Abstract The City of Santa Barbara, California, became the community that it is through planning. In her book, Santa Barbara: An Uncommonplace American Town, former Mayor Sheila Lodge documents the many battles it sometimes took, the unanticipated events, and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions necessary to guide development of Santa Barbara over the course of 170 years. The Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection...

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The John L. Von Blon Photograph Collection contains photographs of western landscapes, automobiles, buildings, construction of a Mexican railroad, Santa Barbara, California, and portraits. The black and white photos were taken primarily by John L. Von Blon.