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Alphabetical List of Collections by Name

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  • KCSB Audiotape Collection, 1969–1970, 1972.  102 open reel tapes produced by radio station KCSB, with live coverage of events, other broadcasts, calls, and interviews. KCSB–FM 91.9, a non–commercial radio station, was located in the UCSB Storke Communications Building during the time these tapes were made.  Malcolm Gault–Williams was General Manager. At the time, KCSB was the area’s only non–commercial radio station and had a stated programming commitment to community service broadcasting.  (SBHC Mss 58).
  • Kamchatka Photograph Album, ca. 1894.  24 mounted black/white photographs of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea, with captions in Russian.  Includes images of the visit of a Russian naval ship, as well as two other ships, the H.M.S. Daphne and the U.S.S. Petrel.  In 1894 the U.S.S. Petrel was dispatched to the Bering Sea to discourage seal poaching and later took part in Dewey’s capture of Manila Bay.  (Bernath Mss 175).
  • [Kansas].  One typescript manuscript by Ellen Beckman re Kansas in the 1850s.  (Wyles SC 874).
  • Karachi Photograph Album, 1930.  85+ b/w snapshots, with views of Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Port Sudan, and Aden, taken on the voyage to Karachi [present day Pakistan].  The Karachi area shots include harbor and street scenes, as well as transplanted British sporting events such as rugby, golf, and boating, British officers’ quarters, colleagues and family.  (Bernath Mss 64).
  • Karczag [Dezso] Papers. Autobiography of Karczag and his association with the Santa Barbara–based Direct Relief International. (Mss 58).
  • Kars Photograph Album, ca. 1878–1921.  24 b/w images, with captions in Russian. Kars, now part of Turkey, was part of the Russian Empire at the time and the album apparently belonged to a Russian Tsarist officer serving in the area.  Mainly landscapes from the Agri Dagi mountains south of Kars or the routes north of Kars to Oltu, Artvin, Ardahan, and Batum. Several images show small mounted parties of Russian officers and Cossacks, as well as close–ups of Kurdish groups, a salt mine, the ruined fortress at Oltu, waterfalls, local inhabitants drawing water at a spring, and stone bridges.  (Bernath Mss 53).
  • Kashmir Photograph Album, ca. 1930s–1940s.  (Bernath Mss 198).
  • Kashmir Photograph Album, 1936. 39 b/w photos, many with captions in English. Includes images of Nagin Bagh lake (with houseboats), mountain trekking via Erin Valley, Kishin Ganga, Sarbal Valley, Haramukh, Gangabal, Gurez, Chorwan, Kaobal Pass, Kinari Darkush; also log, rope, and snow bridges. (Bernath Mss 275).
  • Kearny Street Workshop Archives.  Materials relating to the oldest multidisciplinary Asian American arts organization in the United States, which was established in 1972 as a collective of artists in San Francisco’s Chinatown/ Manila town neighborhood.  (CEMA 33).
  • Keleman [Stanley] Oral History.  Humanistic psychology project.  (OH 12).
  • Keleman [Stanley] Papers, 1974–1990.   Materials relating to Keleman, a prominent figure in the field of somatic therapy and director of the Center for Energetic Studies in Berkeley, where he teaches and maintains a private practice.  (HPA Mss 19).
  • Keller [Helen] Letter. One typewritten letter signed  (TLS), Apr. 23, 1925, from Helen Keller to Mayer Porter of La Mesa California, regarding a recent San Diego talk of hers and what it is like to be blind.  Also, a printed card with a photo of Helen Keller and a Braille inscription.  (SC 163).
  • Keller Latin America Diary, 1895.  Manuscript pocket diary of U.S.citizen [?] Keller, traveling by steamship, with numerous stops at ports from Valparaiso, Chile, to Panama and Colon, recording impressions of shipboard life, fellow passengers, sights and customs observed along the way, sometimes interspersed with prejudicial comments.  (SC 852).
  • 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).
  • Kelley [Robert] Papers, 1947–1993.  Primarily  correspondence, research files, and writings of Kelley, a UCSB professor of history, director of the UCSB Public History program, and scholar in the field of public policy, particularly California water history.  (FACP 17).
  • Kelliher [M. S.] Collection, 1956–1957.  Approximately 550 color slides taken by UCSB faculty member M. S. Kelliher, mainly in E. Pakistan during 1956–1957, while he was developing a teaching program for students there.  The slides are organized by the following categories: occupations–workers (e.g. crushing brick, pouring hot tar, cotton fluffing, barber), boats, Dacca markets, Dacca animals, Dacca ruins, Dacca buildings, personal and friends, people and customs, Eid celebration, beggars, ‘horror’ pictures, countryside (incl. Joydipur and Chittagong), children, sports and physical education, outbound trip (incl. Hawaii, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok), trip to India (inc. Madras, Calcutta, Ganges, Taj Mahal, New Delhi, Lahore). (Bernath Mss 29).
  • Kelly [Frank K.] Oral History.  Interviews   re Kelly’s days as a speechwriter for Harry Truman,  and work with the Center for the Study of Democratic  Institutions (CSDI), as well as the Nuclear Age Peace  Foundation.  (OH 123).
  • Kendall, Edward Dwight.  One document (ADS) re the history of the Independent Corps of Cadets (Guards of the Governor) of Massachusetts and their role in the Civil War,  n.d.  (Wyles SC 928).
  • Kennedy [John Fitzgerald and Robert] Ephemera Collection, ca. 1960s.  Mainly memorial issues of magazines and newspapers.  (Mss 137).
