SBTHP | Gift Shop

The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation's Gift Shop, La Tiendita, at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park offers a diverse selection of books, archaeological reports and scholarly publications, as well as a wide array of unique gifts, including handmade artisan pieces and toys for children. We are pleased to offer a distinctive selection of merchandise inspired by the Early California history—including note cards, posters and apparel.

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El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP
123 East Canon Perdido Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
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The Chumash and the Presidio of Santa Barbara: Evolution of a Relationship, 1782-1823
by Marie Christine Duggan, Ph.D. Santa Barbara California, 2004: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation.
In this essay about the relationships between Native peoples and the Presidio soldiers in Alta California, Dr. Duggan explains that Chumash Indians and soldiers in Santa Barbara turned out to be closely intertwined on a day-to-day basis in everything from outright military conflict to political negotiation, ongoing labor ties, and a shared passion for gambling.
Paperback; $10.00

The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
Vladimir Guerrero
In 1774, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Presidio at Tubac (in what is now Arizona), to lead two expeditions: the first to find a safe overland route to Monterey, and the second to return Anza to California with 240 men, women, and children to establish a settlement in San Francisco. The Anza Trail and the Settling of California synthesizes firsthand documents and diaries from the Anza expeditions to retell the story of the exploration of the Southwest and the settlement of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Paperback; $16.95

The California Recollections of Angustias de la Guerra Ord (Occurrences in Hispanic California) as dictated by Angustias de la Guerra Ord to Thomas Savage in 1878
Bilingual Edition. Giorgio Perissinotto, Editor. Washington, 2004: Academy of American Franciscan History in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation.
Angustias de la Guerra's Occurrences is one of the more valuable and interesting eye-witness accounts of pre-Gold Rush California. Dr. Perissinotto's approach of setting the original Spanish side-by-side with the English translation of an earlier edition allows the reader to make up his or her mind as to the accuracy of the rendering in English of the original Spanish text. Occurrences vividly brings to life the early history of Santa Barbara and California.
Hardcover; $20.00

Documenting Everyday Life in Early Spanish California: The Santa Barbara Presidio Memorias y Facturas, 1779-1810
edited by Giorgio Perissinotto, 1998
Hardcover; $20.00

From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions
by Craig Russell
Music in the California missions was a pluralistic combination of voices and instruments, of liturgy and spectacle, of styles and functions-and even of cultures-in a new blend that was non-existent before the Franciscan friars made their way to California beginning in 1769. This book explores the exquisite sacred music that flourished on the West Coast of America when it was under Spanish and Mexican rule; it delves into the historical, cultural, biographical, and stylistic aspects of California mission music during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book explores how mellifluous plainchant, reverent hymns, spunky folkloric ditties, "classical" music in the style of Haydn, and even Native American drumming were interwoven into a tapestry of resonant beauty. Aspects of music terminology, performance practice, notation, theory, sacred song, hymns, the sequence, the mass, and pageantry are addressed. Russell draws upon hundreds of primary documents in California, Mexico, Madrid, Barcelona, London, and Mallorca, and it is through the melding together of this information from geographically separated places that he brings the mystery of California's mission music into sharper focus. In addition to extensive musical analysis, the book also examines such things as cultural context, style, scribal attribution, instructions to musicians, government questionnaires, invoices, the liturgy, architectural space where performances took place, spectacle, musical instruments, instrument construction, shipping records, travelers' accounts, letters, diaries, passenger lists, baptismal and burial records, and other primary source material. Within this book one finds considerable biographical information about Junipero Serra, Juan Bautista Sancho, Narciso Duran, Florencio Ibanez, Pedro Cabot, Martin de Cruzelaegui, Ignacio de Jerusalem, and Francisco Javier Garcia Fajer. Furthermore, it contains five far-reaching appendices: a Catalogue of Mission Sources; Photos of Missions and Mission Manuscripts (with over 150 color facsimiles); Translations of Primary Texts; Music Editions (that are performance-ready); and an extensive Bibliography.
Hardcover; $65.00

