UCSB Special Collections: Research: Alphabetical List of Collections

Alphabetical List of Collections

This alphabetical list contains information about manuscript, named, and rare book 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. Please click on the links for more detailed information

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[Abolition]. Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth. One letter (ALS) from the abolitionist, lecturer, actress, playwright, and feminist Dickinson, re an invitation to speak – says her fee is $150 and her schedule is very busy, but she is willing to consider the offer. Philadelphia, 12 Sept. 1866. (Wyles SC 78).
[Abolition]. Incomplete printed text of an anti-abolitionist tract addressed primarily to the "Freemen of Tennessee," n.d. (Wyles SC 862).
[Abolition]. Larcom [Lucy] Collection, ca. 1846-1893. Photographs, correspondence, cards, and clippings relating to Larcom (1824-1893), a Massachusetts poet, storywriter, essayist, abolitionist, and friend of John Greenleaf Whittier. (SC 169).
[Abolition]. Lincoln, Levi [1782-1868; Massachusetts Governor, 1825-1834; Whig member of U.S. Congress, 1835-1841]. One letter (ALS) to Patience Earle, re abolition of slavery. Washington, [D.C.], 20 Feb. 1837. (Wyles SC 523).
[Abolition]. Lovejoy, Owen . One note (AN) and one printed speech, “The Fanaticism of the Democratic Party,” delivered by the Hon. Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois, to the House of Representatives, Feb. 21, 1859, in which he takes a strong abolitionist stand and states that he has indeed harbored fugitive slaves. (SC 179).
[Abolition]. National Anti-Slavery Standard. One printed flyer from abolitionist Parker Pillsbury, soliciting subscriptions for the Standard, the official newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society,ca. 1865-1870. (Wyles SC 462).
[Abolition]. Nineteenth Century Americana Collection, ca. 1754-1926.Mainly correspondence from the eastern part of the U.S., especially New England, New Jersey and, Pennsylvania. Subjects include slavery, abolition, Civil War, and overseas missions. (Mss 2).
[Abolition]. Whyte, Annie Glenn. Diary of a young woman who lived with her family near Pottstown, PA and who describes her daily life, social engagements, and includes mention of abolitionist riots, 1857-1858. (Wyles SC 469).
Abyssinia Photograph Album, ca. 1936. 193 black/white snapshots taken by an Italian army officer during tour in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). (Bernath Mss 228)
ACCESS Collection. Files pertaining to the Alternative Comprehensive Environmental Study System (ACCESS). (SBHC Mss 29).
Acheson, Alexander Wilson. One letter (ALS) on letterhead stationery of The Missouri Pacific Railway Co., to the editor of the Philadelphia Press, re the editor’s desire to write a history of Pennsylvania troops in the Civil War. Acheson had been a private in the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Regiment and was transferred to the 140th Pennsylvania Regiment. Talks about his experiences in the Civil War . Denison, Texas, 8 Jan. 1886. (Wyles SC 1).
Ackerman [Marshall] Collection, ca. 1890s-1990s. William McKinley memorabilia, including early and modern first day covers, other philatelatic items, medals, programs, tickets, postcards, souvenir cards, etc. Includes some material re Spanish American War. (Mss 216).
Acosta [Oscar Zeta] Papers, 1936-1990. Personal and biographical information, correspondence, photographs, political and legal activity files, writings (reviews, articles and newsclippings) of the activist, attorney, and author of The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of the Cockroach People. Some materials post-date Acosta’s mysterious 1974 disappearance in Mexico. (CEMA 1).
Adams [Carlisle] Collection. Approximately 5,000 vocal 78rpm sound recordings. (PA Mss 23).
Adams [Fred] / Feraferia Collection. (ARC Mss 27).
Adams, Henry Brooks (1838-1918). American historian and writer. Holdings include Democracy: An American Novel (1880) [Spec PS1004.A4 D4 1880], John Randolph (1882) [Wyles E302.6.R2 A3], Letters of Henry Adams, 1858-1891 (1930) [Wyles E175.5.A2 A4 1930], the four-volume set History of the United States of America (1930) [Wyles E302.1.A3 1930], and the two-volume set The Formative Years (1948) [Spec E302.1.A25 1948]. Fine press editions of The Education of Henry Adams (1942) [Spec E175.5.A17427], and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1957) [Spec DC20.A2 1957], both by the Limited Editions Club.
Adams [Perry] Papers, ca. 1980. Files re unpublished study, Murder from Within, alleging United States Secret Service involvement in JFK assassination. (Mss 1).
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719). English essayist and politician. Holdings include Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705) [Spec DG424.A22], Notes upon the Twelve Books of Paradise Lost (1719) [Spec PR3562.A2 1719], the three-volume set Miscellaneous Works (1726) [Spec PR3301.T5 1726], Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals (1751) [Spec CJ5595.A3 1751], and an eight-volume set of The Spectator (1753) [Spec PR1365.S7 1753]. Also the dramatic works Cato: A Tragedy (1791) [Spec PR3304.C5 1791] and The Drummer, or, the Haunted House: A Comedy (1792) [Spec PR3304.D7 1792]. Fine press editions of The Vision of Mirzah (1917) by the Book Club of California [Printers Z239.N3 A33], An Essay by Joseph Addison: The Trial of the Wine-Brewers (1930) by John Henry Nash [Printers Z239.N3 A3], and The Sir Roger de Coverly Papers (1945) by the Limited Editions Club [Spec PR3304.D4 1945]. Additionally, a letter in Addison’s hand, dated May 1708, is available in the Isaac Foot Collection (Mss 33).
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]. Asmara, Eritrea Photograph Album, ca. latter 1930s-early 1940s. Album, with about 96 black/white numbered but uncaptioned photographs, of Asmara and environs during the period of Italian occupation. Images of street scenes, local inhabitants, Art Deco buildings such as the Cinema Impero, Jamia al Kulafae Mosque, railway linking to the coast, surrounding countryside and roads. (SC 966).
[Africa]. Belgian Congo Mining Photograph Albums, ca. 1920-1922. Two albums, 93 b/w photographs, some captions in French, many of what appears to be early diamond mining in what was then the Belgian Congo, with images of laborers, European overseers, heavy machinery, and settlements. Places named include Mulomba, Bamba, Djoko, and Kinshasa. Also a few images of Dakar and Tenerife, taken on the outward voyage. (Bernath Mss 279).
[Africa]. Belgian Congo Photograph Album, ca. 1890s-1900s. 80 b/w snapshots, a few with captions, including images of local inhabitants and activities, as well as Belgian missionaries, and other Europeans. (SC 842).
[Africa] British in Egypt/ World War I Photograph Album, ca. 1917 -1919. 120+ b/w photos, very few with captions, mainly of British (men, women, and children) in Egypt (possibly Alexandria) during World War I. Mainly troops in camps and on the march, hospital wards, sporting events, and British families at various social occasions and outings in the countryside. Also a few images of Egyptians, street scenes and residences, and local boats. (Bernath Mss 56).
[Africa]. British Military in Egypt and Iraq Photograph Album, ca. 1918-1922. Album of Capt. R. E. Godfrey, 167 b/w snapshots, many with captions, recording service with the British 153rd Rifles in North Africa, 1918-1919, and in the Arab Revolt, 1920. About 70 images from Egypt and surrounding areas (Suez Canal, Ismailia, Great Pyramids, Alexandria, Kantara, Mansourah) and about 30 Arab Revolt images from Iraq (Nasiriyah, Imam Abdullah, Kut, Baghdad). (Bernath Mss 84).
[Africa]. Consul General to Liberia. Two diaries, 1862-1863. (Wyles SC 592).
[Africa]. “Diese Widmung,” 1907. Portfolio of German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) color prints. (SC 859).
[Africa]. East Africa [Tanganyika] Photograph Albums, ca. 1911-1921. 232 black/white photos in 3 albums. (Bernath Mss 215)
[Africa]. Egypt Photograph Album, 1936-1938. 19 professional quality, artistic Egyptian scenes, including the Western Desert (people, tents, donkeys, camels), urban street scenes and people engaged in daily activities (barber, vendors with carts – possibly Cairo), as well as port and Nile River views, with people and cargo-hauling boats (feluccas). (Bernath Mss 70).
[Africa]. Egypt Photograph Album, 1946. (Bernath Mss 180).
[Africa]. Egypt Postcard and Stereoview Collection, ca. 1896-1920s. 51 postcards and 11 stereoviews. (Bernath Mss 141).
[Africa]. Ethiopia Manuscript and Printing Collection. (Printers Mss 51).
[Africa]. Europe 1930s and WWII North Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1930s-1945. 185+ b/w photographs of a 1930s bicycle tour through Europe, including Germany (Dresden), Venice, Vienna, the Dolomites, Yugoslavia, Roumania (Bucharest), and Bulgaria (Sofia)., as well as North Africa during World War II (1942-1943), including Bougie, Constantine, Tunis (victory parade), Carthage, then on to Italy (1943), and back to North Africa (1944-1945), including Egypt (Timsah, Alexandria). (Bernath Mss 31).
[Africa]. Evershed [J. A.] East Africa, Egypt, Palestine Photograph Album, 1924. More than 140 b/w snapshots of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), including several of local schools and teachers. Also, views of Port Said, Zanzibar, Mombassa, Djibouti, Aden, and Port Sudan. Egypt views of the Pyramids and Sphinx, Cairo, and Suez Canal. Holy Land (Palestine) shots of street scenes of Jerusalem, Jordan Valley, Dead Sea, Jaffa, and Bethlehem. (Bernath Mss 63).
[Africa]. German East Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1910. (Bernath Mss 296).
[Africa]. German East Africa Postcard Collection, ca. 1900-1920. 138 photographic postcards, most black/white but a few chromolithographic. Includes scenes from Dar es Salaam and other parts of German occupied Tanganyika (now Tanzania), prior to and during the East African campaign of World War I. (Bernath Mss 103).
[Africa]. German South West Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1900-1914. 48 black/white albumen prints from a disbound album, mainly of German soldiers and animal transport, Windhoek buildings, Angola mission station, Herero inhabitants, Okawayo military station, and Otjimbojo mines. (Bernath Mss 127).
[Africa]. German South West Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1915. 43 b/w snapshots, including several of the WWI British campaign in South West Africa – now Namibia. Also several of the South African Premier Diamond Mine workings, and cottages, rural scenery, and friends in what appears to be Great Britain. (SC 840).
[Africa]. Goodier [Brian G.] India and Burma Collection, 1942-1947.. The collection was assembled by a Maj. B. G. Goodier, B. Sc (Tech), Royal Engineers and includes correspondence and photographs relating to his World War II and post war experiences in South Africa, India, and Burma. Locations include Durban, East Kirkee, Poona, Lahore, Madras, Bombay, and Rangoon. (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]. Sierra Leone Photograph Album, 1906. (Bernath Mss 306).
[Africa]. Sierra Leone and Gambia Photograph Album, 1934. (Bernath Mss 307).
[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]. 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).
[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]. Slavery Era Insurance Documents, ca. 1846-1960, 2001-2002. Photocopies of documents collected by the State of California Insurance Department in pursuance of California Code Regulations, Title 10, Sections 2293-2398, which required insurance companies to provide documentation about insurance polices from the slavery era which coverage for slaveholders for damage to or death of their slaves. (Wyles Mss 97).
[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]. Brazil Photograph Album, ca. 1910-1916. 130 black/white photographs, along with a few postcards, some with captions in English, from a British family, depicting their life on a banana and dairy plantation called Bemfica in Macuco, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Includes images of the journey out, several of Guanabara Bay and Rio from a liner, but most depicting day-to-day life on the plantation, many of workers, their families, and social events like large-scale picnics. Also includes images of family back in England, service in World War I with the King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), and a trip to Africa, including Bulawayo (Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe). (Bernath Mss 317).
[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).
[Alabama]. Drummond, Richard. [21st Alabama Vol., Company K]. One Confederate Civil War document (ADS), discharge papers. Richmond, Virginia, 14 Sept. 1863. (Wyles SC 55).
[Alabama]. 1st Alabama Vol., Company E. One Confederate Civil War document (ADS), Court Martial charges against Private William Price. Meridian, Mississippi, 10 Dec. 1863. (Wyles SC 47).
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).
Alarcon [Norma] Papers (CEMA 110).
[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]. Money [Anton K.] Collection, 1923-1989. Two photograph albums and an article in UCSB Library’s Soundings, primarily relating to mining engineer Anton K. Money’s life in western Canada and Alaska from 1923-1964. Includes some related clippings, correspondence, and ephemera. (Wyles Mss 162).
[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]. Western Photograph Collection, ca. latter 1800s. Photograph album with 77 b/w prints, some captions, of California scenes (Mount Shasta, Shasta Springs, Trinity River, Mission Hills of Trinity County, hydraulic mining, stagecoach, woman and child on wooden aquaduct), along with a few of Colorado (Colorado Springs, Grant's Pass), Alaska (Junea, Ketchikan), and Canada (Banff, Lake Louise, and Kicking Horse). Also includes 15 loose cyanotypes, most of a construction project, apparently to dam up a river, possibly northern California. (Wyles SC 955).
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 Album, [ca. 1890s-1900s]. 63 b/w photographs from a disbound album, most snapshots, no captions, many of the coast of Alaska, including images of settlements including Sitka, St. Michael Cathedral (Russian Orthodox church in Sitka), other churches, school for Indian girls and boys, Indian women selling crafts, cabins, fishing industry, harbors, boats, totem poles, railroad lines, men, women, and children on outings, Davidson and other glaciers, and scenic views of rivers, waterfalls, mountains, and forests. Also an image of the Mount Shasta [California?] Mineral Spring Company. (Wyles Mss 161).
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
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888). American novelist. Holdings include Hospital Sketches (1863) [Wyles E621.A4 1863], Little Women (1871) [Spec PS1017.L5 1871], Little Men (1871) [Spec PS1017.L6 1871], Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag (1872) [Spec PS1017.A8 1872], Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals (1889) [Spec PS1018.A4 1889], Eight Cousins (1890) [Spec PS1017.E5 1870], Comic Tragedies (1893) [Spec PS1017.C6 1893], Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1896) [Spec PS1017.J33 1896], Rose in Bloom (1896) [Spec 1017.R6], Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out (1926) [Spec PS1017.J6 1926], A Sprig of Andromeda (1962) [Spec PS1018.A4 1962], and On Picket Duty (1969) [Wyles PZ3.A355 O5]. Fine press edition of Little Women (1967) by the Heritage Press [Spec PS1017.L5 1967a].
[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).
Alger, Horatio (1832-1899). American novelist. Holdings include Ragged Dick, or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks (1868) [Spec PS1029.A3 R33 1868], Paul the Peddler (1871) [Spec PS1029.A3 P38 1871], Slow and Sure (1872) [Spec PS1029.A3 S56 1872], Strive and Succeed (1872) [Spec PS1029.A3 S77 1872], From Canal Boy to President, or, The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield (1881) [Wyles PZ5.A38 F7], Abraham Lincoln, the Backwoods Boy (1883) [Wyles E457.905.A38 A2], The Train Boy (1883) [Spec PS1029.A3 T72], Joe’s Luck, or, A Boy’s Adventures in California (1887) [Spec PS1029.A3 J63 1887], The Young Musician (1906) [Spec PS1029.A3 Y68], and The Telegraph Boy (1910) [Spec PS1029.A3 T45 1910]. Fine press edition of The Young Miner, or, Tom Nelson in California (1965) by the Book Club of California [Spec PS1029.A3 Y6 1965]. See also Holy Horatio! The Strange Life and Paradoxical Works of the Legendary Mr. Alger; And an Afterword Chronicling an American Success Story (1966) by Ray Russell [Spec PS1029.A3 Z8 1976 and Printers Z478.86.C36 R88].
[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]. Eagleton [George D.] Stereoview Collection, ca. 1860s-2004. Includes images from many countries, including Algeria [8 stereoviews]. (Mss 255).
[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).
Alicia [Juana] Collected Works Digitized Art Collection. (CEMA 106).
