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Mark Twain Photo Op–December 21, 1908: Alvin Langdon Coburn, , and Isabel V. Lyon

ome day they will have color Coburn had earlier met and photo- Sphotography,” Mark Twain predicted graphed Mark Twain in March 1905. Now to a young friend in 1907. In fact, by he was invited to visit him at , 1904, Auguste and Louis Lumière had his newly completed home in Redding, indeed invented the Autochrome method Connecticut, along with Archibald of making color transparencies, which by Henderson, a young professor of math- the time of Mark Twain’s prediction, had ematics at the University of North Caro- become readily available and easy to use. lina who was then gathering materials for In late 1908, Mark Twain was twice his Mark Twain, a critical biography that photographed using this method. William would be published in 1911. Mark Twain’s Ireland Starr visited him at his home in secretary at the time, Isabel V. Lyon Redding, Connecticut, but reported on (1863-1958), was herself an avid amateur December 20 that “all his photographs photographer, and she recorded their visit (the colored ones) had come to nothing in on December 21, both with her camera the developing except one.” No color and in her journal: print of even that one has been found. Such rich, darling folks do come here to Yet on the very next day, December 21, see the King. Today Prof. Archibald Mark Twain was successfully photo- Henderson & Alvin Langdon Coburn graphed in color (and in black-and-white) came. . . . we had a charming day with Clemens in his Oxford robes. Autochrome by Alvin by twenty-six-year-old Alvin Langdon plenty of talk & Hearts & a walk down to Langdon Coburn. Original at the , Coburn (1882–1966), a precocious my house. . . . He made a lot of photo- Hartford, Connecticut.* young star in the growing world of serious graphs, color prints too, of the King & he day, as well as portraits of the other photography. got some plain ones of me. After dinner he famous men (33 in all) mentioned by showed us a few of the very Miss Lyon. In the commentary provided wonderful photographs he there, Coburn recalled the December 21st has made of Bernard Shaw, visit in this way: George Meredith, George The great fireplace was a delight, Moore, Yeates—oh, particularly after a tramp in the winter a wonderful Yeates [i.e., air, and in the afternoon there were W. B. Yeats], May Sinclair, “hearts” and billiards to be played, and it Chesterton, Henry James, was understood that our good host, clad in Rodin & others. white, was to be allowed to win in all of Coburn had obviously these contests, by just the narrowest of shown his hosts a preview margins! . . . Mr. Clemens enjoyed being of his book, Men of Mark, photographed, and I must have made which in 1913 would thirty or forty negatives during this visit, include a photograph of many of which appeared in Doctor Autochrome by Alvin Langdon Coburn, reproduced from Archibald Mark Twain taken on this Henderson’s book. Henderson’s Mark Twain. Continued on page 4 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY

From the Director Bancroft’s New Building? would provide for seismic retrofitting of the Oral History Office, the Mark Twin existing building. At the same time we had Project, and the Tebtunis Papyri Project. to determine how much it would cost to With adequate space, each of these provide the space that the architectural programs could begin to develop joint study has shown that we need. Then we research and teaching projects with other would have to find some way of providing academic programs on campus. Thus ecause of the serious deficiencies of the difference between these two sums— ROHO could become a Center for Living Bthe Doe Annex, the building that and all this within a very tight time frame. History; the Mark Twain Project could houses Bancroft (see Bancroftiana, n. 116 In fact, by this summer we must have a develop into a Center for the Study of [Spring 2001]), last year we commissioned formal Project Planning Guide that defines Gilded Age and Progressive-era United Mark Cavagnero Associates to carry out an in detail the scope of the project and States, while the Tebtunis Papyri Project architectural study to document Bancroft’s identifies the source of at least 80% of the could become the research arm of the current condition and future space needs. funding for it. Departments of Classics and Near Eastern In addition to an aging infrastructure, the Bancroft currently occupies just under Studies and the graduate Program in building is rated seismically poor and is two thirds of the Doe Annex building Ancient History and Mediterranean utterly inadequate to house Bancroft’s (66,000 of 103,000 “assignable square Archeology. Bancroft could then also collections. We have been unable to make feet”), with the rest occupied by other contemplate serving as a home for the any net additions to the collections stored library operations, including the offices of long-contemplated program in the History on campus since 1980. For every book or University Librarian Tom Leonard. The of the Book. carton of manuscript materials we add, we Cavagnero study has determined that We still don’t know if such an ambi- must send one to off-campus storage at the Bancroft needs about twice as much space, tious building project is feasible, either Northern Regional Library Facility in approximately 122,000 square feet. financially or technically. We are currently Richmond. The only way to accommodate this assessing both areas and expect to have The Cavagnero space study was given need is to expand the current building. answers later this spring. However, if we added urgency this past summer when Tom What makes the most sense to us is a three- are given the green light by campus Koster, Assistant Vice Chancellor–Capital story underground addition directly east of authorities, and if we can raise the neces- Budget & Planning, called to tell me that the Doe Annex, exactly similar to the sary funds, the chronology will look the Office of the President had determined underground stacks for the main library something like this: 2002-2003, selection that funds would be made available to start (constructed 1990-1994). The new of an architect and preliminary design seismic retrofitting in 2004. Within the addition would house the on-campus work; 2003-2004, completion of working university’s complex system of managing collections in a state-of-the-art facility with drawings; 2004-2006, construction of capital projects, 2004 is just around the appropriate security mechanisms for both underground addition and decanting of corner. The call came, fortunately, the day life safety and theft. The current building, Bancroft collections and staff into the new before Bancroft’s strategic planning retreat; then, could be devoted exclusively to public space (Phase I); 2006-2008, seismic so we were able to use part of the retreat to and semi-public space for technical and upgrade and partial renovation of Doe map out the issues that we would need to public services staff, exhibitions, seminar Annex (Phase II). Phase III, the final resolve in light of the imminent seismic rooms, teaching laboratories, classrooms, renovation of the Doe Annex, would then work. offices for visiting scholars, and graduate take place at some as yet undetermined Because of the urgency of retrofitting and undergraduate research groups. time. the university’s infrastructure to make it A renovated and expanded Bancroft, by And all of this comes as we are prepar- earthquake proof, the state of California has allowing us to integrate research and ing to celebrate the centennial of the determined that it will fund only seismic teaching into the warp and woof of University’s acquisition of The Bancroft work on existing buildings. “Programmatic Bancroft programs, would turn Bancroft Library in 1905. You will be hearing more enhancements,” i.e., renovations or into one of the intellectual centers of the about a Centennial Campaign for The expansions necessary to provide more space Berkeley campus, just as it is today the Bancroft Library. or to upgrade existing space, must be physical center. funded from other sources. Bancroft has three strong research A tall order. In the first place we had to programs that could serve as nuclei and Charles B. Faulhaber determine how much money the state models for similar programs: The Regional The James D. Hart Director The Bancroft Library P AGE 2 / SPRING 2002 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY Genentech, Inc. Celebrates 25 Years with Gift to Bancroft ROHO completes key oral histories