The Father of All: The de la Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy
in Mexican California
by Louise Pubols
A rich and nuanced study of a key family in California's past: the de la Guerras of Santa Barbara. Amid sweeping economic and political changes, including the U.S.Mexican War, the de la Guerra family continually adapted and reinvented themselves. By tracing a web of business and family relationships, Pubols shows in practical terms how patriarchy functioned from generation to generation in Spanish and Mexican California. Copublished by the Huntington Library and University of California Press.
Hardcover; $44.95

Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848
Translated with introduction and commentary by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn't count on one thing: the women. When the men weren't available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—almost as an afterthought. These were eventually archived at the University of California, although many were all but forgotten. From the editors of the highly influential Lands of Promise and Despair, here are thirteen women's firsthand accounts from the time California was part of Spain and Mexico.
Paper; $18.95

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park General Plan
1988
Paper; $19.00

Casa de la Guerra: a Study of Time and Place, 1818-1924
A study conducted by Beverly Bastian, Grace Murakami and Louise Pubols as a University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Public History graduate research seminar, 1990.
Paper; $10.00

California's Mission La Purísima Concepción
A reprint of Mission La Purisima Concepcion: An Archaeological and Restoration Study of Mission La Purisima Concepcion. Reports written for the National Park Service by Fred C. Hageman and Russell C. Ewing; Prepared and Edited for publication by Richard S. Whitehead. Number Five in the Santa Barbara Bicentennial Historical Series, 1980. With a new introduction by Richard E. Oglesby, 1991. (A Presidio Research Center Publication)
Quality paper; $15.00

A Yankee Smuggler on the Spanish California Coast: George Washington Earys and the
Ship Mercury
by Robert Ryan Miller, 2001
This book traces the adventures of a Boston seafarer named George Washington Earys who, for a decade beginning in 1803, participated in trading voyages between Alaska, California, and China.
Hardcover; $12.00

Plaza De la Guerra Reconsidered: Exhibition and Symposium Catalogue
A result of an extraordinary collaboration between the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the City of Santa Barbara's Historic Landmarks Commission.
Quality Paper, $20.00

A Maritime History of Baja California
Discover the most important harbors and anchorages of the Baja California peninsula through charts, maps, satellite imagery and photos. The history of each of those places is developed by recording, in chronological order, the most important ships to have touched that anchorage.
Hardcover; $49.95

Building and Builders in Hispanic California 1769-1850
Mardith Schuetz-Miller's groundbreaking study of the artisans and craftsmen who contributed to the built environment of early California, 1995. (A Presidio Research Center Publication).
Quality Paper; $34.00

Stone Architecture in Santa Barbara
by Santa Barbara Conservancy
While documenting the miles of stone walls that line many of the streets of Santa Barbara, members of the Santa Barbara Conservancy realized the immense value to the region and the world of all of the area’s stonework. Through meticulous research, the conservancy produced this volume using photographs both historic and modern that evoke the timelessness and beauty of stone construction.
Paperback; $17.99

Third Summary Report on Excavations Conducted at the Site of the
Spanish Royal Presidio Chapel, February 1968 - November 1968
1969
Paper; $20.00

Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara - Fifth Summary Report, Chapel Excavations
George Decker et al, 1970
Paper; $15.00

Phase VII: Archaeology of the "Padre's Quarters"
Julia Costello, 1976
Paper; $15.00

El Presidio de Santa Barbara Archaeological Research Series, Vol. 1:
Archaeological Investigation of the Northern Front-Comandancia
Vance G. Benté, Pandora Snethkamp, Michael Imwalle and Stuart Tyson Smith, 1990
Paper; $35.00

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara Archaeological Research Series, Vol.2:
Archaeological Investigation of the Northern Front: Rear Area of Comandancia
Vance G. Benté, Sally Salzman Morgan, Michael Imwalle and Robert Sheets, 1990
Paper; $45.00

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara Archaeological Research Series, Vol. 3:
Archaeological Investigation of the Northern Front: Flores Lot
Michael Imwalle and Robert Sheets under the supervision of Vance G. Benté, 1990
Paper; $45.00

