local inhabitants (many of women and children).  (Bernath Mss 79).
  • Ceylon – Philippines Photograph Album, ca. 1900-1919 [bulk dates 1900-1901]. About 200 black/white snapshots (with a few cyanotypes and black/white picture postcards), apparently taken by an American serviceman on board ship (the Buford) to Manila (Philippines), via Gibraltar, Malta, Suez Canal, Aden (now Yemen), and Colombo (Ceylon, now Sri Lanka), to the Philippines, Nov.-Dec. 1900.  Philippine images, Dec. 1900 – ca. 1902, include Manila Bay, buildings, local population, street scenes, fellow soldiers; also scenes of Santa Cruz.  Later 1911-1919 photos mainly of groups of friends, most apparently in Massachusetts.  (Bernath Mss 163).
  • Ceylon Photograph Album, 1937.  Album of Walter C. Hansell, 100+ b/w snapshots and some picture postcards, including ship-board views taken on the voyage from England, Gibraltar, Port Said, the Suez Canal, and Aden.  Most photos are of Ceylon, around the Mount Lavinia Grand Hotel on the coast near Colombo, and around the hill country of Kandy, in the center of Sri Lanka.   The Kandy photos include Sinhalese and Tamils in daily activities and work, gardens, temples, shrines, street scenes, markets, Afghan money lenders, Chinese silk merchant, sacred and working elephants, and lake and mountain scenes.  (Bernath Mss 58).
  • Chandler [Russell] Collection, ca. 1960s-1990.  About 300 files with correspondence, articles, newsletters, press releases, clippings, research notes, photographs, drafts and copies of Chandler’s own articles, and related materials, ca. 1960s-1990, with the bulk from the 1970s and 1980s when Chandler was a religion writer for the Los Angeles Times.  The files are arranged alphabetically and include a mix of topics, people, and religious groups.  Included are files such as: Abortion, Black Muslims, Capital Punishment, Christians in Government, Deprogramming, Doomsday Groups, Eastern Mystery Religions, Evolution/Creation, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Science and Religion, Sports as Folk Religion, Tax Exemptions, and Terrorism. (ARC Mss 2).
  • Chang [Iris] Papers.   Research and other materials of the Chinese American author, whose works include Thread of the Silkworm and The Rape of Nanking.  (CEMA 39).
  • Chapman [E. C.] Photograph Collection, ca. 1960s-1970s.  270+ black/white prints and color slides.  Locations include: Bali, Burma, Cambodia (Angkor Wat) and Laos (Vientiene), Malaysia (mainly Malacca and Penang), Shanghai and surrounds, and Thailand (incl. South Thailand – Kra Isthmus).  (Bernath Mss 224).
  • Chase [Harold S.] Oral History, 1975.  Interviews with others about Santa Barbara realtor, developer, and civic leader Chase, re his coming to Santa Barbara, Hope Ranch development, role in public affairs, including earthquake and depression relief, fundraising for Cottage Hospital, wildlife conservation, and family life. (OH 26).
  • Chase, James.  Two documents (ADS), re petition of James Chase to King Charles II, for payment of money owed, 1673.  (SC 51).
  • Chase [Pearl] Oral History, 1968-1974.  Interviews with Pearl Chase about her life, Santa Barbara history in the early 20th century, and her longstanding involvement in community development efforts.  Also, tapes of events involving and honoring her.   Central Coast Regional Projects.  (OH 115). 
  • [Cheadle, Vernon].  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.
  • Cheadle [Vernon] Oral History, 1979, 1995-1996.  Two separate sets of interviews with the UCSB Chancellor, the first with Cheadle in 1979, the second in 1995-1996 with Cheadle and other administrators such as Clark Kerr, and colleagues.  History of Science Project.  (OH 28).
  • Cheadle [Vernon] Papers.  Materials relating to Vernon Cheadle’s career as a professor of biology, including biographical information, correspondence, subject files, academic files (teaching, grants, articles, papers, and other publications), speeches, and research-related travel.  Records of his tenure as chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1962-1977, are in the UCSB, Office of Chancellor, Chancellor’s Records.  (FACP 22).
  • [Chemistry].  Heeger [Alan J.] Papers.  Papers of Alan J. Heeger, UCSB professor of physics and recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Collection contents include manuscripts published, with accompanying correspondence; patent documentation; speeches and lectures; conference files; and teaching materials. (FACP 39).
  • [Chemistry].  Kohn [Walter] Papers.  UCSB professor of physics and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Highlights of the collection include files from the 1950s relating to Kohn's research into electron structure, correspondence and research from the 1980s on the development of a program to study the emerging field of quasicrystals, materials concerning Kohn's involvement with various organizations devoted to peace and global conflict resolution, and materials relating to UCSB's Institute for Theoretical Physics, of which Kohn was founding director.  (FACP 34).
