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History of Science and Technology
Materials relating to the history
of science and technology may be found in several
areas of Special Collections and in a number
of formats, including books, manuscripts, maps,
oral histories, and photographs. The following
list highlights some of the major sources, arranged
by broad subject categories. Please consult
Special Collections staff for further information.
General. Some printed works
and collections contain materials relating to
a number of subjects. These include:
- American
Religions Collection.
More than 30,000
books, as well as a large number of serials
and approximately 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts
mainly relating to 20th century
non-traditional religions and splinter groups
of larger religious bodies in North America.
Includes major sections relating to Astrology,
Christian Science, Hindu/Yoga, New Age, Scientology,
Spiritualism, Theosophy, and numerous other
groups and movements. Also includes significant
holdings in areas such as creationism and
evolution, holistic and New Age medicine (from
laetrile to aromatherapy), kabala, magick/witchcraft,
occult, parapsychology, UFOs and other unexplained
phenomenon.
- Center
for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI]
Collection. Papers and proceedings
from conferences and symposia such as: Conference
on the Technological Order (1961); Engineering
Foundation Research Conference on Technology
and Its Social Consequences (1965); Symposium
on the Technological Society (1965); Conference
on the Constitutionalization of Science (1969);
Pacem in Maribus, Preparatory Conference on
Ecology and Science Policy (1970); Pacem in
Maribus I: an International Convocation on
Frontiers of the Seas To Explore Peaceful
Uses of the Oceans and the Ocean Floor (1970);
Conference on Ecosystems (1971); Conference
on Expanding World Needs for Food and Fiber
and Protection of the Ecosystem (1971); Conference
on Social Futures relating to Health Care
(1972); Conference on Energy Policies and
the International System (1973); Conference
on Guidelines for a Global Science Policy
(1973); Legal-Political-Social-Economic Aspects
of Climate and Weather Modification (1973);
Symposium on the Strategic Defense Initiative
(1987). A number of tapes of the science
and technology sessions are available online
for listening/downloading at the Center for
the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio
Archive at Center
for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio
Archive at: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/csdi/index.html
(Mss 18).
- 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, clipping and
subject files, and numerous photographs of
the Santa Barbara area. (SBHC Mss 1).
- Early Printed Works.
Early and scarce editions of books, many
in Greek, Latin, and English, often discussing
a range of topics such as: Alessandro Piccolomini,
Della sfera del mondo … (1561); Henry
Pembroke, A View of Sir Isaac Newton’s
Philosophy (1728); George Berkeley, Siris:
A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries
Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water …
(1744); Johann Caspar Lavater, Essays
on Physiognomy (1789); Aristotle’s
Experienced Midwife (1791); Also, works
such as almanacs, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
- Almanacs. Early
editions, mainly American, often with information
on topics such as agriculture, astronomy,
and home remedies. Examples include: 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; Affleck’s Southern
Rural Almanac, and Plantation and Garden
Calendar, for 1851; and The Soldier’s
and Sailor’s Almanac for 1864.
- Dictionaries. Early
editions, with scientific terms, such as:
Edward Phillips, The New World of Words:
Or, A General English Dictionary …Together
with the Definitions of All Those Terms
That Conduce to the Understanding of any
of the Arts or Sciences … (1678); Elisha
Coles, An English Dictionary (1717);
N. Bailey, Dictionarium Britannicum
(1736); Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary
of the English Language (1755); R. Brookes,
A Dictionary of the World … (1772);
and Noah Webster, An American Dictionary
of the English Language (1830); Japanese
woodblock picture dictionary (1874).
- Encyclopedias.
Early editions, with sections on various
scientific topics, often with related illustrations,
including: Morokoshi Kinmo Zui (Japanese
woodblock print encyclopedia, with entries
on arms, minerals and plants of China, 1729);
Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia, or, An
Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
… (1750); John Barrow, A New and
Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
(1751); Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie,
ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des
arts et des métiers … (1751-1765); A
New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and
Sciences: Comprehending All Branches of
Useful Knowledge (2nd ed,
1763-1764) George Selby Howard, The New
Royal Cyclopaedia, and Encyclopaedia: Or,
Complete, Modern and Universal Dictionary
of Arts and Sciences (1788); Encyclopaedia,
or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and
Miscellaneous Literature … (First American
edition, 1798); The American Edition
of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1813);
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1833-1843);
Japanese atlas and encyclopedia (1840);
Library of General Knowledge: Embracing
History, Biography, Astronomy, Architecture,
Natural History, Poetry, Tales …(1851).
- Isla
Vista Archives, ca. 1954-1989 [bulk dates
1970-1982]. Isla Vista Community
Council (IVCC) / Isla Vista Municipal Advisory
Council (IVMAC) administrative records and
subject/issue files (including annexation,
health, housing, incorporation, land use,
law enforcement, planning, population demographics,
public safety, riots, transportation, UCSB,
youth services, and zoning). (SBHC Mss 41).
- Local History Files (SBHC
Mss 44). Mainly 1970s-1980s clippings
and other ephemeral printed material on a
wide range of topics, including agriculture,
chemical (toxic) waste, Clearview project,
County Planning Commission, ecology, environment,
fires/fire department, floods, nuclear power/weapons,
oil, oil spills, pollution, recycling, and
water.
- Trade Catalogs. The
Lawrence B. Trade Catalog Collection
contains more than 50,000 items, primarily
19th and early 20th century American trade
and advertising literature, with large sections
relating to a subjects such as agriculture,
automobiles, building materials, electrical
equipment, firearms, food and food processing,
handling equipment, hardware, heating and
ventilation systems, household goods and appliances,
industrial equipment and factory materials,
lighting, medicine, metals and metal goods,
metalworking equipment, mills and mining supplies,
mining, photography, printers’ supplies, radios,
railroad supplies, road surfaces, scientific
and industrial instruments, seed catalogs,
telephone and telegraph, television, textiles,
and water. There are additional related records
for Romaine’s bookselling business, Weathercock
House. Smaller numbers of trade catalogs
in the James C. Williams and Larry
Badash collections. Also, the Sound
Recording Catalog Collection contains
lists and other publications from the early
20th century by numerous recording
companies, mainly U.S.
- Travel and Exploration Narratives.
Early, first hand observations of many parts
of the world, often with detailed descriptions
and drawings of flora and fauna, geological
and geographical features. Examples early
printed works include: Jerónimo Lobo, A
Voyage to Abyssinia (1735); Edward Ives,
A Voyage from England to India, in the
Year MDCCLIV …Containing an Account of the
Diseases Prevalent in Admiral Watson’s Squadron:
A Description of most of the Trees, Shrubs,
and Plants of India … (1773); Arthur Phillip,
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany
Bay … (1789); Jonathan Carver, Three
Years Travels Throughout the Interior Parts
of North America … (1797); Howard Stansbury,
An Expedition to the Valley of the Great
Salt Lake of Utah, including a Description
of Its Geography, Natural History, and Minerals
… (1855).
- Tremaine [Katherine W.]
Collection., ca. 1937-1997 [bulk 1970s-1990s].
