Clifton F. Smith collection of Santa Barbara city commercial and business ephemera, (bulk : 1900-1925) | Collections | The Huntington

Clifton F. Smith collection of Santa Barbara city commercial and business ephemera, (bulk : 1900-1925) | Collections | The Huntington

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Booklets -- [Santa Barbara, (Calif.)], (1913-1925)
Manuscripts
Los Adobes Antiguos de Santa Barbara compliments of Arthur E. Ogilvy; The Planting of the Cross of Santa Barbara by Junipero Serra, 1713-1784 [plays (performed works)]; Romances of the Mission Bells by Calpet Gasoline; and Santa Barbara Souvenir with Earthquake Pictures published by Copeland's Bookshop
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"The Upham." Santa Barbara . California
Rare Books
An album with 13 photographs showing the Upham Hotel in Santa Barbara, California. Most of the photographs are views of the exterior of the building, the final photograph shows a group of people eating around two tables in a yard, with the cooks and cooking equipment off to the left.
647000:051
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[Santa Barbara earthquake. 1925]
Visual Materials
This collection contains 71 lantern slides of primarily unidentified scenes including slides depicting people, children, scenery, and farming. Many of these scenes appear to be in the Southern California area, though there are a few from other locales including Canada and England. Among the identified slides are Mission San Gabriel; Champlain Monument in Quebec, Canada; a 1798 letter to the Maryland Free Masons; the steamship "Parisian" in Liverpool, England; Palmdale, California train station; the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; and Lucky Baldwin's Ranch in Arcadia, California. Photographers are not identified.
photCL 518
Former residence of Harrison Gray Otis in Santa Barbara
Manuscripts
Black and white print of photograph of the Santa Barbara house occupied by Harrison Gray Otis' family between 1876 and 1880, at corner of Gutierrez and Santa Barbara Streets. Low wire fence surrounding property in foreground, shrubs/overgrown climbing vines, various trees visible in background.
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Santa Barbara Flower Festival photograph album
Visual Materials
A collection of 24 commercial photographs of the Santa Barbara Flower Festival of 1895, in Santa Barbara, California. Most of the photographs feature horse-drawn carts or carriages decorated as floats with flowers and other greenery, with a few images of the streets of Santa Barbara decorated for the festival and children picking flowers. The photographer, presumably, is N.H. Reed, whose book of published images, "Souvenir of Santa Barbara Flower Festival. Photo-Gravures" (1895), includes both similar and some of the same images found in this collection.
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The city of the saints, and the city of the angels, or a trip to San Bernardino and Los Angeles
Manuscripts
American solider Edward Otho Cresap Ord gives an account of his travels through California, to San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara in particular. He was under orders to "make sundry examinations and investigations" in that region. He arrived at Santa Barbara via the coasting steamer "Sea Bird," and makes much observation of the native people. Dated 1849, August.
mssHM 40683