  • Cheney-Minard Family Collection, ca. 1813-1894.  Journals (handwritten and typed transcripts), biographical essay, legal documents, correspondence (originals and some typed transcripts), poetry, daguerreotypes, artifact ("Mimi ball, Gettysburg"), and miscellany, mostly relating to Clara Jane (Cheney) Minard.   (Wyles Mss 8).
  • Chiapas, Mexico Photograph Album, ca. late 1920s.  50 photographic postcards, with captions.  Includes images of local men, women, and children, buildings, parks, railroad, airfield, panoramic views, and street scenes of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapa de Corzo, Tonalá, Comitán de Domínguez, Tapachula, Arriaga, and surrounding areas.  (Bernath Mss 171).
  • Chicagoland Psychic Archives, 1964-1985.  A project started in the fall of 1975 at Dr. J. Gordon Melton’s Institute for the Study of American Religions to gather materials relating to the large Chicago area community engaged in the study and practice of paranormal phenomena, including psychics, astrologers, readers, mediums, graphologists, ghosthunters, and devotees of the occult, nonconventional healing, UFOs, and parapsychology. The files contain newsletters, flyers and posters, newspaper articles, business cards, correspondence, promotional materials, and other relevant items.  (ARC Mss 9).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Numerous collections in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives.  For the latest information about holdings, see: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/listguides.html
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  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).
  • [Chicano/Chicana]. Califas: Chicano Art and Culture in California.  Video archives, with interviews of individuals such as Ralph Maradiaga, Victor Ochoa, Ernesto Palomino, Patricia Rodriguez, and Luis Valdez; festivals, performances, and other events; and  Califas conferences.  (CEMA 64).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Camplís [Francisco] Papers, 1967-2000.  Mainly files pertaining to professional activities, and photographs, of the Chicano artist, photographer, and filmmaker. (CEMA 47).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Carrillo [Sean] Collection.  Materials relating to the Chicano musician.  (CEMA).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Centro Cultural de La Raza Archives.  Slides and other materials relating to the San Diego artists' collective, co-founded in 1970 by Chicano poet Alurista and artist Victor Ochoa.  Known as a center of indigenismo (indigenism) during the Aztlán phase of Chicano art in the early 1970s.  (CEMA 12).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Chicano Art Movement Collection, 1970-2001.  Articles and other materials, from various sources, relating to California-based Chicano artists and visual arts centers, including Guillermo Gomez Peña, Ester Hernández Yolanda López, and the art group Mujeres Muralistas.  (CEMA 37).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Chicano Tattoo Body Art Collection.  Small collection of 71 slides of unknown provenance that suggest a possible ethnocentric study on gang life in San Gabriel Valley, California.  Included in the slides are images of tattoos and tattooing, as well as images of picnics, confrontations with police, graffiti, and group shots.  Also included is an article from the San Diego Union-Tribune on the meaning of tattoos and tattooing. (CEMA 098).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Colacion [Lawrence] Papers.   Graphic artwork and related materials of the Chicano graphic artist Lawrence “El” Colacion.  (CEMA 094).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Comision Feminil Mexicana Nacional (CFMN) Archives.  Files of the CFMN, a national organization of women, founded in 1970 to enhance and promote the image of Chicana/Latina women in all levels of society.  Today there are local chapters that are active, but the national organization is defunct. (CEMA 30).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Corona [Bert] Oral History Collection, 1937-1995.   Interviews by UCSB faculty member Mario T. Garcia with Bert and Blanche Corona, resulting in an autobiography of the Mexican American labor organizer and political activist. Also, related materials such as photographs. (CEMA 51).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Corpi [Lucha] Papers, 1958-2000.  Biographical/personal files, literary work, and photographs of the celebrated Chicana author. (CEMA 26).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Cruz [Ricardo] / Catolicos por la Raza Papers, 1967-1993.  Correspondence, legal documents, transcripts, photographs, news clippings and ephemera of Cruz, a Chicano rights attorney during the Chicano Movement era and advocate for Latino poor people of the Los Angeles area.  Founder of the controversial Católicos por la Raza, which demonstrated against the Catholic Church for its neglect of the Latino community. Also known for his successful legal battle against Los Angeles County's forced sterilization of undocumented workers.  (CEMA 28).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  De la Garza Collection on the Latino Museum of History of Art and Culture.  (CEMA 52).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Dos Décadas de Artistas Chicanas Exhibition Collection.  Created from internal CEMA files about Dos Decadas de Artistas Chicanas (1972-1990): Envisioning and Transforming Culture an exhibition co-sponsored by CEMA and held in the UCSB Women's Center Gallery. Ester Hernandez and Yreina Cervantez, two of the artists represented in the exhibit, were the guest speakers. The collection consists of audiocassettes and transcriptions of the opening remarks and the artists' slide lectures, as well as event publicity (handbill, press release and news articles). (CEMA 017).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Duardo [Richard] Collection.  Materials of the Chicano graphic artist.  (CEMA 65).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Duke Dos Santos [Maria] Papers.  