BANCROFTIANA Number 149 • University of California, Berkeley • Fall 2018

Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library BANCROFTIANA Number 149 • University of California, Berkeley • Fall 2018

¡Viva La Fiesta! Mexican Traditions of Celebration rawing on unique historical representations from throughout the country, where they have become everyday DBancroft’s Latin Americana Collection, the fall 2017 menu items. Foods like mole, tamales, and tacos have come gallery exhibition, ¡Viva la Fiesta!, examined the cycle of to be considered “authentic” Mexican food, albeit with Mexican celebrations from the standpoint of communal regional variations. The anonymous Libro de cosina en que se identities, national politics, religious practices, and indig- manifiestan varios potajes curiosos(Cookbook in Which enous customs. The distinctive customs, ethnic composition, Various Curious Stews Are Revealed), from 1807, illustrates and geographic characteristics of Mexico’s many regions in- that some recipes for now-common foodstuffs, like tortillas, fluence how local residents remember and celebrate religious were virtually unrecognizable, calling for ingredients like devotions, personal holidays, and patriotic commemorations. eggs that are not found in today’s recipes. The exhibit highlighted the importance of these regional Regional dress has also undergone this sort of transfor- differences and honored the local traditions of Mexican mation. In more remote regions of the country, residents celebrations. continue to don traditional forms of clothing, especially Ritual calendars reflecting agricultural cycles, religious for local festivals. Carlos Nebel’s lithographs, entitled Viaje celebrations, and naming patterns ordered the daily lives of pintoresco y arqueolojico sobre la parte mas interesante de la the indigenous peoples of Mexico long before their first con- Republica Mexicana (Picturesque and Archeological Trip tact with Europeans in the early modern period. When the through the Most Interesting Part of the Mexican Republic), Roman Catholic calendar was introduced in the sixteenth published in 1839, are wonderful illustrations of traditional century, it incorporated and continued many of these tradi- Continued on page 4 tions. The new syncretic calendar was promi- nent in printed almanacs, travelers’ guides, and handbooks that often included a santoral (liturgical calendar), and drew attention to the Holy Days of Obligation or particular Mexican representations of Jesus and Mary. Bancroft’s copy of the Almanaque imperial, which formed part of the library of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, who reigned during the brief period known as the French Inter- vention (1862-1867), features the santoral for 1866. This almanac also functioned as a direc- tory listing the country’s ambassadors abroad, foreign representatives in major Mexican cities, and the many businesses in Mexico City. The traditional elements of the fiesta—food and drink, popular entertainment, dance, music, and dress— are determined by regional custom. Over generations, however, This lithograph of three women and a man from the city of Puebla shows an early version of poblana dress that became the national dress of Mexico in the 1860s. Carlos Nebel, Viaje pintoresco y arque- traditional foods from individual regions olojico sobre la parte mas interesante de la Republica Mexicana [Picturesque and Archeological Trip have been borrowed and adapted more widely through the Most Interesting Part of the Mexican Republic], 1839. xff F1213.N22. Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

