Manuscripts

Santa Barbara Mission archives

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Description: A group of photostats of letters, including letters by Junipero Serra, documents, and diaries of Franciscan missionaries, related to early California.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1793-1844.
Call number: mssSBM
Creator: Santa Barbara Mission(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Photostats made from originals lent by Fr. Maynard Geiger of the Santa Barbara Mission, 1946.
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Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

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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Entrance to Mission San Juan Capistrano

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Image of the entrance to Mission San Juan Capistrano with California highway signs in San Juan Capistrano, California. The Mission building sign reads "1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano founded Nov. 1776 Fray Junipero Serra 'worth a visit'." A cross is above the archway, and an American flag flies on top of the building.

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[Santa Barbara Mission]

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A collection of approximately 1,500 photographs and various ephemera and publications of California missions, collected by Southern California educator Connie Rothstein, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel Mission, the history of the city of San Gabriel, and the production of "The Mission Play" by John Steven McGroarty. The collection also includes late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California, and postcards and ephemera related to the Southern California region. Notable in the collection are 391 stereographs of missions and Los Angeles, including some by photographers William Godfrey and H. T. Payne, A. C. Varela, and Carleton Watkins. All of the California Missions are represented in the collection, plus the "sub-missions" or Asistencias of California. The mission photographs include many unusual views and details, and are a mixture of snapshots made by tourists and commercial photographs. There are many views in and around Southern California, most dating from 1880s-1920s, by various photographers. Specific topics emphasized in and around Los Angeles are: Olvera Street, Chinatown, La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration; and the Mount Lowe Railway. There are many cabinet cards and stereographs, and six large panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area. The ephemera include hundreds of postcards and photographic postcards, scrapbooks, and many small publications on the history of the missions and California, as well as ephemera related to "The Mission Play." Other topics in the collection are: photographs and ephemera of Monterey, California; Oregon and the Columbia River Highway; and a group of photographs of cowboys and Western culture (mid-20th century).

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Mission. Santa Barbara Mission

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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.

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[Bell at Santa Barbara Mission]

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[View of Santa Barbara Mission]

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