Mainly records of the Santa Barbara-based
Sunflower Foundation, which Tremaine established,
and through which she made contributions to
hundreds of local, state, and national organizations
such as the Coalition for Recyclable Waste,
Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights, Earth
Island Institute, Environmental Policy Institute,
Health & Energy Institute, Institute for
Technology and Development, Northwest Coalition
for Alternatives to Pesticides, and Oceanic
Research and Communication Alliance. (SBHC
mss 43).
- Wyles [William] Collection.
Includes a wide range of printed materials,
including geological surveys, medical practices,
mining, railroads and transportation technology,
warfare and weapons technology during the
Civil War era, and medical history of the
Civil War era.
Agriculture/Ranching. Extensive
printed materials on day-to-day life and technologies
employed in the 19th century American
West, primarily in the William Wyles Collection.
Also, a number of manuscript collections such
as:
- 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).
- 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).
- Easton [Robert E.] Collection,
ca. 1893-1968. Mainly papers and ledgers
re Easton's business dealings, especially
the Sisquoc Ranch Co. (SBHC Mss 55).
- Easton [Robert O.] Oral
History. Recollections of Easton 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 Max Brand.
(OH 9).
- 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).
- Hoyt [Dibblee] Collection,
ca. 1930s-1940s. Horse racing records,
photos, and clippings from Rancho San Julian,
near Lompoc. (SBHC Mss 70).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- Old Town Goleta Oral History
Project, 2000. Includes interviews with:
Raphael Trancoso, Ranch Foreman and Pioneer
Merchant; Al Jaramillo: Life on the Bishop
Ranch. (OH 73).
- Rancho Life in California,
n.d. 20 b/w photographs with captions.
(SC 729).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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)
Astronomy. Early printed
works include: Pierre Gassendi’s Institutio
Astronomica (1653) which reprints Galileo’s
Sidereus Nuncius; Richard Grey, Memoria
Technica: or, A New Method of Artificial Memory,
Applied to and Exemplified in Chronology, History,
Geography, Astronomy … (1730); W. Derham,
Astro-theology (1738); T. Rutherforth,
A System of Natural Philosophy, Being a Course
of Lectures in Mechanics, Optics, Hydrostatics,
and Astronomy … (1748).
Automobiles and Automotive Industry.
Printed materials
(including advertising literature), road maps,
and photographs pertaining to automobiles, billboards,
bridges, freeways, gas stations, roads, road
construction, streets, and other topics relating
to the impact of the automobile. Manuscript
holdings include:
- 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).
- French Motor Expedition
to China, Tibet, and Mongolia Photograph Album,
ca. 1914-1916. (Bernath Mss 81).
- 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).
Aviation. Manuscript
holdings include:
- 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).
- Community Development
and Conservation Collection [CDCC].
Includes photographs and clippings related
to Santa Barbara airport and aviation; (SBHC
Mss 1).
- Northrop [John K.] Oral
History, 1972. Life history, including
Northrop Aviation and the “Flying Wing.”
Central Coast Regional Projects. (OH 71).
- 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).
- Romaine [Lawrence B.]
Trade Catalog Collection. Three boxes
of trade catalogs relating to aviation. (Mss
107).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
Biology/Botany. Early
printed works include: No-gyo-zensho
(Japanese plant guide, 1697); Philip
Miller, The Gardener’s Dictionary … As also,
the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory,
and Vineyard (1733); Carl von Linné, Genera
Plantarum … (1743); James Lee, An Introduction
to Botany… (1776); William Curtis, Flora
Londinensis … (1777). Related manuscript
collections include:
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- Center for the Study of
Democratic Institutions [CSDI]] Collection.
Includes discussions
on issues such as the influence of television
on society and the impact of technological
change on agencies such as the Federal Communications
Commission [FCC]. (Mss 18)
- China Photograph Albums,
ca. 1905-1907. Three photograph albums
with 224 b/w photographs, many snapshots taken
by German soldier(s) stationed in China, including
areas such as Tsingtau. Includes images of
individual soldiers and groups, troops on
the march, boats, harbors, coast, laying of
[electrical?] line, street scenes, portraits
of Chinese, buildings, and monuments. (Bernath
Mss 99).
- Gahagan [William G.]
Collection, ca. 1940s. Includes propaganda
magazines, pamphlets, and leaflets used both
in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters of war;
OWI outpost reports; U.N. Conference press
releases, circulars, correspondence and photos
relating to a public relations officer for
the Office of War Information’s Overseas Branch
in San Francisco. (Bernath Mss 8).
- Hahn
[Harley] Collection, ca. 1986-2002.
Copies of publications by Santa Barbara author
Hahn, on the internet, computer programming,
and related subjects. (Mss 186).
- Jewish Diaspora News
Photograph Collection, ca. 1934-1962.
(Bernath Mss 109).
- Romaine [Lawrence B.]
Trade Catalog Collection. Two boxes of
trade catalogs on radios, two boxes on telephones
and telegraphs, and one box on television.
(Mss 107).
- United States Army Signal
Corps Film Unit Records, 1945-1946. Large
binder containing caption sheets, critical
evaluations, and other paperwork relating
to films shot during 1945 and 1946 by soldiers
serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps film
units. Events covered include the war crimes
trials of two Japanese generals, Tomoyuki
Yamashita and Masaharu Homma; German atrocities
discovered in Hanover; the liberation of American
POWs; reactions among soldiers to V-E Day
celebrations; activities of the Red Cross;
the plight of displaced persons; the conversion
of the port of Bremen for use by American
forces; and even boxing matches held in Manila.
Also included are several Motion Picture Coverage
Reports, marked “Confidential,” which discuss
issues of technique while evaluating the output
of the various film units. (Bernath Mss 139).
Darwin/Evolution Collection. Nearly
3,000 volumes, including first, signed, and
limited editions of books by Charles Darwin
and others engaged in the debate on evolution
and studies in related fields such as anthropology,
botany, genetics, geology, heredity, natural
history, population, and religion. Includes
early works by other members of the Darwin family,
such as Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden:
A Poem in Two Parts (1789); Erasmus Darwin,
Phytologia, or The Philosophy of Agriculture
and Gardening … (1800); Robert Waring Darwin,
Principia Botanica, or, A Concise and Easy
Introduction to the Sexual Botany of Linnaeus
… (1810).
- Darwin, Charles (1809-1882).
Notable holdings of Darwin’s printed works
include: Narrative of the Surveying Voyages
of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and
Beagle (1839); Journal of Researches
into the Geology and Natural History of the
Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle
(1839); The Structure and Distribution
of Coral Reefs (1842); Geological
Observations on Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands,
and on South America (1851); On the
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
(1859); The Movement and Habits of Climbing
Plants (1865); The Variation of Animals
and Plants Under Domestication (1868);
The Descent of Man (1871); The Expression
of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872);
Insectivorous Plants (1875); The
Power of Movement in Plants (1880); The
Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action
of Worms (1881). Also numerous later
and foreign language editions, as well as
limited and fine press editions.
- Darwin/Evolution Manuscript
Collection, ca.1786-1968 [bulk dates 1840s-1920s].
Correspondence, diaries, pamphlets, and
other manuscripts relating to Charles Darwin
and others interested in the theory of evolution,
including Bernard Darwin, Francis Darwin,
Julian Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Stuart
Mill, Richard Owen, Herbert Spencer, Marie
Stopes, and Anna and Edward Burnett Tylor.
