Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library BANCROFTIANA Number 136 • Universit y of , Berkeley • Spring 2010

Bancroft to the Core: The Bancroft Library at 150

he Bancroft Library’s major ex- West, Mexico, Central America, and History Henry Morse Stephens and Thibition for Spring 2010 (March western Canada—the largest library UC President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 5 – July 2) celebrates the library’s devoted to a single region in the was the first major research collec- sesquicentennial with an exhibition de- country. tion to be acquired by the University. voted to the collecting and collections Realizing the value of The Ban- In Wheeler’s words, the acquisition of Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918). croft Library for the pursuit of original of The Bancroft Library “means the Bancroft arrived in San Francisco historical research, the University of emergence of the real University of in 1852 determined to sell books. The California purchased it in 1905 and study and research out of the midst of 19-year-old Midwest transplant found moved it to the campus two weeks the Colleges of elementary teaching more pleasure—and profit—peddling after the San Francisco Earthquake and training.” books than digging for gold and by of 1906. This acquisition, through On the 150th anniversary of 1856 had founded his own bookstore the vision and efforts of Professor of Bancroft’s initial foray into book and publishing house, H.H. Bancroft Continued on page 3 and Co. In 1860 Bancroft initiated a new phase in his business career when he began collecting books. Far from constituting a library, this initial col- lection was created to help the aspiring publisher enter the burgeoning publish- ing market on “Pacific Slope” topics. As Bancroft became more interested in collecting books, the bookseller gave way to the collector and historian. Ban- croft himself recollected, in Literary Industries, that “gradually and almost imperceptibly . . . the area of my efforts enlarged. From Oregon it was but a step to British Columbia and Alaska; and as I was obliged for California to go to Mexico and Spain it finally became settled to my mind to make the western half of North America my field, including in it the whole of Mexico and Central America.” The result was a library that by the turn of the 20th century included 50,000 volumes as well as hundreds of “dic- tations” (early oral histories), manu- scripts, maps, pictorial materials, and other original records documenting the “Our Gallery of Cranks, No. 3: The Boss Historian.” Front cover of The Wasp magazine, history of California and the American April 18, 1885. Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

