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Rancho San Julian thoroughbred horse racing material
SBHC Mss 70
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Title: Rancho San Julian thoroughbred horse racing material
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 70
Language of Material:
English.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
2.42 Linear Feet
(1 document box, 2 flat boxes)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1932-1942
Abstract: This collection contains clippings, photographs, notes, and ephemera of T. Wilson and Virginia Dibblee of Rancho San Julian
in Lompoc, California. Material relates to thoroughbred horse breeding and racing, and dates from approximately 1933 to 1942.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
The collection is open for research.
Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through
the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator
and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department
of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of
California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is
not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Gift of W. Dibblee Hoyt.
[Identification of Item], Rancho San Julian thoroughbred horse racing material, SBHC Mss 70. Department of Special Collections,
UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
This collection contains clippings, photographs, notes, and ephemera of T. Wilson and Virginia Dibblee of Rancho San Julian
in Lompoc, California. Material relates to thoroughbred horse breeding and racing, and dates from approximately 1933 to 1942.
The collection includes a scrapbook containing pasted newspaper clippings of race results and a small number of horse snapshots
(1933-1939); a notebook containing black-and white snapshots, with handwritten descriptions of horses sold ("T. Wilson Dibblee,
Ranch San Julian" printed on cover); and large photographic prints (black-and-white, cardboard backing with typewritten captions)
of winning race horses from Rancho San Julian, with jockeys at racetracks (1937-1939).
Loose photographs comprise black-and-white snapshots (prints and negatives) of horses, with many of the snapshots also including
people, landscape, and outbuildings, taken at Rancho San Julian and surrounding area, in envelopes addressed to Virginia Dibblee
and T. Wilson Dibblee.
Loose newspaper clippings include race results and charts
(
Longacres, Caliente, Los Angeles Times, among others); racing programs, auction notes and sales;
Blood-Horse Magazine (two issues),
Thoroughbred Record Journal (two issues),
Caliente News and Views (Tijuana, Mexico) (four issues),
Liberty Week Bay Meadows (one issue); Jockey Club horse registration and death registry forms; envelopes addressed to T. Wilson Dibblee (Ranch San
Julian, Lompoc, California and De La Guerra studios, Santa Barbara) and Miss Virginia Dibblee (Rancho San Julian, Lompoc California).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Race horses -- California -- Rancho San Julian -- History -- 20th century
Rancho San Julian (Calif.) -- History
Photographs
Newspaper clippings
Ephemera
Dibblee, T. W. (Thomas Wilson) (1911-2004) -- Archives