  • Kennedy [Robert E.] Japan Photograph Album, ca. 1948. Album compiled by Private Robert E. Kennedy, with 151 black/white prints including ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (commercial photos), views of Yokahama, servicemen playing baseball, visiting shrines (esp. Daibutsu nr. Kurakama), Camp McNair, Japanese at work, street scenes.  (Bernath Mss   206).
  • Kennedy, Thomas Hart.  One mimeograph copy of a lengthy letter to Thomas M. Storke, editor of the Santa Barbara News–Press re railroad development in California, 1963.  (Wyles SC 927).
  • Kenner [Hugh] Oral History, 1973.   Interviews with the UCSB Professor of English and literary scholar of Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound.  (OH 54).
  • [Kenya].  Evershed [J. A.] East Africa, Egypt, Palestine Photograph Album, 1924.  More than 140 b/w snapshots of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) including Tabora, Dodoma, Dar–es–Salaam, and Tanga, several of local schools and teachers, British and Tanganyikan.  Also, views of Port Said, Zanzibar, Mombassa, Djibouti, Aden, and Port Sudan.  (Bernath Mss 63).
  • [Kenya].  Moody [Margaret] Mbooni Mission Photograph Album, ca. 1927.  (Bernath Mss 105).
  • [Kenya].  Partridge [David] Collection, ca. 1950–1964.  Correspondence, documents and related materials, re Kenya.  (SC 236).
  • [Kenya].  Roach [Charles A.] African Photograph Collection, 1943.  Photograph album with 88 black/white images, plus 67 other 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).
  • [Kenya].  University of California Africa Expedition Photograph Collection, 1947–1948.  (Bernath Mss 153).
  • Kerrigan [Thomas] / Hierophant Papers ca. 1964–1973  [bulk 1969–1972].  Correspondence and manuscripts (poetry and prose) submitted to Thomas Kerrigan, attorney, poet, and editor of Hierophant (a Los Angeles magazine of new poetry and fiction).  Correspondents/contributors include Douglas Blazek, Charles Bukowski, Robert Creeley, Thom Gunn, and Lee Mallory.     (Mss 56).
  • 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.  Prominent places and  themes include Baja, barns and farms, Big Sur, buildings and building elements (doors and windows), Carmel [CA], Central Coast [CA], Channel Islands, Death Valley, fences, ghost towns, Hawaii, Hollister Ranch [CA], landscapes, Malibu [CA], Marin County [CA], New England, New Mexico, ocean views, Oregon, Oxnard [CA], rock formations, signs, surfing, trees, Utah, wildflowers, Wyoming, and Yosemite.  Other countries represented in the collection include Cook Island, Costa Rica, El Salvador, England, France, Guatemala, Marques and Tahiti Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, and New Zealand.  Most of the images were taken from the 1970s to the 1990s.  (Mss 228).
  • Kincaid–Rolle [Sojourner] Papers.  Materials of a Santa Barbara–based African–American poet and playwright, peacemaker, community activist, and television producer.  (CEMA 055).
  • King, Tertullus.  Two Civil War letters (ALS), 1863, to King, of Trumansburg, New York, one from a soldier describing his experiences, and one letter (ALS) to Martha [Skutt ?] talking about going to a soldiers’ ball and becoming a nurse, 1862.  (Wyles SC 133).
  • Kingsbaker/Moeller/Bang Collection.  Jazz and dance orchestra 78s and LPs, and a large number of trade catalogs relating to jazz and popular music.  (PA 2000–003).
  • Kingston [Mass.] Collection, ca. 1814–1895.  Correspondence, documents, and financial records (mainly bills and receipts) of the Beal and Holmes families, of the Kingston and Plymouth, Massachusetts area.  There are a number of items from the Civil War era.  (Mss 57).
  • Kirsch [Robert R.] Collection, ca. 1970s. Approximately 400 b/w publicity photographs of literary figures whose books were sent for review by Robert Kirsch.  Includes Jorge Amado, Kingsley Amis, Julian Barnes, John Barth, Isaiah Berlin, Carlos Fuentes, Christopher Isherwood, Maxine Hong Kingston, Arthur Koestler, Milan Kundera, Cormac McCarthy, Armistead Maupin, Czeslaw Milosz, V. S. Naipaul, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje, Kenneth Rexroth, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Gore Vidal, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and many more.  (Mss 51).
  • Kita Shina Fūbutsu Shashin Gashū – Northern China and Tibet Scenes Photograph Album, ca. 1925–1926.  (Bernath Mss 78).
  • 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).
  • Klondike and Atlin [British Columbia] Gold Rush Photographs, ca. 1898–1899.  (Wyles SC 1013).
  • Knight [Arthur and Kit] Beat Collection, ca. 1971–1984.  Manuscript material, photographs, magazines, booklets and ephemera relating to the Beats and Beat history. Most of the items in the collection are publications on the Beat generation, issued and edited by the Knights.  (Mss 205).
  • Knights of Columbus Collection, ca. 1950–1961. 32   numbered pamphlets published by the Supreme Council, Knights of Columbus, Religious Information Bureau (St. Louis), with titles such as “The Infallible Church: Truth or Trickery,” “Is the Catholic Church a Menace to Democracy?” and “Let Us Judge Catholics by the Bible.”  (ARC Mss 64).
  • Knowles [Joseph] Collection, 1920s–1930s.  Correspondence, lists, and samples, mostly
  • relating to Western Builder's Supply Co. of San Francisco, ca. 1920s–1930s, and two letters (TLS) to George Washington Smith, Santa Barbara architect, re architectural and design catalogs and brochures being sent, 1922 and 1928.  Related trade catalogs, also collected by Knowles, have been cataloged separately. (SC 717).
  • 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.   Includes a thank you, 1914, from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary to the Navy at the time.  (Wyles SC 402).
