Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Smith, Dick
- Extent:
- .3 linear feet (1 flat oversize box)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Dick Smith collection, SBHC Mss 56. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains more than 300 color slides, mainly of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill and its aftermath. Included are images of oil rigs, shoreline, beaches, oil soaked birds and animals, clean-up efforts, and some aerialviews. There are duplicates of some images. Most were taken January-Feb. 1969, but some are as early as 1963 (mainly nature images) and others as late as 1976 (mainly oil spill aftermath). Some slides have a Dick Smith stamp.
The slides are mainly Ektachrome, most with 'H" batch numbers. Some are labelled as DS and have other descriptions, so probably all in the same batch are by him, even if not so labelled. 'H' batches in general are probably by him, especially if in the same date ranges and with similar descriptions.
Slides have been arranged by date, batch number, then by slide number within the batch. Unidentified slides, without batch numbers, may be duplicates and are filed after the others.
- Biographical / historical:
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Richard J. [Dick] Smith was born in Minnesota on Aug. 29, 1920. He came to Santa Barbara County in 1948, got a job at the Santa Barbara News-Press as Promotion Manager and continued to work there part-time, spending the rest of his time hiking the backcountry. Over the years he came to be known as Santa Barbara County's foremost backwoodsman and a local wilderness area bears his name.
In 1964 Smith co-authored California Condor: Vanishing American with Robert O. Easton. A posthumous work, Condor Journal: The History, Mythology, and Reality of the California Condor, was edited by his wife, Olive Kingston Smith, in 1978.
Dick Smith died on Feb. 2, 1977.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Mrs. Dick [Olive] Smith, 1977, and undetermined.
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Dick Smith collection, SBHC Mss 56. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062