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Suzi Bellman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-37
Scope and Contents

Collection contains materials created and assembled by Suzi Calderon Bellman, a Presidio descendant. Included are newsletters she wrote about Old Spanish Town in Montecito and some of its residents, family histories, and a photo album put together to document a Pico Family reunion in 2015.

Dates: 2012 - 2015

Elizabeth Borden Scrapbook

 Item — item: scrapbook
Identifier: MS-31
Scope and Contents This scrapbook was created by Elizabeth Borden in 1927, when she was 14 years old, to document and commemorate a trip she took to California with her mother to see her grandmother Holden. She took the train through Canada and visited many spots such as Lake Louise, Vancouver, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Chicago and Washington, DC. She spent over a month in Santa Barbara and much of the scrapbook includes memorabilia from there. Included in the scrapbook are postcards, menus, soap wrappers,...
Dates: 1927

Bunny Fontana Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-08
Dates: 2012

California League of Parks Association Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-02
Dates: Majority of material found in 1999-2011

California Private Land Claims Collection

 Series
Identifier: MS-55
Abstract

The California Private Land Claims Collection is made up of photocopies of a selection of California private land claims presented to the Public Land Commission to determine the validity of prior Spanish and Mexican land grants within California. The contents include handwritten transcripts of proceedings and maps.

Dates: 1852 - 1884

Chapman Goss Family Photograph Album

 Item
Identifier: MS-32
Scope and Contents

This album contains photographs from the late 1800s of the families of William Freeman Myrick Goss and Hannah Elizabeth Chapman Marcy. The earliest photograph is dated 1872, but several tintypes or daguerrotypes may have been taken earlier. Last names of people included in the album are (in order of appearance): Gaston, Marcy, Atkinson, Burgess, Ingham, Sawyer, Clink, Chapman, Goss, Barlow, Cooper, Scudder, Clark, Pratt, and Atkins.

Dates: 1872-1888

Rosario Curletti Collection of Ortega Family Papers

 Collection — Box: SB-01
Identifier: MS-04
Abstract

This collection of historic documents dating between 1796 and 1855 relates primarily to the Ortega family of Santa Barbara. The documents include legal and financial letters and notices, title documents, and receipts relating to the property and finances of Jose Francisco Ortega and his heirs.

Dates: 1796 - 1855

De la Guerra Studios Scrapbooks

 Item
Identifier: MS-29
Dates: 1930s

Pablo de la Portilla Journal

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-11
Abstract

Handwritten pages dated June 27, 1824 from a journal created by Captain Don Pablo de la Portilla, describing an expedition that left the Santa Barbara Presidio on June 4, 1824 to find and return neophyte Indians who had left Mission Santa Barbara earlier that year.

Dates: 1824-06-27

Den, Bell, and Luton Families Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-07
Abstract

The papers of the Den, Bell, and Luton Families are focused largely on land ownership by brothers Nicholas and Richard Den, early settlers of Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, and their heirs. They highlight the transition in land tenure during the Mexican period and early years of California statehood as well as the inner operations of land and oil development in Santa Barbara County during the first part of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1784 - 1974

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Santa Barbara Presidio (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 16
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Presidio Neighborhood 3
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Adobe houses--California 1
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Santa Ynez (Calif.) 1
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Language
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Names
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation 9
Chase, Pearl, 1888-1979 3
Community Arts Association of Santa Barbara. Plans and Planting Committee 3
Santa Barbara (Calif.) 3
Santa Barbara Mission 3
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Dewey, Bill (William B.) 2
Guerra, Pablo de la, 1819-1874 2
Hass, Jeremy D., 1936-2014 2
Hvolboll, Elizabeth Erro, 1930-2018 2
Pico, Pío, 1801-1894 2
Rouse, Stella Haverland 2
Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890 2
Whitehead, Richard S., 1907-1988 2
Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1693-1740 1
Bell, John Stewart 1
Bell, Katherine M., 1844-1926 1
Bellman, Suzi Calderon 1
Borden, Elizabeth B. 1
Brinkerhoff, George Franklin 1
Brinkerhoff, Peter 1
Cachupin, Thomas Velez 1
California Recreational Trails Committee 1
Chaboya, Anastacio 1
Chapman, Ron 1
Charles, King of Spain, III, 1716-1788 1
Chung, Jimmy 1
Chung, Tommy 1
Cleveland, Robert 1
Cota Family 1
Cota, Maria Magdalena Josefa 1
Crespo, Angel 1
Curletti, Rosario Andrea 1
De la Portilla, Pablo 1
Den, Nicholas Augustus 1
Den, Richard S. 1
Dibblee, T. W. (Thomas Wilson) 1
Douglas, Walter C. (Walter Cornelius), 1919-2014 1
Downie, Harry (Henry John), 1903-1980 1
Eayrs, George Washington, 1775-1855 1
Fages, Pedro 1
Fendon, Irene Suski 1
Flores Family 1
Flores, Cipriana Justina de Llanos, 1818-1921 1
Flores, Gumesindo 1
Flores, Jose Ignacio 1
Forsyth, Gloria Brooks 1
Godayol, Jose, Fr., 1829-1902 1
Goicoechea, Felipe Antonio de, 1747-1814 1
Goss, Etta May (Marcy) 1
Goss, William Freeman Myrick 1
Guerra Family 1
Guerra y Lataillade, Antonia Maria de la, 1827-1916 1
Guerra, Antonio Maria de la 1
Guerra, Delfina de la 1
Guerra, Francisca de la 1
Guerra, Herminia de la 1
Hass, John K. 1
Haverland, Della 1
Higman, Sue 1
Hill, Daniel A. 1
Imwalle, Michael H. 1
Jenkins, Prince 1
Juarez, Victor 1
Land Trust of Santa Barbara County 1
Lataillade Family 1
Lataillade, Cesario Armand, 1819-1849 1
Lataillade, Cesario Eugene, 1849- 1
Lataillade, Maria Antonia, 1846-1916 1
Lewis, Robert L. 1
Lippitt, Francis J. (Francis James), 1812-1902 1
Luton, Caroline 1
Luton, George Roscoe, 1880-1947 1
Marcy, Hannah (Chapman) 1
Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867 1
Mercury (Ship) 1
Micheltorena, Manuel, 1802-1853 1
Mignon 1
Miller, Robert Ryal 1
Mills, Paul Chadbourne, 1924-2004 1
Moreno, Luis 1
Murphy, Dwight 1
Murphy, Grace (Price) 1
Native Daughters of the Golden West 1
Obern, Vivian Marie (Hapeman), 1921-2015 1
Ortega Family 1
Ortega, Jose Francisco de, 1734-1798 1
Pico Family 1
Platz, Edward H., Dr. 1
Platz, Helen (Hartnett) 1
Price, Glenn 1
Quintero, Regina 1
Rasmussen, Carl 1
Reid, Hugo, 1809-1872 1
Ruiz, Russell A. (Russell Antonio), 1925-1988 1
Samano, Roman 1
Sanchez Family 1
Santa Barbara County (Calif.) 1
Santa Barbara County Trails Council 1
Santa Barbara News-Press 1
Santa Inés Mission (Solvang, Calif.) 1
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