  • Koehne [John L. Jr.] Collection, 1966–1973.  Ephemera from the late 1960s and early 1970s  relating to the burgeoning alternative culture as it intercepted with the humanistic psychology movement, collected by Koehne, CIA agent turned "seeker."  (HPA Mss 20).
  • Koester [Frederick] Collection, 1845–1907.  Five documents re German military service, U.S. naturalization, and enlistment in the Pennsylvania Infantry, 11th Regiment, Company D, during the Civil War.  (Wyles SC 564).
  • Kohn [Walter] Papers.  Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry, 1998.  (FACP 34).
  • [Koran].  Commentary on the Koran, 1245 A.H. (A.D. 1829–1830).  One printed volume, with illuminations.  (Mss 204).
  • Koran [Sudan], 1964.  One volume, bound in traditional Koranic form, written in Khartoum, Sudan, in Sudani hand.  (Mss 198).
  • Korean Postcards, ca.  1920s–1930s.    Nine color ethnographic cards, six of people, three of various locations in Seoul, by the Japanese colonial authorities who controlled Korea during this period, (1910–1945).  (SC 873).
  • Korean War Photograph Album, ca. 1951. (Bernath Mss 246).
  • 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).
  • Kregor, Herman H.  One Civil War printed document with holographic additions, discharge papers for Civil War Union soldier, Co. G, 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 1865.  (Wyles SC 894).
  • 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).
  • Kriegs–Nachrichten Collection, 1870–1871. Three portfolios/scrapbooks with photographs, clippings, war reports, leaflets and political cartoons pertaining to the Franco–Prussian war of 1870–1871, as well as the Paris Commune and the Italian annexation of Rome. (Bernath Mss 123).
  • Krishnamurti [U. G.] Collection, ca. 1970s–1990s.  Mainly clippings and copies of articles (U.S. and India) videotapes, and audiotapes by and about the ‘anti–guri’ philosopher. (ARC Mss 22).
  • Kroc Foundation Archives, 1967–1985.  Administrative files of the Kroc Foundation of Santa Ynez, California, relating to conferences it sponsored and grants it awarded in the area of medical research.  (Mss 61).
  • 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. Papers of Herbert Kroemer, 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).
  • [Ku Klux Klan].  Gettysburg Area Family Photograph Album, ca. 1910s–1940s.  180+ b/w snapshots, including some Klan parade photos.  (Wyles Mss 119).
  • [Ku Klux Klan]. Simpkins [Herbert C.] Collection. KKK items, Coolidge monograph, WWII ration books and case. (Mss 218).
  • Kulu, Northern India Photograph Album, ca. 1920.  (Bernath Mss 239).
  • Ku Klux Klan Collection, 1920s–1930s.  Ephemera, including silk sash, medallion, convention badge, felt patch.  (Wyles Mss 134).
  • Ku Klux Klan Photographs, ca. early 1900s.  Two b/w photographs, one a portrait, the other holding a horse, with child in background, from a disbound album, place unidentified.  Also, possibly related b/w photo of officer on horseback, ca. 1890s.  (Wyles SC 1000).
  • Kurdish Missionary Letters, 1851, 1853.  Two   letters (ALS), signed Roomiah, apparently affiliated with the American Bible Society, talking about printing the Old Testament in ‘ancient and modern’ languages, spreading the gospel to areas such as “the Nestorians of the Koordish mountains,’ and ongoing competition with French Catholic missionaries.  (SC 864)

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  • La Voy [Merl] China Photographs, ca. 1920s.  (Bernath Mss 138).
  • [Labor]. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Collection. Records of the internationally renowned Santa Barbara–based think tank, including papers presented at CSDI conferences and seminars, on various labor issues, by union leaders and others. (Mss 18).
  • [Labor]. Corona [Bert] Oral History Collection, 1937–1995. Interviews by UCSB faculty member Mario T. Garcia with Bert and Blanche Corona, resulting in an autobiography of the Mexican American labor organizer and political activist. Also, related materials such as photographs. (CEMA 51).
  • [Labor]. Cruz [Ricardo] / Catolicos por la Raza Papers, 1967–1993. Correspondence, legal documents, transcripts, photographs, news clippings and ephemera of Cruz, a Chicano rights attorney during the Chicano Movement era and advocate for Latino poor people of the Los Angeles area. Founder of the controversial Católicos por la Raza, which demonstrated against the Catholic Church for its neglect of the Latino community. Also known for his successful legal battle against Los Angeles County's forced sterilization of undocumented workers. (CEMA 28).
  • [Labor]. Farmworker Movement Collection. (CEMA 096).
  • [Labor]. 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.
  • [Labor]. 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 civil rights, community, ecology/environment, electoral politics, international political groups and movements, labor and economy, social and political movements, and domestic and international politics, student movements, Vietnam, and women/women´s issues. Numerous organizations, groups, and movements are represented, including the Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the U.S. Socialist and Labor Parties. (Mss 183).
  • [Labor]. 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).
  • [Labor]. [UCSB]. Associated Students Subject Files, ca. 1958–2002 [bulk dates 1968–1982]. Includes files on farm workers.
  • Lambert [Eric] Papers, ca. 1960s. Carbon typescript manuscript drafts of several of British author Lambert's works, many with extensive handwritten corrections and revisions.  (Mss 62).
  • Lancaster [Louis] Oral History,  ca. 1981–1982.  Interviews with  a UCSB Professor of English, re teaching and literature.  (OH 57).
  • Lancey, Thomas Crosby.  One  document (ADS), "In Memorium," for a seaman  from Dover, Maine, who had served on the Sloop of War “Dale",  part of the Pacific Coast Squadron, 1846–1849, [ca. 1885].  (Wyles SC 702).
  • Land  Grants.  Two  documents, dated 1824 and 1833.  (Wyles SC 852).