enentech, Inc., the world's pioneer Levinson said. "He simply told me, 'Join us Gbiotechnology company, celebrated and you'll change the world.'" its 25th anniversary last year with a Levinson did. generous pledge of $500,000 to Bancroft. Genentech formed around the technol- The gift will fund through 2004 an ogy for cloning DNA, which was developed ambitious new phase in the Program in the in 1973-74 by UCSF's Boyer and molecu- History of the Biological Sciences and lar biologist Stanley Cohen of Stanford. Biotechnology. The company's work with recombinant Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl ex- DNA technology has resulted in the pressed Berkeley's gratitude at a gala manufacture of nine protein-based prod- anniversary reception and dinner in the ucts for serious or life-threatening medical library in October. "With Genentech's conditions. This transfer of rDNA technol- support, Berkeley is building a national ogy to the marketplace is common today, center for research in the history of but at Genentech's founding it was all in Genentech, Annual Report. 1996 biotechnology," he said. "Just as Genentech the uncertain future. conducts most of the project's inter- was the first in the industry to develop a "What we tried to do in the early days views. "As I see it, we have a responsibil- commercial drug (human insulin) using of Genentech was to create a culture where ity to carry out historical research now, recombinant DNA technology, Genentech anything was possible," said the late Robert even among the younger players." is the first to support Bancroft's program Swanson in his oral history. In addition to oral history research, for historical documentation of the The two Genentech founders and Bancroft's Program in the History of the industry." Levinson himself have recorded their oral Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Arthur Levinson, chairman and CEO histories under the research component of features a sizable archive. of Genentech, spoke at the reception about Bancroft's program. Their interviews join Curator David Farrell collects the day in 1979 he was approached about more than a dozen others completed or in personal correspondence, laboratory joining the fledgling biotechnology progress since 1992 at the Regional Oral notebooks, photographs, and other company. A postdoc at UCSF then, he had History Office. Other key participants in artifacts of the biotechnology industry. his whole professional career ahead of him the biotechnology boom will document "The Bay Area is the center of the when molecular biologist Herb Boyer and their stories soon, most of them while still biotechnology universe," says Bancroft venture capitalist Robert Swanson came fully active in their careers. director Charles Faulhaber. "With such around and introduced their new enter- "Some historians would say you have generous funding, and with our commit- prise. to wait for the perspective of time," says tee of distinguished advisers, headed by "Bob Swanson was very matter of fact," science historian Sally Smith Hughes, who Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., we can keep Bancroft's research and archival pro- grams on the cutting edge along with the science." Though biotechnology interviews tend to emphasize relatively recent events, Hughes resists the temptation to be too timely in conducting the oral histories. She always seeks a historically grounded account of the science in its greater context. "Biotechnology did not appear fully formed out of nowhere," she says. "There was a before, and there will be a very long hereafter." —Laura McCreery, Regional Oral History Office

Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl (left) and Arthur Levinson (right).

P AGE 3 / SPRING 2002 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY Continued from page 1 Coburn gave a slightly more detailed Students Examine Original account in a 1954 radio broadcast: Documents in the Bancroft One [photograph] I especially recall. At his new home, Stormfield, . . . there was a Collection circular basin of a fountain under one of Seminar on Italian Manuscripts the pergolas which was eventually to have with International Expert a statue in it. At the time, the central pedestal was empty. Mark Twain said, At the invitation of the Department of “Why should not I be the statue?” “Why Italian Studies, Professor Armando not indeed!” I answered, so he mounted the Petrucci of the Scuola Normale pedestal, cigar in one hand and staff in the Superiore di Pisa in , one of the other, an erect and dignified figure. The world’s foremost authorities in the field sun shone on the background of snow- of the history of written culture, came mottled yew trees, and thus was made a to Berkeley last fall to teach an ad- unique picture of Mark Twain as a living Autochrome by Alvin Langdon Coburn, reproduced from Archibald Henderson’s Mark Twain. vanced seminar on “Vernacular Manu- statue. script Culture in Italy from 1200 to A photograph taken at virtually the same 1500.” moment, from a slightly different angle, Focusing on the styles of script used by Isabel Lyon, is in the Mark Twain for the dissemination of various types of Papers, and is likewise reproduced here. vernacular texts, Professor Petrucci Perhaps the most striking image covered from the time when such texts Coburn made that day is a third were first beginning to be written down autochrome—preserved as a print owned in Italy around the year 1200, to the by the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Age of Humanism. During each of the which has very kindly allowed us to seven three-hour seminars, teaching reproduce it on page 1: Mark Twain in his materials included, as usual, photo- white suit and Oxford robe—as good an copies and facsimiles. But it is worth excuse for color photography as he or noting that the range of the holdings of anyone else ever needed. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts —by Robert H. Hirst and Lin Salamo at The Bancroft Library is such that Professor Petrucci was able to show and to circulate among the students a selection of original manuscripts, and Coburn’s version of Clemens “as a living statue,” reproduced from Archibald Henderson’s Mark Twain. thus to convey to them the real “feel” of what manuscript books produced in He was never long parted from a cigar, Italy in the pre-Gutenberg era looked and in most of the photographs I made of like. Facsimiles and photocopies are him a cigar is in evidence. The one I took very useful and, indeed, indispensable - when he was in bed in the red dressing- but for a true understanding of this gown is an exception, for there he has a fascinating subject nothing can ever pipe. I suppose this was because he did not replace the examination and study of wish to drop ashes on the bed-clothes. the original artifact. All of the photographs reproduced on The seminar, originally scheduled to these pages were taken on this day. Two of begin on September 17th, had to be the autochromes were engraved as half- Clemens “as a living statue,” photographed by Isabel V. Lyon, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library. postponed for a few days and would tones, printed, and then tipped into have been canceled altogether had copies of Henderson’s biography, along * Paper prints made from autochromes are frequently misprinted as mirror images of the original, Professor Petrucci not insisted on with a dozen of the black-and-white apparently from failure to recognize that the fulfilling his program despite the great photographs. Among the latter was one of autochrome is itself not a negative or a mirror image. difficulties caused by the temporary Clemens in his white suit, which he told We have endeavored to correct this error here, flipping the image electronically where such things as suspension of international flights at the Coburn was “the best yet,” and one of buttons, for example, show that our source was itself time. him “as a living statue,” reproduced here. mistakenly reversed. —Bernard Rosenthal

P AGE 4 / SPRING 2002 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY Bancroft Incunabula Database on the Web!