From the Director The ancroftB Library at 150 . . . and Counting

we again stopped at the historical alcove was the very prototype of today’s Silicon and he said, ‘Mr. Knight, I wish you Valley start-ups. He began it with $5500 would visit all the other bookstores and borrowed from his sister, the equivalent stands in the city and purchase a copy of some $140,000 today, which he in of every book and pamphlet relating to turn used to establish credit in . ot many California institutions this territory that is not already on your When he opened his doors on December Nhave celebrated their Sesquicenten- shelves.’ With characteristic prompt deci- 1, 1856, in a storefront “in the building of nial. Bancroft joins that small number sion he had instantly decided to form a Naglee, the brandymaker . . . where ten this year. The tale of its origins has been complete Pacific Coast Library.” (“Ban- years before a . . . sandbank was washed told variously. Hubert Howe Bancroft croft’s Exhaustive Work Described by by the tide-waters of the bay,” he had a himself puts it thusly in his autobiogra- Collaborator,” Los Angeles Times, March stock of books and stationery valued at phy, Literary Industries (1890): “In 1859 10, 1918.) $10,000. Today Tommy Toy’s restaurant William H. Knight, then in my service Was the date 1859 or 1862? Bancroft is located there, at the corner of Mont- as editor and compiler of statistical was writing thirty years after the event; gomery and Merchant Streets, across the works relative to the Pacific coast, was Knight, at least 46 years afterwards. We street from the Transamerica Pyramid and engaged in preparing the Hand-Book can rule both dates out, however; the one block from Portsmouth Square, at the Almanac for the year 1860. From time June 1961 issue of Bancroftiana noted time San Francisco’s commercial center. to time he asked of me certain books that Knight did not enter Bancroft’s During the first months Bancroft slept on required for the work. It occurred to me employ until August or September of a cot under the counter. A year later he that we should probably have frequent 1860, and “by December, Knight was could afford to rent the whole three-story occasion to refer to books on California, writing his mother that `The Hand Book building, forty by sixty feet. Oregon, Washington, and Utah, and of travel which I am compiling and of This spring’s exhibition, Bancroft that it might be more convenient to have which I wrote you is a great undertak- to the Core: The Bancroft Library at 150, them all together. . . . Accordingly I ing.’” There is nothing like contemporary examines Bancroft’s collections and requested Mr Knight to clear the shelves evidence! collections 150 years later (see Theresa around his desk, and to them I trans- Salazar’s article, page 1). The exhibi- ferred every book I could find in my tion was accompanied by The Bancroft stock having reference to this country. I Library at 150: A Sesquicentennial Sympo- succeeded in getting together some fifty sium, held in the Maud Fife Room (315 or seventy-five volumes. This was the ori- Wheeler Hall) on March 5th and 6th. A gin of my library, sometimes called the group of distinguished junior and senior Pacific Library, but latterly the Bancroft scholars showed us how they use Bancroft Library” (pp. 173-74). today and how contemporary interpreta- Knight remembers it rather differ- tions of the history of California and the ently, however: “Mr. Bancroft went East West have changed so dramatically since in 1862 and on his return a few months Bancroft’s day. later I accompanied him through the The symposium began Friday after- store occupying two deep floors on noon with a session on colonial Mexico Montgomery and Merchant Streets. in the eighteenth century. The second He stopped at an alcove near my desk, Friday session took up California trade containing about 100 volumes of various before the Gold Rush and the relations sizes, old and new, and not presenting between Native Americans and other a very artistic appearance. He asked groups. The day ended with the open- what they were. I told him that they all ing reception for the Bancroft to the Core pertained to the geography, history and exhibition in the Bancroft Gallery. mining of the region embraced in our Hubert Howe Bancroft, age 20, 1852. Saturday morning began with the map [a general map of the Pacific Coast]. symposium’s keynote talk, “California and He gave a cursory glance at some of the At the time Bancroft was all of 28 the Borderlands: A Multiethnic Place that books, said nothing, and we passed on years old, a young entrepreneur on the Lives Quietly in the Archives,” by UCSC through the establishment. Returning, make, and H. H. Bancroft and Co. Professor of History Lisbeth Haas, a fre-

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Bancroft to the Core, continued from page 1 many high points from Bancroft’s ini- collecting, this exhibit seeks to show tial acquisition, along with other stel- the what and the how of Bancroft’s lar items that illustrate how that vision original library. It not only documents has continued to make The Bancroft Bancroft’s own book-buying and re- Library’s Western and Latin Ameri- search trips but also casts light on the cana Collections vital research materi- roles his numerous assistants played. als for local and international scholars, For gathering information about Span- students, and the general public. ish and Mexican California as well Theresa Salazar, Curator as documenting the unique stories of Bancroft Collection of Western Americana early Californians, Bancroft relied on Dylan Esson men like Thomas Savage and Enrique Graduate Research Assistant Cerruti, who traversed the Golden State copying and collecting Spanish- language documents and recording the stories of native Californios, such as Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and American pioneers and settlers like and John Bidwell. Bancroft’s second wife Matilda even quent researcher in Bancroft and the au- participated in recording the stories of thor of a prize-winning study, Conquests Mormon women, Colorado miners, and Historical Identities in California, and others. Matilda also accompanied 1769-1936, as well as numerous articles her husband to Mexico to conduct on varied aspects of California his- research. Bancroft benefited, as well, tory. The first full session on Saturday from the research trips of Alphonse took a look at Hubert Howe Bancroft Pinart, a French linguist who traveled as historian and the historiography of to Russia, the Pacific islands, Alaska, the American West since his Works. New Mexico, and Arizona in search of The last two sessions were devoted to information on indigenous languages. Archives Exhibition in the the Borderlands in the nineteenth and Pinart was also essential to Bancroft’s Rowell Cases accompanies twentieth centuries, that region of the collecting enterprise related to Mexico southwest and northern and Central America. Much of the li- Bancroft to the Core Mexico that was the focus of research brary’s early collections from this area, of my predecessors Herbert Bolton and however, were purchased at auction An exhibition accompanying the ses- George Hammond, both professors of in Europe. The collapse of Maximil- quicentennial exhibition in the Ban- Latin American history at Berkeley. ian’s Mexican Empire in 1867 made croft Gallery has been mounted in One hundred and fifty years, and available a number of the libraries of the Rowell Cases at the Doe Library counting . . . imperial sympathizers such as José entrance to Bancroft. “Celebrating María Andrade, Agustín Fischer, and 150 Years: Bancroft and His Library, José Fernando Ramírez. With the aid 1860-2010” features correspondence, The amesJ D. Hart Director of London agent Joseph Whitaker, publications, reports, images, and The ancroftB Library Bancroft purchased books from these artifacts drawn primarily from the collections as well as select items from records of the library, the university, the library of anthropologist E.G. and other Bancroft collections. The Squier, which contained numerous exhibition describes Hubert Howe volumes on Central America. Bancroft's origins in Ohio and his ar- Just as books about California rival in California; how he built served as Bancroft’s inspiration, the and used his library in various “liter- library itself has served as a foundation ary industries”; how it was acquired for further collecting over the past by the Regents; and how it grew into century and into the present. Ban- the collection it is today, housed in its croft’s original library is now part of a magnificent new facility. much larger collection that has grown Kathi Neal, University Archives up to supplement and expand his David Farrell, University Archives original vision. The exhibition features Michele Morgan, Acquisitions