  • [Land Use and Planning].   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).
  • [Land Use and Planning].   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).
  • [Land Use and Planning].   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).
  • [Land Use and Planning]. 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).
  • [Land Use and Planning].   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).
  • Landau  [Rom] Collection, 1899–1965. Primarily  correspondence laid in books of Landau's, which  were purchased by UCSB in 1967.  (Mss 63).
  • Langs  [Robert] Papers, 1987.  Manuscript  and galley proofs for psychiatrist Langs'  book,  A Primer of Psychotherapy.  (HPA Mss 21).
  • [Laos].  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).
  • 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).
  • Larson [Gene] Collection, ca.  1976–1986. Catalogs and ephemera relating to the Topanga Center in Los Angeles.  (HPA Mss 22).
  • [Lauder,  Harry]. Baker [Darrell]  / Harry Lauder Collection. Recordings books,  photographs and emphemera related to Scottish performer  Sir Harry Lauder. (PA Mss 63).
  • Lavender,  David.  Typescript  of article by Lavender, “How Historical Can a Historical  Novel Be?” along with signed copy of  the 1982  issue of Soundings, describing Lavender’s  appointment as William Wyles Collection consultant, and  including a bibliography of Lavender’s publications.  (Wyles  SC 944).
  • Lauder,  [Darrell Baker Harry] Collection. Collection  of recordings, books, photographs and emphemera  related to Scottish performer Sir Harry  Lauder.(PA Mss 63)
  • 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).
  • Leach, William H.  [Sergeant,  12th West Virginia Volunteers, Co. A]. Three Civil War  diaries, 1862–1864 (extensive descriptions of daily life  and military engagements); five accompanying letters (ALS);  list of those present and absent on 21 May 1864; essay  on the soldier; and form transmitting Medal of Honor to  family of William H. Leach, deceased, 1867.  (Wyles  SC 516).
  • 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).
  • [Lebanon]. 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).
  • [Middle East]. Horsfield, Agnes Conway. One letter (ALS) to Francis P. Farquhar of San Francisco (Dec. 30, 1939) , along with three b/w snapshots, biographical sketch of her husband, George Horsfield (Director of Antiquities, Transjordan), and Christmas greeting card, with image of both of them, all laid in copy of her book, A Ride through the Balkans on Classic Ground with a Camera. (SC 948).
  • [Lebanon]. Middle  East Photo Album, ca. 1930s–early 1940s.  More  than 150 black/white images, mainly Palestine  (Tiberias, Mt. Hermon, Dagania, Haifa, Akka,  Tel–Aviv, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jerusalem);  also Egypt (Port Said, Ismailia, Alexandria,  Memphis, Cairo, the Nile, Pyramids, Sphinx, National  Museum), Iraq (Baghdad, Kadimain, Babylon, Ur,  Euphrates River, Kufa, Mosul, Kirkuk), Syria  (Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra), and Lebanon (Baalbek,  Nakura, Damour Valley, Beirut).  Included  are many shots of local residents, street scenes,  buildings, monuments, and countryside.  (Bernath  Mss 68). 
  • Lee, R[obert] E[dward].  One  Civil War letter (ALS) to James A. Seddon {Secretary of  War, CSA} re concerns about shoes and clothing for soldiers,  and corn for animals.  10 Nov. 1863.  (Wyles  SC 387).
  • [Legal Issues]. British  Legal Documents. 18th  century, primarily relating to members of the Macdonald,  Mackenzie, and Maclean families. (SC 772).
  • [Legal  Issues]. 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 the County of Santa Barbara, No. 91214). (SBHC  Mss 48).
  • [Legal Issues]. Center  for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Audio  Archive. Thanks  to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley  Sheinbaum, some of the most important conference proceedings,  talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI are available  on the web for listening and downloading. Dating back  to the early 1960s, the topics covered in these tapes  remain as critical today as they were then. Issues  include peace and war, democracy, dissent, community  action, ecology and the environment, elections and  the electoral process, immigration, international  relations, law and order, the media, race and ethnicity,  and religion.
  • [Legal Issues]. Center  for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Collection. Records  of the internationally renowned Santa  Barbara–based think tank, emphasizing issues such  as education, freedom of the press, international  relations, legal issues, public policy, religion,  and science and technology in modern society. (Mss  18).
  • [Legal Issues]. Cruz [Ricardo]  / Catolicos por la Raza Papers, 1967–1993. Correspondence, legal documents, transcripts, photographs,  news clippings and ephemera of Cruz, a Chicano rights  attorney during the Chicano Movement era and advocate  for Latino poor people of the Los Angeles area. Founder  of the controversial Católicos por la Raza, which  demonstrated against the Catholic Church for its neglect  of the Latino community. Also known for his successful  legal battle against Los Angeles County's forced sterilization  of undocumented workers. (CEMA 28).
  • [Legal Issues].   Cult Awareness Network (CAN) Collection, ca.  1970s–1990s. Includes files (correspondence,  clippings, articles) relating to hundreds of religious  groups, as well as internal administrative, financial,  and legal files of a cult watchdog group which ceased  operations in the mid 1990s. (ARC  Mss 19).
  • [Legal Issues]. 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).
  • Legal Issues]. Lincoln  Legal Records, ca. 1940s. Three  card files, mostly handwritten slips of paper, describing  legal cases Lincoln was involved in, arranged into 2 series,  1 chronological and 1 alphabetical by surname of litigant.   (Wyles Mss 94).
  • [Legal Issues]. Maric  [Bennett] Collection, 1957–1965. Primarily  correspondence (mostly outgoing) related to Maric´s efforts  through international legal action to recover eight paintings  stolen from him in Paris during World War II. (Bernath  Mss 12).