Correspondence, photographs, and ephemera from one of the earliest scholars in the field of Chicano literature, documenting her close relationship to renowned Chicano writers over three decades.  The main subjects of the collection are writers Rolando Hinojosa, Tomas Rivera (former Chancellor UC Riverside), and Sabine Ulibarri.  (CEMA 38).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Galería de la Raza (GDLR) Archives, ca. 1966-1999.   Administrative records, programs, subject files, correspondence, clippings, slides, photographs, serigraphs, posters, silkscreen prints, ephemera and other creative materials documenting activities of the San Francisco Bay Area Chicano cultural arts center.  Includes work by many of the prominent Chicano(a)/Latino(a) artists, such as Juana Alicia, Rodolfo (Rudy) Cuellar, Alfredo De Batuc, Ricardo Favela, Gilbert Luján (Magu), Ralph Maradiaga, Juanishi Orosco, Irene Pérez, Patricia Rodríguez, and René Yañez. (CEMA 4).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Galería Las Americas Archives, ca. 1989-1999.  Press and exhibition files, artist portfolios, correspondence, photographs and slides of the gallery founded by Chicana artist Linda Vallejo in 1989.  Includes material relating to artists such as David Botello, Nik Fernández, Wayne Healy, Mario G. López, Isabel Martinez, Tony Ortega, Rodrigo Palacios, Sara Palacios, Daniel Salazar, Teddy Sandoval, Rudy Torres, Linda Vallejo, and René Vásquez.  (CEMA 27).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  García [Adelina] Collection.  Sheet music, programs and playbills, publicity, performance and social photographs, photo postcards, news clippings, some correspondence, and magazines containing articles about García, renowned singer of the golden era of the Mexican romantic bolero.  (CEMA 23).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Garcia [Josė Joel] Collection.  (CEMA 073).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Garcia [Mario] Oral History, ca. 1990.   Interviews re Garcia’s academic career, from his undergraduate and graduate studies, including his doctoral work at UCSD and anti-war activities, as well as the development of the Chicano Studies Department at UCSB.  (OH 39).
  •  [Chicano/Chicana].  Garcia [Rupert and Sammi Madison] Collection.  Personal collection of an Oakland-based artist, comprised of 388 vintage silkscreen prints and posters by predominantly Chicano, Black, and Asian American artists.  (CEMA 101).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Gonzalez [Luis C.] Papers.  Works of art on paper by the Sacramento, California based Chicano artist, also known as Louie-the-foot).  (CEMA).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Gonzalez [Maya] Papers.  Slides of art work and biographical ephemera of acclaimed San Francisco-based Chicana painter and children's book illustrator.  (CEMA 103).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Guerrero [Dan] Collection on Latino Entertainment and the Arts.  Materials relating to and collected by Dan Guerrero, Chicano producer, actor, and writer. (CEMA).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Guerrero, Lalo Collection.  Photographs, videos, correspondence, phonograph records, audio-cassettes and scrapbooks of singer, musician, and composer Guerrero, known as the “Father of Chicano Music.”  (CEMA 24).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Guerrero [Mark] Collection.  Materials relating to Chicano musician Mark Guerrero.  (CEMA).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Limon [Leo] Papers.  Small collection of silkscreen prints, photographs, ephemera and some correspondence from Limon, a popular, veteran Chicano art movement artist with close ties to the Chicano cultural arts centers Self-Help Graphics & Art and the defunct Mechicano Art Center. (CEMA 095).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Lopez [Yolanda] Papers, 1961-1998.  Personal and professional materials generated by Chicana artist Lopez, the bulk consisting of incoming personal correspondence from family members (esp. Analee Lively, Lopez's half-sister) and fellow artists such as Rene Yañez, with whom Lopez has maintained a relationship since the late 1970s.  Also, biographical and professional materials, with clippings of media mentions, announcement cards and posters for her exhibits and lectures, and various miscellaneous files and clippings that relate to her work; several original silkscreens and offset posters, a number of slides, a personal diary with irregular entries spanning from 1976-1979, and two video cassettes featuring Lopez.  (CEMA 11).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  M. [Rosa] Papers, 1986 -    .  Correspondence, photographs, artistic works, and other materials of the Chicana artist and muralist.  (CEMA 22).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Maradiaga [Ralph] Collection.  (CEMA 35).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  MEChA Collection.  Materials relating to El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), Chicano student movement of Aztlán., (CEMA 36).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Mendez [Miguel] Papers.   Original literary manuscripts and essays, correspondence files, photographs, an unpublished novel, ephemera, audio-tapes, and files related to the literary magazine he directed at Pima College, of Mendez, one of the leading writers in the field of Chicano literature.  (Mss 239).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Miranda [Marcy] Collection.  Recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews with the past presidents of the Comision Femenil Mexicana Nacional.  (CEMA 53).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Montoya [José] Papers.  Art work, poems, manuscripts and publications of Chicano artist, poet and political activist Montoya, who co-founded the Royal Chicano Air Force.  (CEMA 20).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Ochoa [Victor] Collection.  