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75th Anniversary Oral History Project ROHO Launches Web Site for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

ancroft’s Regional Oral History BOffice (ROHO) has partnered with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to document the history of the museum as it ap- proaches its 75th anniversary this year. Founded in 1935, SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast de- voted to exhibiting and collecting work by both modern masters and younger, less-established artists. Fifty-four interviews with directors past and pres- ent, curators, board members, collec- tors, dealers, artists, and museum staff document the museum’s history, with an emphasis on three pivotal questions:

How has the museum reached out to the Two museum-goers look quizzically at a video installation (photo by Winni Wintermeyer). community as it has grown and as San These interviews provide wide- the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1960, Francisco and the world have changed ranging perspectives on the push and ROHO interviewer Suzanne Riess since 1935? pull that results in the growth of an interviewed Grace McCann Morley, How did the collection develop over the institution, and in the shaping of its the founding director of the museum, last 75 years? identity and mission in a changing about her goals, successes, and difficul- world. ties. Morley had recently resigned and How has the museum defined its priorities The project builds on earlier was particularly frank in her assess- for collecting and presenting new work? ROHO work on art and culture in ments. Additionally, Riess interviewed several members of the museum board as well as artists close to the museum. The first goal of the new project was to find out more about the Morley period by interviewing as many people as possible with recollections of the museum when she was director. Then Lisa Rubens and Richard Cándida Smith interviewed five of Morley’s six successors as director, all except her immediate successor, the late George Cutler, who guided the museum from 1961 to 1965; but his recollections had been captured in an interview done for the Smithsonian’s Archives of Ameri- can Art. The interview team—Rubens, Cándida Smith, Jess Rigelhaupt, and Elizabeth Castle—complemented the conversations with the directors by interviewing 15 curators, 10 trustees, Curators examine small sculptures at SFMOMA, Van Ness Street location, paintings storage, c. 1950s (Photographs Collection, SFMOMA Archives). 12 artists, 8 collectors and gallery Page 4 / Spring 2010 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

tions, conservation, and education signed by Swiss architect Mario Botta programs. The 54 interviews, in the South of Market district. combined with 12 earlier ROHO The project’s website interviews, present a diverse range http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ of perspectives on modern and ROHO/projects/sfmoma/ contemporary art, how collecting launched January 15 to coincide with and programming priorities have the opening of the museum’s yearlong shifted over the past 75 years, the celebration of its 75th anniversary, financial realities that shape what includes transcripts of interviews, the museum has been able to do background information, and video at different periods of its history, clips of directors and curators discuss- Construction of the new SFMOMA building on Van Ness and the process surrounding the ing works in the museum’s collection. Avenue (Photographs Collection, SFMOMA Archives). decision to move from the mu- Richard Cándida Smith owners, as well as seven former staff seum’s old home at the Veterans Director, Regional Oral History Office members who played important roles Memorial Building in San Francisco’s Professor of History in developing the museum’s collec- Civic Center to a new building de-

Excerpt from the interview with Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, SFMOMA.