(Mss 28).
- Community Development
and Conservation Collection [CDCC].
Subject files include materials on earthquakes,
and fires,. (SBHC Mss 1).
- Driscoll [Mrs. Thomas]
Oral History. Interview with a prominent
Santa Barbara resident, including personal
experiences in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Central Coast Regional Projects. (OH 34).
- Santa Barbara Earthquake
Photographs, 1925. 50 b/w photographs,
many relating to the 1925 earthquake. (SC
700).
- UCSB Public History Interviews,
1978. Mainly interviews with Santa Barbara
area fire department, forest service, and
government employees re fires and firefighting,.
Also some interviews re water issues and the
1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. (OH 76).
- Willson [Charles Devon]
Collection, ca. 1918-1925. Mainly correspondence
to Willson, manager of the El Mirasol Hotel
in Santa Barbara, about hotel matters. Includes
some correspondence relating to the 1925 earthquake.
(SC 701).
Engineering and Construction. Manuscript
holdings include:
- 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).
- Conrad [Albert G.] Papers,
1979. Typescript autobiography, with
photographs, of the Yale University professor
of electrical engineering and, later, UCSB
dean of the College of Engineering and professor
of electrical engineering in the 1960s. (FACP
6).
- Romaine [Lawrence B.]
Trade Catalog Collection. 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).
- Thailand Civil Engineering
Report, 1950s. Includes numerous b/w
photographs. (Bernath Mss 164).
- World War II German Engineer
Bridging Battalion Photograph Album, 1941-1943.
About 265 b/w photos, with captions in
German, including troops on eastern front,
convoys and bridges, in Poland and Russia,
captured fighter and bomber aircraft, artillery,
tanks, barracks, and scenes with local population.
(SC 854).
- World
War II - U. S. Forces in the Pacific Photograph
Album, ca. 1942-1945. World War II
era photograph album of U.S. forces in the
Pacific, ca. 1942-1945, containing 300+ photos,
most black/white but some color prints and
a few picture postcards, few with captions.
Includes a number of shots of Naval personnel,
bulldozers, and camps - apparently taken by
a member of a Seabee unit. Also, a number
of shots of local scenery and inhabitants,
apparently New Guinea, New Hebrides (shown
on French postcards), and Okinawa. The last
part of the album has some miscellany, including
clippings about Seabees on Okinawa, and a
few pieces of Japanese paper currency and
military currency. (Bernath Mss 73).
- World War II - U. S.
Military Construction on Okinawa Photograph
Album, 1945. 90+ b/w snapshots, with
typed captions, showing the 801st
Battalion at work on roads and buildings such
as Quonset huts for the hospital, damage wrought
by a typhoon in Oct. 1945, and Japanese prisoners
of war also working on the various construction
projects. (Bernath Mss 72).
- Alternative Press Collection.
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 environmental, issues,
with titles such as Earth Times (San
Francisco, CA, 1970) and Iowa Environmental
News (Ames, IA, 1971). (Mss 169). Some
longer runs of newspapers such as Green
Revolution, are cataloged separately.
- Climatological
Data, 1957-1973 [bulk 1959-1961]. Climatological
data sheets from Point Mugu, Santa Barbara,
Santa Maria; also shorter runs of data, in
folders, from areas such as Coal Oil Point,
Ellwood, Punta Gorda, Rincon Point, Goleta,
Carpinteria, Summerland, and Montecito. Includes
hourly data on wind, sky cover, waves, and
visibility. (SBHC Mss 65).
- Community Development
and Conservation Collection [CDCC]. Primary
focus on the Santa Barbara area, with organization,
subject, and clipping files, mainly 1930s-1980s,
relating to a variety of environmental issues.
Includes files for groups such as the Garden
Club of America, Garden Club of Santa Barbara
and Montecito Institute of Nature Study, Nature
Conservancy, Santa Barbara Beautiful, Santa
Barbara Underseas Foundation Santa Ynez Water
Conservation District, Save the Redwoods League,
Shoreline Planning Association of California,
and Sierra Club. (SBHC Mss 1).
- County Resource
Management Office Collection, 1983-1996.
Environmental News packets of photocopied
clippings offered by the subscription service
run by the [Santa Barbara] County News Service.
(SBHC Mss 25).
- Social Protest Collection.
ca. 1943-1992 [bulk dates 1965-1975].
Pamphlets, flyers, announcements, catalogs,
journals and newsletters, and other printed
material relating to a wide range of issues
including ecology/environment, with items
such as a pamphlet from the 1991 UCSB Radical
Environmentalism Conference and various pamphlets
about anarchist environmentalism. (Mss 183).
Geology/Geography. Early
printed works include reports of geological
surveys and expeditions such as: United
States, Army, Corps of Engineers, Report
of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New
Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green
Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in
1859 …with Geological Report by Prof. J. Newberry
(1866). See also: sections on Darwin
and Mining. Manuscript holdings include:
- 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).
- Cloud [Preston] Papers,
ca. 1913-1989. Correspondence, organizational,
administrative, research, subject, and teaching
files, writings, and photographs of a UCSB
professor internationally renowned for his
work in paleontology, geology, biogeology,
and environmental studies. (FACP 5).
- Utah Topographical Records.
Three sketchbooks, U. S. Army, Engineer
Department. (Wyles Mss 32).
Government. Manuscript
holdings include:
- Hart [Gary K.] Papers.
Legislative bill
and subject files, mainly 1970s-1980s, for
a California legislator representing the Santa
Barbara area, including topics such
as abortion, agriculture, air pollution, alcohol,
automobiles, drugs, energy, environment,
fish and game, flood control, gasoline shortage
and pricing, land use, nuclear power plants,
oil, pollution, public utilities, recycling,
sewage, smoking, space program - California,
sterilization, transportation, and water.
(Mss 41).
- Rains [Omer L.] Papers.
Legislative bill and subject files, mainly
1970s-early 1980s, for a California legislator
representing the Santa Barbara area, including
topics such as environment and energy,
health and social problems, labor/industry,
oil, public utilities, and transportation/motor
vehicles.
- Vasconcellos [John] Papers,
ca. 1946-2005. Biographical information,
bills, and other material relating to subjects
such as AIDS, health, medical marijuana, self
esteem, and Silicon Valley, for a California
legislator representing the San Jose area.
(HPA Mss 47).
Land Use and Planning. Manuscript
holdings include:
- 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. (OH 18).
- California Coastal Commission
Collection. The bulk of collection consists
of packets assembled for Commission members,
with agenda, minutes, and supporting documentation
such as applications, reports, and fact sheets.
The issues generally pertain to Santa Barbara
and nearby counties. (SBHC Mss 39).
- Community Development
and Conservation Collection, ca. 1920s-1980s.
Assembled by Santa Barbara community activist
Pearl Chase., includes records of numerous
groups with environmental focus, such as:
California Conservation Council, California
and Santa Barbara Roadside Council, Citizens'
Planning Association, Community Arts Association,
Plans and Planting Committee, and Garden Clubs
of America. (SBHC Mss 1).
