Choosing Our Community’s Historic Resources: St. Paul’s AME Church at 502 Olive St.
On Sunday May 31, the Santa Barbara Chapter of Black Lives Matter and Juneteenth Santa Barbara issued a list of demands for action that...
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- Sep 6, 2019
- 3 min
Connecting Santa Barbara’s early 20th-century Japanese-American Community to those interned at Gila
Dr. Stacey Camp of Michigan State University (left) and Koji Lau-Ozawa (right) analyzing ceramic artifacts and field notes from the...
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- Sep 9, 2016
- 1 min
SBTHP James Osborne Craig Drawings at Indigo Interiors
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation is pleased to have loaned three architectural drawings by James Osborne Craig from its...
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- May 6, 2016
- 2 min
Sharing Historic Theater Seats with our Neighbors in San Luis Obispo!
by Anne Petersen The recreated marquee of the Obispo Theatre at the San Liuis Obispo County History Center. Photo by Anne Petersen. The...
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- Jan 25, 2013
- 2 min
Artist Specializing in Depictions of Early California Visits the Presidio.
by Anne Petersen SBTHP archaeologist Michael Imwalle presenting a lance point from the collections of El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State...
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- Oct 1, 2012
- 2 min
Launching into our 50th Anniversary, and a New Online Collections Website (It’s a Big Day)!
by Anne Petersen The header for our new Online Collections website, created by Christa Clark Jones. Today, after one year of preparation,...
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- Feb 22, 2012
- 2 min
Chinese Characters in the Collections of Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens
by Laina Malm-Levine Things are moving right along with the collections inventory project at Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens. So far, over one...
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- Dec 19, 2011
- 1 min
Digitizing the Past: the Delfina de la Guerra Collection
by Katherine Lowe Librarian Torie Quiñonez holds an object for photographer Lael Wageneck. Photo by Anne Petersen. In the course of...
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- Dec 5, 2011
- 2 min
Collections Highlight: Sign from the Casa de la Guerra Porch
by Nora Kassner Photo by Mike Imwalle. In June of 2011, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum donated a wooden sign to SBTHP. Reading “This...
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- Nov 16, 2011
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“Windows to the Past” – The Santa Barbara Post Office Project, Part I
By Michael Orth So what is the puzzle you may ask? While many structural details about the Santa Barbara Post Office are known, the...
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- Nov 11, 2011
- 2 min
Diamonds in the Rough: Get out those Gloves!
By Laina Malm-Levine Jimmy's Oriental Gardens, photographed in 2007. When I first heard about a project to catalog the collections...
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- Oct 14, 2011
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Digitizing the Past: the Delfina de la Guerra Collection
By Katherine Lowe When processing a new collection, one of the fun things is thinking about ways to share the collection. Thanks to...
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- Sep 30, 2011
- 1 min
Take a Seat in the Presidio Chapel!
Several years ago SBTHP board member Tim Aguilar showed us a Mission-period bench he had acquired. Tim noted that a few benches of the...
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- Sep 23, 2011
- 2 min
Rare Books Owned by the de la Guerra Family Now at the Presidio Research Center
By Torie Quiñonez The Presidio Research Center recently received a donation of the personal papers of Delfina de la Guerra, the last...
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