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Welcome to the Archive-Library!

SBMAL is open to researchers by appointment only.
Research hours are available on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 10:00am to 4:00pm.

Note: We will be closed 12/25/24-1/3/25 for the holidays.

Research at the Archive

Personal Paper Collections

SBMAL's personal paper collections include the research collections of various historians, archaeologists, and other academics who specialized in the history of the California Missions, the broader history of Spain's colonies in the Americas, or other related topics, as well as collections of individuals who make up these histories.

Kurt Baer Papers

UCSB Professor of Art and Art History Kurt Baer was appointed the official art historian of Franciscan missions in California. The Kurt Baer Papers represent Dr. Baer's research materials compiled while writing his three books on the missions and their art and architecture.

Sylvia Broadbent Papers

Dr. Sylvia Broadbent's papers include photographs, notes, letters, and articles from a career researching linguistics, language and culture, archaeology, prehistory and symbolism of communities in the Americas.

Dora P. Crouch Collection

Architectural historian Dr. Dora P. Crouch studied architecture, archaeology, engineering, and geology. This collection contains her research materials on a wide variety of subjects, including colonialism in the Americas, North American archaeology, and Native American art.

Edith Buckland Webb Collection

Edith Webb, artist and historian of the California Missions, compiled a collection of research materials that includes photographs, correspondence, and scrapbooks.

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