- Whitehead
[Richard S.] Papers, ca. 1909-1974. Alphabetical
and geographical files pertaining to land
use and planning, from the County of Santa
Barbara Director of Planning at the time of
the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill. (SBHC Mss
9).
Manufacturing. Manuscript
holdings include:
- 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).
- 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).
- Romaine [Lawrence B.]
Trade Catalog Collection. Numerous categories,
including building materials (24 boxes); electrical
equipment (32 boxes); foods and food processing
(8 boxes); heating and ventilation systems
(31 boxes); heavy equipment and machinery
(2 boxes); household goods and appliances
(16 boxes); industrial equipment and factory
materials (62 boxes); metals (processed) and
metal goods (10 boxes); metals (raw and unfinished)
(7 boxes); metalworking equipment (31 boxes);
mills and milling supplies (1 box); plumbing
(28 boxes); pumps (9 boxes); and woodworking
(20 boxes). (Mss 107).
Maps and Cartography. Early
16th - 18th century maps
by European cartographers such as Blaeu, Jansson,
and Mercator (John and Peggy Maximus Collection).
Also atlases such as Robert Morden, Geography
Rectified… (1693). Other early maps and
atlases of North America and California, and
19th century maps depicting the Civil
War and U.S. expansion [mainly Wyles Collection].
Maritime. Printed materials,
including accounts of early voyages, travel
to the California Gold Rush by ship, and shipbuilding
technology during the Civil War. Also, manuscript
materials such as:
- Civil War
- U.S.S. Skirmisher.
Civil War ship’s logbook, 1862-1863.
(Wyles SC 509).
- Davis, F. B.
Civil War sailor's diary, aboard the USS
Quaker City, 1863. (Wyles SC 414).
- Ericsson [John] Collection,
ca. 1862-1866. Civil War era documents
and correspondence re Monitor and other
naval vessels. (Wyles SC 919).
- Grant
[Campbell] Collection, 1861-1864. Includes
eight blockade run invoices and letters
(letter press copies from William P. Campbell,
an agent in St. George, Bermuda, to Col.
Sewell L. Fremont in Wilmington, North
Carolina. The papers accompanied cargo
that was run through the Union blockade
by Confederate or British blockade runners
from February to August 1864. (Wyles Mss
49).
- Panama Canal
- Panama and Southwest
U.S. Photograph Collection, ca. early 1900s.
31 b/w images, including snapshots of
Canal Zone, 1909; unidentified mounted albumen
prints of apparently a Southwest town and
inhabitants (signs are in English); and
two of a boy on horseback. (Wyles Mss 132).
- Panama Canal Picture
Postcard Collection, ca. 1908-1910.
77 picture postcards, most in color with
printed captions. (Wyles SC 627).
- Panama
Canal/ Southwest U.S. / Europe Photograph
Album, 1926. 250+ b/w snapshots,
apparently of a family’s 1926 travels, including
the Panama Canal, Texas, New Mexico, Grand
Canyon, and Europe. Includes shots of ships
and locks (Panama Canal); Elliott family
and oil wells (Brady, Texas); Albuquerque,
Santa Fe, Indian pueblos at Taos and [Bandelier?]
(New Mexico); Grand Canyon and Colorado
River views; Isle of Mull, Isle of Skye,
west coast and lochs of Scotland; Verona
and Italian Alps. (Bernath 71).
- Panama Canal Stereo
Glass Slide Set, 1910. Stereo viewer
and 48 accompanying black and white stereo
glass slides, with views of the Panama Canal
and its environs. (Bernath Mss 167). U.
S. Navy in Nicaragua and Panama Photograph
Album, ca. 1930. (Bernath Mss 130).
- Romaine [Lawrence B.]
Trade Catalog Collection. 13 boxes on
boats (incl. engines and parts, hardware,
machinery, boating supplies, manufacturers,
motorboat racing, steamship lines, and yacht
clubs). (Mss 107).
- Psuik [Robert Bruce]
/ Navy Pier Oral History, 1984. (OH
116).
- Spanish American War and
aftermath.
- U.S. Marine Officer’s
Philippine Photograph Album, ca. 1905-1906.
(Wyles Mss 139).
- Great White Fleet Stereographs,
1908. (Bernath Mss 126).
- Travel by ship, 19c-early
20c.
- Collier
[Thomas S.] Diary, 1868-1869. Shipboard
diary of Collier, boatswain on the ‘Shenandoah’
from July 1868 to April 1869, and previously
on the ‘U.S.S. Oneida,’ May 1867-July 1868.
Contains a blend of poems, philosophical
ruminations, and diary entries re conditions
on board the Shenandoah and of places visited
. Most of the diary describes the trip
back from the Pacific, the ports visited
including Yokohama, Nagasaki, Hong Kong,
Batavia (Java), Cape Town, and Jamestown
(St. Helena). (Wyles SC 58).
- 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).
- Keller Latin America
Diary, 1895. Manuscript pocket diary
of U.S.citizen [?] Keller, traveling by
steamship, with numerous stops at ports
from Valparaiso, Chile, to Panama and Colon.
(SC 852).
- 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).
- 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).
- Pierson, L. E.
One letter (ALS) to Pierson’s brother re
whaling. Sandwich Islands, n.d. (Wyles
SC 176).
- Shippee [William Henry]
Whaling Correspondence, 1860-1862.
Mainly to father. (Wyles SC 991).
- Whaling Ship ‘Almira’
Account Books, 1866-1870. (Wyles Mss
110).
- World War II
- U.
S. S. Sharon Victory in the Pacific Photograph
Album, 1945-1946. Album containing
35+ b/w photos, all with captions, of a
U.S. sailor serving on the U.S.S. Sharon
Victory during the latter stages of World
War II in the Pacific. Includes photos of
the ship and fellow sailors, as well as
a number of before and after the war images
of Manila, and scenes of Shanghai, and the
Panama Canal. (Bernath Mss 57).
- Other
- India
[Calcutta and Poona] Photograph Album, ca.
1901-1902. 90+ b/w images, mainly
Calcutta and its environs, especially boats,
buildings, and scenes around the Hooghly
River. A number show the SS or HMS Carthage.
Also a few images of Shanghai and the port
at Nagasaki. (some showing the Carthage
taking on coal). (Bernath Mss 52).
- Vera
Cruz, Mexico Photograph Collection, 1914.
30 b/w photographs of the U.S. occupation
of Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 1914, including
picture postcards and panoramas, with images
of U.S. troops, ships, Vera Cruz Harbor,
Vera Cruz street scenes and prisoners, recreational
activities of sailors (many from the U.S.S.
Arkansas), and one image of President Taft
arriving on board the U.S.S. Arkansas.
(Bernath Mss 32).
- [Yemen]. 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.
Also a few photos of Gibraltar, Malta, and
Port Said. (Bernath Mss 50).
Medicine and Medical History. Books
and manuscripts, many relating to the Civil
War era, including correspondence and diaries
relating to illness, injuries, medical treatment,
death, and what today might be called post-traumatic
stress syndrome. Early books include: Thomas
Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1658);Benjamin
Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations
(1809); Thomas Green, The Universal Herbal,
or Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary
(1820); Confederate States Medical and Surgical
Journal (1865); Jonathan Letterman, Medical
Recollections of the Army of the Potomac
(1866); United States Sanitary Commission, Surgical
Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1871).