From the Director’s Desk The Bancroft Gallery at Ten Focus on Mexico

Adding a real gal- for the exhibition, proclaiming “The Bancroft Library” and lery to the renewed “¡Viva la Fiesta!” These fluttered merrily over the rotunda Bancroft Library has all last year and are now part of Bancroft’s contemporary proved to be one of Latin American collection. To recall some of these mo- the greatest benefits ments from the show or read about items you may have of the retrofit. The missed, you can visit the online guide to the exhibition. full-sized exhibition (http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/vivalafiesta) space has made it possible to introduce whole collections The Fiesta exhibition was the heart of a wider Bancroft to the public that were previously known to only a hand- focus on Mexico last year, in which we added significantly ful of researchers. It’s a wonderful teaching tool and a to the Latin American collection and completed an exciting great way to give first-time visitors to Bancroft an inkling multi-year restoration and digitization project. The latter of the depth and variety of the collections. Since 2008 story began several years ago when Professor Ivonne Del the Bancroft staff — occasionally partnering with other Valle of the UCB Department of Spanish and Portuguese organizations — has presented a wide range of exhibitions. wanted to show her class an early nineteenth-century map Some of these surveyed the full breadth of the collections, of Mexico City, the 1807 Plano general de la Ciudad de some focused on a single genre, personality, or event, while México. The Bancroft staff had to tell her, with regret, that others foregrounded communities whose histories have the item was in too poor condition for her to use in teach- shaped the vast region that Hubert Howe Bancroft worked ing. A few years later, in spring of 2015, Bancroft received to document. another request to view the map, this time from Professor The Bancroft practice of saluting individual Western Neil Safier, Director of the John Carter Brown Library in communities in its shows began well before the opening of Providence, who hoped to compare the Bancroft copy of the new gallery. Over the last twenty years Bancroft exhibi- the map with one that he was researching. Still concerned tions have presented images of Native Americans (2000), about its fragility, we did open the map a few inches with women as workers and patrons (2005, 2011), Chinese in our visitor from the east, but just far enough for us to see California (2005), German Jews in California (2011), the what a spectacular project this grand, hand-colored print LGBT community in the Bay Area and in the Bancroft had once been. The Bancroft map was so brittle and tat- collections (2012), pioneering African Americans on the tered that it could neither be fully opened nor used without Berkeley campus and in the Bancroft collections (2014, damaging it further. 2016), and cultural encounters of immigrant groups in The Plano general was based on a survey of Mexico California (2011). City done by Diego García Conde in 1793 and published Latin Americana Curator José Adrián Barragán-Ál- in 1807. It was the collaborative effort of printer Manuel varez continued this series in fall 2017 with an exhibition López López, engraver José Joaquín Fabregat, and artist that presented Mexico through its festivals. ¡Viva la Fiesta! opened just before All Saints Day and led viewers through the vibrant calendar of annual Mexican celebrations, season by season, feast by feast, and region by region. Evok- ing these performance traditions from textual evidence spanning five centuries, Barragán-Álvarez emphasized that celebrations of all kinds — liturgical, political, and personal — continue to play a central role in the cultural life of Mexico today. The show included a Día de los Muertos altar and a wall of remembrance (“Who do you remember? ¿A quién recuerdas?”), where visitors were invited to participate in the celebration by writing the names of their departed loved ones on bright paper tags that they added to the memorial exhibit. By the end of the show, the wall was filled with the names of dozens of individuals who are Visitors view the section on popular forms of entertainment during fiestas, including loved and missed. Bancroft also commissioned local artist material on the charreada (Mexican rodeo), fireworks displays, and games like loteria Enrique Martínez to create bright papel picado garlands (Mexican bingo).

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Rafael Jimeno y Planés. Printed in sections and sold by subscription, the map is enormous — ca. 60 by 80 inches — and considered by some to be the most remarkable nineteenth-century map of Mexico City. It quickly became the model for smaller versions that were published over the next few decades in London and New York. (See Barragán-Álvarez’s online guide to the exhibition.) The continuing interest in the map, as well as its historical significance and beauty, made it a priority to have this monument restored and returned to the active-duty roster of Bancroft’s working treasures. We were extremely fortunate to find specialists close at hand who could undertake this work. Over a period of two years, distin- guished local experts and their teams worked in succes- sion to conserve, stabilize, digitize, and frame the 1807 Plano general: Karen Zukor (Zukor Art Conservation); Local papel picado artisan Enrique Martínez (L) discusses the exhibit with Latin Americana curator José Adrián Barragán-Álvarez (R). The exhibition E.M. Ginger (42-line); and Barbara Anderson (Barbara featured Martinez’s custom designs. One of these, which includes the name Anderson Gallery & Framing). A detailed account of the of the exhibition, is featured on page 14. heroics these women performed remains for them to tell, I hope at a future Bancroft event. The result of their combined efforts, however, is amazing and is now available online for enthusiasts everywhere to enjoy through the Calisphere (https://calisphere.org/item/83cbedca-e4cd- 45ec-b2d1-490d6b9fd951/). Over the course of the last year, Bancroft purchased a copy of the smaller (19 by 21 inches) New York third edition of the map, which is more manageable than the huge original for teaching purposes. We were also able to acquire the extremely rare, single-leaf printed invita- tion to subscribe to the production of the Plano general. Bancroft’s is now the only known copy of this text in the U.S. We added two dozen very rare photographs of Mexican revolutionaries by Sara Castrejón (1888-1962) to our Mexican holdings as well. The Getty appears to Bancroft staff members David Faulds and James Eason reflect on the Dia de los be the only other U.S. institution that holds any of her Muertos altar featuring historic photographs of celebrants and an interactive wall work. of remembrance. This year, as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the renewed Bancroft Library, I am deeply grateful to each of you who supported that effort and continue to make it possible for us to share the treasures of the remarkable Bancroft collections with an ever-expanding community. The Bancroft Gallery has been a big part of our increased effort to bring more people into closer contact with the incredible materials held in trust for them here. Each part of the gallery story above, from the installation of the Fiesta exhibition, to the restoration of the Plano general that was out of use for thirty years, to the new additions to the Latin American collection, is something that you made possible. Thank you from the heart for giving Bancroft these opportunities.