  • [Legal Issues]. Melton  [J. Gordon] Papers, ca. 1960s–1990s. Mainly  research files of Melton, prolific author of religious  reference works and donor of much of UCSB´s American  Religions Collection. Includes bibliographical, biographical,  ISAR (Institute for the Study of American Religions),  and legal files (mainly copies of depositions, testimony,  and exhibits relating to cases for which Melton was  asked to be an expert witness), publication files  (copies of articles and papers, drafts of manuscripts,  and some related correspondence), research files,  mainly in support of writing projects such as the  Encyclopedia of American Religions, Spiritual Frontier  Fellowship files (Melton was a field rep in the early  1970s), and teaching files (course outlines and related  material, mainly UCSB courses). (ARC Mss 20).
  • [Legal  Issues]. Sullivan  [James J.] Collection, 1966–1972 [bulk 1970]. Mainly  documentation relating to Isla Vista III disturbances  and subsequent legal actions. (SBHC Mss 49).
  • [Legal  Issues]. Warder  [Michael] Collection, ca. late 1960s–1980s. Files  relating to Michael Warder´s participation in the  Unification Church, mainly as editor of the New York  based newspaper News World. Included are  legal files relating to various activities of the church and its tax exempt status. (ARC Mss 31).
  • [Leggett,  Mortimer].  Wilson,  Harrison [25th Ohio Infantry].  Collection  of Civil War related material, including a letter (ALS)  from [Gen.] M[ortimer] D. Leggett, 1883, asking for his  remembrances of the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and  a 16–page typescript of his Civil War experiences, recounted  in 1923.  (Wyles  SC 125).
  • Leggett [Mortimer] Collection.  Civil  War general.  (Wyles Mss 21).
  • [Lehmann, Lotte].  Holden  [Frances] Oral History, 1992–1993.  Interviews  re Holden’s life and opera singer Lotte Lehmann.  Performing  Arts Project.  (OH 7).
  • Lehmann, Lotte].  Holden  [Frances] Papers.  Correspondence, photographs  and other personal/family material of a former President  of the UCSB Library Friends group and companion of  opera diva Lotte Lehmann.  Part of a much larger  bequest of books, which have been cataloged separately.  (Mss  159).
  • [Lehmann, Lotte].  Specht  [Margaret] Correspondence.  Letters  between Specht and opera singer Lotte Lehmann. (PA  Mss 44).
  • Lehmann [Lotte] Biography.  Typescript.  (PA  Mss 48).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Leitner  [Anthony U.] Memorial Collection.  Papers  and printed works, mainly about Tibetan Buddhism.  (ARC  Mss 15).
  • Lemack [Brad] Collection.  Publicity  materials from shows produced by Embassy Television and  Tandem/T.A.T.  (PA Mss 58).
  • Lent [Don] Drawing, 1965.  1  charcoal drawing, with quote by Bert Kessler, from Edgar  Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology.  (SC  911).
  • Leonard [George] Papers.  Large  collection of personal and professional papers from the  author of numerous books on human possibility and social  change. Includes writings and research from his tenure  as senior editor at Look magazine from 1953 to 1970.  (HPA  Mss 50).
  • Levertov, Denise.  1  letter (ALS) to Dave [?], re an interview he conducted  with her and her impressions of L.A.  New York,  n.d.  (SC 174).
  • Lewis, Donna May.  One  typescript in binder and one set of handwritten notes in  binder, re Lewis' The Bents and theSt. Vrains as Pioneers  in the Trade of the Southwest.  Dissertation,  UC Berkeley, 1924.  (Wyles SC 581).
  • Lewis, Lloyd.  Correspondence  and typescript notes, ca. 1930s–1940s by an historian who  wrote extensively on Kansas, Lincoln, and the Civil War.  (Wyles  SC 875).
  • [Libby Prison].  One  printed engraving, “Officers of the United States  Army and Navy Prisoners of War, Libby Prison, Richmond,  Va.,” with  lists of officers, by rank, 1864.  (Wyles  SC 943).
  • [Liberia].   Consul  General to Liberia.  Two diaries, 1862–1863.  (Wyles  SC 592).
  • Liberty Minstrels Program,  1908. One  printed program, "The Evolution of Minstrelsy," performed  by the Liberty Minstrels as a benefit for the Liberty Fire  Company, No. 2, of South Bethlehem, PA, April 24–25, 1908.   (Wyles SC 1032).
  • [Libya].  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).
  • Lim  [Genny] Papers, 1982–1987.  Manuscripts  and other materials relating to the work of the  Chinese–American playwright, journalist, musician,  poet, and teacher Genny Lim, known for works  such as the play Paper Angels.  (CEMA  34).
  • 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).
  • [Lincoln,  Abrahm].  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).
  • [Lincoln, Abrahm].  Brady  [Eunice] Abraham Lincoln Collection, ca. 1950–1998.  Correspondence,  articles, clippings, and other ephemera mainly relating  misattribution of Abraham Lincoln quotations.  (Wyles  SC 957).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Civil  War Broadside.  "Proclamation of Emancipation  . . . by President Lincoln, January 1st, 1863."  Advertisement  for copy of the document, lithographed by Rosenthal,  and published by L. Franklin Smith, Philadelphia, ca. 1865.  (Wyles SC 476).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Depew,  Chauncey M.  One  typewritten account of Depew, re his role as Secretary  of State of the train carrying Lincoln's body from  Albany.  Notes, for example, that “Wherever  the highway crossed the railway track the whole population  of the neighborhood was assembled… Huge bonfies  lighted up the scene….”  N.p., [1924?].  (Wyles SC 75).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Electoral  Tickets.  Two  National Union tickets for Abraham Lincoln / Andrew Johnson  and one Democratic ticket for George B. McClellan / George  H. Pendleton.  Also one clipping of Civil War era poems.  (Wyles SC 906).