Manuscript holdings include:
- Githens [William H.] Civil
War Correspondence, 1863, 1864. Two
letters [ALS] from Githens, Assistant
Surgeon, 78th Illinois, to his
wife, including description of hospitals and
burying the dead. (Wyles SC 966).
- Hardenberg [Daniel S.]
Papers, 1859-1868. Correspondence and
financial materials, including Civil War era,
of Hardenberg, Assistant Surgeon of the 56th
New York Infantry. (Wyles SC 965).
- Hill, Edward L. Civil
War surgeon’s journal, much of it written
by Dr. Hill’s orderly, Mr. McEvoy, 1861-1863.
(Wyles SC 907).
- Himoe [Stephen O.] Diaries,
1862-1865. Two Civil War diaries, with
a short autobiographical sketch of Himoe,
a surgeon with the 15th Wisconsin Infantry.
(Wyles SC 513).
- Knox [Samuel B. P.] Papers,
ca. 1898-1914. Letters and documents
of a Civil War surgeon with the 49th
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and
later a resident of Santa Barbara. (Wyles
SC 402).
- Kroc Foundation Collection,
ca. 1967-1985. Mainly grant and conference
files of a medical research foundation located
in Santa Ynez, California, and dedicated to
research in the fields of diabetes, multiple
sclerosis, and arthritis. The foundation was
started by Ray A. Kroc, founder of McDonald’s
Corporation, and administered by his brother
Robert. (Mss 61).
- Patent Medicine Trade
Card Collection, ca. 1870-1890. (Mss
225).
- Romaine [Lawence B.] Trade
Catalog Collection. Two boxes on dentistry
(incl. crowns, drugs, equipment, healthcare
treatises, home products, and supplies); four
boxes on home remedies and quack cures;
one box on hypnotism; and twelve boxes
on medicine (incl. artificial limbs,
chiropody, chiropractics, convolescent homes,
drugs and pharmaceuticals, eyes and eyeglasses,
hearing aids, hospital equipment and supplies,
hospitals, health clubs, and sanitariums,
osteopathy, surgical instruments and apparatus,
trusses and supporters. (Mss 107).
- Southern
India Family Photograph Collection, ca. 1940s-1959.
100+ b/w images, most apparently relating
to an Indian woman (Marie [?]) who, in the
early 1950s, was a student at the Christian
Medical College, Vellore, India. Includes
snapshots of friends, relatives, and staff
members (some with Ida Scudder, founder of
the college), as well as group photos of college
students and staff, and a group photo of the
13th Indian Congress of Radiology,
Poona, 1959. (Bernath Mss 74).
- 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).
- World War I - U.S. Signal
Corps Photograph Collection, 1918. 102
b/w professional photographs, with images
of fighting in the trenches, prisoners of
war, refugees, hospitals, nurses, and other.
(Bernath Mss 83).
Military / Warfare. Printed
works and manuscript collections on topics such
as arms, equipment, explosives, defense industry,
military strategy, and military transport.
See also: Maritime section.
- Romaine [Lawrence B.]
Trade Catalog Collection. One box
on explosives; two boxes on firearms;
one box on pyrography. (Mss 107).
- Japanese in Manchuria
Photograph Album, 1930s. 190 b/w snapshots,
showing one Japanese soldier’s experience
in Manchuria in the 1930s. Includes scenes
of barracks like, fellow soldiers, friends
and family, life in the field, and a few
images of local landscape and people. (Bernath
Mss 136).
- Civil War. Numerous
books, published at the time and later analyses
such as: Artillery Hell: the Employment
of Artillery at Antietam (1995); Cannons:
An Introduction to Civil War Artillery (1985);
and Civil War Arms Makers and Their Contracts
(1998). Also manuscript holdings such as:
- Civil War Arms, 1860-1861.
13 items – bills, notes, letter, re
purchase of guns from Baltimore arms dealer,
Magruder, Taylor & Roberts. Includes
mention of Colts, Whitneys, Smith &
Wessons, as well as cartridges and powder
flasks. Some orders are from Southern buyers
in North and South Carolina. (Wyles SC
961).
- Spanish American War to
World War I
- Far
East Photograph Albums, ca. 1900-1901.
One album, handcolored photos, of Japan
(temples and other scenes), some with printed
captions, and one album with 34 images from
China and Japan, many with handwritten captions.
Images from China include European/Western
soldiers, ca. time of the Boxer Rebellion.
(Wyles Mss 57).
- 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).
- Mexican Revolution /
U.S. Navy Picture Postcard Collection].
Ten black/white picture postcards documenting
U.S. Navy actions, mainly of the U.S.S.
Maryland along the west coast of Mexico
during the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1915.
Includes images of the ‘Maryland’ leaving
San Diego Harbor, at Matazlan and Tuxedina
Bay, and several photos of torpedoes fired
at Mexican ships. (Wyles SC 948).
- World War I and Aftermath.
- British
Army in Pakistan and Northern India Photograph
Album, ca. 1917. 72 snapshots
of Baluchistan and Waziristan (now Pakistan),
and Northern India (Ferozepore, Dalhousie,
and Ranikhet). Includes both military
photos of soldiers, camps, and camel transport,
as well as local scenes and people. (SC
836).
- 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).
- Cuba
/ Haiti Photograph Album, ca. late 1920s.
109 b/w prints, most with captions
in English, apparently compiled by an
American sailor attached to the USS Wright
on its visits to Cuba and Haiti during
the late 1920s. Includes a number of
photos of the Wright, its planes, and
its officers and crew, as well as views
of other naval vessels, some taken from
the air. A few photos show scenes at Guantanamo
Bay (including one of a baseball game).
(Bernath Mss 40).
- Driscoll
[Thomas] Collection, 1836-1953 [bulk 1890-1918].
Mainly World War I photographs, pamphlets,
intelligence reports, newspaper clippings,
and correspondence (also incl. Theodore
Roosevelt and Gen. Sheridan letters),
as well as some 19c photographs of Brazil,
collected by Driscoll, who served as in
the U.S. Army's 91st Division during and
after the war. (Bernath Mss 7).
- French Soldier’s Turkey-Syria
Photograph Album, ca. 1919-1921. 100+
small black/white snapshots, with views
of Istanbul and its environs, festival,
market and street scenes, views of the
Armenian and Turkish quarter in Aintab
(N. Syria), Aleppo, Deir er Zor, French
military at various sites, military and
other ships, harbor, mosques and minarets,
rural areas, horses and camels being used
for transport, rubble and damaged buildings.
(Bernath Mss 90).
- Great War Collection,
ca. 1910-1922. Papers and records
of individual units (many British), government
documents, photographs, scrapbooks, maps,
pamphlets, serials, and several hundred
books (cataloged separately). (Bernath
Mss 20).
- Kreutzberg [John]
Collection, 1917. Correspondence
and photographs of an American who served
in the French army during World War I
and drove an ambulance contributed by
his home town of Lake Bluff, Illinois.
(Bernath Mss 22).
