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Swain Family Santa Barbara Airport Collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2004-067

Content Description

Fifty-six (56) photographic, graphics, and motion picture materials documenting Santa Barbara Airport in the early 1960s

Acquisition Type

Donation

Provenance

Donation of Catherine Quinn

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • 1959 - 1963

Extent

38 Photographic Slides

11 Photographic Prints

4 Reels (16mm motion picture film)

2 Maps

1 Item(s)

Inventory

1-9) b/w aerial photographs of auto races at Santa Barbara Airport, early 1960s, 7"x10" (3-count), 10"x13" (6-count) 10) 8 x 10 color aerial photograph of auto races at Santa Barbara Airport, early 1960s. 11) 8 x 10 b/w photograph of lt. to rt.: Edward J. Trevey, Santa Barbara mayor Edward L. Abbott, William T. Swain, Peggy Wood, and Charles W. Jamison, 6/1962, at Santa Barbara Airport 12-22) unidentified dignitaries leaving Santa Barbara Airport, 1961 (color slides) 23-24) 1964 Coyote fire (color slides) 25-31) auto races at Santa Barbara Airport, 1962-63 (color slides) 32) airplane parked at Santa Barbara Airport (color slide) 33) drawing of proposed recreation area at Santa Barbara Airport, ca. 1963. 34-49) Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 AKA VZ-7AP AKA "Flying Jeep" (color slides) including photo of Walter Wolfe 50) Auto races at Santa Barbara Airport 1959-60 (16mm film) 51) Dedication of control tower at Santa Barbara Airport, 1962 (16mm film) 52) 1964 flooding Gillespie Street, Mesa (16mm film) 53) Flying Jeep, 1963 (16mm film) 54) Report on proposed development of Santa Barbara Airport land, 1963 55) California Aeronautical Chart, 1962. 56) Air Map of United Air Lines, n.d.