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Beals (Jessie Tarbox) Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR-2024-001
Photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals standing next to her camera (on tripod), with camera trigger in hand. PC60-6-3. Jessie Tarbox Beals Photographs, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals standing next to her camera (on tripod), with camera trigger in hand. PC60-6-3. Jessie Tarbox Beals Photographs, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Scope and Contents

The Jessie Tarbox Beals Photograph Collection is an artificial collection of prints and postcards of Montecito and Hope Ranch estate architecture and gardens.

Dates

  • 1928 - 1932

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. In 1928, at the age of 58, Beals moved to Santa Barbara and set up a studio in El Paseo, and later in Meridian Studios. Although Beals presence in Santa Barbara was short-lived, she left behind a sparse but grand portfolio of local architecture, gardens, and estate photography.

Extent

18 Photographic Prints

7 Postcards

Language of Materials

English

Materials Specific Details for orphan works

One (1) print, Along the Sea at Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, California photograph in Photo Files 180.21 Roads

Three (3) matted prints titled, Mrs. E. Palmer Gavit, in Photo Files OS-A 91.63 Lotusland [estate]

One (1) matted print titled, Mr. Mrs. James Ward Thorne, in Photo Files OS-A 91.82 Thorne, James [estate]

One (1) matted print titled, John Gamble, in Photo Files OS-A 93.25 Gamble, John M. [estate]

One (1) matted print untitled, in Photo Files OS-A 93.26 Goss, Harold S. [estate]

One (1) matted print titled, Mr. and Mrs. Boardman F. Smith, in Photo Files OS-A 80.805 Smith, Boardman R. [house]

One (1) print untitled, in Photo Files 90.44 Postel, A. C. [house]

One (1) matted print titled, Mrs. Geoffrey S. R. Courtney, in Photo Files OS-A 90.75 Doe AKA Ravenscroft [house]

One (1) print "Clavelitos" stairs, in Photo Files 91.6 Lutah Maria Riggs [house]

One (1) print "Clavelitos" fountain, in Photo Files 91.6 Lutah Maria Riggs [house]

Creator

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Gledhill Library Repository

Contact:
136 E. De La Guerra
Santa Barbara California 93101 USA