- World War I - U.S.
Signal Corps Photograph Collection, 1918.
102 b/w professional photographs, with
images of tanks, planes, fighting in the
trenches, convoys, artillery, battle scenes,
troops on the march, transport by trucks,
rail, boats, and horse/mule-drawn wagons,
towns and villages under siege and in
ruins. (Bernath Mss 83).
- World War Through
the Stereoscope, ca. 1914-1918. Boxed
set of 75 stereoscopic views, World War
I scenes, by the Keystone View Co. (Bernath
Mss 85).
- World War II and Aftermath.
- 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).
- Japan - Post World War
II Photograph Album, ca. 1946. 142
black/ white snapshots with handwritten
captions, along with 10 loose b/w photos
and other ephemera, belonging to an American
GI who apparently was in Japan after WWII,
around 1946. Mostly Tokyo, also places
like Kamakura. Includes images of Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel, many other
buildings (some with war damage), embassies,
temples, gardens, street scenes, Ginza,
rickshaws, and fellow soldiers. (Bernath
Mss 88).
- World
War II - Philippines, New Guinea, Okinawa
Photograph Collection, ca. 1940s.
More than 1,000 mostly World War II b/w
photos, loose and in three photograph albums,
many lacking identification. Includes scenes
in Manila, Lingayen, Laoag, and other Philippine
towns, many showing destruction of the war;
railroad yards at Tarlac, Luzon; local population,
villages and scenes in Philippines and Biak
Island, New Guinea; scenes in Okinawa, including
surrender of Japanese forces there. Also,
U.S. and Japanese military aircraft (intact
and destroyed); naval landing-craft during
U.S. landing at Lingayen in Jan. 1945; U.S.
military camps and personnel; numerous scenes
in the U.S.(Ohio, Florida, California),
many with soldiers and sailors with family
and friends; 1947 Cleveland air-show; and
other post-war travel photos. (Bernath
Mss 38).
- Post-World War II.
- American Military Mission
War School – Turkey Photograph Album, 1947. (Bernath
Mss 145).
- G.E. Tempo Records.
Unclassified documents and reports,
ca. 1957-1969, of the Santa Barbara based
defense research arm of General Electric
Company. (Mss 139).
-
Guantanamo Bay Collection,
ca. 1959-1980s. Pamphlets, newsletters,
blueprints, tracts, and other materials,
mainly about the U.S. Naval Base (GTMO),
including items issued by the U.S. and
Cuban governments. (Bernath Mss 96).
Mining. Printed works
and manuscripts, many pertaining to the California
Gold Rush and other mining endeavors in the
West. Also some materials from other parts
of the world. Early printed materials include:
Francisco Javier de Gamboa, Comentarios a
las ordenanzas de minas (1761); France,
Intendance de Lyon, Ordonnance de M. l’intendant
de la ville et généralité de Lyon: portant réglement
pour la police des mines de houille ou charbon
de terre… (1782); John Muller, The Attack
and Defense of Fortified Places …Containing
…III. A Treatise on Mines (1791); Albert
M. Gilliam, Travels in Mexico, during the
Years 1843 and 44; Including a Description of
California, the Principal Cities and Mining
Districts of that Republic … (1847); John
Sherer, The Gold-finder of Australia …
(1853); John Charles Fremont, The Exploring
Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and
California …with Recent Notices of the Gold
Region … (1853); Geological Survey of California:
Report on the Geology of the Coast Mountains;
Embracing Their Agricultural Resources and Mineral
Productions. Also, Portions of the Middle and
Northern Mining Districts (1855). Manuscript
holdings include:
- 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).
- Alaska / Klondike Magic
Lantern Slides, 1898-1912. (Wyles Ms
143).
- California Gold Miners
Scale, ca. 1850s-1860s. (Wyles Mss 142).
- [California Miners’ Payroll].
Monthly ledger sheets, Feb. 1877 – Dec.
1878, for Consolidated Mining Co., Dardenelles
Consolidated General Mining Co., and others,
all located in Forest Hill, Placer County,
California. Lists names, mining occupations,
and duties, including one entry for a Chinese
water carrier, “Wa Saiuf.” (Wyles SC 939).
- 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).
- Hidalgo State [Mexico]
Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1900. Series
of 12 black/white panoramic photographs, with
captions, mainly of the plaza and surrounding
mining area of Mineral del Monte, in the State
of Hidalgo, Mexico. (SC 901).
- 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, who wrote Australians
and the Gold Rush: California and Down Under,
1849-1854, as well as Chile, Peru,
and the California Gold Rush of 1849. (Wyles
Mss 20).
- Money [Anton K.] Oral
History. Reminiscences of a mining engineer,
who describes the scenic beauty and hardships
he encountered while exploring Canada’s mining
frontier during the 1920s. (OH 68).
- Romaine [Lawrence B.]
Trade Catalogs. Ten boxes on mining (incl.
mills and crushers, mining equipment,
and supplies). (Mss 107).
- Savage Mining Company
(Virginia, Nevada). Daily report
and vouchers, 1876-1898. (Wyles SC 896).
- 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).
- 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).
- Spaulding Family Papers,
ca. 1824-1932. Includes a California
Gold Rush diary (1849), related correspondence,
and newspaper articles. (Wyles Mss
141).
- 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. (Bernath Mss 100).
- Tyson [Seth] Letters,
1853, 1855. Six letters (ALS) from Seth
H. Tyson, a young man from Philadelphia, mostly
to his mother, concerning his California Gold
Rush experiences in Calaveras County, 1853,
1855, including the ups and downs of prospecting,
the hard work, problems with lack of water
in the rivers, difficult financial dealings,
and general uncertainty of life in the gold
fields. (Wyles SC 253).
- 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), and other.
Also includes 15 loose cyanotypes, most of
a construction project, apparently to dam
up a river, possibly northern California.
(Wyles SC 955).
- 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).
Natural History. Early
printed works include: Pliny the Elder,Historia
mundi … (1530); Pierre Belon, De aquatilibus
libro duo (1553);Jean Bodin, Vniversae
naturae theatrvm … (1596); Thomas Browne,
Pseudodoxia epidemica … (1658); Thomas
Sprat, The History of the Royal-Society of
London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge
… (1667); Robert Plot, The Natural History
of Oxford-shire … (1676); Louis Daniel Le
Comte, Memoirs and Observations Topographical,
Physical, Mathematical, Mechanical, Natural,
Civil, Ecclesiastical … (1697); Lionel Wafer,
A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus
of America … (1704); John Trenchard, The
Natural History of Superstition (1705);
Richard Rawlinson, Miscellanies on Several
Curious Subjects … (1714); John Woodward,
The Natural History of the Earth … (1726);
J.-B. Du Halde, A Description of the Empire
of China and Chinese Tartary, Together with
the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet … (1738);
Carl von Linné, Genera plantarum (1743);
Miguel Venegas, A Natural and Civil History
of California … (1759); and William Smellie,
The Philosophy of Natural History (1790).
Also, manuscript holdings such as:
- 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 2000The 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.