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 Expeditionary Force Hospital No. 65 World War I Photograph Album, ca. 1918. (Bernath Mss 287).
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 20^th 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 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).
[American West]. Monaghan [Jay] Collection, ca. 1840s-1980 [bulk dates 1930s-1970s]. Appointment books, biographical, personal and family files, correspondence, research files, scrapbooks, speeches and lectures, writings (including ms drafts), photographs and illustrations of Jay Monaghan, a Lincoln, Civil War, and western history scholar. Monaghan also played a major role in developing the William Wyles Collection at the UCSB Libraries. (Wyles Mss 20).
[American West]. Monaghan [Jay] Oral History, ca. 1975. Interviews and talks by Monaghan re Lincoln scholarship, American western history, and development of the William Wyles Collection at UCSB. (OH 10).
[American West]. Myrick [David] Collection, 1965-1995. Several maps prepared for publications of David Myrick, on western railroad history, ghost towns, and San Francisco. (Wyles Mss 79).
[American West]. Overland Express Collection, 1860s. 17 items, including correspondence, checks, letterheads, logos, receipts and vouchers relating to Wells Fargo, Overland Stage Line, Pony Express, Judge Carter, Ben Holladay, and Nat Stein. (Wyles SC 976).
[American West]. 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).
[American West]. Snow [Charles H.] Collection, ca. 1930-1967. Typescripts and other materials of the blind California author of hundreds of westerns. Accompanies a large collection of Snow’s printed works, which has been cataloged separately. (Mss 115).
[American West]. Stephens, Colombus Cecil. Typescript, entitled "Trip Across the Plains, 1857," containing entries from a diary, with parenthetical comments, and a letter dated Oct. 15, 1857. Recounts the six-month overland trip, April-October 1857, from the Midwest (Ohio?) to Ione, Amador Co., California, apparently by William H. Stephens who was a boy at the time. (Wyles SC 225).
[American West]. Toole-Stott Circus Collection. Contains books on the Wild West and other traveling shows, and their depictions of Native Americans.
[American West]. Utah Topographical Sketchbooks, 1877, 1879, 1883. Three bound Utah topographical sketchbooks, with faint pencil drawings, by three separate topographers, 1877, 1879, 1883. The first two have labels indicating “Engineer Department, U.S. Army, Geographical Surveys West of 100th Meridian,” while the third indicates “Northern Transcontinental Survey.” These sketchbooks accompanied a larger collection of books on geology donated by Richard V. Fisher. (Wyles Mss 32).
[American West]. Western Photograph Collection, ca. latter 1800s. Photograph album with 77 b/w prints, some captions, of California scenes (Mount Shasta, Shasta Springs, Trinity River, Mission Hills of Trinity County, hydraulic mining, stagecoach, woman and child on wooden aquaduct), along with a few of Colorado (Colorado Springs, Grant's Pass), Alaska (Junea, Ketchikan), and Canada (Banff, Lake Louise, and Kicking Horse). Also includes 15 loose cyanotypes, most of a construction project, apparently to dam up a river, possibly northern California. (Wyles SC 955).
[American West]. Wyles [William] Collection. The first UCSB ‘special collection,’ and still one of the largest, with more than 35,000 volumes on Abraham Lincoln, slavery, abolition, the Civil War, American expansion, travel in America, and the American West. Also, more than 150 separate manuscript collections and 1,000 small collections, with correspondence, diaries, and photos of individuals and families.
American Women for International Understanding Records. Minutes, scrapbooks, and correspondence, and reports of delegations designed to develop international understanding and to foster personal and organizational relationships among women throughout the world through study, travel, and symposia. (Mss 227).
Ames, Oakes (1804-1873). One note (ANS) from Oakes Ames (manufacturer, railroad promoter, and politician), to E. D. Bradford thanking him for his earlier letter. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., 14 Jan. 1868. (Wyles SC 7).
Anderson [Bruce J.] Papers. UCSB faculty. (UArch FacP 2).
Anderson [C. R. W.] India/China Photograph Album, ca. 1904. (Bernath Mss 241).
[Anderson, Dame Judith]. 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).
[Anderson, Dame Judith]. Bust of Dame Judith Anderson by Richmond Barthé (PA SC 18).
Anderson [Dame Judith] Collection, ca. 1915-1980s. Scripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and correspondence of the Australian-born actress noted for her stage, radio, and television work, particularly her Shakespearean roles, and who retired to Santa Barbara. (PA Mss 6).
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).
Anderson, Robert. One document (ADS): Orders, re resignation of Captain R. Anderson and other issues. U.S. Army, H.Q., Eastern Division, Troy, New York, 10 Dec. 1841. (Wyles SC 9).
Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941). American writer. Holdings include Windy McPherson’s Son (1916) [Spec PS3501.N55 W49], Marching Men (1917) [Spec PS3501.N55 M32], Winesburg, Ohio (1919) [Spec PS3501.N4 W5 1919], Poor White (1920) [Spec PS3501.N55 P6], The Triumph of the Egg (1921) [Spec PS3501.N55 T7], Mid-American Chants (1923) [Spec PS3501.N4 M5 1923], Tar: A Midwest Childhood (1926) [Spec PS3501.N4 Z52 1926], Hello Towns! (1929) [Spec PS3501.N55 H4], Perhaps Women (1931) [Spec PS3501.N55 P4], Death in the Woods (1933) [Spec PS3501.N55 D4], Kit Brandon: A Portrait (1936) [Spec PS3501.N55 K5], Man and His Imagination (1941) [Spec PS3501.N55 A46], and Sherwood Anderson’s Memoirs (1942) [Spec PS3501.N55 Z49]. Fine press editions of A New Testament (1927) by Boni and Liveright [Spec PS3501.N55 N4], No Swank (1934) by Centaur Press [Spec PS3501.N55 N6 1934], and Winesburg, Ohio (1978) by the Limited Editions Club [Spec PS3501.N5 W5 1978].
Anderson [Walter Truett] Collection, 1976-1986.. Audio interviews for a book on the Esalen Institute and typescripts of this book and three others by the author/journalist/political scientist.. (HPA Mss 2).
Anglemyer [Philinda Rand] Philippines Collection, ca. 1901-1907. 159 b/w photographs (including a few cyanotypes), copies of a journal and correspondence, and related material of a Radcliffe graduate who taught English in the Philippines in the early 1900s. Includes images of students, missionaries, local people, buildings, and scenes especially in the areas around Silay and Lingayen, and Manila. (Bernath Mss 102).
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).
Angola Mining Photograph Album, [early 1900s?]. 86 black/white photographs. (Bernath Mss 233).
[Antarctic]. Eagleton [George D.] Stereoview Collection, ca. 1860s-2004. Includes images from many parts of the world, including Antarctica [2 stereoviews]. (Mss 255).
[Antarctic]. Scott Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition Photographs, 1910-1913. Glass plate negatives. (Bernath Mss 111).
"Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Meeting." Printed text of Resolutions and Address at the meeting. Syracuse, New York, January 9, 1851. (Wyles SC 799).
Anti-Viet Nam War Collection, ca. late 1960s-early 1970s. 60+ flyers, handbills, newsletters, and other ephemera, mainly Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan area Groups represented include the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, Inc., Black Panther Party, White Panthers, War Resisters League, Michigan Anti-Imperialist Coalition, and the National Peace Action Coalition. (SC 865).
Appelbaum [Richard] Collection, ca. 1973. Audio recordings, interviews re Bank of America burning in Isla Vista, next to UCSB, in Feb. 1970. (SBHC Mss 60).
Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) [real name Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky]. French poet, born in Italy. Holdings include L’Enchanteur Pourrissant (1909) [Spec PQ2601.P6 E5 1909 vault]; Vitam Impendere Amori (1917) [Spec PQ2601.P6 V5 1917 vault]; Calligrammes (1918) [Spec PQ2601.P6 C3 vault]; Les Mamelles de Tiresias (1918) [Spec PQ2601.P6 M3 1918 vault]; Le Bestiaire (1919) [Spec PQ2601.P6 B4 1919 vault]; Le Poète Assassiné (1926) [Spec PQ2601.P6 P6 1926], also in English as The Poet Assassinated 1923) [Spec PQ2601.P6 P6E 1923]; Alcools (1965) in English [Spec PQ2601.P6 A713 1965]; the four-volume set Œuvres Complètes de Guillaume Apollinaire (1965) [Spec PQ2601.P6 1965]; and the three-volume set Apollinaire Journaliste: Textes Retrouvés et Textes Inédits avec Présentation et Notes (1979) [Spec PQ2601.P6 A6 1979]. Fine press editions of Le Bestiaire (1967) by Éditions L.C.L. [Spec PQ2601.P6 1965], The Poet Assassinated (1968) by Tanglewood Press [Spec PQ2601.P6 P62 1968b vault], Mirror (1986) by Ninja Press [Printers Z239.N564 A66 1986], and The Hills (2004) by Pooté Press [Printers Z239.P5665 A66 2004].
[Arabic]. Wendell [Charles] Arabic Volumes, ca. 1800s-1900s. Seven bound manuscript and printed volumes in Arabic script, some illuminated by hand, including works on Islamic architecture and religion. (Mss 199).
Arabic Wax Cylinders, ca. 1900. Twenty-one commercial brown wax cylinder recordings, made in Damascus, Syria. The cylinders are male vocals with instrumental (oud) accompaniment. (PA Mss 42).
Archer [John F.] Susohn Etching Plates, 1976. 18 original etching plates [linoleum cuts], used in Archer’s printed portfolio, Susohn: A Personal Journey (San Diego, CA: Atavistic Press, 1976). Also, author’s autograph copy of Susohn, no. 13 of an edition of 30, as well as other titles by Atavistic Press. (Printers Mss 29).
[Architecture]. Asmara, Eritrea Photograph Album, ca. latter 1930s-early 1940s. Album, with about 96 black/white numbered but uncaptioned photographs, of Asmara and environs during the period of Italian occupation. Images of street scenes, local inhabitants, Art Deco buildings such as the Cinema Impero, Jamia al Kulafae Mosque, railway linking to the coast, surrounding countryside and roads. (SC 966).
[Architecture]. Bill [Joseph T.] Oral History, 1991-1994. Interviews with Joe Bill, an urban planner who served as Executive Director of the Community Redevelopment Agencies in Sacramento and Los Angeles, Director of Planning for the architectural firm of William L. Pereira, member of the New Communities Administration in Washington, DC., and advisor to UCSB Chancellor Barbara Uehling and her staff on the Long-Range Development Plan for UCSB. Related interviews with John C. Harkness, H. Ralph Taylor, Congressman James H. Scheuer, Yukio Kawaratani, Ray Hebert, Jack Bevash, James Langenheim, Niels Stoermer, Cesar Pelli, Edward Logue, Edward L. Barnes, Harry Cobb, Bruce Allen, and Edward Helfeld. (OH 18).
[Architecture]. Community Development and Conservation Collection [CDCC], ca. 1895-1980s. Also known as the Pearl Chase Collection, focusing on Santa Barbara history in the 20th century. Included are papers relating to several hundred local organizations (especially pertaining to architecture, gardens, housing, land use, and planning), as well events such as Fiesta, Chase family papers, and numerous photographs of local scenes. (SBHC Mss 1).
[Architecture]. Coyne [Claude Harold] Oral History. California Architecture & Art Project. (OH 110).
[Architecture]. Harmer [A. Bertrand] Photograph Collection, ca. 1925. Ca. 156 b/w prints of Spanish Colonial Architecture, taken by Harmer in 1925, the year of the Santa Barbara earthquake. Harmer was an architect who designed many of the Spanish-style buildings in Santa Barbara. (SBHC Mss 72).
[Architecture]. Murphy [John Frederic] Papers, 1916-1963. Correspondence, documents, b/w photos, flyers, pamphlets and other printed material relating to the life of a Santa Barbara architect, including his academic days at Grinnell College and Columbia University, his military service during WWI, and his professional association with the American Institute of Architects. (SBHC Mss 21).
[Architecture]. Romaine [Lawrence B.] Trade Catalog Collection, ca. 1850-1968. More than 40,000 items that Romaine collected and which are arranged along the lines of his published guide. Includes 48 boxes on architecture; 24 boxes on building materials; six boxes on drafting supplies; 85 boxes on hardware; 31 boxes on heating and ventilation systems; eight boxes on home decoration; seven boxes on lighting; 28 boxes on plumbing; two boxes on surveying supplies; two boxes on welding and soldering; and 20 boxes on woodworking. (Mss 107).
[Architecture]. Sanchez [Gil] Collection. Personal and biographical information, correspondence, Thousands of drawings, research materials, photographs, and other materials of the Mexican American architect whose restoration projects have included the Santa Barbara Presidio, Mission San Juan Bautista, San Juan Capistrano, Mission Santa Clara, the Peralta Adobe, Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park Adobe, and Juana Briones Adobe. (CEMA 15).
[Architecture]. Wendell [Charles] Arabic Volumes, ca. 1800s-1900s. Seven bound manuscript and printed volumes in Arabic script, some illuminated by hand, including works on Islamic architecture and religion. (Mss 199).
Archive of Recorded Vocal Music. Approximately 18,000 vocal recordings from the first half of the 20th century. (PA Mss 19).
[Arctic]. Schmidt [Oswin] Polar / Arctic Travel Album, 1912. 160 original photographs, some panorama shots, and chromolithographs, as well as route maps, postcards, and menus of a voyage on the S.S. Grosser Kurfürst of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line, from Bremerhafen (Germany) to Scotland (Edinburgh), Iceland (Reykjavik and Tröllafos), Spitzbergen, King Jacob Land, and Norway (Lyngseidet, Tromsoe, Malde, Balholmen, and Bergen). Includes images of people, settlements, villages, and towns, surrounding countryside, coast, icebergs, glaciers, Laplanders and reindeer, and Norwegian whale fishery. Captions in German. (Bernath Mss 311).
Arctic Scenes Photograph Album, ca. 1899-1903. 64 black/white photographs, mainly of the Eskimo population and environs of Alaska. (Wyles Mss 136).
[Argentina]. Dozer [Donald Marquand] Papers, ca. 1939-1975 [bulk 1940s]. Collection of a Latin American specialist in the DRA and a UCSB faculty member; includes typescript of book Latin America: An Interpretative History, files from Dozer’s government service in the 1940s, and newspaper clippings (mostly about Argentina). (Bernath Mss 6).
[Argentina]. Eagleton [George D.] Stereoview Collection, ca. 1860s-2004. Includes images from many parts of the world, including Argentina [7 stereoviews]. (Mss 255).
[Argentina]. Payne [Owen Street] Papers, ca. 1838-1943. Essays by Payne, primarily concerning the rise of Nazi Germany, World War II, Argentina and other parts of Latin America. (Bernath Mss 14).
[Argentina]. Patagonia, Argentina Photographs, 1943. (SC 893).
Argentina Ephemera Collection. (Bernath Mss 225).
Argentina Photograph Collection, ca. 1920s-1960s. (Bernath Mss 121).
Argentina [Tucuman] Sugar Plantations Photographic Journal, 1905. (SC 906).
[Arizona]. 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).
[Arizona]. [Wyles, William]. Nine picture postcards of Arizona, Utah and Canada, addressed to Mrs. William Wyles, ca. 1904 (Wyles SC 636).
Arlington, Henry Bennet, Earl of (1618-1685). One document (ADS) re order for payment for a diamond ring, 21 July 1680 (SC 7).
Army of Northern Virginia. One Confederate Civil War document re collecting supplies for the Army. Virginia, 14 Sept. 1864. (Wyles SC 60).
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).
Army of the Potomac Ledger, 1864-1865. Report of Names of Officers and Men. (Wyles Mss 66).