England printed by William Caxton in Dyson Perrins, the Dante enthusiast 1480, containing one or more leaves from George John Warren 5th Baron Vernon, the original. In addition, there are collec- the San Francisco attorney Alfred Sutro, tions of original leaves from German, Ital- the medievalist James Westfall Thompson ian, and western European incunabula, of the History Department, University of described by Konrad Haebler, noted histo- California, Berkeley, and Charles Atwood rian of incunabula, as well as a miscellany Kofoid, head of the Zoology Department collection of unidentified original leaves, at Berkeley. and a selection of modern facsimiles and The database may be searched by au- photographic reproductions of other sig- thor, title, bibliographic references (de- nificant incunabula, and early type faces. tailed descriptions in published catalogs Incunabula are important not only for such as the Gesamtkatalog der their content, and who produced them Wiegendrucke), subject (key word), and under what circumstance, but also for call number, as well as a series of special their physical characteristics, reflecting indices: both their manner of production, their The Incunabula Database can be distribution, and who owned them. Some found on The Bancroft Library web site at volumes have manuscript notes known as http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/incunabula. marginalia, or significant woodcuts, such The collection is open for research and Bible. Latin. Vulgate. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, as a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle, student use, although permission of the 1478 (f.j). Note the monkey in the lower right corner. printed by Anton Koberger in 1493, with Rare Books Curator is required for the use a specially colored woodcut indicating of all original items. he Bancroft Library recently ownership by the volume’s patrons, Tmounted searchable database of Seybald Schreyer and Sebastian —Patrick J. Russell the Incunabula Collection. Bancroft is Kammermeister. Some are in their origi- Principal Cataloger Emeritus one of twenty-five libraries accounting nal bindings, such as a monastic binding for seventy-five percent of incunabula reflecting use in a monastery or convent, holdings in the United States. others are in modern bindings by such The Incunabula Collection comprises firms as Rivière. Others in armorial bind- more than 430 titles printed before 1501. ings reflect former ownership, such as The word “incunabula” is Latin for “swad- King Louis XVI of France. The collection dling clothes,” as these works are from the also includes an example from the earliest infancy of European printing, set and known printing press operated by women, printed by hand from moveable type. In- the nuns of the convent of Sanctus cunabula reflect the transitional phase be- Jacobus de Ripoli in Florence. tween the manuscript and print traditions. Many of the works come from the li- The study of incunabula gives insight into brary of James Kennedy Moffitt, a gradu- the origins of a tradition that has vastly af- ate of the University of California, class of fected the course of human culture and 1886, for 36 years a University Regent, as development, and reveals much about the well as Chairman of the Executive Com- life, customs, and tastes of the educated mittee of the Crocker National Bank of during the Renaissance. The collection in- San Francisco. Several volumes are from cludes philosophical, theological, scien- the collection of John Henry Nash, one of tific, mathematical, historical, legal, and the leading typographers of California. literary works. Another portion comes from the library of Some incunabula are represented in Charles Kay Ogden, noted linguist and Bible. Latin. Vulgate. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, the collection by leaf books, that is, mod- originator of Basic English. Other vol- 1478 (f.iiij). Jesus appears seated in the lower right corner. ern books about a particular pre-1501 umes came through purchase and gift, work, such as the Gutenberg Bible printed most notably from the collector of Italian Photos: Dan Johnston at Mainz about 1454, or the Chronicles of humanist manuscripts Charles William P AGE 5 / SPRING 2002 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY

tional business people and professionals who came to demand more from A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS California’s cooks. Alice Waters continued the tradition of the Year, 1999), the restau- of California culinary innovation. Gradu- rant has become a symbol of ated from the University of California at the movement to eat fresh pro- Berkeley with a degree in French Cul- duce that is grown locally. tural Studies, she then trained at the In honor of the anniver- Montessori School in , followed sary, The Bancroft Library by a year traveling in France. Alice is au- opened a new exhibition, thor and co-author of several books, in- “California Culinary Culture: cluding The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook, Sampling the Collections of Fanny at Chez Panisse, a storybook and Photo: Erica Nordmeir Erica Photo: The Bancroft Library.” The cookbook for children, and, most re- display drew upon Bancroft’s cently, the encyclopedic Chez Panisse Veg- rich collection of California etables. She has also received numerous cookbooks and menus, in ad- awards, which include being named one dition to a selection of other of the ten best chefs in the world in 1986, Charles B. Faulhaber, Director of The Bancroft Library, and Alice Waters culinary publications, photo- enjoy the Friends reception. graphs, albums, advertise- lice Waters opened the doors of ments, posters, letters, and oral history AChez Panisse in 1971 as a neighbor- transcripts from the 1850’s to the present. hood bistro named after a character in Interdisciplinary scholarly interest in Marcel Pagnol’s 1930’s trilogy of movies California food and cuisine continues to (‘Marius,’ ‘Fanny,” and “Cesar’). The grow, and promises to bring a new and cre- Restaurant and Café, an homage to the ative perspective to the holdings of The sentiment, comedy, and informality of Bancroft Library. Numerous publications these classic films, became a Berkeley within Bancroft’s collections describe the landmark. Thirty years later, on August human need and desire to grow, cook, and 26th, 2001 The Bancroft Library cel- consume food and this exhibit demon- ebrated the acquisition of historical docu- strated California’s ongoing fascination ments and images from this renowned with methods to produce, preserve, Berkeley restaurant which helped revolu- present, buy, sell, and appreciate food. tionize eating and dining in the United Other works illuminated the social, cul- States and abroad. Still operated by Alice tural, economic, and political aspects of Waters (Berkeley, Class of 1967, Alumna food. California’s cuisine is shaped by many cultures, strengthened by the bounty of the land and waters, and polished by techno- logical developments in agriculture, trans- portation, and communication. The traces of this potpourri of cultures Anniversary menu, August 28, 1997, are found in California’s culinary innova- Chez Panisse Records. tion, its willingness to try the new and un- expected. The recent exhibit focused not by the magazine Cuisine et Vins du France; only on the early chefs of the state who Best Chef in America and Best Restaurant tested their skills on sometimes discrimi- in America, from the James Beard Foun- nating clientele, but also the home cooks, dation, in 1992; and an honorary degree concerned with satisfying hungry family from Mills College, Oakland, California, members and friends. A certain sophistica- in 1994. tion in California’s cuisine followed the ar- As San Francisco food critic Patricia rival of a population of writers and artists, Unterman noted, “Julia [Child] set the San Francisco Public Market Collaborative Benefit Dinner, n.d. educated and refined travelers, and interna- stage for the culinary boom in America by