Prominent places and themes include Baja,
barns and farms, Big Sur, Carmel [CA], Central
Coast [CA], Channel Islands, Death Valley,
ghost towns, Hawaii, Hollister Ranch [CA],
landscapes, Malibu [CA], Marin County [CA],
ocean views, Oregon, Oxnard [CA], rock formations,
surfing, trees, wildflowers, and Yosemite.
(Mss 228).
- Peattie
[Donald Culross and Louise Redfield] Papers,
1912-1984. Correspondence, financial
records, lectures and talks, notebooks, photographs,
project and research files, scrapbooks, writings,
and other materials mainly pertaining to naturalist,
author, and editor Donald Culross Peattie,
along with some similar materials for poet
and novelist Louise Redfield Peattie. Also
includes some biographical and personal files
of the Peatties, who lived for many years
in Santa Barbara. (Mss 94)
- Severy [Hazel W.] Oral
History, 1972. Interview with the UCSB
professor and former head of the Department
of Natural Resources. Subjects include Stanford
University, David Starr Jordan, Pacific College
of Osteopathy, and UCSB. History of Science
Project. (OH 83).
The Nuclear Age. Manuscript
holdings include:
- 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).
- Hiroshima Photograph Album,
latter 1940s. (Bernath Mss 134).
- Japan Photographs, ca.
1945-1947. 160+ black/white snapshots,
including some of Hiroshima. (Bernath Mss
149).
- Kohn [Walter] Papers.
Includes sections on Global Peace and Security
and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
(IGCC), with some files pertaining to nuclear
arms issues. (FACP 34).
- Libby [Willard F.] Oral
History, 1975-1977. Interview with Libby
regarding his career, association with
Los Alamos and Oppenheimer, C14 dating., by
UCSB graduate student. (OH 58).
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Collection, ca. 1980s-2003. Annual reports,
bulletins, newsletters, published studies,
programs, audiotapes, ephemera, artifacts,
material relating to the Distinguished Peace
Leadership Award and World Citizen Award,
and files of Dean Babst. (Mss 203).
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Oral History. Mainly interviews with
Frank Kelly and David Krieger.
Oil. Books, pamphlets,
reports, clippings, manuscripts, maps, photographs,
reports and related materials mainly concerning
the development of the oil industry along the
central California coast, the 1969 Santa Barbara
Oil Spill, and its aftermath. Manuscript collections
include:
- Clyde [George] Scrapbooks.
Clippings of oil
stories, 1965-1976. (SBHC Mss 53).
- Community Development
and Conservation Collection [CDCC]. Four
boxes of clippings on oil, mainly pre-1969
Santa Barbara Oil Spill, and two boxes in
the subject files. (SBHC Mss 1).
- 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).
- Easton [Robert O.] Papers,
ca. 1911-1990s. Papers of a Santa Barbara
author, including research files and draft
mss of articles on Santa Barbara Oil Spill
and his book, Black Tide. (SBHC Mss
6).
- Get Oil
Out [GOO] Collection, ca. 1969-1990. Office
files (bylaws, minutes, fundraising, publications,
newsletters), governmental action, legal,
and subject files, mainly pertaining to efforts
to contain and monitor oil industry off coast
of Santa Barbara, especially in the aftermath
of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill. (SBHC
Mss 10).
- Hunt [Thomas E. ] Papers,
ca. 1901-1936. Files of an Oakland investor/businessman;
with substantial California related material,
including issues such as California oil, and
politics and elections. In boxes 145-161
of the Lawrence B. Romaine Trade Catalog Collection.
(Mss 107).
- League of
Women Voters Collection, ca. 1970s-1990s.
Primarily research files of the organization,
relating to issues such as the oil industry,
LAFCO and Goleta annexation. (SBHC Mss 2).
- Moran [William]
Collection. Includes published materials,
and photographs of travels and work as a petroleum
geologist in places like South America and
Australia. Also some photographs of the oil
industry in southern California, ca. early
1900s. (PA Mss 57).
- Oil
Spill Information Center (OSIC) Collection,
ca. 1923-1973 [bulk dates 1969-1972].
Correspondence, articles, government publications,
pamphlets, patents, reports, and related materials
collected by the OSIC, primarily in response
to the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill The
four-volume publication Oil Pollution:
An Index-Catalog to the Collection of the
Oil Spill Information Center (Santa Barbara:
University Library, UCSB, 1972) serves as
a guide to specific items in the collection.
(SBHC Mss 11).
- 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).
- Robertson
[Alfred W.] Papers, ca. 1913-1979 [bulk dates
1934-1959]. Biographical files, correspondence,
documents, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks,
and sound recordings of a leading California
State Assembly member from Santa Barbara,
responsible for introducing and leading support
of a bill to authorize transfer of Santa Barbara
State College to the University of California
system. Robertson Gym is named after him.
He also authored a bill limiting development
of coastal oil drilling, and led a movement
to reform the California state constitution.
(Mss 106.).
- Saadi [Ruth]Collection.
Files re Santa Barbara League of Women Voters
issues such as the 1969 oil spill.. (SBHC
Mss 14).
- Santa Barbara
Oil Spill Scrapbook, 1969. (SBHC Mss
52).
- Scott-McIntosh
Petroleum, Incorporated Collection, ca. 1928-1930.
Correspondence, notes, reports and aerial
photographs re Elwood Oil Field. (SC 532).
- Sharp [Robert
C.] Papers, ca. 1963-1974. Includes bids,
contracts, leases, logs, reports, charts,
and court records pertaining to oil drilling
in the Santa Barbara Channel, mainly regarding
lawsuits stemming from the 1969 Santa Barbara
Oil Spill. (SBHC Mss 7).
- Smith [Dick]
Collection, 1969-1971. Photographs and
slides of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill,
from Smith, prominent Santa Barbara County
backwoodsman, newspaper writer, and wilderness
advocate. (SBHC Mss 56).
- Sollen
[Robert] Collection, ca. 1954-1996. Draft
mss of Sollen’s monograph An Ocean of Oil,
plus binders of related photographs, many
taken by Sollen as a Santa Barbara news photographer,
and notes for his book. Also, other materials
relating to the oil industry, including chronological
files, clippings, companies, leasing, and
subject files. (SBHC Mss 33).
- Summerland,
California. Two b/w mounted photographs,
ca. 4 ¾ “ x 7 ½ “, ca. late 19th
century, views of coast with oil derricks.
(SC 798).
- Weingand et al, v. County
et al (Channel Island Drilling) Collection.
SBHC Mss 31.
Photography and Photographic Processes.
Numerous printed works and photograph
collections showing the development of photographic
technology, including daguerreotypes, tintypes,
ambrotypes, cartes de visite, cyanotypes, panoramic
views, stereoviews, and glass and magic lantern
slides. Notable manuscript collections include:
- Alaska / Klondike Magic
Lantern Slides, 1898-1912. (Wyles
Ms 143).
- Conway [Joel] Oral History,
1973. Interviews with the Santa Barbara
photographer and collector of historical photographs,
re development of his collection, early motion
picture and television history and stars,
including Flying A Studio in Santa Barbara
and 1950s House on Un-American Activities.
Central Coast Regional Projects. (OH 30).
- Panama Canal Stereo Glass
Slide Set, 1910. Stereo viewer and 48
accompanying black and white stereo glass
slides, with views of the Panama Canal and
its environs. (Bernath Mss 167).