Marianne Steer examines the now-restored map of Mexico City. Diego Garcia Conde, Plano general de la ciudad de México, 1807 [General Map of Mexico City], G4414.M6 1807 C6.

The James D. Hart Director The Bancroft Library

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the city of Puebla, where the battle took place. Although the holiday is celebrated outside of Mexico —often, and incorrectly, as Mexican independence —it remains a localized event within the country. The proclamation of the first Mexican Constitution was another regional holiday featured in the exhibition. Known formally as the Decreto Constitucional para la libertad de la America Mexicana [Constitution- al Decree for the Liberty of Mexican America], the constitution was first printed in 1814. The city of Apatz- ingan, Michoacan, where it was first proclaimed, holds a major regional fair that draws visitors from the western part of the state on October 22. “Plaza de Guardiola” in L. Castro, J. Campillo, L. Auda, y G. Rodriguez, Mexico y sus alrededores: The section on marriage, baptism, coleccion de vistas, trajes y monumentos, [1878]. ff F1386.M4 1878. and death offered a glimpse at fiestas Continued from page 1 that celebrate significant events in the City, beginning with her first appari- lives of individuals. These celebrations attire. Worn by three women and rep- tion in 1531 and continuing through mark a person’s union with a part- resenting the state of Puebla, it became the typhus epidemic of 1737. News ner, their entrance into the Catholic the national dress during the period of of her miraculous intervention spread faith, and the familial obligations of French occupation. Dance troupes or beyond Mexico City, and in 1755 compadrazgo (godparenthood), which beauty pageant contestants often wear Guadalupe was proclaimed patron have been recorded in Mexico since this dress today to represent all things saint of New Spain. Our Mexican. Lady of Guadalupe has The documentation of Mexican become one of the main and Central American religious representations of the celebrations is particularly strong in Virgin in Mexico, and Bancroft’s Latin Americana collec- her feast day, December tion. Roman Catholicism in Mexico, 12, draws crowds from imbued with indigenous and African throughout the world. customs as it is, celebrates the vari- The patriotic sec- ous stages of an individual’s Christian tion of ¡Viva la Fiesta! faith, the life and death of Jesus, and highlighted a few civil the cult of the saints, including the celebrations, including many devotions to Mary. Sermons, the commemoration of devotional prayer books, and other Mexican independence ephemera recorded the divine favors (September 16) and the shown to parishioners. An excellent ex- beginning of the Mexi- ample of this practice featured in ¡Viva can Revolution (Novem- la Fiesta! was Cayetano de Cabrera y ber 20). Ephemera cre- Quintero’s Escudo de armas de Mexico. ated for Cinco de Mayo Celestial proteccion de esta nobilis- (May 5) celebrations sima ciudad de la Nueva España [...] were also presented in en su portentosa imagen del mexicano the exhibit. This holiday, Guadalupe (Coat of Arms of Mexico centered primarily in the City: Celestial Protector of this Most state of Puebla, cele-

Noble City of New Spain (...) through brates the defeat of the San Felipe de Jesús, a Franciscan friar who was martyred in Nagasaki, the Marvelous Image of the Mexican invading French armies Japan, in 1597, became a favorite saint of Mexico City residents. Images of Guadalupe), dated 1746. It recounts in 1862, and generally San Felipe de Jesús included symbols of Mexico City —the eagle perched on a cactus— at his feet. Joseph Martínez de Adame, Sermon de San Felipe the Virgin Mary’s many intercessions includes military parades de Jesus, predicado el día 5 de febrero del año de 1781 [Sermon to San on behalf of the citizens of Mexico and reenactments near Felipe de Jesus, preached on February 5, 1781], 1781. F1203.P16 v. 6:8.