Art files, exhibition files, ephemera, posters and prints and other printed matter, photographs and slides, correspondence files, and recordings of the Chicano painter/muralist long considered to be one of the pioneers of San Diego's Chicano art movement and co-founder of the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park, a multidisciplinary community-based arts center devoted to producing and preserving Indian, Mexican, and Chicano art and culture.  (CEMA 66).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Ornelas [Carlos] Papers.  Materials relating to the Chicano activist/educator.  (CEMA).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Orquesta [Medellin] Collection, ca. 1928-1950.   Photograph album of a Los Angeles based musical "conjunto" and family photos of the group's female lead.  (CEMA 45).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Prigoff [James] Slide Collection.  429 slides, overwhelmingly of mural art and of spray can art, visually documenting important aspects of the Chicano art movement in California, in particular in the San Diego and Tijuana area. (CEMA 102).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Rodríguez [Patricia] Collection.  Materials of the Chicana artist and muralist.  (CEMA 67).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Rojo [Charles] Papers.  Materials relating to the Chicano musician.  (CEMA).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Royal Chicano Air Force Archives, 1973-1988.   Extensive collection of slides and silkscreen prints, along with administrative records, news clippings, correspondence, exhibition descriptions and flyers, photographs, creative writings, and miscellaneous publications of the Sacramento-based artists collective.  Founding members of the RCAF include José Montoya, Esteban Villa, Juanishi V. Orosco, Ricardo Favela, and Rudy Cuellar (CEMA 8).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Self-Help Graphics and Art Archives, ca. 1960-1992.   Extensive collection of silk screen prints and slides, as well as organizational records, photographs, and ephemera of the Los Angeles cultural arts center and studio.  Founded in the early 1970s, during the height of the Chicano Civil Rights movement, by Mexican artists, Carlos Bueno and Antonio Ibañez, and several Chicano artists, including Frank Hernandez and Sister Karen Boccalero.  (CEMA 3).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Silva [Simon] Papers.  Personal papers, including artwork and professional files, of the Latino artist. (CEMA 68).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Suman [Alvaro] Papers.  Materials of a longtime Santa Barbara Chicano resident, painter, sculptor, and ceramicist.   (CEMA).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  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).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Templeton [Rini] Collection.   Materials of the Chicana artist, sculptor, and political activist. (CEMA 69).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Torero [Mario] Collection.  Materials of the San Diego artist, political activist, and teacher, also known as co-founder of several local cultural organizations, including the Centro Cultural de la Raza, the Chicano Park Murals Outdoor Museum, and the San Diego/Tijuana artists' group United By Art (UBA). (CEMA 44).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Torres [Salvador Roberto] Papers, 1934-2002 (bulk 1962-2002).  Personal and biographical information, files relating to professional activities and teaching, and correspondence of the Mexican-American artist, mural painter, and activist, best known for his work in creating San Diego's Chicano Park, which includes the largest collection of Chicano murals in the world, and as a founder of the Centro Cultural de la Raza and Las Toltecas en Aztlán, a Chicano artists group.  (CEMA 38).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Tosti [Don] Papers.  Materials from the Mexican American musician (Edmundo Martínez Tostado) known as the "Godfather of Latino rhythm and blues," who played in jazz and dance bands of Jack Teagarden, Les Brown and Jimmy Dorsey, and who was Hoagie Carmichael's arrangements ghost writer for the last 13 years of his life.  (CEMA 88).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  UCSB.  Center for Chicano and Chicana Studies Archives. 
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  UCSB.  Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies Records, ca. 1970-2003.  (UArch 15). 
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  UCSB Ethnic Studies Protest Collection, 1989-1995.  This collection contains information about the 1989 and 1994 hunger strikes at UCSB that led, among other results, to the ethnic and gender studies undergraduate requirements and the eventual Ph.D. program in Chicana/o Studies.  (CEMA 93). 
  • [Chicano/Chicana].   Valdez [Luís] Papers.  Materials of the Chicano playwright, filmmaker, and founder of El Teatro Campesino.  (CEMA 71).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].   Vallejo [Linda] Papers, 1975-2001.   Photographs, slides, posters, correspondence, publications and ephemera of the Chicana painter, sculptor, printmaker, and founder of Galeria Las Americas. (CEMA 76).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].   Vasquez [Emigdio] Papers.  Slides of Vasquez’ work, together with photographs, silk screen prints, videos, interviews, correspondence, project files, and mural renderings of the Orange, California based Chicano painter and muralist. One of the pioneering artists of the Chicano Art Movement, Vasquez is known for his contemporary realism, capturing the lives of the working class in the Chicano community.  (CEMA 43 ).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Villa [Esteban] Papers, 1974-2002.  Original sketches, correspondence, exhibition announcements, collected writings, and research files of the Sacramento Chicano artist and muralist, and one of the founding members of the Royal Chicano Air Force, an artists' cultural collective.  (CEMA 50).
  • [Chicano/Chicana].  Zermeño [Andrew] Papers.  Chicano artist, known for the 1965 poster, Huelga!  introducing the UFW eagle, which became a key symbol of the movement.   (CEMA 55).