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888). English poet and scholar. Holdings include Poems (1854) [Spec PR4021.P6 1854], On Translating Homer (1861) [Spec PR4022.O66], The Popular Education of France (1861) [PR4022.P66], Heinrich Heine (1863) [Spec PR4022.H45], Essays in Criticism (1865) [PR4022.E3 1865], On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867) [Spec PR4022.O63], New Poems (1867) [Spec PR4022.N4], Culture and Anarchy (1869) [Spec PR4022.C7], St. Paul and Protestantism (1870) [Spec PR4022.S3], Literature and Dogma (1873) [Spec PR4022.L5], God & the Bible (1875) [Spec PR4022.G6], Mixed Essays (1879) [Spec PR4022.M5], Irish Essays (1882) [Spec PR4022.I7], the three-volume set Poems (1885) [Spec PR4021.P6 1885], Discourses in America (1885) [Spec PR4022.D57], Civilization in the United States (1888) [Spec PR4022.C5 and Wyles E168.A7], Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (1890) [Spec PR4020.A2 1890b], Alaric at Rome (1896) [Spec PR4021.G37 1896], Eugénie de Guérin (1903) [Spec PR4022.G81 1903] and Maurice de Guérin (1903) [Spec PR4022.G82 1903], The Scholar-Gypsy (1906) [Spec PR4022.S34 1906], and General Grant (1966) [Wyles E672.A75 1966]. Fine press editions of Empedocles on Etna (1896) by Ballantyne Press [Spec PR4022.E25 1896], Tristram and Iseult (1946) by the Golden Eagle Press (1946) [Printers Z239.G648 A76 1946], and a broadside edition of The Buried Life (1951) [Printers Z239.O3 A7]. Additionally, a two-line manuscript poem dated August 1883 is available [SC 8].
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888). One short manuscript poem, signed, 12 August 1883. (SC 8).
Arroyo [Pedro] Collection. (CEMA 087).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Borein, Edward. One b/w inscribed photograph of the artist Borein. Santa Barbara, California, 16 Sept. 1930. (Wyles SC 683).
[Art/Artists]. 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 104).
[Art/Artists]. Camplís [Francisco] Papers, 1967-2000. Mainly files pertaining to professional activities, and photographs, of the Chicano artist, photographer, and filmmaker. (CEMA 47).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Clark [Claude] Oral History, 1995. Interviews with the Oakland, California African American artist. (OH 29).
[Art/Artists]. Colacion [Lawrence] Papers. Graphic artwork and related materials of the Chicano graphic artist Lawrence “El” Colacion. (CEMA 094).
[Art/Artists]. De la Garza Collection on the Latino Museum of History of Art and Culture. (CEMA 52).
[Art/Artists]. Duardo [Richard] Collection. Materials of the Chicano graphic artist. (CEMA 65).
[Art/Artists]. Dunlap [Margaret S.] Papers, ca. 1940s-1990s. Bio/personal files, sketch books, slides, photographs and other material of a local artist who created many public art works in Santa Barbara. (SBHC Mss 67).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Gledhill [Frances] Oral History, 1975. Life history of an artist, composer, poet, educator, writer, and reformer. Subjects covered include New York City, Columbia University, Shipping Board, and women’s suffrage. (OH 42).
[Art/Artists]. Gonzalez [Luis C.] Papers. Works of art on paper by the Sacramento, California based Chicano artist, also known as Louie-the-foot). (CEMA 74).
[Art/Artists]. Gonzalez [Maya] Papers. Slides of art work and biographical ephemera of acclaimed San Francisco-based Chicana painter and children's book illustrator. (CEMA 103).
[Art/Artists]. Guthrie [James] – Pear Tree Press Collection, ca. 1901-1952, 1971. Bibliographical and biographical information, correspondence, publications and other material relating to artist/printer Guthrie and his Pear Tree Press, located in Sussex, England. (Printers Mss 11).
[Art/Artists]. Hom [Nancy] Papers. Materials relating to the Chinese American cultural/visual artist. (CEMA 46).
[Art/Artists]. Howarth, [F. M.] Drawing Collection, 1889-1890. Eleven original cartoon line drawings on boards, varying sizes, which appeared in the old Life Magazine. Howarth, an American artist known for his stylized characters, also drew for other humor magazines of the day, such as Puck. (SC 720).
[Art/Artists]. Japanese Woodcut Fan Albums, late 1800s-early 1900s. Two fan albums featuring 28 separate Meiji/Taisho era Japanese artists, as well as eight Hiroshige reprints. Fan albums, created as marketing tools, were a compilation of a season’s available designs, commissioned by some of the most eminent artists of the day. (Printers Mss 66).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Lungren [Fernand] Collection, ca. 1890s-1932. Correspondence (including letter from Stewart Edward White), art exhibition catalogs (U.S. and England), and photographs relating to Santa Barbara artist Lungren. The UCSB University Art Museum has a large collection of Lungren’s works. (SC 180).
[Art/Artists]. M. [Rosa] Papers, 1986 - . Correspondence, photographs, artistic works, and other materials of the Chicana artist and muralist. (CEMA 22).
[Art/Artists]. Marin [John] Collection, ca. 1900-1930s. Five b/w photos and one earlier photogravure of artist John Marin. (SC 863).
[Art/Artists]. McGuire [Harry] Collection, ca. 1659-1980 [bulk 1920s-1966]. Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and publications edited by McGuire, who spent his later years in Santa Barbara. Includes Hogarth prints (18c), British engravings and handbills (mainly 19c), and caricatures, cartoons, and drawings (mainly for his magazine Ringmaster). (SBHC Mss 54).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Odundo [Magdalene] Oral History, ca. 1994-1995. Interviews for the University Art Museum, forming the basis for the exhibition catalogue Ceramic Gestures, New Vessels by Magdalene Odundo. (OH 72).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Rodríguez [Patricia] Collection. Materials of the Chicana artist and muralist. (CEMA 67).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Stewart [George] Thailand/Philippines Photographs, ca. 1960s. 16 black/white snapshots, most apparently of Thailand, including Bangkok, and the Philippines, with street scenes, shops, temples, houses and boats, and local residents. George Stewart (1922-?) was a cartoon artist and art director of Pacific Stars and Stripes during the Vietnam War period. His book, What’s so Funny about Vietnam? was published in 1968. (SC 891).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Silva [Simon] Papers. Personal papers, including artwork and professional files, of the Latino artist. (CEMA 68).
[Art/Artists]. Suman [Alvaro] Papers. Materials of a longtime Santa Barbara Chicano resident, painter, sculptor, and ceramicist. (CEMA).
[Art/Artists]. Templeton [Rini] Collection. Materials of the Chicana artist, sculptor, and political activist. (CEMA 69).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. 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 ).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Art/Artists]. Whistler, James A. Two engraved maps of Anacapa Island, by artist Whistler, 1854. (SC 703).
[Art/Artists]. 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).
[Aruba]. Hiss [Philip Hanson] Photograph Collection, 1939-early 1940s. 120+ black/white professional photographs of people and scenes in Aruba, Bali, Bonaire, Curacao, Hawaii, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin, and Surinam, taken by Philip Hanson Hiss (1910-1988), ca. 1939-early 1940s. Hiss was a photographer, author, and world traveler who, during World War II, served in the Office of Strategic Service (OSS). (Bernath Mss 76).
Ash [Marinell]Collection, 1970s and 1980s. Correspondence and related printed ephemera, re Scottish history. Accompanies a book collection on the same topic. (SC 519).
Ashmore [Harry S.] Collection, ca. 1940s-1997. Addresses and speeches, awards, biographical information, correspondence, writings, photographs, audiotapes and videotapes of the newspaperman, writer, editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and executive for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Awarded the first double Pulitzer Prizes in history for distinguished service in the Little Rock school integration controversy of the 1950s. (Mss 155).
Ashmore [Harry S.] Oral History. Interviews with Ashmore, about his life, with an emphasis on his days with the Santa Barbara-based Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. (OH 11).
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 India and Ceylon, Europe, West Indies, Latin America, the Middle East, Egypt, and the U.S. (Bernath Mss 115).
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).
[Asian/ Pacific American]. Numerous collections in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. See: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/listguides.html
Asmara, Eritrea Photograph Album, ca. latter 1930s-early 1940s. Album, with about 96 black/white numbered but uncaptioned photographs, of Asmara and environs during the period of Italian occupation. Images of street scenes, local inhabitants, Art Deco buildings such as the Cinema Impero, Jamia al Kulafae Mosque, railway linking to the coast, surrounding countryside and roads. (SC 966).
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).
Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) Records, 1966-1992. AHP was formed in 1962 by Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Charlotte Buhler, Rollo May, Virginia Satir and other founders of the personal growth movement. The collection contains institutional records relating to administration, publishing, regional associations, and conferences. (HPA Mss 1).
Astrinsky Family Yiddish - East European Postcard Album, ca. 1900-1924. Photograph album in a customized box labeled with the family name Astrinsky. The album contains 53 postcards, some in color, depicting a variety of people and places with messages handwritten in Yiddish. Many are from areas in Eastern Europe including such locales as Warsaw and Białystok. Captions are in Russian, Polish, Yiddish, and German. Other cards feature locations in the U. S. such as Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park, and Santa Barbara, California. A number of the cards are addressed to a Mr. J. Astrinsky in Brooklyn, New York. There are also a handwritten (in Yiddish) note laid in and three handwritten documents (in Yiddish) tipped in. (Bernath Mss 108).
Atkins [Stuart Pratt] Papers, 1949. Mainly invitations, programs, articles, reviews, and other items relating to the 1949 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bicentennial Celebration, which were collected by Goethe - Faust scholar Stuart Pratt Atkins (1914-2000), UCSB professor of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Included is a program for Lotte Lehmann’s recital of lieder based on Goethe texts, given at UC Berkeley, and a photograph of Albert Schweitzer and an autograph by Thornton Wilder in an Aspen program. A number of monographs, mainly German literature, accompany the papers. (FACP 36).
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).
Atomic Age Collection, ca. 1946-1971. Pamphlets, brochures, flyers, and other ephemera dealing with issues of radiation and fallout, bomb shelters, civil defense, U.S.-Soviet relations, government and religious response to the development of the atom bomb. (Mss 245).
Auden, W. H. (1907-1973). English poet. Holdings include Poems (1930) [Spec PR6001.U4 O7 1932 vault], The Orators (1932) [Spec PR6001.U4 O7 1932], The Dance of Death (1933) [Spec PR6001.U4 D3 1933], The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) with Christopher Isherwood [Spec PR6001.U4 D6 1935b], Look, Stranger! (1936) [Spec PR6001.U4 L6 1936], The Ascent of F6 (1936) with Christopher Isherwood [Spec PR6001.U4 A8 1936a], On This Island (1937) [Spec PR6001.U4 O6 1937b], Letters from Iceland (1937) [Spec PR6001.U4 O6 1937b], On the Frontier (1938) with Christopher Isherwood [Spec PR6001.U4 O5 1938], Journey to a War (1939) with Christopher Isherwood [Spec PR6001.U4 J68 1939], Another Time (1940) [Spec PR6001.U4 A7 1940b], New Year Letter (1941) [Spec PR6001.U4 N4 1941], The Double Man (1941) [Spec PR6001.U4 D65 1941], For the Time Being (1945) [Spec PR6001.U4 F6 1945], The Enchafèd Flood (1951) [Spec PR6001.U4 E53 1951], The Shield of Achilles (1955) [Spec PR6001.U4 S5 1955a], Homage to Clio (1960) [Spec PR6001.U4 H6 1960b], The Dyer’s Hand (1962) [Spec PR6001.U4 D9], Secondary Worlds (1968) [Spec PR6001.U4 S4 1968b], City Without Walls(1969) [Spec PR6001.U4 C5 1969b], Academic Graffiti (1971) [Spec PR6001.U4 A63 1971], and Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974) [Spec PR6001.U4 T5 1974]. Fine press editions of Marginalia (1966) by Ibex Press [Spec PR6001.U4 M37 1966], Auden—Five Poems (1983) by Labyrinth Editions [Spec PR6001.U4 A6 1983 vault], and Three Unpublished Poems (1986) by Kelly-Winterton Press [Spec PR6001.U4 A17 1986]. Additionally, the sound recording W.H. Auden Reading from His Works (1954) is available [Spec LP 0097].
Austen, Jane (1775-1817). English novelist. Holdings include Emma (1816) in three volumes [Spec PR4034.E5 vault], Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818) in four volumes [Spec PR4034.N6 1818 vault], Sense and Sensibility (1870) [Spec PR4034.S4 1870z], Pride and Prejudice (1894) [Spec PR4034.P7 1894], Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen (1925) known as Sanditon [Spec PR4034.F8], and Five Letters from Jane Austen to Her Sister Cassandra, 1813 (1981) [Spec PR4036.A477 1981 vault]. Fine press editions of Three Evening Prayers (1940) by the Colt Press [Printers Z239.C56 A88]; Emma (1964) [Spec PR4034.E5 1964] and Persuasion (1977) [Spec PR4034.P4 1977], both by the Limited Editions Club; and Pride & Prejudice (1985) by Nottingham Court Press [Spec PR4034.P7 1985].
[Australia]. Becke, Louis (1855-1913). Australian writer. Holdings include Pacific Tales (1896) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 P32 1896], The Mystery of the Laughlin Islands (1896) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 M97 1896], A First Fleet Family (1896) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 F57 1896], His Native Wife (1897) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 H58 1897], The Ebbing of the Tide (1897) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 E23 1897], Rodman the Boatsteerer (1898) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 R63 1898], The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island (1898) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 M88 1898], The Naval Pioneers of Australia (1899) with Walter Jeffery [Spec DU170.B39 1899],Rídan the Devil (1899) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 R53 1899], Admiral Phillip: The Founding of New South Wales (1899) with Walter Jeffery [Spec DU172.P58 B42 1899], The Tapu of Banderah (1901) with Walter Jeffery [Spec PR9619.2.B43 T36 1901], Tessa, the Trader’s Wife (1901) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 T48 1901], By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore (1901) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 B924 1901], Breachley, Black Sheep (1902) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 B74 1902], Helen Adair (1903) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 H44 1903], Chinkie’s Flat (1904) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 C45 1904], Tom Gerrard (1904) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 T64 1904], Notes from My South Sea Log (1905) [Spec DU22.B38 1905], Sketches from Normandy (1907) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 S54 1907], The Settlers of Karossa Creek, and Other Stories of Australian Bush Life (1907) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 S487 1907], ‘Neath Austral Skies (1909) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 N43 1909], and The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1926) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 1902].
[Australia]. Eagleton [George D.] Stereoview Collection, ca. 1860s-2004. Includes images from many parts of the world, including Australia /Tasmania] [10 stereoviews]. (Mss 255).
[Australia]. Great White Fleet Stereographs, 1908. 35 stereographs by Australian photographer George Rose, of the 1908 visit of the Great White Fleet to Australia, together with a portable stereograph viewer. (Bernath Mss 126).
[Australia]. Kittson [W. A.] Central Australia Collection, 1927. Two photo albums and other material relating to a “Reso’ railroad and motor car tour organized to give Australian businessmen a knowledge of the area’s resources. Kittson, listed as a mechanic from Melbourne, was one of the drivers. Itinerary included Oodnadatta, Hamilton Bore, Charlotte Waters, Horseshoe Bend, Finke River, Maryvale Station, Hugh River, Alice Springs, Macdonnell Ranges, and Barrow Creek. Includes numerous images of aboriginal population; also local terrain, settlements, camels, and Reso party encampments and members [Resonians]. (Bernath Mss 156).
[Australia]. Pacific Islands Photograph Album, ca. 1930. About 120 b/w photographs taken during a tour of New Zealand, Polynesia, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), New Caledonia (Oceania), and Australia. (Bernath Mss 234).
[Australia]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).
[Australia / New Zealand]. “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).
[Austria]. Eagleton [George D.] Stereoview Collection, ca. 1860s-2004. Includes images from many parts of the world, including Austria [9 stereoviews]. (Mss 255).
[Austria]. 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, Rumania (Bucharest), and Bulgaria (Sofia). (Bernath Mss 31).
[Austria]. Lehmann [Lotte] Collection. Personal papers of Austrian born soprano noted for her interpretations of German Lieder and her roles in Strauss' operas. (PA Mss 2).