Page 4 / Fall 2018 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library the sixteenth century. Of special interest among this group sheets, of which Bancroft has but a few. He is best known of texts was a baptismal register written in the Nahuatl for his calaveras (skulls, but also skeletons), and small, language documenting the years 1569 through 1621, from inexpensive prints peddled for the Día de los Muertos com- Acatlan in Mexico State. Records of this kind make it pos- memorations mentioned above. ¡Viva la Fiesta! presented sible for historians to trace naming patterns and linguists to examples from the vast array of genres and themes that study the development of writing in indigenous languages comprise Posada’s work. These included unpublished songs in the Americas. Similarly, the Día de los Muertos (Day of and corridos (ballads), religious texts, chapbooks, current the Dead) altar represented the syncretism of indigenous events, popular games— among them an early version of and Catholic traditions surrounding death. Traditionally, the lotería game — and, of course, calaveras for the Día de these altars are meant to welcome loved ones back from los Muertos altar. their year away. They can be as ornate or as simple as the lo- The items in the exhibition surveyed 450 years of cal tradition dictates. They feature traditional offerings like Mexican traditions of celebration and reflected the grand pan de muerto (a bread baked specially for the holiday) and scale of Bancroft’s collections. Globalization will inevitably calaveras de azúcar (decorated sugar skulls) as well as dishes introduce foreign elements into these celebrations, and the and drinks that departed family members especially en- movement of peoples will carry the spirit of these fiestas joyed. One item that is always present is the flor de muertos to new locations. Participants, too, will no doubt change (cempohualxochitl) or Mexican marigolds, which are native whom they honor and how they are celebrated. Bancroft to central Mexico. plans to keep collecting items that capture and record One thread that ran throughout the exhibit was the these changes as they take place. We invite you to visit the work of José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), who is argu- exhibit online and experience these traditions through the ably one of Mexico’s most highly regarded artists. In the lens of Bancroft’s rich Latin Americana collection. last fifteen years of his life, Posada worked as the principal (http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/vivalafiesta) illustrator in the publishing company of Antonio Vanegas y Arroyo. It is estimated that Posada engraved nearly 20,000 — José Adrián Barragán-Álvarez Curator of Latin Americana

Antonio Sotomayor (1923-1985), originally from Bolivia, spent most of his life in San Francisco, where he worked as an artist. His work often addressed Latin American subjects, as does this watercolor sketch of a Mexican church decorated with papel picado (paper cutouts). Antonio Sotomayor, [Mexican Church with Papel Picado] [undated], BANC PIC 1987.001--D, 3:61.

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“It’s the West”

n fall 2012, Western Music Association Hall of IFamer Dave Stamey spent a day at Bancroft con- ducting research on the ghost town Bodie and visiting the Mark Twain collection. Afterwards he delighted Bancroft Friends and staff with a concert in the Morri- son Library. One of his songs from that afternoon has stayed with me ever since because it captures so well the limitless possibilities of the American West, which continue to draw people to this region— and also to the Bancroft collections that preserve their history. The lyrics go like this:

It’s a place, it’s a feelin’ and sometimes it’s just a state of mind. It may not be what you were looking for but it’s here in what you find. And it’s all these things, it’s the west.

It can be anything you ever dreamed of and it might be more than you bargained for. . . .

This chorus can as easily describe a trip to Ban- croft as a hike in the Sierra. Researchers often ap- proach the Bancroft collection with feelings about the West they can’t define. They don’t always know quite what they are looking for. But they recognize it when they find it. And together all the things they discover help shape our understanding of the West. In April the University Library announced an $8-million initiative for The Bancroft Library along with the wonderful news that generous gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bancroft III and an anonymous donor have already brought the new Bancroft & the West initiative halfway to its goal. This campaign will support Bancroft’s Western Americana collection and program. The Bancroft family gift of $1 million plus $2 million of the anonymous gift will endow the Western Americana curatorship, ensuring permanent leadership for the development, interpretation, and presentation of this largest and most heavily used of the Bancroft collections. The additional $1 million and the funds yet to be raised will be used to expand the collection and increase its impact and usefulness for students, researchers, and the communities that it documents. We are most grateful to Dave Stamey for letting Bancroft use the lyrics of his terrific song “It’s the West” in the materials for the Bancroft & the West campaign to support the Western Americana program. —Elaine Tennant Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Third Annual American Indian Music Festival Poster, 1981, American Indian Community History Collection Posters, BANC PIC 2015.010--C folder A. Page 6 / Fall 2018 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