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support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food. If we don’t pre- serve the natural resources, you aren’t go- ing to have a sustainable society.” Waters is convinced that the best-tast- ing food is organically grown and har- vested in ways that are ecologically sound, by people who are taking care of the land for future generations. Chez Panisse has stitched together a patchwork of over sev- enty-five nearby suppliers, who share Water’s concerns for environmental har- mony and optimal flavor. To drive home her commitment to the local farmers Wa-

Diet for a Small Planet, Frances M. Luppé, 1971. ters started the Chez Panisse Foundation to help young people, in particular, who teaching people how to cook, and then are isolated from the land and deprived of Alice Waters took everyone to the next step the joys and responsibilities it teaches. by teaching about ingredients.” The New The exhibition opening comple- York Times dubbed her, “a patron saint” mented a seven-hour lunch for some 600 who has shown chefs and diners alike that close friends of Alice Waters. Guests unprocessed, unadulterated, chemical-free feasted at tables located near The Bancroft food ranks somewhere up there next to Library’s front door, beneath the linden godliness. “The sensual pleasure of eating trees, adjacent to the famed Campanile. beautiful food from the garden,” Waters The event celebrated the gastronomic and Women’s Leadership Forum menu, June 12, 1999, told the New Yorker, “brings with it the political style that imbues everything asso- Chez Panisse Records. moral satisfaction of doing the right thing ciated with Chez Panisse. What began as “a lent auction, held in the Edward H. for the planet and for yourself.” Chez simple little place where we could cook and Heller Reading Room, with a selection of Panisse is not there to feed the masses. The talk politics” is now an international icon Chez Panisse memorabilia, publications, restaurant is a model for others to aspire to. for the use of fresh, locally grown, organic and ephemera including historic menus “The act of eating is very political,” she ingredients. and posters produced by some of the most says. “You buy from the right people, you The exhibition opening included a si- recognized fine printers and graphic de- signers in the Bay Area. The proceeds of this auction went to the Chez Panisse Foundation. Items in the exhibit included Gold Rush Era menus from noted San Fran- cisco restaurants and hotels; nineteenth century photographs of the California wine industry by Eadweard Muybridge and unattributed photographs of Chinatown markets and restaurants; tran- scripts of oral history interviews with con- temporary figures such as Robert Mondavi, Chuck Williams, and Polly Ghiradhelli; and cookbooks from such California culinary icons as Helen Evans Brown. Additional materials on display include contemporary menus from a wide range of Bay Area restaurants; photo- graphs and publications that address the Continued on page 10 Views From a Trip to California, 1887–1889, Harriet S. Tolman. P AGE 7 / SPRING 2002 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY Shark Illustrations: An interaction between technology and scientific content

s biologists collaborating at course, Tony and his strange and and preserving them was usually ABerkeley on a scientific project we wondrous ink depositing devices were impractical. Expedition naturalists decided to try to gather some data on a the jumping off point for what has sketched fresh specimens, thereby topic that had long interested us. We proved to be a fascinating journey capturing their natural shape and had noticed that the illustrations from through the history of shark illustra- colors, in order to lend credence to the literature on cartilaginous fishes of the tion. existence of these exotic fish. Not only late 19th and early 20th century were Sixteenth through nineteenth were these sketches scientifically more useful than modern sources and century expeditions to the subtropical accurate, often times they were quite wondered if this might have something and tropical New World and beyond artistic. returned to Europe with astounding The scientific content of a mass discoveries of animal and plant produced illustration was limited species, many of however by the printing technique (either wood cut or wood engraving) to do with the which techniques in use for allowed reproducing illustra- only tions. We believed Figure 1 minimal that The Bancroft which were either preserved or detail. Interestingly, the high level of Library would have brought back alive. There was no way detail in the original oil or water color exactly what we needed so it was the to convey the beauty and strangeness of based illustration was often lost or first stop on our data collecting expedi- these natural wonders other than by misinterpreted in the mass produced tion. Several lavishly illustrated and illustration. Much of the most remark- engravings and subsequent copies. important books were made available able renderings of natural history were Greater detail and also hand applied for our use, but the most useful re- born of this need to inform the public color was available through copper plate source was not printed matter but about bizarre forms. To reach scientific engraving, an expensive alternative that Bancroft’s unusual collection of print- circles as well as the public these limited both the number of illustrations ing plates, presses, and typesetting illustrations were often published in and the breadth of circulation. machinery. Bancroft Curator of Rare first-hand accounts of expeditions. The invention of stone lithography Books, Tony Bliss, generously explained Later, the figures were copied, with made high quality scientific illustration the various printing techniques used various degrees of fidelity, and pub- commonplace in the late 19th century. over the past three centuries to repro- lished in compendia and bestiaries. Morphological accuracy became more duce illustrated material. Bancroft even Many of the illustrations in the latter important than artful execution, hosts a course in historical printing were gross misconceptions and clearly nevertheless many of these illustrations techniques. Though we did not take the not drawn from life, others were have an artistic quality inherent in accurate and wonderful renderings. highly detailed work. Printing innova- While sharks, skates, and rays were tions, artists as members of expedition- no doubt familiar to Europeans, ary staff, and the emphasis on the primarily for their gustatory external shape of animals were contrib- content, the near-shore, cold uting factors in the scientific and water animals were not very artistic success of the expedition different from their usual monographs of the 19th and early 20th fare of bony fishes. In centuries. contrast the sub-tropics and While not strictly an expedition tropics were teaming with huge, publication, Day’s Fishes of India and very oddly shaped forms such as (1878), is a good example of this type hammerhead sharks, sawfishes, and of scientific resource. Francis Day Figure 2 gigantic stingrays. Transporting these (1829-1889) was a surgeon in the creatures alive was obviously impossible Madras Medical Service. He later P AGE 8 / FALL 2001 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY became (at his own instigation) the We appear to be entering a renais- Ironically, if we wait just a few more inspector general of fisheries for all of sance of 19th century illustration quality years, the scientific and artistic quality India and conducted a thorough with the widespread use of the relatively of shark art will have caught up to the survey of the fishes around the Bay of inexpensive color offset lithography 1890’s. Bengal. In 1874 he returned to systems (i.e. Last and Stevens, 1994). —Adam Summers, England to work in the British Mu- Assistant Professor, UC Irvine seum, where he had sent many of his —Tom Loob Shriner’s Hospital specimens, on the definitive guide to