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara Archaeological Research Series, Vol. 4:
Archaeological Investigation of the Northern Front: Rear Area of Cañedo Adobe
Michael Imwalle under the supervision of Vance G. Benté, 1992
Paper; $25.00

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara Archaeological Research Series, Vol. 5:
Archaeological Investigation of the Northeast Corner
Michael Imwalle under the supervision of Vance G. Benté, 1992
Paper; $45.00

The Beginning of the Chumash: A Chumash Oral History
by Monique Sonoquie and Indigenous Youth Foundation
Paper; $10.00

California's Knight on a Golden Horse: Dwight Murphy, Santa Barbara's Renaissance Man
by Edward A. Hartfeld
Featuring historic photos and illustrations, this is a must have book for lovers of Santa Barbara history. Disover the story of civic leader Dwight Murphy, who fought to save the natural beauty of Santa Barbara during the early 20th century and promote the power of history and culture as a stimulant to politics, planning, and public life.
Hardcover; $25.00

Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife, Tales of Santa Cruz Island
by Margaret Holden Eaton
Paper; $12.95

100 Years of Santa Barbara City Parks 1902-2002
Catalogue of the City Parks Centennial Exhibition Channing Peake Gallery
Paper; $12.95

Santa Barbara All about the Red-Tile City
by Mary Zeldis with photos by Bill Zeldis
Paper; $16.95

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse
by Patricia Gebhard and Kathryn Masson Photographs by James Chen
Paper; $16.50

The Sugar Bear Story
by Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto and Mary Yee
This children's tale is based on a Chumash oral legend about how to be a good host. Brightly illustrated by the author, the book incorporates Chumash words and traditional designs, and includes a tribal linguistics map and Chumash glossary. The land occupied by the Chumash peoples stretches along the coast of southern to central California.
Paper; $9.95

Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories
by Malcolm Margolin and Yolanda Montijo
California Indians vividly describe various aspects of traditional and contemporary Indian life, in a clear, easy-to-read style. With eighty photographs, index, map of Native California, and listing of California Indian resources. Native Ways has been approved by the California Department of Education and is listed in the Instructional Materials Approved for Legal Compliance Catalog.
Paper; $10.95

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara, A Reader's Theater / Skit Program for teaching about the place of the Santa Barbara presidio in California's Spanish Colonization
prepared by Kathryn S. Chalfant
Paper; $14.00

Frida Maria, A Story of the Old Southwest
by Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Paper; $6.00

Lone Woman of Ghalas-Hat: The True Story of Juana Maria
by Rice D. Oliver
Paper; $6.00

Native Ways, California Indian Stories and Memories
edited by Malcolm Margolin and Yolanda Montijo
Paper; $8.95

Tell Me More Ancestor Stories, Grandma!: A History of Early California Families
by Diana J. Dennett
Paper; $24.95

The California Missions Activity Book: Grade 4
by Arlan Dean and Kay Ward
Paper; $15.95

The Chumash of California (The Library of Native Americans)
by Jack S. Williams
Hardcover; $18.95

The Chumash People (Materials for Teachers and Students)
A Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Docent Project
Paper; $12.95

American's Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses (The Western States)
by Virginia and Lee McAlester
Paper; $29.95

George Washington Smith: An Architect's Scrapbook
Edited and with an introduction by Marc Appleton
Hardcover; $65.00

Santa Barbara Style
by Kathryn Masson and photographer James Chen.
Hardcover; $50.00

California: West Of The West
by Adam Collings, edited by Diego Garcia
Hardcover; $49.95

Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
by James F. Brooks
Paper; $22.50

Changes in Landscape: The Beginnings of Horticulture in the California Missions
by Michael Hardwick
From the food that is placed on each table in California today, to the 200 year old trees that grace the historic Missions, the beginnings of horticulture in early California affect us all. The second edition of this book excels in presenting the legacy of Mission culture that touches us all: our food, our decorative plants, and our trees.
Paper; $15.00

Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Spirit of Courage, Caring and Community
Paper; $12.95

From Settler to Citizen:
New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750-1820
by Ross Frank
Paper; $45.00

Gateway to Alta California: The Expedition to San Diego, 1769
by Harry W. Crosby
Hardcover; $39.95

Land of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846
Edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Paper; $21.95

Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California
by Edward W. Vernon
Las Misiones Antiguas is a photographic journey and written record of every peninsular mission and several visitas of Baja California. Each site was photographed and its position recorded using a G. P. S. instrument. The description of each mission includes oral history from area residents. Sketches record the configuration of sites not previously mapped, and in the case of the largest Baja California mission, Comondú, the foundation was traced and old photographs were utilized to generate a computer model. This information was combined with historic photographs of many of the sites. More than 300 graphic images and a description of the history and major events at the sites make this book the most comprehensive source of information on these fascinating and rapidly deteriorating architectural treasures.
Hardcover; $44.95

Loreto Baja California: First Mission and Capital of Spanish California
by Ann & Don O'Neil
Paper; $17.95

Mexican-American Genealogical Research: Following the Paper Trail to Mexico
by John Schmal & Donna Morales
Paper; $21.00

The Californios: Photographs and Stories about the Descendents of the Mission Era in Baja California, Mexico
by Leland Foerster
Paper; $25.00

The Spell of California's Spanish Colonial Missions
by Donald Francis Toomey
Paper; $24.95

Santa Cruz Island: A History of Conflict and Diversity
by John Gherine
Hardcover; $39.50

West of Babylon
by Eduardo Garrigues, Translated by Nasario Garcia
Hardcover; $24.95

My Friends Call Me Miss Chase: The Story of a Woman and a City
An early civic activist, Miss Pearl Chase (1888-1979) was a leader of Santa Barbara's social welfare, urban planning, city beautification, conservation and historic preservation efforts. Through her efforts the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation was established in 1963 to preserve and reconstruct El Presidio de Santa Barbara. Featuring interviews with individuals who knew and worked with her, we invite you to discover the "force of nature" that was Pearl Chase.
DVD; $13.95

THE VAQUERO SERIES
Vaqueros, Buckaroos, Paniolos and Northern Range Cowboys
by filmmakers Susan Jensen & Paul Singer
Enjoy these high-quality DVDs about the history of the vaquero and the people who live the life today. The Vaqueros came with the Conquistadors to the New World and created a new style of handling cattle on the open ranges of Mexico. Their influence grew—to California, Nevada, Oregon, Hawaii, Montana , Wyoming—and other parts of the Western Hemisphere.
In each area, a tradition developed to meet the unique demands of the environment and culture. This is the story filmmakers Susan Jensen and Paul Singer are tracing through their Vaquero Series. For more information visit J&S Productions online.
DVD; $19.95

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP & Casa de la Guerra
Visitors' Orientation Video
Now available on DVD—take home your very own copy of the Vistors' Video for
El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park and Casa de la Guerra.
This fascinating DVD traces the evolution of two of Santa Barbara's most significant historic sites and highlights their place in the City's history.
DVD; $12.95

Inside the California Missions
The 21 Missions of California changed the face of this coastal state. This is the first video to capture the beauty, the history and the controversy surrounding what would become the foundation for California as we know it today.
Cultural Videos; David Bolton
$19.95

North America's Mission Trail
Journey from the hills of central Mexico to the coasts of Florida and California, and through the southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas while learning each regions rich and interesting history.
Cultural Videos; David Bolton
$19.95

Traveling California State Parks - Central California Edition
Join world camper, Russ Christoff, as he visits some of Central California's most beautiful and historically significant State Parks.
$19.95

Traveling California State Parks - Northern California Edition
Join world camper, Russ Christoff, as he visits some of Northern California's most beautiful and historically significant State Parks.
$19.95

Traveling California State Parks - Southern California Edition
Join world camper, Russ Christoff, as he visits some of Southern California's most beautiful and historically significant State Parks.
$19.95