Sandra Phillips: Then he found this picture [Dorothea Lange, J. R. Butler, President of Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, Memphis, Ten- nessee, 1938], and he said, “This is a wonderful picture. I’ve never seen this before.” Of course, we have seen this picture before. Lange herself, as an older woman, would take her own work and make different croppings of it. So what we know of this picture is the head, very, very closely cropped. It’s a very effective picture. But I think as a classical example of the expressiveness of the way this man holds his body and the leanness of his arms and the expression of complete anxiety, open anxiety on his face. The face is, of course, what interested her, but how the face could be read through the expression of the body, too. That’s what so interested me. I think it’s a truly great picture, one of her very, very best. So yes, we bought it and yes, I was happy. I think it’s an important picture.

Cándida Smith: This is a vintage print that you acquired. What about the special characteristics of her own approach to printing? Is that even a valid issue to bring up? Are there formal questions that Dorothea Lange, J. R. Butler, President of Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, Memphis, Tennessee, 1938 are important for understanding her? (courtesy of Oakland Museum of California). Phillips: It’s interesting because she was not interested. She was interesting, because she was very squeamish about mak- ing her own prints. She persuaded Roy Stryker, who insisted with everyone else on having his photographers send the unprocessed film to him directly so they could all be processed in Washington—she persuaded him that it was a better idea for her to send the film to Ansel Adams in Yosemite, where he was living—he had a store there—and to have him produce the prints because he was a much better printer. In fact, not of this pic- ture. This picture, I think was actually probably made by her. But we have in our collection, two versions of the White Angel Bread Line. One of them obviously printed by her, which is romantic and very touching and emotional, which is why I think this is by her; and the other one a little crisper, very beautiful, very elegant, slightly different cropping. It’s clear it’s made by Ansel. It’s interesting to see two different personalities with the essentially the same material. Cándida Smith: Presumably, he was trying to interpret her vision. Phillips: Oh, indeed. They were very competitive, those two.

Page 5 / Spring 2010 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library THE BRUCE CONNOR ARCHIVES

ancroft has long been commit- War II: the Beat Generation, the anti- Ratbastards, he called some of them. Bted to preserving the literature nuclear and anti-war protests of the From streets and shops he collected and arts of Northern California. Its 60’s, psychedelic light shows, and the toy dolls, bicycle parts, porn magazine collections, for example, include the punk explosions of the 70’s. Each his- “girlies,” H-bomb test pictures, wigs, papers of important and now inter- torical wave fed his creative output, In nylon stockings, etc., and assembled nationally acclaimed Bay Area poets a wonderful piece of early performance them as sculptures. Yes, as one might such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack art—before it was called that—he ran imagine, the works were often dark, Spicer, Philip Whalen, and Michael (unsuccessfully) for the San Francisco provocatively gothic. Similarly, much McClure, all of whom, with the excep- Board of Supervisors in 1967. His of his great work in film, begun in tion of Spicer, were associated with baby photograph on the campaign the late 50’s, was composed from the the Beat Generation as it took root in poster perhaps summed up his attitude collage of pieces from old “B” mov- San Francisco during the 1950’s. Until towards the infantile character of the ies, commercials, and documentary recently, however, Bancroft’s collec- Board, apparently shared by some footage. His films, which employed tions of artists’ papers were limited to voters. Indeed, he managed to receive these techniques, are considered the older artists such as Alexander Calder over 5,000 votes. founding formula for MTV’s music and his father, painter Hans Hoffman, videos. A particularly celebrated work, and sculptor Douglas Tilden. The Three Screen Ray, reworked shortly situation has changed dramatically before his death from his film Cosmic during the past decade as Bancroft has Ray, features a sexually charged, live begun actively to collect the archives performance of Ray Charles's 1959 hit of significant post-war artists, such as song “What'd I Say” set to an ecstatic, Joan Brown, Jess, and, most promi- fast-paced collage of preexisting and nently, Jay DeFeo (1929–1989). The original imagery, including newsreel late Thomas Hoving, former director footage of bomb explosions, cartoons, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art television commercials, fireworks, in New York, declared her monumen- flashing lights, and his signature use of tal “The Rose” to be one of the 111 countdown leader. This mesmerizing ‘greatest’ works of art in the history work is considered a tour de force of of Western civilization. Bruce Con- editing and film techniques, the film ner (1933–2008) was DeFeo’s close stock itself manipulated by Conner colleague. In 1997 Conner gave his with punch holes and ink stains. The correspondence from DeFeo to Ban- piece is currently playing—and is a croft; and in the same year the DeFeo big hit—at SFMOMA’s 75th Anniver- estate deposited her papers in Ban- sary show. As Conner grew older he croft. Recently, Bancroft received and began making inkblot prints—often is currently processing Conner’s entire sacred and dark in nature—that are archive, a veritable treasure chest of 22 BANC MSS 2000/50 now considered some of his signature cartons of correspondence, scrapbooks, works. and ephemera that spans a 50-year Conner’s prodigious and variable In practice—anarchistic and career. output is impossible to categorize in nihilistic as his behavior and work An iconic artist, Bruce Conner left this short piece. Simply put, he was could seem—Conner was focused an indelible imprint on the public life often intent on ripping up the surface on making art that would have an and history of mid- and late-twentieth facts of the world as a means to unveil impact, be it in the social, political, or century American art. A constantly and compose a much more imagi- sacred realms. In the process he trans- evolving sculptor, painter, printer, native and accurate vision of real- formed and redefined both formal and filmmaker, photographer, conceptual ity. Much of his aesthetic ingenuity conceptual possibilities of each of his artist, and performance artist, his emerged from his skill in assemblage different media as well as the public work took a provocative, anarchistic and various methods of collage, put to role of the artist. Conner, however, glee in tapping into, responding to, use in several media. For brief exam- was also known as an artist who tried and shaping the spirit and obsessions ple, between 1958 and 1964 he made to maintain absolute control over the of the decades that followed World over 200 assemblage sculptures— presentation of his work in galleries,