[Austria]. Lehmann [Lotte] Photo Collection, 1926-1960s. Copies of photographs of Lehmann’s performances at the Salzburg Festivals from 1926-1937, during her return to Austria in the 1960s, and other photos from the Bildarchiv und Porträtsammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien and the Max Reinhardt-Forschsungs und Gedenkstätte, Salzburg. (PA Mss 34).
[Automobiles and Automotive Industry]. Community Development and Conservation Collection [CDCC]. Clipping, subject, and photograph files relating to billboards and signs, gas stations, highways and freeways, parking, pollution, roads and streets, roadsides, and traffic safety. (SBHC Mss 1).
[Automobiles and Automotive Industry]. French Motor Expedition to China, Tibet, and Mongolia Photograph Album, ca. 1914-1916. (Bernath Mss 81).
[Automobiles and Automotive Industry]. Romaine [Lawrence B.] Trade Catalog Collection. Six boxes of trade catalogs relating to automobiles, as well as 14 boxes pertaining more generally to travel. (Mss 107).
AVANTA Network Oral History, 1991, 1996. Interviews with leaders of the network founded by family therapist Virginia Satir in 1977. (OH 16).
[Aviation]. 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. (Bernath Mss 50).
[Aviation]. Community Development and Conservation Collection [CDCC]. Includes photographs and clippings related to Santa Barbara airport and aviation; (SBHC Mss 1).
[Aviation]. Eissler [Fred] Collection, ca. 1966-1975. Files relating to the Santa Barbara Airport, Crosstown Freeway, and Goleta Slough/Goleta Valley Flood Control Project. (SBHC Mss 15).
[Aviation]. First Provisional Aero Squadron (Mexican Expedition) Photographs, ca. 1916-1918 [bulk 1916]. 65 black and white photographs of the First Provisional Aero Squadron, based at Columbus, New Mexico, near the Mexican border. Includes images of planes in flight, crashed planes, support vehicles, hangars, and squadron members. (Wyles SC 1045).
[Aviation]. Heath [Richard A.] / Early Lockheed History Collection, ca. 1880s-2005. Early history of the Loughead (later Lockheed) family and aircraft company, located in Santa Barbara, ca. 1916-1921. Assembled by Richard A. Heath. Includes numerous photographs. (SBHC Mss 76).
[Aviation]. Northrop [John K.] Oral History, 1972. Life history, including Northrop Aviation and the “Flying Wing.” Central Coast Regional Projects. (OH 71).
[Aviation]. RAF Pilot's Pakistan Photo Album, 1927-1928. Album of a British R.A.F. pilot in Pakistan, containing 100+ b/w photographs, many with captions. Includes shots of biplanes, airfields, camps, and colleagues, as well as a number of scenes in the North West Frontier and other parts of present-day Pakistan. (Bernath Mss 61).
[Aviation]. Romaine [Lawrence B.] Trade Catalog Collection. Three boxes of trade catalogs relating to aviation. (Mss 107).
[Aviation]. Royal Australian Air Force World War II Photograph Collection, ca. 1943-1946. Album and loose b/w snapshots and commercial photos. Includes images of New Guinea and post war Japan. (Bernath Mss 170).
[Aviation] Steward [Lowell] Papers, 1995-2002. Correspondence, published articles (newspaper and internet), and other items relating to Steward’s involvement with the Tuskegee Airmen. (CEMA 58).
[Aviation] Watkins [Richard Howells] Collection, ca. 1895-1950s. Correspondence, copies of short stories, articles, and screenplays by an author in the adventure/detective genre who spent his later years in Santa Barbara. Also includes aviation files with photographs of WWI aces, early airplanes (Curtis, Martin, Le Perce-Packard, Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation, and others), ca. 1910s-1920 and images apparently shot from them, including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, other New York views, and various air fields around the country. (Mss 130).
[Aviation]. World War II German Engineer Bridging Battalion Photograph Album, 1941-1943. About 265 b/w photos, with captions in German, including captured fighter and bomber aircraft, artillery, tanks, barracks, and scenes with local population. (SC 854).
[Aviation]. World War II - Philippines, New Guinea, Okinawa Photograph Collection, ca. 1940s. More than 1,000 mostly World War II b/w photos, including U.S. and Japanese military aircraft (intact and destroyed). (Bernath Mss 38).
[Aviz] Bens da Ordem de Sam Bento de Avize, [ca. 1516-1825?]. Bound volume, containing numerous documents, mostly in Portuguese (maybe some Spanish). Rough translation of title is “Goods/Property of the Order of St. Benedict of Aviz” which is in Portugal, Portalegre District. (Mss 188).
[Azerbaijan]. Baku Photograph Collection, ca. 1880-1900. 41 b/w prints of Baku (now capital of Azerbaijan) and countryside, likely taken by a British family. Includes images of family and friends, street scenes, the port, local inhabitants with carriages, wagons, camels, and other forms of transport, wooden oil rigs, and the Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral. (SC 970).
Aztlan Collection. Video archives on the Chicano Movement. (CEMA 63).

Bacheller [Albert L.] Papers, 1895-1897. Nine letters to the master of a private school in Lowell, Massachusetts re recollections of Abraham Lincoln. Correspondents include Robert Todd Lincoln, Murat Halstead, James Tanner, Charles Francis Adams, Fitzhugh Lee, Henry Brewster, John McConnell and Alva Adams. Wyles SC 438.
Bacon [Elizabeth Grew] Oral History, 1976-1977. Life history of an English suffragette who moved to California. Subjects include suffrage, Margaret Sanger, birth control movement, Anglo-Irish relations, Greenwich Village, Pasadena Playhouse, and Santa Barbara. Central Coast Regional Projects. (OH 17).
Badash [Lawrence] Papers, ca. 1921-1987. Primarily auction, company, dealer, and exhibit catalogs relating to scientific instruments, publications, and the history of science, from a UCSB history faculty member. (UArch FacP 33).
Badges, Pins, and Buttons, ca. 1888-1918. Includes several Grand Army of the Republic items, political items like a Taft pin (1907), Woman’s Christian Temperance Union badge (1903), Uncle Sam pin, Liberty Bonds pin (WWI), and commercial buttons such as St. Louis Carleton Dry Goods Co. (Wyles Mss 100).
Bagg [Aaron] Family Papers, 1790-1846.. Documents, receipts, promissory notes and bills of the Lanesborough, Massachusetts family. (SC 11).
Bailey [George] Papers. Copy of unpublished typescript by Bailey, entitled False Dawn: Liaison Officer to the Red Army. (Bernath Mss 140).
Bain [Alan] Collection. Files regarding independent bishops. (ARC Mss 6). Bainton[Louis H.] Rio de Janeiro / Buenos Aires Photograph Collection, ca. 1905-1924. Two albums, loose photos, and a few letters. (Bernath Mss 114).
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).
Baker [Charles Thomas] Lincoln in Indiana Collection , ca. latter 1800s-1940s [bulk 1920s-1940s]. Correspondence, photographs, postcards, clippings and other ephemera regarding Abraham Lincoln and his connection with Indiana. (Wyles Mss 2).
Baker [Darrell] / Harry Lauder Collection. Recordings books, photographs and emphemera related to Scottish performer Sir Harry Lauder. (PA Mss 63).
Baker, Edward D. One letter (ALS) from Baker, Congressman from Illinois and friend of Abraham Lincoln, re need to raise funds. Washington, D.C., 25 June 1850. (Wyles SC 12
Baku Photograph Collection, ca. 1880-1900. 41 b/w prints of Baku (now capital of Azerbaijan) and countryside, likely taken by a British family. Includes images of family and friends, street scenes, the port, local inhabitants with carriages, wagons, camels, and other forms of transport, wooden oil rigs, and the Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral. (SC 970).
Baldwin [Bud] Oral History. See: Stolzenberg [Jonathan B.] and Bud Baldwin Oral History.
[Bali]. 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).
[Bali]. Hiss [Philip Hanson] Photograph Collection, 1939-early 1940s. 120+ black/white professional photographs of people and scenes in Aruba, Bali, Bonaire, Curacao, Hawaii, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin, and Surinam, taken by Philip Hanson Hiss (1910-1988), ca. 1939-early 1940s. Hiss was a photographer, author, and world traveler who, during World War II, served in the Office of Strategic Service (OSS). (Bernath Mss 76).
[Balkans]. Carruth [Clarence V.] Balkans Correspondence, 1930-1931. (Bernath Mss 124).
Ballard [John / Jan] Collection. New Age/Communal and related mss, monographs, and serials. (ARC Mss 21).
Ballitore Family Papers, ca. 1605-1917 [bulk 1770-1859]. Mainly correspondence of the Irish Quaker Shackleton, Leadbeater, and Barrington families of Ballitore, Ireland. Includes material relating to Edmund Burke. (Mss 3).
Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850). French novelist. Holdings include Contes Drolatiques (1874) with illustrations by Gustav Doré [Spec PQ2164.A402 1874b]; The Two Young Brides (1904) [Spec PS2112.T9]; Christ in Flanders (1910) in English [Spec PQ2167.J4 E5 1910], also in German (1923) [Spec PQ2167.J4 G4 1923]; Eugénie Grandet (1911) in the original French [Spec PQ2166.A1 1911]; The Girl With the Golden Eyes (1931) [Spec PQ2167.F513 1931]; the three-volume set of Droll Stories (1932) [Spec PQ2164.A45 1932]; and Old Man Goriot (1949) [Spec PR6025.A86 Z3 B3]. Fine press editions of Jésus Christ en Flandre (1928) by Strawberry-Hill Press [Printers Z239.S726 B34 1928], The Hidden Treasures, or, The Adventures of Maître Cornelius (1953) by L-D Allen Press [Printers Z239.A46 B348], and The Unknown Masterpiece (1997) by Rampant Lions Press [Printers Z239.2.R3 B379 1997].
Balzac, Honoré de. One letter (ALS) from Balzac, 30 avr. [Apr.] 1844 (SC 555).
Bancroft, George. One note (ANS) to D. Appleton & Co., asking for supplement to the Popular Science Monthly, No. 6. Washington, D.C., 23 Oct. 1877. (Wyles SC 391). [Bangladesh]. Johnson [Basil] Photograph Collection, ca. 1940s-1970s [ bulk 1960s-1970s]. Several hundred black/white prints and color slides taken by Johnson, Emeritus Professor Geography at the Australian National University. Locations include: Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Malaya, Pakistan, Singapore, and Thailand. Many rural scenes, with local inhabitants, emphasis on water-related issues such as irrigation and wells. (Bernath Mss 223).
[Bangladesh]. Kelliher [M. S.] Collection, 1956-1957. Primarily color slides taken by UCSB faculty member Kelliher in E. Pakistan, while he was developing a teaching program for students there. (Bernath Mss 29).
Barber [Alfred E.] Papers, ca. 1863-1864. Diary, documents, 7 carte de visite photographs, and leather document case of a Civil War Union lieutenant, New York Infantry, 141st Regiment (Vols), Company G. (Wyles Mss 102).
Barre [Richard] Collection, ca. 1995-2003. Typescript and edited drafts, correspondence, proofs, sample chapters, as well as promotional literature and other miscellany, of a Santa Barbara area mystery writer. Also, signed first editions of his works, which are cataloged separately. (Mss 167).
Barrett, Neil. One letter (TLS) from Barrett, Editor of Drainage, to Mr. Finlay, re Aram
Bartlett, Elizabeth. Correspondence to Bartlett, poetry editor of Etc., from Sy Gressor, James Laughlin, Tyndale Martin, Paul Ramsey, Knute Skinner, 1964-1966. (SC 16).
Bartlett [Thomas S.] Letter, 1847. Possible freeman of color asking for work in Wilson County, Tennessee. (Wyles SC 1019).
Barton, James Levi. Correspondence, 1907-1908, between the Rev. James L. Barton of Boston and various missionary societies re foreign missions, particularly in China and other parts of the Far East. In: Nineteenth Century Americana Collection. (Mss 2).
Bason [Robert E.] / Capra Press Records, ca. 1969-2004. Collection. Includes production and financial files from years Bason owned Santa Barbara-based Capra Press, as well as some earlier material from the Noel Young years. (Printers Mss 59).
Bason [Robert E.] Collection of Christopher Morley, 1912-1997. Printed and manuscript materials including uncataloged printed pamphlets, catalogs, and ephemera, as well as some correspondence of Christopher Morley, American journalist, novelist, and poet. Accompanies an extensive collection of Morley first editions. (Mss 165).
Bastin [Bruce] / Interstate Music Collection, early 1900s. About 10,000 78rpm ethnic and folk recordings from Latin America and Europe as well as recordings in popular traditions such as Argentine tango recordings.
Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867). French poet. Holdings include Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) [Spec PQ2191.F6 1857], Les Pièces Condamnées des Fleurs du Mal (1903) [Spec PQ2191.F62 1903], translated into English as The Flowers of Evil (1909) [Spec PQ2191.F6 E5], Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry (1925) [Spec PQ2191.A27 1925], Une Colére de Charles Baudelaire (1926) [Spec PQ2191.Z5 A243], Little Poems in Prose (1928) [Printers Z239.4.B48 B88], Intimate Journals (1930) [Spec PS3509.L76 Z3 B32], and The Mirror of Baudelaire (1942) [Printers Z239.G648 B3]. Fine press editions of Poems in Prose (1909) by Thomas B. Mosher [Printers Z239.M64 B39], Flowers of Evil (1947) by the Sylvan Press [Printers Z239.S9 B39], Les Fleurs du Mal (1965) by Éditions L.C.L. [Spec PQ2191.F6 1965], a broadside edition of The Cats (1980) by Mudborn Press [Spec PQ2191.A248 1980], and Les Bijoux (1998) by Circle Press [Printers Z239.2.C372 B38 1998]. Additionally, Baudelaire’s poems have been set to music and recorded on 78 RPM records [PA ARVM-8998 and ARVM-9628].
Baxter, E[lisha] (1827-1899). One letter (ALS) to President Andrew Johnson, mentioning the rumor that William O. Stoddard (Linocln’s private secretary, later a popular author) will resign as U.S. Marshall for Arkanssas, and recommending his brother, T. A. Baxter, for the position. Elisha Baxter was a justice of the Arkansas state supereme court, later a federal judge and Governor of Arkansas. Little Rock, Arkansas, 13 Apr. 1866. (Wyles SC 126).
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).
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).
Beal, Joseph Sampson. Correspondence, bills, receipts and promissory notes, of a prominent Kingston, Mass. attorney, and his wife Pamela Holmes Beal. In: Kingston Collection. (Mss 57).
Bear, Mrs. H. S. [Marjorie W.]. Collection of World War I era ephemera, ca. 1917-1918, including broadsides, programs, tags, stickers, and pins. (SC 790).
Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898). English illustrator. Holdings include Bon-Mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan (1893) [Spec PN6321.S64]; a loose-leaf edition of Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations to Salomé (1900) [Spec PR5820.S23], also seen with accompanying text by Oscar Wilde in Salomé (1904) [Spec PR5820.S2 1904]; Under the Hill (1904) [Printers Z239.2.B22 B43 1904]; The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser (1907) [Spec PR4089.B45 S8]; illustrations for Sir Thomas Mallory’s The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur (1909) [Spec PR2043.R5 1909]; The Art of Aubrey Beardsley (1918) [Spec PR4089.B45 A68 1918]; Some Unknown Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley (1923) [Spec NC1115.B4 1923]; The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley (1925) [Spec PR4089.B45 A6 1925], illustrations for Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (1927) [Spec PA3877.L8 1927]; The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley (1930) [Spec PR4089.B45 A6 1930]; Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers (1937) [Printers Z239.2.F5 B4]; and Drawings (1967) [Spec NC139.B4 A44].
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (1732-1799). French playwright. Holdings include Eugénie (1767) and Les Deux Amis, ou, Le Négociant de Lyon (1770), anthologized in Spec ML50.2.N95 1755; Le Barbier de Séville (1776) and L’Autre Tartuffe, ou, La Mère Coupable (1794), anthologized in Spec PQ2066.S6 A75 1766; and a fine press edition of Le Mariage de Figaro (1927) by Henry Babou [Spec PQ1956.A7 1927]. Gioacchino Rossini’s operatic version of The Barber of Seville is also available on 78 RPM records (1942) [PA Victor M 898].