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Indian fishes. Working with an artist (C. Achilles) he produced a volume with illustrations that are still useful to scientists. The transition from fanciful renditions to anatomically accurate and artistically satisfying illustrations of elasmobranchs eventually gave way to a workmanlike iconographic style in Figure 4 the 20th century. The scientific content of these illustrations, reproduced with an inexpensive ‘electroplate’ technique, is not nearly as high as lithography, both because of the relatively heavy line and the lack of gray-scale detail. Figure 1. A hand colored copperplate from Bloch’s (1796) monumental work on fishes. The process was so inexpensive that it Many of the drawings, such as this embryonic sawfish, are clearly drawn from life was possible to provide line drawing while others are obviously drawn from second and third-hand accounts. Bancroft has outlines of dozens or even hundreds of an octavo edition which contains all the plates of the spectacular folio edition. species in a widely available book. Figure 2. A skate from Ruysch’s (1718) compendium of animals that included some These tomes, while invaluable for the fishes. The copperplate etchings in this volume are taken from numerous primary scholarship of their text might very sources. In the present case he has copied a fanciful interpretation of a dried specimen. well have been published without The wings have been sliced away from the head before drying, and resemble arms, illustrations given the lack of new while the nasal capsules, on the underside of the head have become eyes. information presented in the cartoonish black and white renderings Figure 3. A lithograph from Day’s Fishes of India. The proportions of the shark are true (See for example Bigelow to life and the pattern is faithfully rendered. The shading clearly shows the depth of and Schroeder, 1953). the body and the angle and attachment of the fins.

Figure 4. The illustration is from Mueller and Henle’s (1841) catalog of cartilaginous fishes. The work contains original descriptions of about a quarter of all sharks and rays. The desiccated head and gracile body are testament to the difficulty of drawing from dried specimens rather than from life. This illustration is a stone lithograph.

Figure 5. In 1638 George Margrave explored Brazil with the Dutch expedition of Maurice of Nassau. Margrave’s observations on the fishes of Brazil was the first study of its kind outside the Mediterranean. Margrave’s water color paintings capture fresh specimens with remarkable accuracy. Figure 5

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Continued from page 7 social aspects of food and diet during the DESIDERATA 1960’s; and books and pamphlets that il- luminate the technical and commercial preparation of food for railroads and other service industries. Historical materials from the records of Chez Panisse included correspondence between Alice Waters and M.F.K. Fisher, the noted culinary author. A selection of Chez Panisse menus, particularly those holiday and special occasion menus pro- duced by leading printers and graphic art- ists offered both a visual and sensual treat, as do a series of Chez Panisse cookbooks presented with elegant illustrations. Chez Panisse posters, the work of David Lance Goines, added additional luster. The exhi- bition closing was celebrated with a De- cember 7th reception sponsored by the Friends of The Bancroft Library. Some 200 guests enjoyed one last “taste” of the exhibition, and comments by Charles B. Faulhaber, James D. Hart Director of The The United States, with an Excursion into Mexico. Handbook for Travelers, edited by Karl Baedeker, 1899. Bancroft Library, and Alice Waters, who The volume offers potential visitors to San Francisco and the East Bay a wealth of information. With traced the culinary and social history of regard to Berkeley and the University, readers are informed that “the museums, the library (70,000 volumes) and the laboratories also deserve attention.” The city of Oakland is lauded as “the ‘Brooklyn’ Chez Panisse. of San Francisco.”

BAEDEKERS!

With enthusiastic support from faculty members and Library colleagues, Bancroft is launching a new special collection: the travel guides published in Leipzig by the firm of Karl Baedeker beginning in the 1830s. For now, we wish to focus on guides published up to the year 1914. Baedekers were the preeminent travel guides for more than 100 years. In fact, the firm name became synonymous with the tourist guide book. The guides contain detailed information about museums, social customs, mon- etary exchange rates, city plans, travel arrangements, and a wealth of other information (including the ads) which are of use to scholars and students.

We plan to build up a substantial run of Baedekers for this early period for The Refugees’ Cookbook, 1906. all the countries and regions covered by the firm’s publications and in all the languages employed (German, English, and French). So we turn to our Friends and ask you all to look over your book shelves for those stout red volumes lovingly thumbed by an earlier generation of Editors Note: travelers. The books do not have to be in mint condition, as long as they are This is an historic edition of Bancroftiana: complete with all the maps. our first color issue. In future issues of Bancroftiana, we will update you on our progress on This new color printing allows building the collection and its use. Bancroftiana to showcase many of our If you have some old Baedekers you are willing to part with, please contact photographs, artwork, and other visual Bonnie Bearden in Bancroft’s Acquisitions section: (510) 642-8171 or materials to full advantage. You can [email protected] expect more colorful, art-enriched illustrations to appear in future issues. —Camilla Smith

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FROZEN IN THEIR TRACKS Applied prophylaxis and the debugging of an incoming environmental collection

s a librarian and long-time envi could be received, isolated, reviewed, could be dealt with by Aronmental activist prepared to and prepared for blast freezing if needed. the Conservation Treatment move from Maryland to Maine, she The lack of such facilities in the Library Division to ensure the safety of decided to dispose of many of her own has been a constant problem over the Bancroft processing staff. This task took collections which were stored in both years and will be addressed: a quarantine six people working together for two basement and garage. Upon learning room is being planned at the Northern hours and resulted in two acid-free that The Bancroft Library is the Library Regional Facility in Richmond cartons being used to hold the contents repository for the Sierra Club and has for staging and treatment of infested of each banker’s box, thus doubling the particular strength in environmental materials. number of containers used to house the collections, she contacted Theresa Steven Black arranged to have the collection from eighteen to thirty-six. Salazar, Bancroft’s Curator for boxes specially marked so upon delivery If there is any lesson to be drawn Western Americana, and they were staged in an area near the from this detailed logistical account of offered her records of the Library’s mail room. Once there, Gillian acquiring new materials, it is to high- last 20 years detailing local Boal spot-checked the boxes to see if light the occasional unintended and Sierra Club activities and there was any evidence of silverfish and unwanted ill-effects that can develop campaigns to protect coastal to check the precondition of these when collections are stored in areas of the continental United materials; she also arranged with Art an uncontrolled environment. States. Because of the donor’s Slater in Campus Pest Management to Some indeterminate per- impending move, a quick decision spray around the boxes to kill any centage of materials offered needed to be made. Theresa silverfish that might escape. Next, to the Library are at-risk. Staff must Salazar agreed to accept Susan Francisco of the Library’s be vigilant as gatekeepers to ensure that the collection of Facilities Office shrink-wrapped the these collections are handled safely, and approximately 18 boxes onto a pallet and transported do not bring with them any living cartons sight unseen. the collection to U.S. Cold Storage problems that might spread. An early shipment of books which Company in Oakland for freezing. In this particular instance, the the donor sent to another library was The boxes were sent to cold storage on a perspicacity of the donors—William found to include some unwanted Monday and picked up and delivered and Vivian Newman—in observing and guests, in the form of silverfish. When back to the Library on the following communicating what was either known she relayed this information to Friday. Any silverfish would have or suspected of the collection they had Bancroft, it became evident that this perished after being frozen. stored proved invaluable. A number of collection would have to be handled On their return from freezing the staff at the University and in the Library with the presumption that it had a contents of the boxes, which had arrived assisted in responding to the need for silverfish infestation. from the donor packed in a black plastic containment and special handling upon The first rule of prophylaxis is to bag within each box, needed to be receipt, including Wendell Hogg, contain any suspect material within a examined. Upon investigation it was Bonnie Bearden, Art Slater, Dasha cordon sanitaire. This isloation is found that that there was some previous Ortenberg, Monica Hanna, John necessary to protect the Library from damage to the materials and mold was Wenzler, and Heather Nicholls. possible contamination. The Library at in evidence in at least one box. These —Gillian Boal and Steven Black U.C. Berkeley unfortunately does not bags were removed and the boxes have a secure staging area for incoming repacked to ameliorate the effects of materials which are suspect in terms of possible condensation while drying. The pests and other contaminants. Steven donor had packed the collection into Black, the Head of Bancroft’s Acquisi- large banker’s boxes and numbered them tions Division and Gillian Boal, Rare 1-18. In re-packing, care was taken to Book Conservator in the Preservation review the contents for any damage Department, had to review quickly from freezing, and carefully retain the their options both on campus and order of the files. It was also an opportu- extramurally for sites where the material nity to note evidence of mold which