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aesthetic freedom—needed to be such a controlling figure, and whether or not his stubborn character sabotaged the possibility of a much larger public career. The answer may very well be found in his papers now at Bancroft. In the larger picture, the Con- ner papers, combined with those of Bancroft’s growing archives of postwar San Francisco and Bay Area artists and poets, will continue to provide us with a much fuller and more transparent view of the seminal cross-fertilization and cultural ferment that stoked the art-making and writing of the Beats and the multiple generations across the world that have followed their original example. It is fitting that the Conner Bruce Conner. Film still from Crossroads, 1976: Atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll. BANC MSS 2000/50 papers will be processed by Bancroft staff emberm Dean Smith, an artist in his own right who, for several years, was Conner’s studio assistant. Stephen Vincent Publications Committee Member Friends of The ancroftB Library

Bruce Conner (photograph unattributed).

museums, and books—frequently to the detriment of his professional ca- reer. His often terminal relations with gallery directors, curators, and editors, his business dealings, and the serious- ness and often defiance with which he approached his art is well recorded in the correspondence and papers. In 2000, the Walker Art Center in Min- neapolis produced the traveling ret- rospective exhibition, "2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II." In the correspondence, the exhibit’s develop- ment, its contrary sounding title, ar- guments, and installation details give the reader a painstaking account of an artist insistent and persistent in hold- ing to the singular authority of his particular vision. One of the critical and scholarly questions that remains is why Conner—whose works can be so wildly liberating and exhibit such Bruce Conner. Ink Blot drawing on paper, February 17, 1999

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Bancroft 2.0

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he Bancroft Library has recently landscape of emerging Web 2.0 tech- by or about Bancroft, and, most Tentered the world of social net- nologies, with tens of millions of users significantly, daily posts to Bancroft’s working by joining Facebook and worldwide. “Wall,” with links to new digital Twitter. Facebook allows users to Bancroft officially launched Fa- collections, online exhibitions, an- connect with friends or become fans of cebook and Twitter pages in Septem- nouncements for events, pointers to groups or organizations. Twitter allows ber 2009. Immediately, online users online news articles on Bancroft, and users to send and read tweets, micro- became Bancroft fans on Facebook and more. Facebook is ideal for brief, more blogging text-based messages. Tweets followed us on Twitter. ephemeral posts that may point users can be informational, point to outside The Bancroft Facebook page back to our traditional site; and users resources, or be retweeted by followers includes information similar to that can see the posts on their own pages again and again. Both Facebook and found on our traditional website, such through dynamic news feeds. Twitter are among the most widely as hours, location, and events; but used social networking tools in the there are also photos, links to blogs

The Bancroft Library on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Berkeley-CA/The-Bancroft-Library/149955223153

uch of the content posted on MBancroft’s Facebook page is also tweeted to Twitter to broadcast the in- formation as widely as possible. With tweets limited to 140 characters, they must be concise. It is challenging but also liberating to craft brief, intriguing posts that can then be tweeted and retweeted time and time again.