The Julia Bader Collection of Hungarian Applied Art

Poetry, novels, short stories, plays, his- Jewish and fascist policies devalued and tory, philosophy, psychology, and works destroyed them. Fortunately, thanks to in translation (both fiction and nonfic- the efforts of Professor Bader, we still tion) are included, as well as books on have their works, as well as the works of art, architecture, photography, design, many other Hungarian artists, authors, and home decorating. There are also poets, dramatists, philosophers, and trade catalogs from businesses of all political thinkers. kinds. This has been a fascinating collection to explore as a cataloger, and also a poignant experience. As I worked with these books and researched the numerous authors and artists, I learned that some who were alive before World War II did not survive the war. The writers Endre Kádár and Béla Révész died in Auschwitz in 1944, as did István Farkas, head of the Singer és Wolfner Elbeszélések (Stories) by József Andor, cover design by László Hegedüs. 1897. PH3202.A545 E4 1897. Publishing Co.; another writer, Sándor Antal, and a poet, Zoltan Körmendi, he Bancroft Library recently also died in concentration camps. Treceived the Julia Bader Collec- Dezső Szomory, a playwright, died of tion, a remarkable assemblage focusing starvation in 1944 while in hiding in on Hungarian applied art between Budapest under Swedish protection. 1890 and 1940, a period covering The writer Artúr Elek committed sui- the approximate start of the Hungar- cide when the Nazis entered Budapest ian Secession art movement through in 1944, and the writer László Lakatos Misztériumok Három Egyfelvonásos (Three Hungary’s entry into World War II. committed suicide in Nazi-controlled One-Act Mysteries) by Béla Balázs, cover design The Hungarian art of the book features Nice the same year. The typographer/ by artist Anna Lesznai. PH3213.B22 M69 1912. prominently in this collection, with printer Imre Kner was shot by Nazi Among the holdings included in covers and illustrations by leading art- guards in 1944, and the writer/direc- the Bader Collection is a complete run ists of the day. Most of the collection tor Imre Roboz was shot by Nazis in of Magyar Iparművészet (Hungarian was published in Budapest, but a few 1945. It is sobering to think the lives of Applied Art). The journal was pub- works were published in Vienna, Paris, these creative people and others were lished from 1897-1944, and no library Berlin, Kolozsvár (Cluj in present-day cut short simply because they were outside of Hungary has a full set. There Romania), and other European is also a complete set of A Ház cities. Many works are not held (The House), and extensive runs by any other American library, of several other Hungarian jour- and some are not held outside nals of applied art and design, of Hungary. including Magyar Nyomdászat Born in Budapest in (Hungarian Printing), Magyar 1944, Julia Bader immigrated Grafika (Hungarian Graphics) to the United States in 1956 and the modernist Ter és Forma and earned a Ph.D. in Eng- (Space and Form). lish at UC Berkeley in 1971. Many books in the collec- She has taught in the English tion have cover art and illustra- Department at Cal since 1971 tions showing the influence of and is now professor emerita. the Secession, the art movement She began her collection in influenced by Art Nouveau that the late 1960s, and it grew to Tündérvilág a Városligetben (Fairy World in the City Park) by Báthory took place in Germany, Austria- encompass thousands of books. Nándorné, illustrated by Sándor Nagy. f PH3213.B294 T8 1914. Hungary, and elsewhere in

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Europe beginning at the end of the nineteenth century. An excellent example of this influence is a Hungar- ian translation—via the German—of a work by the Englishman Samuel Smiles, A Boldogulás Útja (Thrift), published in 1904. It is lavishly decorated with floral designs and flourishes and appears to be an edition intended for the younger reader, identified as “Leg- jobb Ifjusagi Konyvek” (Best Children’s Books).

Koltemenyei 1880-1902 (Poems 1880-1902), by Elek Lippich, illustrations by Aladár Körösföl Kriesch and Sándor Nagy. PH3281.L678 K6 1903.