  • Lincoln,  Abraham.  Executive Order [official  copy] appointing Major General William T. Smith and  the Honorable Henry Stanbury as Special Commissioners “to  investigate and report … upon the civil and military  administration in the military Division bordering upon  and west of the Mississippi.”  Executive Mansion, 10 Dec. 1864.  (Wyles SC 453).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Fithian,  Joel.  Handwritten thirteen–page account  by Fithian, a U.S. Army major, entitled “Recollections  of Stirring Times,” dated April 5, 1872,  recounting what he witnessed in Washington at the  time of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.  Talks  about staying at the National Hotel, where John Wilkes  Booth also had been staying; also the capture of Booth  and stories about his burial.  (Wyles  SC 949).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Gearhart,  Edna.  Two Lincoln photos (copies), with  accompanying letter (TL) by Jay Monaghan (1957), explaining  the context in which they were taken, and one letter  (ALS) from V. S. Lovell to J. H. Williamson (1892), talking about one of the photographs.  (Wyles SC 854).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Gibson,  Isaac.  One letter (ALS), to his friend  Burnett, talking about the recent election of  ‘Honest  Abe’ as President, which he is not pleased about,  and asking for advice on how to get to California.  Olney, Illinois, 11 Nov. 1860.  (Wyles SC 96).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Illinois State Archives.  Programs  and publications re Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1990s.  (Wyles SC 909).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Lyon [Andrew  Lincoln] – Lincoln Funeral Procession Recollections.  One  typescript and one handwritten account re Lyon’s  recollections of the Abraham Lincoln funeral procession  in Chicago.  Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1 May 1925.  (Wyles SC 139).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  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).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  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).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Mounted  portrait and campaign leaflet, issued in Butte California, for the 1864 presidential election.  (Wyles SC 784).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Noyes–Wallace  Family Collection, ca. 1850s–early 1900s.  Documents  and correspondence concerning Henry Erastus Noyes,  George W. Wallace, and George W. Wallace, Jr.,  all soldiers in the U.S. Army.  Also includes  Noyes' 1861 photo album and other material relating  to West Point, his 107 pp. typescript "The  Story of My Life,' photographs and two holographic  maps.  Papers concern the Civil War,  the Indian campaigns, the Boxer Rebellion, and  the Philippine Insurrection.  Noyes was  a Congressional Medal of Honor winner.  Includes  commissions signed by Presidents Tyler, Fillmore,  Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, McKinley, Roosevelt,  and Taft.  (Wyles Mss 10).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Petition  to President Lincoln by New Jersey Republicans on behalf  of the candidacy of Moses F. Webb for marshalship of that  state.  N.p., [early 1860s].  (Wyles SC 164).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Portrait  – Sketch by Alfred Stanley Harkness, Sr.  Pencil  inscription on back reads "Presented to Hannibal Hamblin  1864."  (Wyles SC 840).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Printed Ohio Republican presidential election ticket, 1860.  (Wyles SC 452).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Scheffer, Charles.  One  letter (ALS) from Minnesota State Treasurer to President  Elect Abraham Lincoln, re recommendation for district  attorney.  St. Paul, Minnesota, 12 Nov. 1860.  (Wyles SC 198).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Swayne, William Marshall.  Copy  of typescript "Reminiscences of a Treasury Clerk in  War Times," re Civil War experiences and meeting Abraham  Lincoln in 1864.  Written and read at the Abraham  Lincoln one hundredth birthday dinner meeting, [Chester  County, PA], 12 Feb. 1909 [copied 1940].  (Wyles SC  501).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Townsend  [Edward Davis] Collection, ca. 1864–1878.  Four  Civil War related items, including two documents, one Civil  War era engraving of Major General Townsend in uniform,  and one letter, 1878, declining to furnish copies of Civil  War reports in advance of their publication.  Townsend  [1817–1893] was principal executive officer of the War  Department during the Civil War was chosen to represent  the army at the various funerals for Lincoln.  As  adjutant general of the army, he also was responsible for  developing the plan for a United States military prison,  resulting in the establishment of the prison at Fort Leavenworth,  Kansas.  (Wyles SC 249).
  • [Lincoln,  Abraham].  Wall, Bernhardt.  16  etchings of various buildings where Lincoln lived, ca.  1920s–1930s.  (Wyles SC 635).
  • [Lincoln, Abraham].  Wyles  [William] Papers, ca 1930s–1980.  Biographical  information, correspondence, ephemera, legal documents,  photographs, and other materials relating to William  Wyles, as well as board records, correspondence, purchase  information, scrapbook, and descriptions of the early  development of the Wyles Collection (known in former  years as the Lincoln Library), located in the Department  of Special Collections, UCSB Libraries.  (Wyles  Mss 31).
  • Lincoln, Abraham.  Mounted  portrait and campaign leaflet, issued in Butte California,  for the 1864 presidential election.  (Wyles SC   784).
  • Lincoln [Abraham] Artifacts,  ca. 1860s–1900s.  Includes bronze plaques,  bookends, paperweights, casts, and other items apparently  acquired from multiple sources, some by purchase.  Also,  pair of gloves purportedly worn to a Presidential reception,  shook hands with Pres. and Mrs. Lincoln.  (Wyles Mss 92).
  • Lincoln [Abraham[ Document.  One  Civil War era document, signed by Abraham Lincoln – receipt  acknowledging request by Claudius B. Smith for pay as Chaplain,  2nd Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Militia, at the rate of  $70 per month, [ca. early 1860s].  (Wyles SC   701).