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Through fans and followers, The Bancroft Library is now “in the flow” The Bancroft Library on Twitter: as information is being commented http://twitter.com/bancroftlibrary on, rated, and shared through the net- work. A main feature on both sites is the “Digital Object of the Day,” cho- sen by Bancroft staff from our digital collections, that relates to an event on that day in history. In December, Bancroft launched an “event” with the California Digi- tal Library (CDL), using Facebook and Twitter to highlight the recently completed John Muir Correspon- dence Digital Collection (http://www. oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ kt0w1031nc/). During this event, CDL posted updates on Facebook and Twitter with brief quotations from se- lected texts by John Muir, along with links to the digitized letters. The implementation of these Sample tweets from The Bancroft Library . . . new Web 2.0 efforts was led by the Bancroft Web Initiatives Commit- tee, a group of Bancroft staff who investigated Facebook and Twitter, among other Web 2.0 technologies, and considered how Bancroft could best use these new tools. Technologies such as Facebook and Twitter allow First roundtable of the spring semester discusses premodern us to send out threads of information manuscript fragments, today at noon: http://bit.ly/cRXbQL to help people find their way back to Bancroft, thereby raising awareness of 8:31 AM Feb 18th via web our unique holdings. It is no longer Digital Object of the Day: House passes Civil Rights bill this month sufficient to “build it and they will in 1964, a step toward ending racial segregation come”; we need to be where people http://bit.ly/aAJmej are already “hanging out” online, take part in the conversations in these 10:12 AM Feb 17th via web spaces, and learn to experiment with Digital Object of the Day: 1st Chinese daily newspaper, Chung Sai emerging Web technologies. Yat Po, publishes in San Francisco this day in 1900 Although Facebook and Twitter http://bit.ly/aWGDAA are already used by millions of people around the world, some skeptics see 9:34 AM Feb 12th via web them as online fads. Technology Digital Object of the Day: Rev up your gramophones and bask in changes rapidly, but that is not so electric light! Thomas Edison was born this day in 1847. much a problem as a given. These tools http://bit.ly/9Ck9H0 will change, and we will change right along with them. Facebook and Twit- 10:11 AM Feb 11th via web ter will not be the last tools we use in Great Call Bulletin images! RT@calisphere Photos and ephemera of our continuing mission to communi- the Civil Rights Movement in CA, incl. NAACP protest cate with Bancroft’s readers, but they http://bit.ly/d3VSsu do represent new and exciting ways to bring the rich resources and holdings 11:01 AM Feb 10th via web of The Bancroft Library to light. Digital Object of the Day: Celebrating Black History with Maya Angelou & Cecil Williams at SF's Glide Memorial Church Mary W. Elings http://bit.ly/971qgS Archivist for Digital Collections Page 9 / Spring 2010 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

New Phot ogr aphs o f M ar k Twain

Olivia Clemens had died in Flor- They went to New Hampshire the ence on June 4, 1904. The grieving following two summers, staying in family—Clemens himself and his two several houses near Dublin. Many of daughters, Jean and Clara—returned Jean’s photographs document their to the U.S. in July with Olivia’s body, time in these summer retreats. which they laid to rest at Quarry Farm As it happens, those years coincide in Elmira, N.Y., her childhood home. exactly with the time when Clemens Clara was so shaken by her mother’s was dictating his last great literary death that she entered a rest home in work, the Autobiography of Mark New York City while Clemens, Jean, Twain, the first volume of which the and Clemens’s secretary, Isabel Lyon, Mark Twain Project will publish next