  • Chicano Art Movement Collection, 1970-2001.  Articles and other materials, from various sources, relating to California-based Chicano artists and visual arts centers, including Guillermo Gomez Peña, Ester Hernández Yolanda López, and the art group Mujeres Muralistas.  (CEMA 37).
  • Chick Publications Collection, ca. 1970s-1990s.  40+ small illustrated pamphlets by Jack T. Chick, with titles such as “Creator or Liar?” “The Passover Plot?”  “This Was Your Life,” and Is There Another Christ?”  (ARC Mss 42).
  • Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Photographs Collection, ca. 1890s.  24 mounted b/w photographs of Civil War sites such as Missionary Ridge, showing the locations where Louisiana troops fought.  Issued by the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park Commission, Louisiana Committee, with printed descriptions on the back of each.  (Wyles Mss 58).
  • Children of God Collection, 1970s.  More than 100 pamphlets, flyers, and other printed pieces mainly by Moses David, with titles such as “Gaddafi! Earth’s Last Pharaoh?” “How to Survive War,” and “Exorcism,” and “Revolutionary Sex.”  Also copies of Mo letters, as well as articles, reports, and other material about the Children of God.   (ARC Mss 41).
  • [Chile].  Keller Latin America Diary, 1895.  Manuscript pocket diary of U.S.citizen [?] Keller, traveling by steamship, with numerous stops at ports from Valparaiso, Chile, to Panama and Colon, recording impressions of shipboard life, fellow passengers, sights and customs observed along the way, sometimes interspersed with prejudicial comments.  (SC 852).
  • Chile and St. Vincent (Cape Verde Islands) Photograph Album, ca. 1895.  (Bernath Mss 181).
  • Chin [Frank] Papers.  Chinese American playwright, author.  (Wyles Mss 103).
  • [China].  Anderson [C. R. W.] India/China Photograph Album, ca. 1904.  (Bernath Mss 241).
  • [China].  ATO Photographic Association - China Photograph Albums, ca. 1920s.  Two albums, with photos of Shantung, Tibetans of Yunnan and Suiyan, Chientao, Pinkiang, S. Manchuria, Mongolia, Harbin, S. China, Shanghai, Weihaiwei, and others.  (Bernath Mss 80).
  • [China]Canton Sketches, 1850-1852.  (Wyles SC 971).
  • [China]. Chang [Iris] Papers.   Research and other materials of the Chinese American author, whose works include Thread of the Silkworm and The Rape of Nanking.  (CEMA 39).
  • [China].  Chapman [E. C.] Photograph Collection, ca. 1960s-1970s.  270+ black/white prints and color slides.  Locations include: Bali, Burma, Cambodia (Angkor Wat) and Laos (Vientiene), Malaysia (mainly Malacca and Penang), Shanghai and surrounds, and Thailand (incl. South Thailand – Kra Isthmus).  (Bernath Mss 224).
  • [China]Davys [Marjorie] Letters, 1932-1938.  Letters from a lay teacher at St. Faiths, an Anglican school in Peking, mainly to her sister about life in China during the time when Japan was invading.  (Bernath Mss 104).
  • [China].  East Asia Photograph Collection, ca. 1910-1920s.   40 black/white photos of Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Macao.  Most appear to be of Japan and China, many of scenery, shrines, and buildings, but a number of people as well, including some children.  About half have captions.  Includes hand-tinted photos and picture postcards, a few of which have been addressed to Santa Barbara residents.  (Wyles SC 953).   
  • [China]Franck [Harry Alverson] Latin America / China Travel Collection, ca. 1911-1923.  (Wyles SC 975).
  • [China].  French Motor Expedition to China, Tibet, and Mongolia Photograph Album, ca. 1914-1916.  (Bernath Mss 81).
  • [China].  Goodwin  [Albert?] Maritime Journal and Poetry Anthology, 1847-1851.   Includes entries for voyage from China to NYC in 1851. (SC 895).
  • [China].  Hainan Photograph Album, ca. 1911.  (Wyles Mss 115).
  • [China].  Hodous [Lewis] / China Photograph Album, ca. 1904-1911.  (Bernath Mss 244).
  • [China].  Holcombe [Chester] China Correspondence, 1867-1868, 1888.  (SC 900).
  • [China].  Howland Family Collection, ca. 1865-1940s.   Correspondence, documents, account books of William O. Howland, U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, China in the 1870s. Also, correspondence to Gerald Shepard Howland, of Seaver-Howland Press, re its publication of “Have Faith in Coolidge,” 1923-1924, and other correspondence, lists, and documents of the Howland family of Massachusetts, mainly regarding books and fine binding done by L. Averill Cole Howland (Mrs. Gerald S. Howland).  By the late 1940s, Gerald and Averill Howland resided in Santa Barbara, California.  (Bernath Mss 11).  
  • [China].  Japan and China Photograph Album, 1938-1939.  (Bernath Mss 195).