  • Lincoln [Abraham] Documents.  Two  documents signed by Lincoln and Salmon P. Chase, appointing  Samuel B. Brinkerhoff to position of Surveyor of Customs  for the Port of Santa Barbara, 1861.  Also contains  related correspondence, 1936, re acquisition of the documents  and biographical information about Brinkerhoff.  (Wyles  SC 693).
  • Lincoln [Abraham] Ephemera,  ca. 1860s–1970s.  Pamphlets, flyers,  broadsides, articles, clippings, playbills, facsimiles  of letters and addresses, poster stamps, and other  items about Abraham Lincoln.  (Wyles  Mss 84).
  • Lincoln  [Abraham] Manuscript Collection, ca. 1861–1865.  Three  notes (2 ANS and 1 AN, signed by John Hay), one  signed photograph [carte de visite], and one  photo–engraving proof by T. Johnson.  (Wyles  Mss 70).
  • Lincoln [Abraham] Photograph,  1860.  One carte de visite by by E. Anthony,  from a photographic negative by M. B. Brady.  (Wyles SC 619).
  • Lincoln  [Abraham] Photographs.  Two  cartes de visite: D. B. Spooner, Springfield, MA, 1864  and Lazier, Syracuse, NY, n.d.   (Wyles  SC 621).
  • Lincoln [Abraham] Portraits,  ca. 1860s–1960s.  Printed copies of Abraham  Lincoln portraits, as a young man until his death, derived  from photographs, engravings, drawings, and paintings,  some framed.  These  are not originals, but copies from about the 1860s to  about the 1960s.  (Wyles Mss 80).
  • Lincoln [Abraham] / Richard  C. Parsons Documents, 1856, 1862, 1863.   Three  documents: one signed by Abraham Lincoln and Salmon  P. Chase, appointing Richard C. Parsons of Cleveland,  Ohio to the position of Collector of Taxes for the  Eighteenth Collection District of the State of Ohio,  1862; one signed by Abraham Lincoln and Salmon P.  Chase, appointing Parsons to the position of Collector  of Internal Revenue for the Eighteenth Collection  District of Ohio, 1863; and one signed by Salmon P.  Chase (then Governor and Commander–in–Chief of Ohio),  appointing Parsons as his Aid–de–Camp, 1856.  (Wyles  SC 694).
  • Lincoln  [Abraham] Scrapbooks, ca. 1862–1963 [bulk 1860s–1930s].   Five  volumes, mainly clippings pertaining to Abraham  Lincoln and the Civil War. These volumes were  part of the early Lincoln Library established  by William Wyles.  (Wyles Mss 93)
  • Lincoln [Abraham] Scenes,  ca. 1860s–1970s.  Engravings,   prints, picture postcards, flyers, pamphlets, photographs,  political cartoons, and other illustrations with Abraham  Lincoln in them, as well as buildings, monuments,  and sites having some association with Lincoln.  (Wyles  Mss 83).
  • Lincoln  Centennial Celebration Scrapbooks, 1908–1911.  Three  volumes, mainly newspaper and magazine clippings,  with portraits and accounts of the life and death  of Abraham Lincoln, including tributes paid him  on the one–hundredth anniversary of his birth  in 1809. Newspapers represented include the Brooklyn  Daily Eagle, Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New  York), New York Daily Tribune, New  York Evening Post, and New York Times.  The scrapbooks were compiled by Benjamin DeForest  Curtiss. (Wyles Mss 89).
  • Lincoln Legal Records, ca.  1940s.  Three card files, mostly  handwritten slips of paper, describing legal cases  Lincoln was involved in, arranged into 2 series, 1  chronological and 1 alphabetical by surname of litigant.   (Wyles  Mss 94).
  • 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).
  • Lincoln Library Records,  ca. 1930–1987.  Early information about  acquisitions, holdings, maintenance and development  of the Lincoln Library.  Included are accession  and acquisitions books, visitors’ registers,  and brochures about the collection at various times  in its history.  (Wyles Mss 67).
  • [Lincoln, Mary Todd].  Color  engraving, "Mrs. President Lincoln," by Kimmel & Foster, n.d.  (Wyles SC 818).
  • [Lincoln,  Mary Todd].  Portrait, “Mrs.  Lincoln,” engraved and published by William Sartain, Philadelphia, n.d..  (Wyles SC 828).
  • Lincoln Scrapbooks,   ca. 1860s–1930s.  Five scrapbooks,  mainly clippings ca. 1860s–1930s, pertaining to Abraham  Lincoln and the Civil War.  Newspapers represented  include the Christian Science Monitor, Examiner (New  York), Harper’s Weekly, Los Angeles  Times, New York Herald Tribune, New  York Reformer, Northern N.Y. Journal, Sacramento  Daily Union, Santa Barbara Daily  News, Santa  Barbara New– Press, and the Standard (Chicago).   (Wyles  Mss 93).
  • 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).
  • Literature – 19th  Century.  First, limited, and  early editions, with particular strengths for American  and British authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte  and Emily Bronte, Lewis Carroll, Stephen Crane, Richard  Henry Dana, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Ralph  Waldo Emerson, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, Henry James,  Herman Melville, William Morris, Edgar Allan Poe,  Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry  D. Thoreau, and Mark Twain.  Also, some associated  manuscript material, listed separately.
  • Literature – 20th  Century.  First, signed, and limited  editions, with particular strengths for American (especially  those with California associations) and British authors,  and literary movements, including Charles Bukowski,  Concrete Poetry, T. S. Eliot, William Everson, Aldous  Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Robinson Jeffers, D.  H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Miller Christopher  Morley, and Ezra Pound.  Also, some associated  manuscript material, listed separately.
  • Littell, E.  One  Civil War era letter (ADS) to Horatio King, re personal  matters, 23 Sept. 1863.   (Wyles SC 929).