Mark Twain at 30, San Francisco, 1866. hanks to the generosity of The THerrick Fund, the Mark Twain Papers have just been able to acquire some 258 photographs made by Mark Twain’s daughter Jean when she was in her mid-twenties. Taken with a hand- held Kodak camera between the fall of 1903 and the middle of 1907, they Mark Twain at 69, New York, 1905. afford us a remarkable, intimate look at the Clemens family during a period spent the rest of the month in a rented fall—luckily enhanced by some of of some stress. summer home in Lee, Massachusetts. these very photographs. In this same purchase made possible by The Herrick Fund came a very rare photograph of Clemens taken in San Francisco sometime in 1866, when he was just 30. It has not been published before. And the two other images, from Jean, are likewise rarely seen, even if not technically unpublished. Both were taken in February 1905 at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York, when Clemens was 69. He is seated next to his longtime friend, Joseph H. Twichell.

Robert H. Hirst Curator, Mark Twain Papers General Editor, Mark Twain Project Mark Twain and his friend Joe Twichell, New York, 1905.

Page 10 / Spring 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library Remembering Amelia“Chita” Fry Davis 1925–2009 riends and colleagues of The president of the Save-the-Redwoods Olympus in Greece. Fry and Baum FBancroft Library's Regional Oral League. Subsequent oral histories with struggled for another five years to as- History Office will be saddened to Drury cemented their friendship and semble funding for a 10-year project learn of the death of Amelia Fry Davis introduced Chita to key figures in on the Earl Warren era in California. in December 2009 after a long illness. the world of conservation, leading to Under Fry’s imaginative direction, she Known to the oral history world as interviews on the National Park Service and her interviewing team conducted Chita Fry, she joined ROHO in 1959. and a major project on forest history. nearly 150 wide-ranging interviews For the next 25 years she designed and Her work set the stage for ROHO’s with political and governmental figures, conducted projects exploring significant continuing strong emphasis on natural labor and civil rights leaders, and War- topics in California history and their resources, land use, and the environ- ren’s friends and advisors. It became interaction with regional and national mental movement. the model for subsequent projects on issues. Working closely with ROHO Drury and Horace Albright, also the Pat Brown, Goodwin Knight, and director Willa Baum, Fry was active a former director of the National Park Ronald Reagan governorships and led in the founding of the Oral History Service and ROHO interviewee, played to ROHO interviews on labor, social Association and the development and an important role in launching another welfare, the law, and women in politics. direction of oral history throughout the of Fry’s landmark projects: the docu- These interview projects on California country. mentation of the governorship of Earl public policy issues, all now digitized Chita Fry pursued new subject Warren. The idea blossomed, accord- and available online, continue to pro- areas in oral history with an unerring ing to Willa Baum’s oral history, at vide irreplaceable insights to students sense of their historical value, combined the 50th anniversary of the fabled UC and scholars. with interviewing skills and a winning Class of 1912, of which Warren, Drury, After an interview in 1961 with charm that turned interviewees into and Albright were members. Drury and poet, social radical, and suffragist Sara lasting friends of ROHO. Early in her Albright worked for two years to per- Bard Field, Fry developed a seminal career an interviewee introduced her to suade Warren to give his blessing to the project on the Suffragists, focusing his neighbor, Newton Drury, former project, which he finally did, as Baum on the work of the militant National director of both the National Park Ser- relates, in an unexpected meeting with Women’s Party and the campaign for vice and the California State Parks and Albright on the summit of Mount women’s right to vote. An extended oral history with party founder Alice Paul in 1972 and 1973 was the cata- lyst for her final work, a biography of Alice Paul. Following her marriage to Rex Davis, the retired director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a high-school friend from Oklahoma, she moved to Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s and contin- ued her research in the archives of the National Women's Party and in Paul's personal papers. Publication of the first volume of the Alice Paul biography is expected in 2010. Throughout her career, Fry taught oral history institutes and workshops and spoke frequently at the Oral History Association’s annual colloquium and elsewhere, as well as publishing numer- ous articles on her work and larger issues in oral history. Chita Fry interviewing Sara Bard Field, poet and suffragist, in 1963. This interview launched Fry’s project Gabrielle Morris and Ann Lage documenting the women’s suffrage movement. (Courtesy of University Archives). Regional Oral History Office

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