Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Santa Barbara's Royal Rancho : the fabulous history of Los Dos Pueblos
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
mssHM 26404 and various photPF call numbers
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Manuscripts
mssHM 26404 and various photPF call numbers
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Visual Materials
Location: 1260 Channel Dr., Montecito, California Job #: 353 Architect/Designer: Johnson, Reginald D. Photographer/Artist: Faulding's, Santa Barbara ; Green & Tillich, Hollywood ; Keystone Photo Service Format: Photographic prints Description: Progress shots and completed shots of exteriors, interiors, corridors, walkways, driveways and cottages. One oversize photo of renderings.
photCL 454
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Visual Materials
Location: 1260 Channel Dr., Montecito, California Job #: 353 Architect/Designer: Johnson, Reginald D. Format: Ephemera Description: Santa Barbara Biltmore Souvenir booklet (Section Two, May 5, 1928, of Keeler's Pacific Coast Hotel Weekly, San Francisco) and an article by Art Seidenbaum entitled "Pink Cards and Quiet Opulence," Los Angeles Times B, Calendar, Feb. 15, 1976, p. 32.
photCL 454
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Visual Materials
Location: Santa Barbara, California Job #: 345 Architect/Designer: Parkinson, John and Donald Photographer/Artist: Unidentified Format: Photographic prints Description: Progress shots of razing and rebuilding the lodge building.
photCL 454
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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