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Black tide : the Santa Barbara oil spill and its consequences

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Description: "When offshore well A-21 blew out, it started a chain of events that reached the highest level of government, and repercussions persist to this day. The Black Tide that endangered the California Coast was slowly and agonizingly checked, and then the long job of salvage began. This is more than an ecology book--it is powerful drama and proof that with courage and perseverance the community can prevail. This story of people in crisis, of politics and power, and of greed versus a community's rights, comes at a time when oil companies contemplate drilling off every coast. All concerned Americans can profit by the lesson of Santa Barbara"--Dust jacket.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1972]
Call number: 636049
Creator: Easton, Robert (1915-1999)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Philip D. Nathanson, May 2022.

The world within the tide pool

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Explains the formation of tide pools and the ecology of the plant and animal life they maintain

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Santa Barbara, California

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This personal album of photographs documents a trip from the South to the West Coast of the United States with photographs by various unidentified professional photographers. The book begins with images of New Orleans, Louisiana, and continues westward to California, with 36 of the 49 photographs depicting California landmarks. The photographs are printed onto the album pages and are accompanied by handwritten captions identifying the landmark or view. This album may have been owned by C.W. Hornick, whose name is engraved on the album's front cover.

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Santa Barbara

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This collection contains approximately 10,000 photographs, negatives and ephemera created or compiled by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), a collector and dealer of Native American and Asian arts and crafts in Pasadena, California. The bulk of the collection dates from 1903 to the 1920s and includes photograph albums and individual photographs with views of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California, and the Southwest of North America; pictures documenting Nicholson's basket collecting trips primarily between 1902 and 1912; images of Nicholson's stores and residences in Pasadena, including the building of the "Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" in the mid-1920s; and personal photographs of Nicholson, her family, friends, and associates. Nicholson's personal snapshots and photograph albums provide a valuable resource for studying Native American communities, particularly in Northern California, in the early 20th century. Many of the photographs depict daily life and include images of homes, community events, dances and rituals, families and children, and portraits. Most of these photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson or her assistant, Mr. Carroll S. Hartman, and are often accompanied by Nicholson's handwritten identifications.

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Newspapers - Santa Barbara Press

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8 items: copies of notices published in the Santa Barbara Press when Harrison Gray Otis assumed ownership of that newspaper in 1876, and when he relinquished control of it in 1880 ; pp. 1-21 of Noticias, 1/1974?, including an article titled "Santa Barbara journalists, 1855-1973" ; letter copy, 1/7/1974, on letterhead of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, from F. Daniel Frost to Otis Chandler.

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