  • [China].  Kita Shina Fubutsu Shashin Cho: Photo Album of Things Seen in Northern China, Tibet and Manchuria, ca. 1925-1926.  (Bernath Mss 78).
  • [China].  Lombard [Father Linus] China Photograph Albums, 1931-1932. 2 albums, mainly Hankow, China.  (Bernath Mss 194).
  • [China].  Lowrie [Amelia P] China Correspondence, 1852-1856.  Eleven letters from American Presbyterian missionary Lowrie, from Canton and Shanghai, China, to Anna Dickenson, New York City.  (Wyles SC 993).
  • [China].  Myers [Myrl Scott] China Photograph Album, ca. 1905-1952 [bulk dates ca, 1910s-1930s].  (Wyles Mss 114).
  • [China].  Noyes-Wallace Family Collection, ca. 1850s-early 1900s.  Documents and correspondence concerning Henry Erastus Noyes, George W. Wallace, and George W. Wallace, Jr., all soldiers in the U.S. Army.  Also includes Noyes' 1861 photo album and other material relating to West Point, his 107 pp. typescript "The Story of My Life,' photographs and two holographic maps.  Papers concern the Civil War, the Indian campaigns, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Philippine Insurrection.  Noyes was a Congressional Medal of Honor winner.  Includes commissions signed by Presidents Tyler, Fillmore, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft.  (Wyles Mss 10).
  • [China].  Selfridge / China Photograph Albums, ca. 1890s-1900.  Two photograph albums of scenes in China, including Shanghai, Peking, and Tientsin [Tianjin], apparently from the period preceding and during the Boxer Rebellion.  Includes snapshots and picture postcards.  (Wyles Mss 56).
  • [China].  Shanghai, China Photograph Collection, ca. 1948-1949.  182 b/w snapshots, mainly Shanghai, taken by an American serving in the U.S. Navy.  (SC 896).
  • [China].  Shanghai Photograph Album, ca. 1920s.  (Bernath Mss 113).
  • [China].  Thomson [C. R.] Japan and China Photograph Albums, 1917.  (Wyles Mss 108).
  • [China].  Tientsin and Nanking, China Photograph Album, 1935-1937.  (Bernath Mss 245).
  • [China].  Williams [Arthur] Peking, China Photograph Album, ca.  1900-1905.  (Bernath Mss 212).
  • [China].  World Tour Photograph Album, 1907-1908.  458 b/w snapshots of a world tour by an unknown American woman with images from Gibraltar, Spain, France, Egypt, Ceylon, India, Burma, Java, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Hawaii, and San Francisco Bay.  Includes many images of street scenes, waterfronts, palaces, temples, and other buildings, processions and festivals, American missions, and local inhabitants (many of women and children).  (Bernath Mss 79).
  • [China]Yun-nan [Yunan, China] Expedition Collection, ca. 1900.  (Bernath Mss 236).
  • China Missionary’s Diary, 1920.  (Wyles SC 1034).
  • China Photograph Album. ca. 1906. 13 b/w mounted photographs, mainly of Han-Keou (Han-kow), China, most with extensive captions in French, including street scenes and buildings in Han-Keou, a pagoda, the Russian Orthodox Church, towers for raising irrigation water, shots of a sash vendor, a group of coolies, people unloading charcoal, the Han-Keou prefecture de police, and a man in a wooden cage condemned to die from hunger.  (Bernath Mss 65).
  • China Photograph Album, ca. 1906-1907.  (Bernath Mss 204).
  • China Photograph Album, ca. 1920s-1930s.  (Bernath Mss 165).
  • China Photograph Albums, ca, 1900-1905.  (Bernath Mss 160).
  • China Photograph Albums, ca. 1905-1907.  Three photograph albums with 224 b/w photographs, many snapshots taken by German soldier(s) stationed in China, including areas such as Tsingtau.  Includes images of individual soldiers and groups, troops on the march, boats, harbors, coast, laying of [electrical?] line, street scenes, portraits of Chinese, buildings, and monuments.  (Bernath Mss 99).
  • China Photographs, [ca. 1901-1910].  14 b/w photographs.  (SC 890).
  • [China]. Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. Photograph Album, ca. 1860s-1875.  125 cartes-de-visite (cdv) and 6 cabinet size cards, including a signed and dated cdv of Rutherford B. Hayes.  Mainly images of employees, their wives and children, and people associated with the company, a leader in the American China trade and major importer of opium into China. By 1874 Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. had 17 steamships, the largest fleet in Shanghai, but was sold in 1877m after which the American share of Chinese shipping dropped dramatically.   (Bernath Mss 47).
  • China Stereoviews, ca. 1900-1910.   22 stereoviews of Peking and eight of Shanghai.  (Bernath Mss 77).
  • China/Ceylon Photograph Album, ca. 1910s-1920s.  About 120 b/w photos, most with captions, taken by a young officer on the British river boat 'Robin', stationed in the Canoton/Samshui area in 1913. Includes photos of the 'Robin', river scenes, and views of Chinese people, buildings, and boats. Also, some photos of the photographer and friends, as well as later, ca. 1920s, photos of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), including Trincomalee and the Royal Naval Camp at Diyatalawa, and some views of Italy, the Baltic, and a damaged submarine. (Bernath Mss 34).