Beauregard, [P.] G. T[oussaint]. Five letters (ALS) from the former Civil War Confederate general to Charles Scribner's Sons and their salesman, A. Gross, re a subscription for an eight-volume set of books. New Orleans, 1887-1888. (Wyles SC 388).
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).
Becke, Louis (1855-1913). Australian writer. Holdings include Pacific Tales (1896) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 P32 1896], The Mystery of the Laughlin Islands (1896) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 M97 1896], A First Fleet Family (1896) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 F57 1896], His Native Wife (1897) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 H58 1897], The Ebbing of the Tide (1897) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 E23 1897], Rodman the Boatsteerer (1898) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 R63 1898], The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island (1898) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 M88 1898], The Naval Pioneers of Australia (1899) with Walter Jeffery [Spec DU170.B39 1899], Rídan the Devil (1899) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 R53 1899], Admiral Phillip: The Founding of New South Wales (1899) with Walter Jeffery [Spec DU172.P58 B42 1899], The Tapu of Banderah (1901) with Walter Jeffery [Spec PR9619.2.B43 T36 1901], Tessa, the Trader’s Wife (1901) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 T48 1901], By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore (1901) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 B924 1901], Breachley, Black Sheep (1902) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 B74 1902], Helen Adair (1903) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 H44 1903], Chinkie’s Flat (1904) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 C45 1904], Tom Gerrard (1904) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 T64 1904], Notes from My South Sea Log (1905) [Spec DU22.B38 1905], Sketches from Normandy (1907) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 S54 1907], The Settlers of Karossa Creek, and Other Stories of Australian Bush Life (1907) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 S487 1907], ‘Neath Austral Skies (1909) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 N43 1909], and The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1926) [Spec PR9619.2.B43 1902].
Beckett, Samuel. Collection, with one inscribed b/w photograph, 1962, and correspondence, mainly regarding requests for use of UCSB’s copy of Beckett’s manuscript Eluetheria, with signed responses by Beckett, 1966, 1972, 1974. (SC 20).
Beckett [Samuel] Papers, ca. 1959-1973. Photocopies of what were three unpublished works by Beckett: Eleuthéria, Mercier et Camier, and Premier Amou, along with some related correspondence. (Mss 5).
Beddie [James S.] Papers, 1794-1975 [bulk 1955-1962]. Includes various State Department records, e.g. material on the German War Documents Project (post-WWII), from an American scholar and Foreign Service Officer who spent his last years in Santa Barbara. (Bernath Mss 4).
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887). American clergyman and writer. Holdings include Defence of Kansas (1856) [Wyles F685.B44], War and Emancipation (1861) [Wyles E458.1.B38], Freedom and War (1863) [Wyles E458.B44], America and England (1863) [Wyles E458.3.B392], American Rebellion (1864) [Wyles E458.3.B39], Norwood (1868) [Wyles PZ3.B3853 N6], The Life of Jesus the Christ (1871) [Spec BT301.B33], Patriotic Addresses in America and England, 1850-1885 (1888) [Wyles E415.7.B44], and Plymouth Pulpit (1890) [Wyles BX7233.B4 P6 1890]. Fine press edition of The Bibliomaniac (1906) by Frank & Emily Mathewson [Printers Z992.B42]. See also A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1888) by his son William C. Beecher and the Reverend Samuel Scoville, assisted by his wife, Mrs. Eunice Beecher [Wyles BX7260.B4 B4].
Beecher, Henry Ward. Autograph of the anti-slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage advocate. Brooklyn, 1867. (Wyles SC 390).
Beilenson [Peter] Collection, ca. 1929-1980. Biographical information, lists, prospectuses, printing specimens, and other ephemera, mainly about Beilenson, his early days with the William Edwin Rudge firm, Peter Pauper Press (Mount Vernon, NY), and the Walpole Printing Office (New Rochelle, NY). (Printers Mss 5).
Belcher, Sir Edward (1799-1877). One map, “Geological Plan of the Port of San Francisco, California,” coloured by Lieutenant E. Belcher, [Dec. 1826]. (SC 22).
Belden [Louis] Collection, ca. 1910s. Correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera re World War I. (Bernath Mss 25).
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).
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).
Bell, H[enry] H. One letter (ALS) from Rear Admiral Bell, Commanding the U.S. Asiatic Squadron, to his second in command, Commander J[ohn] C[arson] Febiger on the ‘USS Ashuelet’, re suppressing piracy and preventing American citizens from engaging in the coolie trade. U. S. Flag Ship ‘Hartford’, Amoy, China, 4 Apr. 1867. (Wyles SC 24).
Benet, Laurence V. Two letters (ALS) from Benet (uncle of Stephen Vincent Benet) to Mrs. Louis V. (Frances) Twyeffort, 1943, and one note (ANS) re printing of A Portrait and a Poem, 1934. Also photocopies of Stephen Vincent Benet inscription to Frances Twyeffort in John Brown’s Body and note to Twyeffort in Ballads and Poems 1915-1930. (SC 24).
Benet [Linda] – Graham Mackintosh Collection. (Printers Mss 60).
Benitez Family [Guadalajara, Mexico] Photograph Album, ca. 1880s-1890s. (Bernath Mss 258).
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).
Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832). English philosopher. Holdings include Church-of-Englandism and Its Catechism Examined (1818) [Spec BX5133.B35 1818] and Principles of Legislation (1830) [Spec JF421.B45].
Berends Family Papers, 1790s-early 1900s. Mainly pertaining to Russian diplomat Axel de Berends and his career, latter 19th century, in Brazil, Stockholm, and Madrid. Majority of letters and documents in Russian. Also notes and documents re research into history of the family [de Berends / von Berends]. (Bernath Mss 230).
Berkeley, George (1685-1753). Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne. Holdings include Alciphron, or, the Minute Philosopher (1732) [Spec B1315 1732], Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries (1744) [Spec RM84.B47 1744], the two-volume set The Works of George Berkeley (1820) [Spec B1303 1820], and The Principles of Human Knowledge (1878) [Darwin B1330 1878b].
Bernard, Theos. One typescript, A Simplified Grammar of the Literary Tibetan Language. Santa Barbara: Tibetan Text Society, 1946. (SC 25).
Bernath [Stuart L.] Memorial Collection. Nearly 2,000 books and 100+ manuscript collections (listed separately) focusing on American diplomatic history and international relations.
Bernath [Stuart L.] Papers, ca. 1958-1976. Research files and writings of a diplomatic historian who received his graduate training at UCSB. Accompanied by a large collection of printed and manuscript materials, supported by a Bernath endowment, the purpose of which is to document American diplomatic history and international relations. (Bernath Mss 1).
Besant, Annie Wood (1847-1933). English author, activist, and Theosophist. Holdings include Civil and Religious Liberty (1874) [Spec HN389.B5 1874], My Path to Atheism (1877) [ARC BL2775.B45 1877], The Law of Population (1889) [Spec HB875.B55], In Defence of Theosophy (1891) [ARC BP563.I585 1891], Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893) [Spec BP585.B3 A3 1893], Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy (1894) [ARC BP563.V52 1894], The Birth and Evolution of the Soul (1895) [Darwin BP563.B5 1895], The Three Paths to Union with God (1897) [ARC BP563.T67 1897], Evolution of Life and Form (1900) [Darwin BP563.E86 1900], Thought Power: Its Control and Culture (1901) [ARC BF455.B376 1901], Some Problems of Life (1904) [ARC BP563.S64 1904], The Changing World (1909) [Darwin BP563.C5 1909], Esoteric Christianity (1913) [ARC BP567.B47 1913], Man: Whence, How, and Whither (1913) with C.W. Leadbeater [Spec BP563.M34], Mysticism (1914) [ARC BL625.B48 1914], Speeches and Writings of Annie Besant (1921) [ARC DS437.B47 1921], The Spiritual Life (1923) [ARC BP563.S65 1923], Shall India Live or Die? (1925) [ARC DS480.45.B4 1925], The Ancient Wisdom (1928) [ARC BP563.A6 1928], and Occult Chemistry Investigations: A Record of the Examination by Clairvoyant Magnification into the Structure of 99 Chemical Elements and Some Compounds (1946) with C.W. Leadbeater [ARC BF1999.B4724 1946].
Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828). English engraver. Holdings include A General History of Quadrupeds (1791) [Spec QL706.B5 1791], A History of British Birds (1809) [Spec QL690.G7 B3], The Fables of Æsop (1818) [Spec PA3855.E5 B4 1818], Select Fables (1820) [Spec PN982.S4], and Bewick Gleanings (1886) [Printers Z257.B45]. Fine press editions of Bewick’s Select Fables by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. (1879) [Printers Z239.2.B22 A38] and Hillside Press (1965) [Printers Z239.H48 A38], Select Fables: Impressions from 84 Blocks (1968) by Gehenna Press [Printers Z239.G38 B4 vault], Thomas Bewick: Ten Working Drawing Reproductions Shown with Impressions of the Corresponding Engravings (1972) by the Cherryburn Press [Printers Z239.C475 B49], and A Frail Memorial (1975) also by the Cherryburn Press [Printers Z239.C475 B47 1975]. See also Thomas Hugo’s The Bewick Collector (1866) [Spec NE1212.B5 H8 1866] and Thomas Bewick & the Fables of Aesop (1983) by John W. Borden [Spec NE1147.6.B47 B67 1983].
[Bhutan]. Mendell [Edward] Travel Slide Collection, 1980s-1990s. More than 2000 large-format color slides containing images of Edward Mendell’s post-retirement travels around the world, photographing endangered species for the World Wildlife Fund, and also of people in far-flung places such as Bhutan, Burma, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Iceland, Mali, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Orissa (India), Philippines, Senegal, and Thailand. (Mss 247).
Bible Teachers’ Manual Collection, 1960s-1970s. 35 printed Bible Teachers’ (New York) manuals, with titles such as “Revelation for the End of the Gospel Age” and “Who May Know the Secrets of God.” (ARC Mss 60).
Bible Truth Publishers Collection, n.d. [ca. 1970s?]. 50+ small tracts by Bible Truth Publishers of Oak Park, Illinois, with titles such as “The Broken Safe,” “The Destiny of Man,” and “Which Church Saves?” (ARC Mss 44).
Bibles. Early examples, many with extensive illuminations, from the mid-13c, including the 'Santa Barbara Bible' (ca. 1250), Biblia Latina (ca. 1297), Biblia sacra latina (1350); A Noble Fragment, being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455 …; Coverdale Bible, 1535 (first complete bible in English; gift of C. Pardee Erdman); several other 15th-18th century bibles, and the Greek New Testaments Collection (primarily 16th-17th century). Also, some facsimile editions of early works and modern fine press editions such as the Doves Bible and the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. Related manuscript holdings include the Isaac Foot Collection (with bible leaves, ca. 1530-1611), Medieval Manuscript Fragments (with leaves from bibles), and Original Leaves from Famous Bibles: Nine Centuries 1121-1935.
[Bibles]. Slotkin, Stanley. "Biblical Library of Stanley S. Slotkin," with 30 original leaves and accompanying printed text for 16th-18th century bibles and other religious works. Also, copies of articles about Slotkin, his collecting, and gifts. (SC 773).
Bibliography. One typescript, compiler unknown, of early English-language authors and their works, to mid-19th century, arranged chronologically by birthdates of the authors, with subject indices. (SC 21).
Bidwell Bar Bridge. One postcard size b/w photo of Oroville, California bridge completed in 1855, with materials brought around Cape Horn. (Wyles SC 641).
Bidwell Family History. One scrapbook, with printed accounts of the Bidwell family, primarily from Massachusetts and Connecticut, including service in the Civil War, n.d. (Wyles SC 577).
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).
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914). American writer. Holdings include The Fiend’s Delight (1872) as Dod Grile [Spec PS1097.F5 1872], Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California (1872) as Dod Grile [Spec PS1097.N8], Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) [Spec PS1097.T3], In the Midst of Life (1892) [Spec PS1097.I42 1892], Fantastic Fables (1899) [Spec PS1097.F3 1899], Can Such Things Be (1909) [Spec PS1097.C3 1909], The Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) [Printers Z239.B54 B475 1922], Battle Sketches (1930) [Spec PS1097.B37 1930], The Devil’s ABC (1946) [Spec PS1097.D48], Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War (1956) [Wyles E601.B54], and A Vision of Doom (1980) [Spec PS1097.A6 1980]. Fine press editions of A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky (1907) by Paul Elder & Co. [Printers Z239.T62 B547 1907], An Invocation (1928) by John Henry Nash [Printers Z239.N3 B537 1928], Battlefields and Ghosts (1931) by the Harvest Press [Printers Z239.H265 B53 1931], The Devil’s Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce (1958) by Peter Pauper Press [Printers Z239.P4 B53], The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (1967) by the Limited Editions Club [Spec PS1097.M7 1967], Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults (1971) by Grabhorn-Hoyem [Spec PS1097.W75], The Devil’s Dictionary (1972) by the Limited Editions Club [Printers Z239.S685 B576 1972], The Devil’s Word Book (1975) in miniature by the Rather Press [Printers Z239.R38 B53], and One of the Missing: Tales of the War Between the States (1991) by the Yolla Bolly Press [Printers Z239.Y494 B53 1991 vault].
Bigelow, John. Two letters (ALS) from the editor, author, diplomat, anti-slavery and free trade advocate, one discussing at length the shortcomings of an article on Thomas Jefferson, to Chas. Scribners & Sons, 1881-1882. (Wyles SC 392).
Bigelow, John. One printed essay, “The Confederate Diplomatists and Their Shirt of Nessus,” n.d. (Wyles SC 905).
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).
Bill [Joseph T.] Oral History, 1991-1994. Interviews with Joe Bill, an urban planner who served as Executive Director of the Community Redevelopment Agencies in Sacramento and Los Angeles, Director of Planning for the architectural firm of William L. Pereira, member of the New Communities Administration in Washington, DC., and advisor to UCSB Chancellor Barbara Uehling and her staff on the Long-Range Development Plan for UCSB. Related interviews with John C. Harkness, H. Ralph Taylor, Congressman James H. Scheuer, Yukio Kawaratani, Ray Hebert, Jack Bevash, James Langenheim, Niels Stoermer, Cesar Pelli, Edward Logue, Edward L. Barnes, Harry Cobb, Bruce Allen, and Edward Helfeld. (OH 18).
Billigmeier [Robert] Collection. Materials from a UCSB professor, re his study of the World War II Japanese evacuation and Tule Lake Relocation Center. (CEMA 60).
Billington [Ray A.] Correspondence, 1958-1966. Six letters (TLS) from historian Billington to Wilbur Jacobs, Professor of History at UCSB, re history conferences, talks, historians, and personal matters. (SC 28).
[Biology]. 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).
[Biology]. 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).
[Biology]. Esau [Katherine] Oral History, 1988-1991. Interviews with UCSB botanist Esau and associates, UCSB Chancellor Vernon Cheadle, Ray Evert, and Jennifer A. Thorsch. History of Science Project. (OH 3).
[Biology]. Esau [Katherine] Papers, 1870-1988. Professor of Biology at UCSB, best known as the author of the textbooks Plant Anatomy (1953) and Anatomy of Seed Plants (1960). Papers include biographical and bibliographic material, awards, academic files (teaching and administration), publications, research notes, professional correspondence, photographs and material related to Esau's family, especially her brother, Paul. (FACP 23).
[Biology]. Sweeney [Beatrice Marcy] Papers. Materials of a UCSB faculty member in biology, specializing in plant physiology, including biographical information, photographs, research notebooks and files, speeches, and writings. (FACP 25).
[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).
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).
Bishop [Edith] Collection, 1892-1895. Correspondence and autographs from actors and actresses, to a San Francisco autograph collector. (SC 2).
Black Civil War Era Covers. (Wyles SC 1007).
Black-Jewish Information Center Press Releases, 1979-1983. (ARC Mss 38).
