On Sunday May 31, the Santa Barbara Chapter of Black Lives Matter and Juneteenth Santa Barbara issued a list of demands for action that...

Dr. Stacey Camp of Michigan State University (left) and Koji Lau-Ozawa (right) analyzing ceramic artifacts and field notes from the...

Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation is pleased to have loaned three architectural drawings by James Osborne Craig from its...

by Anne  Petersen The recreated marquee of the Obispo Theatre at the San Liuis Obispo County History Center. Photo by Anne Petersen. The...

by Anne Petersen SBTHP archaeologist Michael Imwalle presenting a lance point from the collections of El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State...

by Anne Petersen The header for our new Online Collections website, created by Christa Clark Jones. Today, after one year of preparation,...

by Laina Malm-Levine Things are moving right along with the collections inventory project at Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens. So far, over one...

by Katherine Lowe Librarian Torie Quiñonez holds an object for photographer Lael Wageneck. Photo by Anne Petersen. In the course of...

by Nora Kassner Photo by Mike Imwalle. In June of 2011, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum donated a wooden sign to SBTHP. Reading “This...

By Michael Orth So what is the puzzle you may ask? While many structural details about the Santa Barbara Post Office are known, the...

By Laina Malm-Levine Jimmy's Oriental Gardens, photographed in 2007. When I first heard about a project to catalog the collections...

By Katherine Lowe When processing a new collection, one of the fun things is thinking about ways to share the collection.  Thanks to...

Several years ago SBTHP board member Tim Aguilar showed us a Mission-period bench he had acquired. Tim noted that a few benches of the...

By Torie Quiñonez The Presidio Research Center recently received a donation of the personal papers of Delfina de la Guerra, the last...