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Patricia Ortlieb collection on Eliza L. Tibbets

Owning Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives

About this Collection

Photographs and documents on the life of Eliza L. Tibbets and her descendants, compiled by author Patricia Ortlieb, who is Tibbets' great-great-granddaughter. Photographs, including ambrotypes and tintypes, depict members of the Tibbets, Lovell, Summons, and Olmsted families throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tibbets (1823-1898), a horticulturist, spiritualist, abolitionist, suffragist, and early settler in Riverside, is most widely known for her role in introducing the Washington navel orange in California. Ortlieb is the co-author of "Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry" (Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2011). View collection guide.

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187 items found in this collection

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Aunt Matie's Eighth Grade Graduation
Beach campground, Santa Barbara
Bert Summons and Lydia Wilbur Summons on porch with dog
Bert Summons portrait
Blurred portrait of baby
Calvin Tibbets
Calvin Tibbets in costume
Card with family portrait
Charlie Wilbur and Flo Wilbur
Clara Tibbets Summons
Clara Tibbets Summons, Alice Wilbur and Elise Wilbur
Clarissa Downes Lovell
Couple
Craftsman house
Daisy Summons
Daisy Summons
Daisy Summons
Daisy Summons and unknown woman
Desert landscape
Document regarding the planting of the first Washington Naval Orange trees in …
Double-exposure of pier
Edwin and Harriet (Hattie) Van Wig
Eliza Tibbets
Eliza Tibbets
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