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).
Blake, William (1757-1827). English poet, artist, and mystic. Holdings include Selections from the Writings of William Blake (1893) [Spec PR4142.H6], The Poems of William Blake (1893) edited by W.B. Yeats [Spec PR4141.Y4], William Blake: XVII Designs to Thorton’s Virgil (1899) [Spec NE1217.B6 A3] and Blake Woodcuts for Thorton’s Virgil (1968) [Printers Z257.B54 1968 vault], Poetical Sketches (1899) [Printers Z239.2.B22 B53 1899], Illustrations of the Book of Job (1902) [Spec PR4144.I55 1826a vault], The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1927) [Spec PR4144.M3 1825a], Songs of Experience (1927) [Spec PR4144.S5 1794a], America: A Prophecy (1947) [Printers Z239.2.B55 A5], Jerusalem (1951) Spec PR4144.J4 1951 vault] and (1991) [Spec PR4144.J4 1991], Songs of Innocence (1954) [Spec PR4144.S6 1789a], Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (1955) [Spec PR4144.S6 1825a vault] and (1991) [Spec PR4144.S6 1991], Pencil Drawings (1956) [Printers Z239.2.N6 B49], “The Beggar’s Opera” by Hogarth and Blake: A Portfolio (1965) [Printers Z239.H26 H6 vault], The Book of Thel (1965) [Spec PR4144.B6 1965] and (1974) [Spec PR4144.B6 1789], William Blake in the Art of His Time (1976) [Spec PR4147.W463 1976], An Island in the Moon: A Facsimile of the Manuscript (1987) [Spec PR4144.I7 1987] and The Four Zoas of William Blake (1987) [Spec PR4144.F68 1987]. Fine press editions of Auguries of Innocence (1914) by Pear Tree Press [Printers Z239.2.P37 B53 1914]; The Book of Thel (1930) by the Book Club of California (1930) [Printers Z239.W56 B53]; A Cradle Song. The Divine Image. A Dream. Night (1949) by Valenti Angelo [Printers Z239.A54 B54 1949]; A Letter from William Blake (1964) by Gehenna Press [Printers Z239.G38 B54 1964]; Proverbs of Hell (1972) by the Black Knight Press [Printers Z239.2.B53 B52], and a series by Trianon Press including Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1952) [Spec PR4144.J4 1952 vault] and (1974) [Spec PR4144.J4 1974 vault], Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1959) [Spec PR4144.V5 1959 vault], The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1960) [Spec PR4144.M3 1960 vault], America: A Prophecy (1963), Milton (1967) [Spec PR4144.M6 1815a vault], The Gates of Paradise (1968) [Spec PR4144.G3 1968 vault], Europe: A Prophecy (1969) [Spec PR4144.E8 1969], All Religions are One (1970) [Spec PR4144.A4 1970 vault], There is No Natural Religion (1971) [Spec PR4144.T5 1790a vault], The Book of Ahania (1973) [Spec PR4144.B55 1973 vault], The Song of Los (1975) [Spec PR4144.S47 1975 vault] and William Blake’s Laocoön: A Last Testament (1976) [Spec PR4144.L32 1976]. Special also has early editions of Blake’s major works available on color microfilm. See also Adrian Van Sinderen’s Blake: The Mystic Genius (1949) [Spec PR4146.V3].
[Blake, William]. Trianon Press Collection. Sample sheets. Also, a number of printed items, mostly William Blake, which have been cataloged separately. (Printers Mss 37).
Bligh [Eric Walter] Collection, ca. 1886-1965. Correspondence, cards, notes, photographs, and printed ephemera of English author Bligh, together with his book collection of several hundred volumes focusing primarily on latter nineteenth century British writers. (Mss 8).
Blodgett [Webster P.] Papers, ca. 1864-1865, 1904. Mainly Civil War era correspondence to relatives, diaries, and documents, including discharge papers, of a Civil War Union soldier in the 18th Regiment of the New Hampshire Infantry Volunteers. (Wyles Mss 16).
[Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane]. One letter (ALS) re request for admission. New York, 1878. (Wyles SC 934).
Boatner, Haydon L. One letter (TLS) from John K. Fairbank, Harvard University, to Alex de Conde, UCSB Professor of History, 1971, re accompanying Boatner resume and typescript critique of Barbara Tuchman's Stillwell and the American Experience in China, based on Boatner’s first-hand experience of events as a high-ranking military officer in China at the time. (SC 29).
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John (1678-1751). English statesman and writer. Holdings include The Occasional Writer (1727) [Spec DA500.B637 1727], The Case of Dunkirk (1730) [Spec DA801.D9 B6], A Dissertation Upon Parties (1735) [Spec DA44.B65], Letters on the Idea of a Patriot King (1749) [Spec DA499.B6], the two-volume set Letters on the Study and Use of History (1752) [Spec D7.B63 1752b], the five-volume set Works (1754) [Spec DA27.B6 1754], and A Collection of Political Tracts (1769) [Spec DA503 1769.B7].
[Bolivia]. Houston [John] Bolivia Letter Book, 1870s. (Bernath Mss 59).
[Bolivia]. South America Photograph Album, 1914. 250+ b/w photos, with captions in English, mainly Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, also a few of Panama and Havana. (Bernath Mss 235).
Bond [Marshall, Jr. ] Gold Mining Photographs, 1934, 1937. 32 b/w 3 3/4" x 5" copy prints of gold mining by Marshall Bond and others, mostly at Midlle Buttes, near Mojave, California. (Wyles SC 607).
Bonham [Mildred A.] Papers, ca. 1860s-1904 [bulk 1880s-1904]. Diaries, photograph albums, loose photographs, and scrapbook relating to Mildred A. Bonham, wife of Benjamin F. Bonham, who was appointed U.S. Consul to British India, in Calcutta, 1885-1894. Materials pertain both to time at home in Oregon and in Calcutta. (Bernath Mss 231).
Book of Hours, 1670. Bound manuscript. (Mss 213).
Bookplate Collection, ca. 1800s – mid 1900s. Bookplates from various sources, mainly 20th century American, including a number from Santa Barbara and other parts of California. Included are works by artists/designers such as Marc Chagall. Some in the early 20th century Arts & Crafts style.. Represented in the collection are bookplates for a number of well-known individuals such as Edward Borein, Charlie Chaplin, Sally Fields, and Tom Mix. Includes Paul Elder & Co. bookplates (Santa Barbara and San Francisco). (Printers Mss 34).
Booth, Edwin. Calling card and autograph, January 18, 1865. (Wyles SC 29).
Borein, Edward. One b/w inscribed photograph of the artist Borein. Santa Barbara, California, 16 Sept. 1930. (Wyles SC 683).
[Borneo]. Johnson [Basil] Photograph Collection, ca. 1940s-1970s [ bulk 1960s-1970s]. Several hundred black/white prints and color slides taken by Johnson, Emeritus Professor Geography at the Australian National University. Locations include: Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Malaya, Pakistan, Singapore, and Thailand. Many rural scenes, with local inhabitants, emphasis on water-related issues such as irrigation and wells. (Bernath Mss 223).
Boston Farm School Journal, ca. 1850s-1890s. One bound ledger, including entries for men who enlisted in Co. D., 15th New Hampshire Volunteers, 1862. 100 names entered, with rank, status, and special positions such as drummer, wagoner, cook, hospital nurse, blacksmith. (Wyles SC 945).
Boston Music Hall. Grand Jubilee Concert program, in honor of the emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863. (Wyles SC 749).
Boston Theatre Programs. Various theatres, 1870s. (SC 624).
Boswell, James (1740-1795). Scottish writer and biographer. Holdings include The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. (1785) [Spec PR3533.B62 vault], The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. (1834) [Spec PR3533.B6 1834], the 18-volume set of the Isham collection, Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle (1928) [Spec PR3325.A16 1928], and Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763 (1951) [Spec PR3325.A88 1951]. Fine press edition of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. (1974) by the Limited Editions Club [Spec DA880.H4 B7 1974]. See also A Letter from Voltaire to James Boswell (1927) [Printers Z239.R8 V64].
Bottomlay [Jesse] Caribbean – South America, et al Photograph Album, 1936-1937. (Bernath Mss 157).
Bottomley [Gordon] Correspondence, 1923-1947, n.d. Six letters (ALS) and one note (ANS) to various individuals. Includes response to would-be author on novel writing and critiquing unfinished work. Also, one signed manuscript poem “ Sea Piece.” (SC 30).
Boucher [Anthony] Golden Voices (radio program). Master tapes of Boucher's Pacifica radio program on opera. (PA Mss 29).
Boutell, Roger. Six letters (TLS and ALS) and notes (ANS), including one from J. B. Priestley (Mar. 25, n.y.), mainly to Boutell, the owner of Tecalote Bookshop, Santa Barbara, ca. 1933-1939. (SC 32).
Bowen [Caleb T.] Papers, ca. 1853-1906 [bulk 1861-1865]. Primarily Civil War era correspondence and documents of Bowen, a Civil War Union captain, Rhode Island Infantry, 4th Regiment (Vols), Co. H. Also a blueprint copy of a Bowen family tree, the latest entry being 1906. (Wyles Mss 44).
Bowen, T. M. One letter (ALS) to his mother, re trip west. Cheyenne, Wyoming, 28 June 1882. (Wyles SC 31).
Bowers [Ellen] Oral History, 1975. Interviews with the UCSB Dean of Women, re her career 1934-1974, including a stint during WWII when the Dept. of the Interior requested her services as administrator of temporary housing in Washington, D.C., for wartime employees. (OH 20).
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).
Brady [Eunice] Abraham Lincoln Collection, ca. 1950-1998. Correspondence, articles, clippings, and other ephemera mainly relating misattribution of Abraham Lincoln quotations. (Wyles SC 957).
[Brazil]. Berends Family Papers, 1790s-early 1900s. Mainly pertaining to Russian diplomat Axel de Berends and his career, latter 19th century, in Brazil, Stockholm, and Madrid. Majority of letters and documents in Russian. Also notes and documents re research into history of the family [de Berends / von Berends]. (Bernath Mss 230).
[Brazil].Driscoll [Thomas] Collection, 1836-1953 [bulk 1890-1918]. Includes some 19th century photographs of Brazil. (Bernath Mss 7).
[Brazil]. Peterson [John D.] Papers, ca. 1904-1960s [bulk dates 1960s]. Correspondence, interviews, newspapers and other primary resource materials re Peterson’s dissertation research in Brazilian history. (Bernath Mss 15).
[Brazil]. South America Photograph Album, ca. late 1930s. (Bernath Mss 295).
[Brazil]. Wharton [Robert S.] Brazilian Correspondence, 1868. One lengthy letter [ALS] from Wharton, former Civil War Union officer and traveler, to his sister Lizzie Wharton of Pennsylvania. The letter includes nine sketches, some in color, and describes life among Confederate expatriates who have settled in remote sections of the Brazilian countryside. (Wyles SC 964).
Brazil Photograph Album, [ca. 1890s]. 26 black/white photographs, with captions in German, of railroad construction in Porto Lucena; bridge of S. Joeio Curityba, Paraguay; harbor of Ultramar, Uruguay; Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre and eucalyptus groves; revolutionaries; ruins of Sao Miguel; police officers and troops of Santo Angelo; and Saltos do Iguassu. (Bernath Mss 177).
Brazil Photograph Album, ca. 1920. (Bernath Mss 268).
Brazil to England and Germany Photograph and Postcard Album, 1937. More than 40 snapshots and 50 postcards, captions in English, apparently from a British expatriate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who traveled to Brazil, then England (including Oxford) and Germany. Includes several images of Berlin during the Nazi era and two color postcards of Adolf Hitler. (Bernath Mss 129).
Breasted, James Henry (1865-1935). One b/w photo, one letter (ALS), one picture postcard, and one memorial service program at the University of Chicago, with “Quotations from the Works and Letters of Dr. Brested” by Robert M. Hutchins, ca. 1900-1936. (SC 34).
Brenan, J. C. W. One letter (ALS) to his father re joining General Walker's army in Nicaragua. New Orleans, 6 Aug. 1856. (Wyles SC 36).
Brent [Duncan and Frederika] Collection, ca. 1669-1983 [bulk dates 1958-1983]. Correspondence from Duncan Brent to Lawrence Clark Powell, as well as a typescript draft and other materials pertaining to Powell’s publication of Le monde passé [a remembrance of Brent]. Also, a collection of the Brents’ books, mainly 19th-20th century literature and Californiana. A highlight of this collection is the two volume Hollinshed’s Chronicles [of England, Scotland, and Ireland] (London, 1587), one of William Shakespeare’s sources for his historical plays. (Mss 9).
[Brewster, John Calvin]. Two black/white cabinet card photographs by [John Calvin] Brewster, Ventura and Santa Paula, CA, of churches in El Rio and Santa Paula, [ca. 1900]. (Wyles SC 601).
Bricken [Irving] Collection. Early printed histories and travelers’ accounts, from the 17th century onwards, particularly on Latin America.
Bridges Family Georgia Confederate Civil War Letters, 1861-1865. (Wyles SC 973)
Bristol Artillery Company Records, 1850-1856. Mainly receipts, supply and equipment bills, and member lists of the Bristol Artillery Company of Bristol, Rhode Island. (Wyles SC 884).
British Documents, ca 1760s-1780s. Six items. (SC 687).
British Guiana Photograph Collection, ca. 1940s. (SC 947).
British Guyana Photograph Album, ca. 1910. 12 b/w albumen prints, with captions, mounted in a small album. Includes image of the photographer, J. A. Teixeria, and views of New Amsterdam and Georgetown … Accompanied by an Oct. 1939 issue of Geographical Review, containing an article, “An Investigation of the Prospect for White Settlement in British Guyana.” (SC 897).
British Legal Documents. 18th century, primarily relating to members of the Macdonald, Mackenzie, and Maclean families. (SC 772).
British Palestine and Egypt Photograph Album, ca. 1930. (Bernath Mss 142).
British manuals and guides to magic tricks, conjuring, illusions, and prestidigitation. (PA Mss 66) Early 20th century British pamphlets and ephemeral guides to magic of a practical nature.
British Palestine Postcard Collection, 1920. 26 b/w photographs, taken by an American seaman from the U.S.S. Pittsburgh, on May 22, 1930, and converted into postcards. Views of Jaffa, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem, including landmarks, local residents, and groups of seamen. (SC 866).
British Soldier's Photograph Album - Northeastern India, late 1920s- 1930s. 150+ photos, mainly snapshots, with shots of friends and family, some in England, but most in India (Lucknow, Lebong, the hill station of Ranikhet, Barrackpore, and Calcutta), including fellow servicemen, countryside, street scenes, buildings, and people. (Bernath Mss 66).
British Soldier’s Waziristan Photograph Collection, ca. 1929-1932. (Bernath Mss 282).
[Broadside]. Auction of the steamer Beatrice (late Rappahannock). "Built by the British Government for a sloop of war in 1856…" (Wyles SC 853).
Broadsides Collection, ca. 1950s-1990s. Several hundred items, many limited editions, some signed. Mainly poetry, including authors such as Richard Brautigan and Charles Bukowski. (Mss 212).
Broida [Herbert P.] Papers. Materials relating to a UCSB physics professor. UCSB’s Broida Hall is named after him. (FACP 3).
Bromley [David] Papers. Manuscript, typescript, and printed material relating to new religious movements. (ARC Mss 29).
Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855). English novelist and poet. Holdings include Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) as Currer Bell [Spec PR4167.P6 1846 vault], Shirley (1849) as Currer Bell [Spec PR4167.S5 1849], Villette (1853) as Currer Bell [Spec PR4167.V5 1853], a two-volume set of The Professor (1857) as Currer Bell [Spec PR4167.P7 1857 vault], An Account of Her Honeymoon (1930) [Spec PR4168.A48 1930], and Jane Eyre (1981) [Spec PR4167.J3 1981]. Fine press edition of The Professor (1970) by the Folio Society [Spec PR4167.P7 1970].