Lesznai’s work illustrates the cover member of the Nyolcak and one of the of author Béla Balázs’s Misztériumok leaders of the Hungarian avant-garde. Három Egyfelvonásos (Three One-Act Világanyám (The World: My Mother) Mysteries) in a very bold, distinctive is a collection of avant-garde poems style. Lesznai was close to members of published in 1921 in Vienna (where the Nyolcak (The Eight), a group of Kassák was in exile) that features cover painters whose Expressionistic style in- and text illustrations by the author. fluenced her work. Balázs and Lesznai This work is the first appearance of were also members of the Vasárnapi Kassák’s képversek (picture poetry), Kör (Sunday Circle), an intellectual poems that marry typography and po- group that met to discuss the nature etry in a modern form representative of art. of Constructivist art. Iván Hevesy’s The Bader collection includes Futurista, Expresszionista es Kubista a number of works by poet, artist, Festészet (Futurist, Expressionist and A Boldogulás Útja (Thrift) by Samuel Smiles, 1904. BJ1533.E2 S6156 1904. and editor Lajos Kassák, who was a Cubist Painting), published in 1919, is another outstanding example of the Another particularly stunning Hungarian avant-garde movement in cover was created by László Hegedüs both its subject and the cover illustra- for Elbeszélések (Stories) by József tion, a bold linoleum-cut by Sándor Andor, published in 1897. Koltemenyei Bortnyik, an artist who was influenced 1880-1902 (Poems 1880-1902), by by Kassák. The book has a number Elek Lippich, was illustrated by artists of plates of work by French, German, Aladár Körösföl Kriesch, who founded and other European artists. the Gödöllö art colony, which was The Bader Collection dates from the center of the Hungarian Secession a period in Hungarian history that movement, and Sándor Nagy, a later includes World War I, and numer- member of the colony. It is a beautiful ous works of poetry and personal example of Hungarian book art, with accounts of experiences during the color marginal decorations, as well as war are represented. One example is A full-page and half-page color illustra- Szenvedések Országútjan (The Coun- tions throughout. Nagy, a leading try’s Suffering) by Ferenc Göndor, artist in the Hungarian Art Nouveau published in 1916, in which the author movement, also illustrated Tündérvi- recounts his experiences as a wartime lág a Városligetben (Fairy World in the reporter. The cover graphically depicts City Park) by Mrs. Nándorné Báthory. the destruction he saw. The book was published in 1914 and Many of the books published im- features a haunting, elaborate cover Futurista, Expresszionista es Kubista Festeszet mediately following World War I were (Futurist, Expressionist and Cubist Painting), by Iván and numerous text illustrations. Dat- Hevesy, cover illustration by Sándor Bortnyik, 1919. printed inexpensively on poor quality ing from the same period, artist Anna ND1265 .H484 1919. paper, but a notable exception is the Page 8 / Fall 2018 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

by Endre Ady, Morituri (Dying), which features a stunning Art Deco binding. It was published posthumously in 1924 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Ady was an important Hungarian poet who edited the journal Nyugat (West). He died in 1919 at the age of 41. The Julia Bader Collection is an ex- quisite and deep documentation of the Hungarian Secession and avant-garde that greatly enriches Bancroft’s Central European holdings and complements its strong collections of book arts and fine bindings. Rarer and less frequently collected than their better known Austrian and German cousins from the fin-de-siècle and the interwar period, these beautiful Hungarian books pro- Vilaganyam (The World: My Mother) by Lajos Kassák. PH3281.K244 A17 1921. vide a glimpse at the European world of yesterday not often seen in American collections. group of books published by the Kner Another work of particular inter- —Julie Wong family in Gyoma, which were beauti- est from the interwar years is Versek, Cataloger fully printed on quality paper. Among Elbeszélések, Tanulmányok Tizenegy them is A Fekete Korsó (The Black Fiatal Erdélyi Irótól…(Anthology Pitcher), a collection of short plays of Eleven), an important anthology written by Béla Balázs and published of young Transylvanian writers and by Izidor Kner in 1919. Izidor was artists published in 1923 in Cluj- joined and eventually succeeded by his Kolozsvár, Transylvania (a part of son, Imre, who was concerned with not Hungary until it was ceded to Roma- only fine book design and typography; nia in 1918). The book was published he also designed hand-carved printing as a limited edition with a cover devices that hearkened back to various illustration by Károly Kós. Another folk designs. unique item is a small book of poems

A Szenvedések Országútjan (The Country’s Suffering) by Ferenc Göndor, 1916. D640.A2 G6 1916.

Note: Hungarian personal names are expressed last name first (Eastern name order) on title pages and in other state- ments of responsibility. For the purposes A Fekete Korsó (The Black Pitcher), of this article, names appear in Western by Béla Balázs and published by name order. Morituri (Dying), by Endre Ady, 1924. Izidor Kner in 1919. pf PH3202.A35 M67 1924. p PH3213.B22 F43 1919.

Page 9 / Fall 2018 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library THE Annual Meeting of the Friends of The Bancroft Library Saturday, June 10, 2017

Alexandra Marston and Camilla Smith enjoy each other and the company Hubert Howe Bancroft Award recipient Professor Emerita Leanne Hinton (right), of fellow Friends. her family, colleagues, and partners in language revitalization listen to introductory remarks.

