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Santa Barbara as it is. : Topography, climate, resources and objects of interest
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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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Rare Books
647000:048
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This collection consists of ephemeral pieces related to Santa Barbara commercial enterprises and businesses from approximately 1854 through 1940. Included are billheads, cards, receipts, advertisements, pamphlets, menus, and stock certificates. Includes articles by Lorenzo G. Yates about Santa Barbara's products and natural resources, written for the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce. Topics represented include: blacksmithing, the building trade, bookstores, music, recreation, fashion, dry goods, drugstores, cosmetics, finance, horticulture, finance, transportation, and real estate. Also includes the receipts and other minor business papers of C. Shepard Lee, J.M. Taggart and C.C. [or C.E.] Erhart. Business receipts addressed to Robert Main, the ranch manager for the Bishop family property Corona del Mar, form the bulk of these personally addressed receipts and are dated from 1893 through 1915. The property tax receipts for Samuel Budd Page Knox (1839-1922), a local physician are present for the years 1882 through 1903. The collection also includes an 1888 New Year's publication by the Daily Independent (Santa Barbara) of "Millie O'Naire, or The carrier's bride : an operetta" which bears a miniature facsimile of the newspaper's front page and masthead dated Nov. 9, 1887.
647000:075
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