An Educating Conversation: “Mapping Early California”
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S.B. Mission Archive-Library (SBMAL)
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Date & Time
Fri, May 30 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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2201 Laguna St.
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S.B. Mission Archive-Library (SBMAL)
📢Coming up at the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library on Friday May 30th from 6-8pm:
“Mapping Early California”
Featuring: John Johnson, PhD, Curator Emeritus, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History & Jennifer Colby, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay
🗣 This program examines the history and traditions of mapping in early Spanish and Mexican colonial California, including before, during, and after the Mission Period. Dr. Johnson will cover the earliest depictions of the Santa Barbara region and what information can be derived about Chumash settlement patterns from archival records.  Dr. Colby will examine the artistic traditions behind the diseños, maps that were filed with petitions for land grants in the Mexican Period.
📍Location: Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
đźš—Free parking on site | Look for the SBMAL sign on the front portico, to the left.
đź’˛Cost: $50 per event | RSVP Required | Limited to 25 attendees | Light Refreshments
đź–±Head to our website to buy tickets directly: https://www.sbmal.org/events-1/an-educating-conversation-mapping-early-california
đź’ˇAbout the Series: Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take. (Conducted on the last Friday of the month, May, June, August, September, and October 2025 with different speakers each month.)
🙌Sponsored by Michael Hardwick and an anonymous donor.