P AGE 11 / SPRING 2002 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY Edward P. and Elliot Reed Letters: A Family Legacy

y parents had the lovely habit of Edward and Frank traveled steerage, a place on the Trinity, called to this Mreading aloud in the evening, with most of their money, and surely day, Big Bar. There they panned especially in the wintertime. I tell you some of their families’ limited funds, for gold, with some success. Then this because it seems to me that it was a invested in merchandise to sell to the fortune changed. The miners were perfect setting for my mother Ellen, to miners. Edward’s first letter home, dated relieved of most of their food by a read her grandfather’s letters aloud to February 24, 1849, includes twenty-six stealthy Indian, and it began to her husband and myself, then an eight dense pages of notes and observations rain. Now the trick was to cross the year old girl. Later in my life, when I written aboard ship. The second letter, turbulent Trinity River with horses was a college student, I reread the sent from Rio De Janiero, totals twelve and diminished food supply intact. letters, to flesh out my understanding of pages and his first letter from San After quite a struggle the be- California history. Still later I read parts Francisco is an eighteen-page commen- draggled group succeeded. As they of them to my children when my eldest tary on the 156-day voyage. traveled back from the Trinity son was finding his fourth grade study After a very long, quite adventure- River, Edward enjoyed his first of California’s Gold Rush a less than some voyage, including a smallpox view of Mount Shasta, and soon exciting task. Last, I completed the outbreak, and two lengthy stops in realized the difficult journey that cycle by reading some of the letters to South America, they arrived in San lay ahead. The miners had a my mother in her last years of life, to Francisco during the first week of July. treacherous time navigating the trigger her memories of meeting some Edward now possessed about five dollars sloughs, pulling and digging out of the people described in the letters, cash in his pocket. He got a job unload- their horses. They crossed the people she had met and known as a ing lumber from a barge at the foot of Sacramento River near its young child. Washington Street for eight dollars a confluence with the American Edward P. Reed, my great-grandfa- day. Within a few days, with their River in the company of a large ther, and the primary letter writer in the resources restored, the young men took party who had ox-teams and Edward P. And Elliot Reed Letters, passage up-river to Sacramento, where wagons, headed up by an ex- 1849-1879 (BANC MSS 98/48 c) lived all the action was reputed to be. governor of Ohio. One met all types with his family in Homer, New York. Edward’s descriptions of Sacramento of people in the gold country. Like many young men of not quite are striking. He described it as a town twenty, he did not know what to do of tents, made from the sails of the Returning to Sacramento was no with his life. His father was an estab- deserted ships that were moored in the respite. At one point Edward rented a lished lawyer and Edward was the oldest river. After hawking their merchandise place to sleep and found it to be merely of the children. He and a friend, Frank for a couple of months, Edward had a a table on which to lay his bedroll. He Brown, who shared the same ambiguity chance to travel with some acquaintan- awoke in the morning with water a few of purpose, decided to go to Washing- ces to the Trinity River to search for gold inches below the tabletop. He moved to ton D.C. to see if they could find jobs, himself. Frank declined, so Edward sold one of the boats on the river, which was perhaps as clerks to Congressmen. This his remaining share of supplies and being used as a hotel. Then he got sick, was early in 1848 and Edward’s father, became a goldminer. In an August 14, and nearly died. As he began to recover, Edward C. Reed, had served in the 1849 letter Edward wrote: a friend urged Edward to accompany House of Representatives for a term Imagine the village of Homer [New him to Los Angeles. They took a during Andrew Jackson’s administration. York] with two streets running steamer to San Francisco, where they Shortly after this move, the news of parallel . . . with a line of schooners waited for the coaster to Los Angeles. a gold strike at Sutter’s Mill, California & ships tied up to the trees on the The sailing date was postponed, so reached New York. Edward and Frank bank & then these streets nearly greenhorns that they were, the two men immediately began discussions of filled up with houses and stores, bought a team of horses and a buggy to travelling to California. They sailed out constructed of poles cut from the drive to Los Angeles. Needless to say, of New York on January 24, 1849, on adjacent woods & covered with there were no roads to the south. Cow the South Carolina. According to the shirting . . . or old sails, with paths, yes, roads, no. They eventually records at the San Francisco Maritime hundreds of tents pitched in every got to the Salinas River, and realized the Museum, this was the first ship from direction & you have a faint idea of folly of this ill-advised trip. The weary New York to reach “Gold Rush” the present city of Sacremento [sic] travelers returned to San Jose, which California, by sailing around the Horn. . . . The party of miners camped at looked even better than when they