  • Little  Performers Collection.  Photographs,  cartes–de–visite, and souvenir circus programs  relating to little people performers in late  19th and early 20th century circus and vaudeville,  including issue of Midget City News.  (PA  Mss 61).
  • Litton  Colonial Collection, 1753–1884 [bulk 1750s–1770s].  Letters  and documents, mainly from the Colonial period,  and apparently acquired from diverse sources  by Mrs. Richard E. Litton.  Of particular  interest is a document re George Washington,  signed by John Hancock, 17 July 1776.  (Mss  67).
  • Live  Oak Festival Recordings (PA Mss 62) Aircheck  recordings of aKORN radio from the 2002  and 2003 Live Oak Festivals (PA Mss 62).
  • Living Stream Ministry Collection,  ca. latter 1970s.  Pamphlets and series  of printed messages mainly by Witness Lee, published  by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California.  Included  are “Life–Study of Genesis,” “Life–Study  of Matthew,” and Life–Study of  Revelation.” (ARC  Mss 40).
  • Lobero  Theatre Records, ca. 1920s–1997.  Archives  of the Santa Barbara theater, including correspondence,  financial records, scrapbooks, posters, and files  on all shows held at the Lobero since 1924.  (PA  Mss 4).
  • Local  History Files, ca. 1970–1999 [bulk 1970–1987].   Vertical  files, arranged alphabetically by topic and consisting  primarily of newsclippings, along with other  printed materials such as reports, newsletters,  pamphlets, and flyers.  A substantial proportion  of the collection relates to events in Isla Vista  (the student community adjacent to UCSB) in the  1970s.  (SBHC Mss 44).
  • Lockman Foundation Collection,  ca. 1930s–1976.  Records of the Lockman  Foundation, established by F. Dewey Lockman, including  correspondence, photographs (b/w and color), photo  albums/scrapbooks, audiotapes (open reel and audiocassettes),  articles and clippings, and printed materials (copies  of Amplified Bibles and New Testaments, New American  Standard Bibles and New Testaments, in English and  translation into other languages).  (ARC   Mss 14).
  • Lombard [Father Linus] China  Photograph Albums, 1931–1932.  2 albums,  mainly Hankow, China.  (Bernath Mss 194).
  • Loomis, Col. [United  States Army.  Recruiting Service].  One  Civil War letter (ALS) to Lieut. R. G. Welles, re recruiting  issues.  Fort Columbus, 6 Feb. 1864.  (Wyles  SC 261). 
  • Loomis [R. H.] Collection, ca  1864–1865, 1886.  About 100 Civil War  documents of Royal H. Loomis, a Union captain, 2nd  Michigan Cavalry, Co. A, including mustering and mustering  out rolls, orders, lists of equipment and stores,  and discharge papers, the bulk from 1864–1865.  Also,  an 1886 document certifying Loomis’ service  in the Civil War.   (Wyles Mss 23)
  • Lopez [Alma] Papers.  (CEMA 081).
  • 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).
  • [Los Angeles]. 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. (OH 18).
  • [Los Angeles]. 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 Los Angeles, California author (Mss 12).
  • [Los Angeles]. 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).
  • [Los Angeles]. California Opera Company. One document (TDS), Founders' List. Los Angeles, n.d. (SC 46).
  • [Los Angeles]. 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).
  • [Los Angeles]. Chandler [Russell] Collection, ca. 1960s–1990. About 300 files with correspondence, articles, newsletters, press releases, clippings, research notes, photographs, drafts and copies of Chandler's own articles, and related materials, ca. 1960s–1990, with the bulk from the 1970s and 1980s when Chandler was a religion writer for the Los Angeles Times. The files are arranged alphabetically and include a mix of topics, people, and religious groups. Included are files such as: Abortion, Black Muslims, Capital Punishment, Christians in Government, Deprogramming, Doomsday Groups, Eastern Mystery Religions, Evolution/Creation, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Science and Religion, Sports as Folk Religion, Tax Exemptions, and Terrorism. (ARC Mss 2).
  • [Los Angeles]. Clyde [George] Scrapbooks, 1965–1976. Six large scrapbooks with clippings of oil stories, many relating to the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, but also earlier and later articles, from 1965 to 1976. The clippings are from the Santa Barbara News–Press, as well as other papers from Santa Barbara to Ventura, and the Los Angeles Times. Clyde worked for the Santa Barbara News–Press for a number of years and was a member of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors from 1964 to 1973, which included the period of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill and its aftermath. During his time on the Board, he is best remembered for leading the fight against offshore oil leasing. (SBHC Mss 53).
  • [Los Angeles]. Conrad [Paul] Cartoons, 1971. 23 reproduction proofs, various subjects including Vietnam, elections, and prison conditions, by Los Angeles Times political cartoonist, Paul Conrad. Accompanied by a letter from Conrad and an essay on cartooning. (SC 941).
  • [Los Angeles]. Cruz [Ricardo] / Catolicos por la Raza Papers, 1967–1993. Correspondence, legal documents, transcripts, photographs, news clippings and ephemera of Cruz, a Chicano rights attorney during the Chicano Movement era and advocate for Latino poor people of the Los Angeles area. Founder of the controversial Católicos por la Raza, which demonstrated against the Catholic Church for its neglect of the Latino community. Also known for his successful legal battle against Los Angeles County's forced sterilization of undocumented workers. (CEMA 28).
  • [Los Angeles]. Curtis, James F. [Col.]. One Civil War letter (ALS) from an officer in the 4th California Infantry, to the Second Auditor of the Treasury, transmitting list (not included) of names of soldiers who had died Apr.–June 1865. Drum Barracks, CA (Los A