- Polish Shtetl Postcard
Album, ca. 1900. (Bernath Mss 108).
- Romaine [Lawrence B.]
Trade Catalog Collection. Six boxes
with catalogs about cameras, chemicals, paper,
plates, and darkroom equipment, lenses, movies
and movie equipment, supplies and accessories.
(Mss 107).
- Siddell [Robert] Collection,
ca. 1903-1922. More than 200 picture
postcards from a 1909 trip to South America
(Guyana – then British, Dutch, and French
Guiana) and the West Indies (Antigua,
Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Martinique, Nevis,
St. Kitts, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Virgin Islands
– then the Danish West Indies), as well as
Canada, the U.S. and Turkey (Constantinople).
Also, letters, photographs, and ephemera,
some relating to the American College for
Girls in Constantinople during and just after
World War I. (Mss 110).
- South African War through
the Stereoscope, ca. 1900. Set of 36
Underwood cards and accompanying Underwood
stereoscopic viewer. (Bernath Mss 92).
- Stereoscopic Views, ca.
1877-1913. More than 600 stereoscopic
views (also known as stereoscopic slides,
stereographs, and stereopticans), most with
printed captions. Included are views from
California, other parts of the U.S. and more
than 30 other countries; also subjects as
mining, Native Americans, Spanish American
War, and U.S. Civil War. (Mss 121).
Physics. Printed works
include: Benjamin Donne, An Enlarged Syllabus
of Lectures in Experimental Philosophy …
(1780); William Okely, Pyrology … (1797);
Butsuri Kaitei (Japanese woodblock print
textbooks on physics, science, astronomy), 1876.
Manuscript holdings include:
- Heeger [Alan J.] Papers.
UCSB professor
of physics and recipient of the 2000 Nobel
Prize in chemistry. Materials include manuscripts
published, with accompanying correspondence;
patent documentation; speeches and lectures;
conference files; and teaching materials
of Alan J. Heeger, (FACP 39).
- Kohn [Walter] Papers.
UCSB professor of physics and recipient
of the 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Highlights
of the collection include files from the 1950s
relating to Kohn's research into electron
structure, correspondence and research from
the 1980s on the development of a program
to study the emerging field of quasicrystals,
materials concerning Kohn's involvement with
various organizations devoted to peace and
global conflict resolution, and materials
relating to UCSB's Institute for Theoretical
Physics, of which Kohn was founding director.
(FACP 34).
- Kroemer [Herbert] Oral
History. Interviews with the UCSB Professor
of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
and 2000 Nobel Physics Laureate. History
of Science Project. (OH 56).
- Kroemer [Herbert] Papers.
UCSB professor of electrical & computer
engineering and recipient of the 2000 Nobel
Prize in physics. Collection includes lecture
notes and other teaching materials, correspondence,
lab notes, reports, and reprints of published
articles. (FACP 42).
- Population Issues. Printed
materials and manuscript collections relating
to issues such as abortion, birth control,
immigration, natural resources and population.
- 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. (OH 17).
- Center for the Study of
Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Collection.
Includes numerous papers delivered at
the Center and at conferences and symposia
such as the Conference on Expanding World
Needs for Food and Fiber and the Protection
of the Ecosystem (1971) and the Conference
on the Population Problem (1975-1976). (Mss
18).
- Hardin [Garrett]
Oral History, 1983. Discussion with UCSB
professor Hardin re his distinguished career
as biologist and author. (OH 46).
- Hardin [Garrett]
Papers, ca. 1938-2003. Professor of Human
Ecology at UCSB; writer and lecturer concerned
with the problems of overpopulation, best
known for his essay The Tragedy of the
Commons (Science, 1968).
Other publications include: Mandatory Motherhood
(1974); The Immigration Deilemma … (1995);
The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia(1999);
and Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics,
and Population Taboos (2000).The papers
include bibliographical and biographical information,
correspondence, lectures and speeches, subject
files (abortion and Environmental Fund), and
writings. (FACP 14).
- Sanger
[Margaret] Birth Control Collection, ca. 1921-1966
[bulk dates 1930-1936]. (Mss 220).
- Stopes [Marie C.] Collection,
ca. 1871-1967 [bulk dates 1920-1958]. Material
pertaining to Marie Stopes, organizations
with which she was affiliated, and other organizations
and individuals concerned about issues of
abortion, birth control, contraception, eugenics,
obstetrics, population, sexual behavior, sterilization,
and welfare of women, primarily in Great Britain,
but also including some items from the U.S.
and other countries. The collection has been
assembled from multiple sources. (Mss 122).
Railroads. Books,maps,
and manuscripts showing the development of railroads
and transportation systems, mainly in 19th
century America, including the Civil War and
subsequent westward expansion. Early printed
works include: Henry Schenck Tanner, Memoir
on the Recent Surveys, Observations, and Internal
Improvements, in the United States, with Brief
Notices of …Canals, Railroads … (1830);
Robert J. Vandewater, The Tourist, or Pocket
Manual for Travellers on the Hudson River, the
Western and Northern Canals and Railroads
… (1839); William Chapin, A Complete Reference
Gazetteer of the United States of North America
…[with] a Notice of the Various Canals, Railroads
and Internal Improvements … (1840); Asa
Whitney, A Project for a Railroad to the
Pacific (1849); P. P. F. Degrand, Rail
Road to San Francisco (1849?); United States,
Army, Corps of Engineers, Report of Explorations
for the Pacific Railroad … (1855); Also,
early maps such as: Orramel Hinckley Throop,
United States and Northern Mexico Map Showing
Finished, Unfinished, and Proposed Railways
(1830?); Skeleton Map Showing the Rail Roads
Completed in the United States and Their Connection
as Proposed with the Harbor of Pensacola …
(1846?). Manuscript holdings include:
- Gray
[Ethel C.] California, Canal Zone, Cuba Photograph
Album, 1935.
About 100 pages, recording Ethel C. Gray’s
six-week rail trip from NYC to the western
U.S. (including Yosemite, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, and San Diego), then by ship (S.S.
Virginia) to the Canal Zone and Cuba. Includes
photographs, postcards, railroad timetables,
hotel brochures, menus, and other ephemera.
(Bernath Mss 46).
- Maps. Historical
maps such as: Colton’s New Rail road &
County Map of the United States, the Canadas
… (1864); Map of the Southern Pacific
Railroad and Connections (1875); and Map
of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
… (1881)
- Railroad Collection, ca.
1867-1899. Correspondence, invoices,
notices, receipts, and tickets for several
railroads including the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway; Buffalo Pass, Scalplock &
Defiance Railroad; Chicago & North-Western
Railroad Company; Chicago Burlington and Quincy
Railroad; Denver & Rio Grande Western
Railway; Illinois Central R. R.; Little
Miami, Columbus and Xenia, and Connecting
Railroads; Nevada County Narrow Gauge
Railroad Company; Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad Line; and Virginia and Truckee Railroad
(Nevada/California). (Wyles SC 895).
- Railroad Engine Photograph
Album, ca. 1880s-1950s. (Wyles Mss 123).
- Railroad Ephemera Col
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