Brontë, Emily (1818-1848). English novelist and poet. Holdings include Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) as Ellis Bell [Spec PR4167.P6 1846 vault], and Poems (1923) [Printers Z239.2.C8 B74 1923]. Fine press editions of Wuthering Heights by the Heritage Press (1940) [Printers Z239.2.C8 B76] and the Folio Society (1964) [Spec PR4172.W7 1971].
Brotherhood of the Sun. One document (TD), declaration of Pam Shannon Wells re her membership in the Brotherhood of the Sun, Santa Barbara, California, 1977. (SC 37).
Brotherhood of the White Temple, Inc. Collection, ca. 1930s-1940s. More than 40 pamphlets printed by the Brotherhood of the White Temple, Inc. (Sedalia, Colorado), most by M. Doreal, with titles such as “Atlantis and Lemuria,” “Symbolism of the Great Seal of the United States,” and “Wisdom of the Kabbala.” (ARC Mss 57).
Brown [Betsy] Puppetry Collection. Programs, newsletters, clippings and other material related to puppetry, clowns and the circus, including the puppet theater in Europe and Asia. (PA Mss 38).
Brown [Bob?] Papers. (FacP 38).
Brown [D. MacKenzie] Papers, ca. 1940s-1950s. Primarily correspondence and research files relating to Alpheus Thompson, a Maine sea captain who moved to Santa Barbara and married a daughter of Carlos Antonio Carrillo. Brown edited the book China Trade Days in California, published by U.C. Press, which was a compilation of Thompson’s letters. Also, files on the history of Santa Rosa Island and the 1848 Mexican Claims Commission. (SBHC Mss 20).
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).
Brown [George I.] Papers, 1962-1990.. Materials relating to Brown’s confluent education program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. (HPA Mss 3) (FACP 4).
Brown, William. One invoice for shipping of cotton and potash from port of New York, 18 Apr. 1809.(Wyles SC 918).
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). English poet. Holdings include Aurora Leigh (1857) [Spec PR4185.A1 1857c], Last Poems (1862) [Spec PR4190.L3 1862], Poems of the Intellect and the Affections (1865) [Spec PR4190.P8 1865], the two-volume set The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, 1845-1846 (1899) [Spec PR4231.A3 1899a], Letters from Elizabeth Barrett to B.R. Haydon (1939 [Printers PR4193.A36], and Stanzas, A Fragment, March 1845 (1943) [Spec PR4190.S8]. Facsimile edition of A Letter of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Napoleon III in Behalf of Victor Hugo (1932) [Printers Z242.5.B78 1932]. Fine press editions of Sonnets from the Portuguese by the Roycroft Shop (1898) [Printers Z239.R67 B7], Paul Elder & Co. (1910) [Printers Z239.N3 B7], Riccardi Press (1914) [Spec PR4189.A1 1914], with an accompanying facsimile (1927) [Printers Z239.N3 B76 1927], by the Heritage Club (1938) [Printers Z239.H46 B7], and the Peter Pauper Press (1940) [Printers Z239.P4 B7]; Rhyme of the Duchess May (1907) by Foulis Press [Printers Z239.2.F66 B785 1907]; and Casa Guidi Windows (1977) by the Imprint Society [Spec PR4186.A1 1977b]. See also Colin Franklin’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the Mercy of Her Publishers (1989) [Spec PR4194.F72 1989].
Browning, Robert (1812-1889). English poet. Holdings include Men and Women (1855) [Spec PR4214.A1 1855], the four-volume set The Ring and the Book (1868) [Spec PR4219.A1 1868], Aristophanes’ Apology (1875) [Spec PR4222.A6], Dramatic Idyls (1880) [Spec PR4206.A1 1880], Ferishtah’s Fancies (1884) [Spec PR4222.F4], Parleyings with Certain People (1887) [Spec PR4216.A1 1887], Asolando (1890) [Spec PR4222.A7 1890a], and the two-volume set The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, 1845-1846 (1899) [Spec PR4231.A3 1899a]. Fine press editions of Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1899) by the Ballantyne Press [Printers Z239.2.B22 B76], In a Balcony (1902) by Langworthy & Stevens [Printers Z239.B44 B76 1902], Some Poems (1904) by Eragny Press [Printers Z239.2.E65 B7], Italy My Italy (1910) by T.B. Mosher [Spec PR4203.M6], Dramatis Personae (1910) by the Doves Press [Printers Z239.2.D65 B76 vault], Rabbi Ben Ezra by T.N. Foulis (1910) [Printers Z239.2.F66 B795 1910] and the Monastery Hill Bindery (1933) [Printers Z239.B698 B75], Love Among the Ruins (1922) by Bernhardt Wall [Printers Z257.B725 1922], and The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1970) by David Godine [Printers Z239.G56 B72]. Additionally, a handwritten poem by Browning, from "Garden Fancies: The Flower’s Name," dated August 7, 1883, is available [SC 39].
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).
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).
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).
Broyles [Yolanda] Collection. Small collection of research notes, edited manuscript drafts and documents for Broyles’ book El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement. (CEMA 097).
Brunner, Samuel M. [Fife Major, Illinois Infantry, 138th Regiment (Vol)]. Five Civil War documents, including appointment and discharge documents, 1862-1864. (Wyles SC 321).
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).
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).
Buceta, Erasmo (1896-1964). Papers, mainly letters, picture postcards, business cards and other ephemera, ca. 1935-1957. Correspondents include Fidelino de Figueiredo, Robert H. Lowie, and Ramon Menendez-Pidal. (SC 40).
Buchanan [A. Russell] Oral History, 1971. Interviews with the UCSB history professor and administrator, re career at Stanford University in the 1920s-1930s, and at UCSB. UCSB’s Buchanan Hall is named after him. (OH 21).
Buell [Augustus C.] Diary and Sketchbook, ca. 1867-1868. (Wyles SC 40)
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).
Buffum, [?]. One lengthy, six-page Civil War letter (AL) to his mother and father, Joshua Buffum, of North Billerica, Massachusetts, recounting the Confederate shelling and capture of the U.S. Steamer Isaac P. Smith, commanded by Lt. F. S. Conover, while on patrol 30 Jan. 1863 along the Stono River, near Charleston, S.C. Washington Navy Yard, 6 Mar. 1863. (Wyles SC 132).
Bugental [James F. T.] Oral History, 1991. Interviews with the humanistic-existential psychotherapist and first president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Humanistic psychology project. (OH 22).
Bugental [James F. T.] Papers, 1980-1992. . Includes material relating to Bugental's work as a consultant, as well as examples of his lectures, teaching, writing. (HPA Mss 4).
[Bukowski, Charles]. One letter (ALS) from Jon Welsh, Loujon Press, to John {Martin?] re publication of Crucifix in a Death Hand. New Orleans, 5 June 1965. (SC 574).
Bukowski [Charles] Collection. Extensive collection of printed works, including books, broadsides, magazines, newspapers and other formats in which Bukowski material has appeared. Manuscript materials pertaining to Bukowski are listed separately.
Bukowski [Charles] / Martin [John K.] Collection, 1967-1994. Correspondence from Bukowski to his publisher, John Martin, of Black Sparrow Press. (Mss 166).
Bukowski [Charles] / Martin [John K.] – Black Sparrow Press Collection, 1973-2004. 62 original, signed poems by Charles Bukowski (including the last one he wrote, 5 Jan. 2004, two months before his death), sent to John Martin, , publisher of Black Sparrow Press, 2003-2004; together with 34 original, signed contracts re foreign publication of Buk’s books, and related correspondence between him and John Martin, 1973-1990. (Mss 241).
Bukowski [Charles] / O’Roark [James F.] Correspondence, 1975. Four letters [TLS] and accompanying envelopes from Bukowski to Santa Barbara resident and collector James F. O’Roark, re visits to Santa Barbara, how writing is progressing, and daily trials and tribulations in Buk’s life. Includes reference to Claire Rabe, owner of Baudelaire’s, a Santa Barbara hangout. (SC 847).
Bukowski [Charles] Papers, ca. 1955-1980. Large collection of correspondence (outgoing to Frances Bukowski, Marina Bukowski, Sam Cherry and Neeli Cherry, John William Corrington, Sanford Dorbin, E. V. Griffith, Thomas Kerrigan, John Martin, Ann Menebroker, Steve Richmond, Ulysses Grant Roman, Jory Sherman, Ruth and William Wantling, Jon and Louise Webb, Carl Weissner, and others), typescript poetry and prose, artwork, photography, and related ephemera of the renowned California author. (Mss 12).
Bukowski [Charles] Poems. Four typescript volumes, with handwritten corrections/deletions by the editor, John Martin, of Charles Bukowski poems to be published by Harper Collins 2004-2007. (Mss 208).
Bukowski [Charles] Poems, ca. 1966-1994. 449 unpublished, unsigned, undated, mainly one and two-page typescript poems by Charles Bukowski, sent to his publisher John Martin at Black Sparrow Press over nearly 30 years, from about 1966 to 1994, the year that Bukowski died. (Mss 246).
[Bulfinch, Thomas]. One typescript manuscript, “A Classical Tea Party,” and two small handwritten lists, n.d. Laid in Bulfinch’s The Age of Fable… [1913]. (SC 41).
[Bulgaria]. 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, Rumania (Bucharest), and Bulgaria (Sofia). (Bernath Mss 31).
[Bull Run]. One Civil War document (ADS), a notice warning against “Northern Secessionists and Traitors,” posted outside John Folsom’s store [?} after the Battle of Bull Run, 23 July 1861. (Wyles SC 42).
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797). Irish philosopher and politician. Holdings include A Vindication of Natural Society (1756) [Spec DA506.B88 V55 1756]; An Account of the European Settlements in America (1757) [Spec DA506.B88 A2]; Observations on a Late State of the Nation (1769) [Spec DA506.B88 O2]; A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1770) [Spec DA506.B88 S9 1770], also part of the "Books Lincoln Read" collection (1806) [Wyles E457.21.R4 B8]; The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke (1777) [Spec DA506.B8 1777b]; Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) [Spec DA506.B88 R3 1790], also in French as Réflexions sur la Révolution de France (1790) [Spec DA506.B88 R314 1790]; Two Letters on the Conduct of Our Domestick Parties with Regard to French Politicks (1797) [Spec DA506.B88 T866 1797b]; Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797) [Spec DA506.B88 T5], and the 10-volume set The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1803) [Spec DA506.B8 1803]. Fine press edition of On Conciliation with the Colonies, and Other Papers on the American Revolution (1975) by the Limited Editions Club [Spec E211.B925 1975]. See also The Life of Edmund Burke (1798) by Robert Bisset [Spec DA506.B9 B5]. Additionally, three letters in Burke’s hand, from near the end of his life, are available in the Isaac Foot Collection (Mss 33).
Burleigh [H. T.] Sheet Music Collection, 1914-1921. Twelve 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).
[Burma]. British Military in India, and Burma Photograph Album, 1930s. 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).
[Burma]. Chapman [E. C.] Photograph Collection, ca. 1960s-1970s. 270+ black/white prints and color slides. Locations include: Burma, Cambodia (Angkor Wat) and Laos (Vientiene), Malaysia (mainly Malacca and Penang), Thailand (incl. South Thailand – Kra Isthmus). (Bernath Mss 224).
[Burma]. Drage [Godfrey] Burma Photograph Album, ca. 1901-1903. (Bernath Mss 273).
[Burma].Elkus / Manheim Postcard - Photograph Collection, ca. 1910-1937. Eight postcards, with messages, and four snapshots, from Japan, Philippines, India, Tibet, China, and Burma. (SC 889).
[Burma]. Goodier [Brian G.] India and Burma Collection, 1942-1947. The collection was assembled by a Maj. B. G. Goodier, B. Sc (Tech), Royal Engineers and includes correspondence and photographs relating to his World War II and post war experiences in South Africa, India, and Burma, particularly relating to road building, and airfield construction. Locations include Durban, East Kirkee, Poona, Lahore, Madras, Bombay, and Rangoon. (Bernath Mss 93).
[Burma]. James [Charles Streatfeild] Burma and India Photograph Albums, ca. 1893-1901 [bulk 1897-1898]. (Bernath Mss 310).
[Burma]. Mendell [Edward] Travel Slide Collection, 1980s-1990s. More than 2000 large-format color slides containing images of Edward Mendell’s post-retirement travels around the world, photographing endangered species for the World Wildlife Fund, and also of people in far-flung places such as Bhutan, Burma, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Iceland, Mali, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Orissa (India), Philippines, Senegal, and Thailand. (Mss 247).
[Burma]. 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).
[Burma]. World War II Burma Photograph Album, ca. 1943-1944. Album of an American soldier working on the Stillwell Road in Burma. (Bernath Mss 210).
Burma Buddhist Illuminated Manuscript. 240+ pages, gilt covers, several color drawings. (Printers Mss 48).
Burma Photograph Album, ca. 1910. (Bernath Mss 221).
Burma Photograph Collection. Ten hand-colored images, no captions, people and scenes of Burma, ca. 1915. (SC 942).
Burma Photograph Albums, ca. 1890s. Three snapshot albums with 70 b/w photos, no captions, including images of British teak harvesting operations in Burma, using elephants and water buffalo. Also views of Burmese people and countryside, village scenes, houses on stilts with woven sides, temples, boats, and river scenes. (Bernath Mss 43).
Burma - U.S. Army Engineer Construction Battalion Photograph Collection, ca 1942-1945. 200+ World War II era b/w photos, including many of Burma, Burmese life, and the Engineer Battalion in Burma. (Bernath Mss 33).
Burnell [George Edwin and Mary Lamoreaux] Collection, ca. 1890s-1960s. Includes typescripts of lecture series, pamphlets and other printed materials by Los Angeles area New Thought practitioners George Edwin Burnell and Mary Lamoreaux Burnell (founders of the Burnell Foundation), and Genevieve Burnell Forgey / Robinson. (ARC Mss 10).
Burnham, Hiram [General]. One Civil War letter (ALS) to his wife in Maine, mainly re recent battles. Camp in the field, 19 May 1864. (Wyles SC 43).
Burns, Robert (1759-1796). Scottish poet. Holdings include Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1787) [Spec PR4300 1787.E3], The Works of Robert Burns (1801) [Spec PR4300 1801.L4], The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1816) part of the "Books Lincoln Read" collection [Wyles E457.21.L51 B8], and Letters of Robert Burns (1820) [Spec PR4331.A3 C7 1820]. Fine press editions of To Mary in Heaven (1916) by the Bibliophile Society [Spec PR4313.T6 1916], Songs (1925) by Golden Cockerel Press [Spec PR4303.C6 and Printers Z239.2.G58 B87], The Bonnie Lass That Made the Bed to Me (1927) by John Henry Nash [Printers Z239.N3 B87 1927], Epistle to Davie (1929) by the Bruce Brough Press [Spec PR4309.E6 1929], The Jolly Beggars (1963) by the Gehenna Press [Printers Z239.G38 B87 1963], and The Poems of Robert Burns (1965) by the Limited Editions Club [Printers Z239.L5 B87 1965]. Also, Burns’s works have been set to music and recorded on 78 RPM records by performers such as Chauncey Olcott [PA Victor 895] and Dinah Shore [PA Victor 20-1611].
Burns [Vincent Godfrey] Collection, ca. 1930s-1969. Drafts of writings, as well as correspondence, clippings, and other ephemera of poet and journalist Burns, who wrote in a populist style on patriotic and homespun American subjects and who lived in Santa Barbara for a time. (Mss 13).
Burrow [Trigant] Collection, 1909-1950. Reprints of articles by psychoanalyst Burrow. (HPA Mss 5).
Burton, Alice Gertrude Cotton Whitney. Handwritten copy of Burton’s diary, 1851-1938, written mainly in essay form, most sections pertaining to the 1850s and including a discussion of her father’s [Rev. Daniel Saunderson Whitney] activities with the underground railroad and having fugitives in their home in Southboro, Mass. (Wyles SC 44).
Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890). English explorer, translator, and writer. Holdings include The Nile Basin (1864) [Spec DT117.B8]; translations of Kalyānamalla’s Ananga-Ranga (1885) [Spec HQ470.S3 K3 1885], The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû el-Yezdî (1900) [Spec PR4349.B52 K3 1900z], The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus (1928) [Spec PA6275.E5 B8 1928], The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (1963) [Spec HQ470.S3 V3 1963a], and ‘Umar ibn Muhammad Nafzâwî’s The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi (1964) [Spec HQ461.N3213 1964b]; and The Look of the West, 1860: Across the Plains to California (1963) [Wyles F826.B871]. Fine press editions of The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû el-Yezdî by the Book Club of California (1919) [Printers Z239.B54 B87 1919], Thomas B. Mosher (1923) [Printers Z239.M64 B87 1923], and the Peter Pauper Press (1945) [Printers Z239.P4 B87]; and The Arabian Nights by the Heritage Press (1934) [Printers Z239.H46 A72], the Limited Editions Club (1954) [Printers Z239.L5 A694 1954], and the Allen Press (1980) [Printers Z239.A46 A73 vault].
[Business]. 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 include Nome, St. Michaels, Fort Wrangle, Kodiak, and Port Clarence. (Wyles Ms 143).
[Business]. Argentina [Tucuman] Sugar Plantations Photographic Journal, 1905. (SC 906).
[Business]. Bristol Artillery Company Records, 1850-1856. Mainly receipts, supply and equipment bills, and member lists of the Bristol Artillery Company of Bristol, Rhode Island. (Wyles SC 884).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. Dewing [James] Papers, 1865-1936. Thirteen items of Barbara DeWolfe’s grandfather, James Dewing, including a photograph, materials relating to his service in the 18th Regiment of Connecticut Infantry, Company A, during the Civil War (discharge papers, widow’s pension, GAR receipts), publishing/piano manufacturing business in San Francisco (letterhead stationery, calling card, court records re failure of the business), and death (memorial service address, National Cemetery Regulations). (Wyles SC 1012).
[Business]. Die-Cut Advertising Literature, ca. 1883-1960. 101 pamphlets, booklets, cards, and flyers cut in shapes such as animals, books, bottles, boxes, cans, fruit and vegetables, hats, oysters, and shoes. Many of the items are highly illustrated and printed in vivid colors. Most are early – mid 20th century, some from California. The collection is arranged alphabetically, by company name. (Mss 202).
[Business]. Diman Family Papers, 1822-1865. Papers of Byron Diman (1795-1865), governor of Rhode Island (1846-1848) and prominent merchant of Bristol. Includes correspondence, shipping records, and business papers of Devol, Diman, & Co.; correspondence with the D’Wolf family of Bristol, with his brother-in-law William Henry Wight and his firm of Wight and Fleury in New York, and with his nephew, also named William Henry Wight. Also includes correspondence with his son, Henry Wight Diman, a student at Brown University (1854-1858) and assistant consul in Oporto, Portugal (1862-1865). (Wyles Mss 11).
[Business]. E. Conway & Co. Ledgers, [1860s]. Two handwritten ledgers with manuscript documents and maps pertaining to the E. Conway & Company purchase of lands in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Contra Costa counties, with early information about oil development in California. (Mss 184).
[Business]. Easton [Robert E.] Collection, ca. 1893-1968. Mainly papers and ledgers re Easton's business dealings, especially the Sisquoc Ranch Co. (SBHC Mss 55)
[Business]. Ely, Frederick David. Correspondence, 1867-1887, to Ely, member of Congress from Massachusetts. Also, a 2 pp folio letter (TLS) from a group of Boston businessmen protesting the reciprocity treaty with Mexico. In: Nineteenth Century Americana Collection. (Mss 2).
[Business]. Ely, William Davis. Correspondence and documents to Ely, a Providence, Rhode Island businessman Correspondents include Henry A. Coit, Amasa M. Eaton, C.A.L. Richards and Zachariah Allen. In: Nineteenth Century Americana Collection. (Mss 2).
[Business]. G.E. Tempo Collection, 1957-1969. Mainly unclassified speeches, papers, publications, research and technical memoranda and proposals of G. E. Tempo, a Santa Barbara-based think-tank working on long-range solutions to national defense and weapons systems issues (Mss 139).
[Business]. G. E. Tempo Collection, ca. 1972-1973. Pamphlets and ephemera from the UCSB Library's Local History File, re the Santa Barbara-based long-range research and planning component of the General Electric Company. (SC 692).
[Business]. Gallup and Geer. Business records, 1837-1861, of a firm of furniture dealers and auctioneers of Norwich, Connecticut. Also, personal papers of Isaac Gallup (1837-1852). In: Nineteenth-Century Business Collection. (Mss 78).
[Business]. Gildea [James H.] Middle East Railroad Collection, ca. 1940s-1970s [bulk dates early 1950s]. Collection of documents and photos, mainly about Gildea’s involvement in the early 1950s, as engineer and manager in charge of the construction of the Saudi Government Railway, running through the Arabian desert from the Persian Gulf to the capital city of Riyadh. The project came about as a result of a 1947 agreement between King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud and the Arabian-American Oil Company (Aramco). The cost was financed primarily from Saudi oil revenues, with engineering and construction under the guidance of Aramco and the Bechtel Construction Company. Gildea, formerly with Union Pacific, was chosen to head the project because of his experience in World War II as an operating manager for the Iranian railroad. Gildea later lived in Santa Barbara and was married to Madame Gildea. (Bernath Mss 219).
[Business]. [Holmes Family]. Personal and business papers of Alexander Holmes, and his son Joseph Alexander, of Kingston, Mass. Part of the Kingston Collection. (Mss 57).
[Business]. Honduras Photograph Album, ca. 1920-1925. 200+ b/w photographs of cities (San Pedro Sala, Choloma, Truxillo, Tela, Ornoa, Puerto Cortes, and La Lima), buildings, churches, haciendas, rural areas, coastal shipping facilities, railroads, bridges, mills, and sugar factories. Includes images of U.S. businessmen and Honduran workers, some related to the United Fruit Company and Cayarmel Fruit Company; many showing impact of U.S. investment on Honduras in the early 1920s. (Bernath Mss 91).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. J. B. Brown and Sons. Business records of a Portland, Maine, banking firm, ca. 1871-1889. Includes correspondence with many other Maine, New York, and Massachusetts banks. In: Nineteenth Century Business Collection. (Mss 78).
[Business]. Japanese Saipan Photograph Album, 1914-1944. About 170 b/w snapshots and a few postcard views, of the Japanese period in Saipan. Includes a number of shots of the local Saipan population and scenery, but most of the photos are of Japanese adults and children, families, groups, leisure activities, sports (including several shots of baseball teams), boy scouts, geishas, and the extensive sugar cane industry. (Bernath Mss 69).
[Business]. Kelley [Lloyd Amos and Berta Lee Winniford] Oral History, 1981. Discussion of the problems faced in running a family business during the Depression and how Lloyd Kelley built Kelley’s Corner, a Santa Barbara landmark, into a thriving establishment after World War II. Central Coast Regional Projects. (OH 53).
[Business]. Krall Family Papers, ca. 1758-1918. Correspondence and documents (including 18th century indentures and early 19th century surveyors’ plats) of the Krall family from Shafferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, along with business records of the grocery firm of Krall and Zerbe. Also included are almanacs from the 1850s-1860s, and printed speeches, programs, and pamphlets from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. (Wyles Mss 6).
[Business]. McNear [George C.] Letters, 1865-1866. Seventeen letters (ALS) to his wife Maria, mainly re his tenuous business efforts in New Orleans, in the wake of the Civil War. (Wyles SC 144).
[Business]. Mexico Photograph Album, 1898. 132 sepia albumen prints in an album of Isabel Nesmith, who left San Francisco on the Pacific Mail boat “SS San Blas” and traveled to Mazatlan, Manzanilla, Acapulco, Tehauntepec, Amatė, Minatitlan, Vera Cruz, Orizaba, and Mexico City, as well as visiting friends, the Macfarlands, and their neighbors at a rubber plantation on the Coatzacoalcos River. (Bernath Mss 191).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. N. N. Hill Brass Company Records, ca. 1890s – early 1900s. 25 letter books and one ledger of the N. N. Hill Brass Company of Middleton, CT, which manufactured tea bells, electric gongs, trinity chimes, telephone chime boxes, bicycle bells, and sleight bells. In the 1930s, the company received the Walt Disney toy contract, which became a major portion of their business. Product lines included bell-ringing pull toys and toy telephones with Disney characters. (Mss 47).
[Business]. New Granada Canal & Steam Navigation Company Letter, 1855. One letter (ALS) from Henry Wells, president of the New Granada Canal & Steam Navigation Company of New York, 1855, to Captain Morrill of the Steamship Osprey, detailing the itinerary and business dealings for the ship’s voyage, to include stops in Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, and other ports in Latin America. (Wyles SC 296).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. Nineteenth Century Business Collection, ca. 1837-1898. Correspondence, lists, invoices and other documents relating to several East Coast businesses. Some of the material is from the Civil War era. (Mss 78).
[Business]. Northrop [John K.] Oral History, 1972. Life history, with the former aircraft company president and aeronautical engineer, re history of Northrop Aviation and the “Flying Wing,” Central Coast Regional Projects. (OH 71).
[Business]. Palembang [Sumatra, Indonesia] Oil Industry Photograph Album, 1909. (Bernath Mss 229).
[Business]. Public History Program - State Street Oral History Project, 1976-1977. UCSB Public History Studies Program project. Interviews with Santa Barbara State Street businessmen. (OH 77).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. Rand [William Whitehill] Papers, ca. 1921-1968 [bulk 1950s-1968]. Documents, maps and some artifacts related to Rand's career in geology, marine engineering, and the oil industry. The maps are scientific and some include offshore sounding data. Most are maps of the coast of California, particularly in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties. The records of his company, Submarex, its subsidiaries, and the ships used, make up the bulk of this collection. This company, based in Santa Barbara, was heavily involved in the transformation of Santa Barbara from a relatively unknown area (geologically) to a major oil-producing region between 1947 and 1960. Also, correspondence, meeting minutes, journal articles, newspaper clippings, reports, log books, catalogs, and project files on deep-sea drilling and ocean exploration. (SBHC Mss 46).
[Business]. Robbins [Thomas S. ] Collection, 1844-1855. Six items, relating to the business dealings of an early Santa Barbara resident. (SC 751).
[Business]. Romaine [Lawrence B.] Trade Catalog Collection, ca. 1850-1968. More than 40,000 items that Romaine collected and which are arranged along the lines of his published guide. Primarily 19th and early 20th century American trade and advertising literature, with large sections relating to subjects such as agriculture, architecture, booksellers, building materials, department stores, electrical equipment, hardware, printers’ supplies, scientific and industrial instruments, and seed catalogs. Also, related records for Romaine’s bookselling business, Weathercock House. (Mss 107).
[Business]. Savage Mining Company (Virginia, Nevada). Daily report and vouchers, 1876-1898. (Wyles SC 896).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. Sheldon [Gar] – Mining Engineer’s Correspondence, 1880s. Mainly letters from Sheldon, with the Corralitos Company in Chihuahua State, Mexico, to family, about personal affairs and local news such as an earthquake in 1887. (Wyles SC 1009).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. 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).
[Business]. William Edwin Rudge [Firm] Collection, ca. 1930s-1980s [bulk 1940s]. Business records and personal papers of William E. Rudge, his family, his printing firm, and associates. (Printers Mss 2).
[Business]. Williams [James C.] Trade Catalog Collection, ca. 1911-1930s. Trade catalogs from various companies and a few trade magazines, brought together by James C. Williams, Director of the California History Center & Foundation (Cupertino, California). Materials are arranged by name of company or publication. Most pertain to mining, drilling, milling, and smelting. A few are from California. (Mss 170).
[Business]. Young Family Papers, ca. 1839-1911. Correspondence and business-related materials concerning the Young family of Paw Paw, Michigan, as well as correspondence relating to a number of other Michigan families including Butler, Carpenter, Comstock, Goodrich, Henry, Hibner, Maloney, Moyer, Nellie, Poucher, Richards, Shallenberger, Shekell, Toll, Tucker, Welch, and Wood. Interspersed throughout the collection are Civil War letters from members of the various families. (Wyles Mss 19).
Busteed, Richard [Civil War Union General]. One Civil War letter (ALS), re filling the ranks of the 165th Regiment New York Volunteers, 2nd Battalion Duryee Zouaves, and discussing the fine qualities of General Hull. [New York ?], 22 Nov. 1862. (Wyles SC 45).
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).
Butler, Samuel (1835-1902). English writer. Holdings include Evolution, Old and New (1879) [Darwin QH361.B8 1879], Selections from Previous Works (1884) [Darwin PR4349.B7 A16 1884], Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte (1890) [Spec PR4349.B7 E92 1890], On the Trapanese Origin of the Odyssey (1893) [Spec PR4349.B7 O5], Essays on Life, Art, and Science (1908) [Darwin PR4349.B7 A16 1908], God the Known and God the Unknown (1909) [Darwin BL200.B87], Life and Habit (1910) [Darwin QH366.B75 1910], Unconscious Memory (1910) [Darwin QH371.B8], The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1913) [Spec PR4349.B7 N6], Erewhon, or, Over the Range (1913) [Darwin PR4349.B7 E6 1913], The Humour of Homer (1913) [Darwin PR4349.B7 H8], Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (1913) [Darwin DG614.B8 1913], A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1914) [Darwin DU430.C3 B8 1914], The Way of All Flesh (1923) [Darwin PR4349.B7 W3 1923], and The Fair Haven (1938) [Darwin BL2775.B85 1938]. Fine press editions of Erewhon by Cheshire House (1931) [Spec PR4349.B7 E6 1931] and the Limited Editions Club (1934) [Spec PR6015.U98 Z3 B8], and The Way of All Flesh (1936) by the Limited Editions Club [Spec PR4349.B7 W3 1936].
Buzzell [Rolfe G.] Collection, 1970-1972. Articles, photos and papers relating to the 1970 Isla Vista riots, Buzzell's arrest, and subsequent legal action taken by him (Superior Court of the State of California for he County of Santa Barbara, No. 91214). (SBHC Mss 48).
Bynner, Witter (1881-1968). One typescript poem, “Two Marys,” with handwritten corrections, n.d. Also two b/w photos of Mary Austin, 1928, and Mary Lawton, n.d. (SC 44).
Byron, George Gordon (1785-1824). English poet. Holdings include English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) [Spec PR 4360.A1 1809a]; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) [Spec PR4357.A1 1812], with further cantos published in 1816 and 1818; The Bride of Abydos (1813) [Spec PR4355.A1 1813]; Lara (1814) [Spec PR4364.A1 1814 vault]; The Corsair (1814) [Spec PR4358.A1 1814a]; Hebrew Melodies (1815) [Spec PR4362.A1 1815]; The Siege of Corinth and Parisina (1816) [Spec PR4372.S5]; Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain, and Werner (1821) [Spec PR4368.A1 1821]; Marino Falicro, Doge of Venice and The Prophecy of Dante (1821) [Spec PR4366.A1 1821]; The Deformed Transformed (1824) [Spec PR4372.D4 1824a]; the four-volume set Works (1825) [Spec PR4350.E25]; Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron (1829) [PR4372.F8 1829]; and The Ravenna Journal (1928) [Printers Z239.2.C8 B97 1928]. Fine press editions of The Poetical Works of Lord Byron (1857) by Gall & Inglis [Printers Z239.G32 B8], The Prisoner of Chillon by Day & Son (1865) [Printers Z239.2.D3 B9] and Heron House (1993) [Printers Z239.F38 B97 1993], Manfred (1929) by Fanfrolico Press [Printers Z239.2.F7 B9], Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1931) by Harrison of Paris [Spec PR4357.A1 1931], Love Poems, with Portraits of Byron Beauties (1946) by Golden Eagle Press [Spec PR4353.G6 1946], and When We Two Parted (1962) by Pandora Press [Printers Z239.2.P28 B9]. Additionally, some of Byron’s poems have been set to music and recorded on 78 RPM records [PA ARVM-15777].