P AGE 12 / SPRING 2002 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY passed through the city the first time. family by complete surprise. He made the varieties of racial, ethnic, and San Jose was a bustling place, this a very festive time, taking the religious backgrounds encountered in serving as the territorial capital and family on a trip to Montreal and frontier California. Clara knew that she therefore full of legislators and atten- Quebec, and seeing that his parent’s must deal with them as peers and it was dant hangers-on. Edward seized the home was in good repair before he difficult, and she expresses herself in opportunity to buy a small hotel or departed. He met and fell in love with letters to Ellen. At one point she writes rooming house. This situation worked Clara Winegar, his sister Ellen’s best Ellen about a city father extolling the repair of a road, which was badly rutted. He was very proud of the repair, which consisted of filling the ruts with dead chickens. Edward’s letters to New York are often filled with descriptions of the erratic economics of the state and efforts to get the railroad to California and into San Jose. He derides the risky plans to develop the Central Valley. Both write of their concerns about the Civil War. Edward and Clara were Unionists and Abolitionists, and commented on the amount of Confederate loyalty in California. Women’s voices and opin- ions seemed to carry as much weight as men’s within their family. Their niece, Lucy, was an ardent suffragette, and her efforts were applauded . I wish I could say that Edward and Clara had “happily-ever-after lives,” but they did not. Clara died not long after the birth of her daughter, my grand- mother. Edward remarried, but his children and his second wife did not get along well together. His brother Elliot lost his wife and daughter to tuberculo- sis, apparently they drank milk from a tubercular cow. Edward’s sister Mariana Edward and Clara Reed, Wedding Portrait, ca. 1859 moved to San Jose with her three children, after her husband, a Union well for a short time, but the legislators friend. He also arranged for his brother Army doctor, died in the Andersonville decided that the state capital should be Elliot to come to California. prison. Edward lived until almost the in Vallejo. Edward was fortunate to sell Edward traveled to California, and then end of the century, but he went broke, when he did. He then took a job in the in 1859 returned to New York in order caught in one of California’s depressions city clerks’ office, writing abstracts. to marry Clara. When the newlyweds with more lumber inventory than he Soon he became a city assessor. He also returned to California, there were now could sell. What makes these people began to farm, first buying livestock to two correspondents writing letters to vivid and perhaps remarkable is that by fatten and sell. Later he developed Ellen. Clara’s letters have a very differ- their regular detailed letters they have orchards near the area called Evergreen, ent tone than her husband’s. Clara was made a record of who they were and located near Mount Hamilton. Edward determined, opinionated, well educated what their times were like. It has been also started a lumber mill, cutting young woman, brought up to hope for, most interesting to live with this history redwood in the Santa Cruz Mountains. if not expect a genteel life. California in my hands. I hope it will be useful to He worked at all of this for several was rough, uncouth, dusty, muddy, and others. years, until he felt securely established. populated with a mixture of people who —Elise G. White In 1857 he returned home to New York were nothing like those in Homer or arriving unannounced, and taking his Ithaca. She had a hard time adjusting to

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evidence tells us as much about the society Papyrus Comes of Age and economy of the ancient world.” Hickey was hired as a result of the he Tebtunis papyri may be one of The lack of attention in the past may creation of the Center for the Tebtunis Tthe University of California’s better- be exhilarating for today’s scholar, but it has Papyri, a new Organized Research Project kept secrets, but Todd Hickey, the Bancroft had negative consequences for the health of that is being supported for a period of up Library’s new papyrologist, is working hard the texts themselves. The tide was turned to ten years by the Vice Chancellor of to change that. “Here you have this when the Bancroft joined the Advanced Research. The Center has gotten off to a tremendous scholarly resource,” Hickey Papyrological Information System (APIS) good start. “Thanks in no small part to says, “and for the bulk of the last century, Project (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/ the support and assistance that I’ve it’s been ignored. First and foremost, I see projects/digital/apis/index.html) several received from both the Bancroft and the myself as an advocate for this collection.” years ago, and Hickey sees conservation as faculty, we’re doing well,” reports Hickey. The Bancroft’s papyri were a gift of a continuing priority. “Obviously we’ve “We’ve already received a generous Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Unearthed in got to ensure that these texts are around for $25,000 gift from a private foundation, Egypt from the Fayyum town of Tebtunis future generations of scholars in the winter of 1899-1900, they came to and students.” To help with Berkeley in 1938 after a sojourn in Oxford, some of the more challenging where their excavators, B.P. Grenfell and pieces (for example, unopened A.S. Hunt, and others had been preparing rolls or unprocessed mummy them for publication. Four volumes (in cartonnage), Hickey has five parts) of the Tebtunis Papyri have now arranged for the Library’s appeared (the last in 1976), but these have conservator, Lorna Kirwan, to hardly put a dent in what was an incredibly study with Andrea Donau at the

Photo: Erica Nordmeir Erica Photo: rich find of papyri. Fewer than 2,000 pieces Papyrussammlung. out of (approximately) 30,000 — the Hickey will also be teaching largest number of papyrus fragments in the in the Departments of Classics New World — have been published. The and Near Eastern Studies. “This Todd Hickey, Papyrologist vast majority of the unpublished texts have is a critical component of my never even been studied. “This makes the position,” he says. “If we want to ensure which has allowed us to hire two graduate job incredibly exciting,” says Hickey, a the health of the collection, if we want the student assistants, to support Lorna’s Chicago history Ph.D. who comes to study of papyri, that is, papyrology, to training, and to invite Professor Dorothy Bancroft from the University of Delaware. flourish at Berkeley, the faculty and Thompson of Cambridge, a scholar with “Every time I open up a folder or one of students must find them relevant if not extensive knowledge of the collection, as the excavation tins, I’m not sure exactly essential. To do this, we must transform our first Distinguished Visiting Lecturer. what I’m going to find. The papyrus that their study from an arcane subdiscipline of An undergraduate apprentice will join us I pull out to work on may just be a run-of- Classics, one often perceived — sometimes in the Spring. My colleague Arthur the-mill tax receipt, or it might be a lost justifiably — as excessively concerned with Verhoogt [at the University of Michigan] piece of Greek literature.” minutiae, into an interdisciplinary field that has a fifth volume of the Tebtunis Papyri has something to say to well advanced, and I’ve begun work on a philologists, historians, sixth one. We’re building relationships on archaeologists, anthro- campus, in the community, internation- pologists, et al.” Is this ally. Every morning I wake up excited to a tall order? “I don’t go to work — this collection has that believe so,” says Hickey. much potential. I won’t rest until it’s “It’s simply a matter of completely realized.” exposure, of knocking For more information on the Tebtunis down the barriers. Papyri, see:

Photo: Erica Nordmeir Erica Photo: Most people are quite http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/APIS/ receptive when they index.html recognize the often To support the Center for the unique opportunities Tebtunis Papyri, see: that the corpus presents. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tebtunis/ Papyrus fragments from Roman Tebtunis, still in their 1900 excavation tin. No other body of —Todd Hickey Papyrologist P AGE 14 / SPRING 2002 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY

LINDA JORDAN It is with great sorrow that we inform our Mary Morganti colleagues and friends of the death of Linda Takes Off Jordan during the Winter break.. Linda, a lead archivist at Bancroft, was a much Supervising Archivist Mary Morganti loved member of Bancroft Technical Services. She announced her resignation from The originally came to us as a student employee, her interest in libraries having been spurred by service Bancroft Library to accept a position as as the driver of the bookmobile in Elko, Nevada, Snyder Susan Photo: Director of Research Collections at the where her husband served as a forest ranger. After California Historical Society (CHS) in his death, she returned to school, taking a B.A. in San Francisco. This is a wonderful art history at Cal and then her M.L.S. degree at opportunity for Mary, but at the same San Jose State University. time leaves Bancroft with the very Linda came back to Bancroft full time in 1995 difficult task of replacing her. She has and worked on a variety of processing projects, among them the archives of Beat poets Ted been at Bancroft since 1990, both Joans and Philip Whalen, the Gooch-Darby family papers, and the Paramount Theater processing and managing the processing archives. One of her colleagues called her “Bancroft’s most versatile, energetic, and enthu- of hundreds of manuscript and archival siastic archivist. She attacked her work with the goal of getting it done quickly and prop- collections. Morganti played a key role erly, never losing sight of the goal of making it accessible for researchers. Her attention to in the reorganization of Bancroft detail did not stand in the way of the ‘big picture.’ She familiarized herself with the subject Technical Services and has been inti- matter to such an extent that she also became a major resource person for any researcher working with a collection she processed.” mately involved in helping Bancroft to Over and above her professional qualifications, Linda was a delight to be around. move into the electronic age by design- We shall sorely miss her. ing the templates for Bancroft finding aids both before and after the develop- ment of the Encoded Archival Descrip- ENGEL SLUITER (1906-2001) tion. She has helped to plan and carry Engel Sluiter, a longtime student of European overseas expansion, once predicted that out grant-funded projects both in curiosity would kill him, but he was mistaken: he died of a heart attack in Kensington, Bancroft and elsewhere on campus. She California on 28 May 2001, just over a month before he would have attained his 95th supervised the creation of catalog birthday. records for manuscript and archival Sluiter was born in a Dutch-speaking household on a ranch near New Holland, South collections; and supervised at any one Dakota. In significant ways his life was shaped by youthful enthusiasms. One was his in- time ten to fifteen staff members, exhaustible passion for knowledge, reflected, for example, in his practice of regularly slip- interns, and students in these activities. ping through an open window of the closed local library in order to find materials that After receiving her B.A. from would satisfy his curiosity. Sluiter obtained his B.A. in 1929 and in 1931 he returned to the San Francisco Bay California State College, Sonoma, and Area to begin graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley under the supervi- her Masters Degree in Library Science sion of the formidable Herbert E. Bolton. He earned his M.A. in 1933 and, following a from UC Berkeley, Mary worked for year in the archives of Holland and , his Ph.D. in 1937. He taught briefly at San two years as a manuscripts librarian at, Francisco State College before returning to Berkeley, where he would teach from 1940 un- appropriately, the California Historical til he reached mandatory retirement in 1973. Among his students were Roderick Barman, Society. She has also held archival the late Fred Bowser, James Boyajian, James Guill, Henry Keith, Clifton B. Kroeber, positions at the Social Welfare History Donald Rady, Herbert Raffeld, and Mario Rodrigues. Archives (University of Minnesota), All of us became part of the Sluiter legacy. But there is also another, more durable part Utah International, Inc., a mining and of that legacy and it consists of the Sluiter Collection now in The Bancroft Library. That construction company, Wells Fargo collection represents six decades of far-flung multi-archival research in archives throughout Bank, and the California Nurses Europe and Latin America. Sluiter undertook thirteen extended archival forays, each of Association, all three of the latter in which yielded thousands of frames of microfilmed documents in half a dozen languages San Francisco. that he meticulously transcribed in his office or in his study. His decades of toil produced a massive documentary collection of more than 160,000 pages organized chronologically We shall miss Mary, and we wish her and topically in fifty-six standard-sized file drawers. Each drawer is filled with complete well in her new position. transcriptions headed by a pithy summary. Engel Sluiter was a unique scholar of exceptional drive and talent. He will be pro- foundly missed by all of us who were privileged to have worked with and learned from him.

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Spring 2002 Calendar The Council of the Friends of The Bancroft Library EXHIBITS ROUNDTABLES 2000–2001 January 21 – April 29 An open, informal discussion group, Bancroft The Foundations of Anthropology in Roundtables feature presentations by Bancroft staff Alfred W. Baxter Connie Loarie California: A Centennial Exhibit and scholars. All sessions are held in the Lewis- Anthony S. Bliss Ian Mackinlay Latimer Room of The Faculty Club at noon on Key personalities and events driving the John Briscoe Arlene Merino Nielsen the third Thursday of the month. establishment and development of anthropol- Kimo Campbell Terry O’Reilly ogy in its first sixty years at Berkeley. FEBRUARY 21 Lucy Campbell Richard Otter Allison Varzally Robert Chlebowski Bernard Rosenthal May 7 – July 31 Yogores, Pachucos, and Zoot Suiter: The Making Gifford Combs George L. Saywell Sites of Discovery: Art and Archaeology in of a Multiethnic Youth Culture Among California Russell Ellis Camilla Smith 19th-Century Photographs of the American Minorities Ann Flinn Charles Stephenson Victoria Fong, Chair Stephen Vincent Southwest MARCH 21 This exhibit considers the archaeological Peter Frazier, Craig Walker Isabel Breskin ramifications of government sponsored surveys Treasurer Sue Rayner Warburg and their photographs, and places the Above the City, Upon a hill: 19th Century Wade Hughan Thomas E. Woodhouse, photographs and photographers within the Lithographs of San Francisco from the Honeyman Katharine Johnson Vice Chair history of American landscape art. Collection Allan Littman Charles B. Faulhaber,

APRIL 18 Secretary ANNUAL MEETING Michelle Morton New World Utopias BANCROFTIANA SATURDAY, APRIL 27 Number 120 Luncheon, 12 noon MAY 16 Business Meeting, 1pm Editor Camilla Smith Adrienne S. Williams Program,LECTURES 2:30pm, Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Copy Editor William E. Brown, Jr. Miracles of the Virgin: Popularity and Reception Speaker Thomas Sanchez, will discuss California Production Catherine Dinnean fiction in a talk, “Native Notes from the Land of Printer Autumn Press Earthquake and Fire.”

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