Todd Hamer, Louis Trevino, and Jessy Hamer enjoy Professor Hinton’s remarks as Council members Leslie Borasi, Mary MacDonald, and Sophie Hahn pause for she describes the collaborative efforts of teachers, students, and archivists to preserve a photo while discussing Friends business. native California languages.

Robin Frazier, Peter Frazier, Rose Marie Beebe, and Brian Van Camp share a laugh Geographer Gray Brechin and former Council Member Robert Chle- as the Friends settle in for lunch. bowski listen intently to updates at the business meeting.

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Bill Roberts, former University Archivist, and Bancroft Principal Pictorial Jason Bezis, frequent Bancroft researcher and author of a forthcoming biography of U.S. Archivist James Eason cannot contain their excitement as they enter the new Senator Thomas Kuchel, looks at the section on regional forms of dance, music, and dress. exhibition. The materials included early twentieth-century song books and guides on how to perform traditional Mexican dances.

Diana Vergil, Mrs. Meri Jaye, Tommy Bolling, and Max Bolling catch up with each other at the start of the evening.

Karen Zukor, expert conservator, Emilie van der Hoorn, associate conservator at Zukor Art Conservation, and E.M. Ginger, president, 42-line, bask in the glory of the now-restored map.

Alison Wannamaker, Library graphic designer extraordinaire, examines the Marian material on display.

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Oral History Project Freedom to Marry

n the historically brief span of roughly 20 years, support national organizational partners as they drove the winning Ifor the freedom to marry for same-sex couples went from strategy and inspired, grew, and leveraged the work of a mul- an idea that a small portion of Americans agreed with to a titudinous movement. cause supported by virtually all segments of the population. The Freedom to Marry Oral History Project documents In 1996, when Gallup conducted its first poll on the ques- the specific history of Freedom to Marry within the larger, tion, a seemingly insurmountable 68 percent of Americans decades-long marriage movement. Some interviews reach opposed the extension of marriage rights. In a historic rever- back as far as the 1970s, when a few gay activists first went sal, fewer than 20 years later, several polls found that over to court seeking the right to marry, and the 1980s, when 60 percent of Americans had come to support the freedom Evan Wolfson wrote a trailblazing thesis on the marriage to marry nationwide. and domestic partner legislation first introduced in a handful The rapid increase in support mirrored the state-by-state of American cities. One interview, with law professor Barb progress in securing the right to marry. Before 2004, no Cox, details the early effort in Madison, Wisconsin to pass state issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples. By spring these basic protections for couples. Many interviews trace the 2015, 37 states affirmed the freedom to marry for same- beginnings of the modern freedom-to-marry movement to sex couples, a number of states having extended marriage the 1990s. In 1993 the Supreme Court of Hawaii responded through votes of state legislatures or at the ballot box. The seriously to an ad hoc marriage lawsuit for the first time ever discriminatory federal Defense of Marriage Act, passed in and suggested the potential validity of the lawsuit, arguing 1996, denied legally married same-sex couples the federal that the denial of marriage to same-sex couples might be protections and responsibilities afforded married different- sex discrimination. The lengthy life history interview with sex couples—a double-standard corrected when a core por- Wolfson, who served as co-counsel in the case, provides a key tion of the act was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in participant’s account of the world’s first-ever marriage trial in 2013 in United States v. Windsor. The full national resolution 1996. This trial, moreover, culminated in the first-ever vic- came in June 2015 when, in Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. tory affirming same-sex couples’ freedom to marry (while at Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution’s guarantee of the same time anti-gay forces in Washington, D.C., success- the fundamental right to marry applies equally to same-sex fully enacted the so-called Defense of Marriage Act). couples. Several interviews look back at the fledgling years of the In February 2017, the Oral History Center of The movement and reveal the impassioned debates among gay Bancroft Library completed and released to the public the and lesbian civil rights activists about whether marriage was first major oral history project documenting the vast shift even a desirable goal for the movement—let alone some- in public opinion about marriage, the consequential recon- thing achievable, given the wide public opposition to it. In sideration of our nation’s laws governing marriage, and the her interview, National Center for Lesbian Rights executive actions of individuals and organizations largely responsible director Kate Kendell reflects on why the battle was worth for these changes. The project produced 23 interviews total- the effort for her: ing nearly 100 hours of recordings. Completed oral history transcripts and video clips from the interviews are avail- I came to the conclusion that while I still felt like I able now through the website of the Oral History Center still had a critique of marriage, just as an institution (bancroft.berkeley.edu/ohc). . . . our exclusion does create a tremendous amount At the center of the effort to change hearts and minds, of stigma and it actually provides people perfect cover prevail in the courts and legislatures, win at the ballot box, for never checking their own biases, because all they and persuade the Supreme Court was Freedom to Marry, have to say is, “Well, the government won’t even let the national campaign launched by Harvard-trained at- them marry or be in the military, so something must torney Evan Wolfson in 2003. Freedom to Marry’s national be wrong with them.” And so we had to end the ex- strategy focused from the beginning on setting the stage clusion, we had to end the government sort of put- for a nationwide victory at the Supreme Court. Working ting their thumb on the scales, and have the open with national and state organizations and allied individuals dialogue about our place in civil society, but we had and organizations, Freedom to Marry succeeded in build- to get rid of the governmental barriers to our place in ing a critical mass of states where same-sex couples could civil society. marry and a critical mass of public support in favor of that freedom. This oral history project focuses on the pivotal The vast majority of the interviews focus on the post- role played by Freedom to Marry and their closest state and 2003 era and the work specific to Freedom to Marry. Several