  • Chinese American Advertising Cards.  Three cards, one for the play "My Partner," one for linen goods, and one for laundry service (with stereotypical character), all ca. late nineteenth century, apparently New York and Boston.  (SC 758).
  • Chinese American Democratic Club (CADC) Archives.  Files of the CADC, chartered in 1957 by the California State Democratic Central Committee and the California Democratic Council in response to growing political repression and violations of Chinese American civil rights.  (CEMA 49).
  • Chinese American Political Association Archives.   Records of a San Francisco Bay Area organization focused on educating and empowering Chinese Americans in the political process. (CEMA 48).
  • Chinese American Voters Education Committee, Inc. (CAVEC) Archives.  Files of the CAVEC, a non-profit, non- partisan citizen education organization in the San Francisco Bay Area, founded in 1976 to help the large population of Asian immigrants become active participants in the civic life of the area. (CEMA 61).
  • [Chinese Americans]Asian American Theater Company (AATC) Archives.  Administrative and financial records, correspondence, production files, scripts, audio and video recordings, photographs, slides, posters, and other materials relating to the San Francisco-based AATC, one of only three Asian American theaters in the United States, founded in 1973 by the Chinese American writer and playwright Frank Chin and others.   (CEMA 9).
  • [Chinese Americans] Chang [Iris] Papers.   Research and other materials of the Chinese American author, whose works include Thread of the Silkworm and The Rape of Nanking.  (CEMA 39).
  • [Chinese Americans] Chin [Frank] Papers.  Chinese American playwright, author.  (Wyles Mss 103).
  • [Chinese Americans]Hom [Nancy] Papers.  Materials relating to the Chinese American cultural/visual artist.  (CEMA 46).
  • [Chinese Americans]Pai Hsien-Yung Collection, ca. 1971-1997.  Literary manuscripts and other material relating to the novels, short stories, plays, and films adapted from the work of Pai (also known as Kenneth Pai), UCSB professor emeritus of Chinese language and literature and acclaimed author, best known for works such as Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters and Crystal Boy.  (FACP 29).
  • Choules [Patrick] India / England Photograph Albums, 1917, 1921.  Two photograph albums containing 133 b/w snapshots, many with captions, apparently taken by Choules, a British colonial official in Poona, India. Mainly images of Poona and vicinity, including buildings, streets, landscapes, gardens, sporting activities, colleagues, and local inhabitants engaged in activities such as brick making and plowing.  (Bernath Mss 55).
  • Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Collection.  (ARC Mss 11).
  • Christian Science Collection.  Includes copies of early Christian Science serials.  (ARC Mss 45).
  • Church [Donald R.] / Santa Barbara Old Mission Postcard Collection, ca. early 1900s.  Picture postcards, b/w and color, many mailed, with messages. (SBHC Mss 62).
  • Cilley [Greenleaf] Papers, 1873-1876.  (Wyles Mss 124).
  • [Circus].  Little Performers Collection.  Photographs, cartes-de-visite, and souvenir circus programs relating to little people performers in late 19th and early 20th century circus and vaudeville, including issue of Midget City News.  (PA Mss 61).
  • [Circus].  Saxon [A. H.] Papers. Typescript of The Life and Art of Andrew Ducrow and the Romantic Age of the English Circus, and accompanying essay.  (PA Mss 11).
  • [Circus].  Seago [Edward B.] Correspondence, 1934-1935.  Six letters (ALS) by the circus writer to [Raymond Toole-] Stott, mainly about articles he is working on.  (SC 275).
  • [Circus]. Toole-Stott Circus Collection. Several hundred monographs on the circus and related research material for Toole-Stott's Circus and Allied Arts: A World Bibliography. (PA Mss 14).
  • Circus / Vaudeville / Minstrel Collection, a. 1905-1946.  Advertisements, telegrams, and lists of towns played, for circuses, vaudeville and minstrel shows, including W. P. Hall Shows, 1905; Guy Brothers Minstrels, 1910; and “Circus Day” itineraries for several circuses such as Ringling-Barnum, Clyde Beatty, Buck Owens, and Mills Bros, 1946.  (SC 132).
  • [Civil War].  Acheson, Alexander Wilson.  One letter (ALS) 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).
  • [Civil War].  Allen [S. H.].  One Civil War era letter [ALS] to brother James P. Allen, May 9, 1865.   {Wyles SC 1033].
  • [Civil War].  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).
  • [Civil War].  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).
  • [Civil War].  Anderson, James D.  Two Civil War letters (ALS) to his mother, re daily events, picket duty, skirmishes, traveling by train, 1861, 1862 (near Murfreesboro, TN).  (Wyles SC 528).
  • [Civil War].  Army of Northern Virginia.  One Confederate Civil War document re collecting supplies for the Army.  Virginia, 14 Sept. 1864.  (Wyles SC 60).
  • [Civil War].  Army of the Potomac Ledger, 1864-1865.  One bound Civil War era volume entitled “Report of Names of Officers doing duty in the Quartermasters Department,” including number of staff, line officers and enlisted men for duty; and number of cavalry, artillery, ambulances, and private horses, mules, oxen and other means of transportation in each regiment, battery or detachment.  (Wyles Mss 66).
  • [Civil War].  Baird, James.  One Civil War letter (ALS) to Miss Mattie Price, re war dragging on and camp life.  Camp Bigelow, South Carolina, 14 June 1862.  (Wyles SC 67).
  • [Civil War].  Bayard, James Asheton [U.S. Senator from Delaware].  One Civil War era letter (ALS), discussing mid-term election to replace Senator Thompson, arrests in Delaware, and incompetence of reporters.  Washington, 14 Dec. 1862.  (Wyles SC 19).
  • [Civil War].  Beavins, William A. [Private, Maine Infantry, 23rd Regiment (Vol), Company B; Rhode Island Cavalry, 3rd Regiment (Vol), Company E].  Civil War correspondence to Miss Josie Hall, 1863-1864.  (Wyles SC 331).
  • [Civil War].  Bieral, Louis [Captain, 1st California Regiment and Pennsylvania Infantry, 71st Regiment (Vol)].  Correspondence between Dudley J. Ledwell and Jay Monaghan about Ledwell’s research on his great-grandfather Bieral, a native of Chile who had gone to California during the gold rush and later fought in the Civil War, as well as photostats of documents and supporting biographical information about him, 1975.  (Wyles SC 404).
  • [Civil War].  Bigelow, John.  One printed essay, “The Confederate Diplomatists and Their Shirt of Nessus,” n.d.  (Wyles SC 905).
  • [Civil War].  Bill, Horace Harper [Civil War Union Lieutenant, 8th Ohio Vols].  One cover letter (ALS) by Ledyard Bill to Benson J. Lessing, a handwritten account  Horace Harper Bill’s service in the Civil War, and a sketch of his sword and belt.  New York, 1867.  (Wyles SC 536).
  • [Civil War].  [Birney, David B.].  One letter [ALS] and one photograph [carte de visite size] of General David B. Birney [Civil War Commander of the Tenth Corps], from his widow Antoinette Birney to General Davis, 17 June 1886.  (Wyles SC 26).
  • [Civil War].  Birney, William [General].  One Civil War letter (ALS), discussing troop movements such as a recent river crossing, and taking Major Fairfax, Gen. Longstreet’s Chief of Staff, prisoner.  Near White's Ford, Virginia, 31 Oct.1862.  (Wyles SC 27).
  • [Civil War].  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).
  • [Civil War].  Bridges Family Georgia Confederate Civil War Letters, 1861-1865.  (Wyles SC 973).
  • [Civil War].  Brown, Edwin.  One Civil War letter (ALS) to his mother, re First Battle of Bull Run or Manassas.  Arlington Heights, Virginia, 24 July 1861.  (Wyles SC 146).
  • [Civil War].  Brownlow, W. G.  One note (ANS), 1862; one letter (ALS), 1877; one envelope; one manuscript account “Brownlow’s connexion with The Bridge Burning in East Tenn., Nov. 8, 1861…”  (Wyles SC 870).
  • [Civil War].  Brownlow, W. G.  One Civil War era note (ANS) and one b/w photo (carte de visite), ca. 1862.  One b/w photo (carte de visite) of Captain [?] Schindel on reverse of same sheet, n.d.  Also, one photo (carte de visite) of Mrs. Brownlow and one photo (carte de visite) of daughter, Mrs. Sawyer.  (Wyles SC 916).
  • [Civil War].  Broyles, Henry F. [7th Virginia Cavalry, Company D].  One letter [ALS] to Captain Fenton re Civil War experiences, 12 Jan. 1912.  Also newspaper clipping re Broyles’ life story, including participation in the Civil War, 9 Jan. 1912.  (Wyles SC 17).
  • [Civil War].  Brunner, Samuel M. [Fife Major, Illinois Infantry, 138th Regiment (Vol)].  Five Civil War documents, including appointment and discharge documents, 1862-1864.  (Wyles SC 321). 
  • [Civil War].  Bryan, Henry M. [Major and A. I. G.].  One Confederate Civil War document: Inspection Report of Gen. Gholson's Mississippi Cavalry.  Montgomery, Alabama, 3 Dec. 1864.  (Wyles SC 32).
  • [Civil War].  Bryant, Hattie.  One Civil War era letter (ALS) to N. H. Willets, re personal matters and reports of many Confederate soldiers being women dressed in men’s clothes.  Wonders if this is true.  Also worries about the great many wives who have lost husbands and children, “and it is all for the sake of them Niggers.”  Covington, 30 Oct. 1862.  (Wyles SC 39).
  • [Civil War].  Buffum,