Page 12 / Fall 2018 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library interviews provide insight into what it was like to start a new organization and how foundations and individuals were convinced to fund, in increas- ingly large sums, what many considered a quixotic social justice goal. Tim Sweeney, who spent many years with San Francisco’s Haas, Jr. Fund and the Gill Action Network in Denver, explains how foundations were convinced to make such a risky invest- ment and the roles those organizations played in setting goals and pushing the agenda forward. Other accounts available for the first time in these interviews go behind the scenes with attorneys, including the ACLU’s James Esseks, to provide insight into the Interviewees Marc Solomon (L) and Evan Wolfson (R) join other activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court at the time of development of legal strategies within the Obergefell arguments. the movement. putting their head in their hands, like their mouth Perhaps the most interesting interviews detail how is dropping open, what the researchers call cognitive Freedom to Marry and other organizations bounced back dissonance. from the devastating loss in California’s passage of Proposi- tion 8 (2008), which wrote discrimination into the state Although I’m simplifying the story here, in essence the constitution. Thalia Zepatos, who became known as the movement learned it was better to talk about marriage in campaign’s “message guru,” walks through the fascinating terms of “love and commitment” rather than just “rights process by which she and her colleagues were able to “crack and benefits.” As a result, the marriage campaigns revised the code” and give people the opportunity to recognize their messages and very soon defeats turned to victories. that supporting the extension of marriage was consistent The collected interviews tell a remarkable story of social with—and not in opposition to—their core values. Zepatos change, the rate of which was rapid (although spanning describes one focus group when their research started to more than four decades) and the reach profound. Anyone bear fruit: interested in social justice and social movements, politics and policy, and law and jurisprudence will surely pore over From behind the wall, I remember scribbling a note the freedom-to-marry movement for explanations of how and we decided to send it in to the moderator [of the and why this change occurred, and how it happened so focus group] and the moderator said [to the partici- rapidly and completely. The combined interviews of the pants], “Well, why did you decide to get married?” Freedom to Marry Oral History Project provide a first- “Well, I mean we fell in love and then we decided we draft answer to many questions, including: What explains wanted to have kids and we wanted to make a life such a profound transformation of public opinion and law, together, so for us it was only natural to do that. You particularly in an era in which opinions seem more calcified mean gay people might think that same thing, they than malleable? What strategies and mechanisms, people might want to get married for that same reason?” and organizations played the most important roles in In that kind of suspicious way, really wondering changing the minds of so many people so profoundly in the what the motives were. So you know very quickly, span of less than a generation? people come around to—this is the thing that kind Having witnessed this change, the Oral History Center of lets them off the hook—well, they said, “They had an obligation to record the thoughts, ideas, debates, can have a domestic partnership or they can have actions, strategies, setbacks, and successes of this move- a civil union, and that’s fine for them and it leaves ment in the most complete, thoughtful, and serious manner marriage to us and everything is okay.” “Right, but possible. Alongside the archived written documents and the you said a little while ago, that the Golden Rule was audio-visual materials created by Freedom To Marry, this the most important value in your life; treating other oral history project preserves the many and varied personal people the way you would want to be treated, and reflections of the participants so future generations might now what you’re saying is marriage is good enough gain insight into the nature of social change. for you but it’s not good enough for them. So how —Martin Meeker does that work with the Golden Rule?” And then Charles B. Faulhaber Director we got people kind of like looking up at the ceiling, Oral History Center

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