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With the Free Speech Movement Collections, You are There

he Free Speech Movement at the and a speech by President Clark Kerr, documents with searchable digital Berkeley Campus of the University where Mario Savio demanded the right materials. Those examining the archive Tof California announced the date of its to speak but was refused, leading 10,000 on the Internet view samples of actual creation in a pamphlet titled Here We students to march in protest. photographs, videos, documents, and a Stand: On January 4, 1965, the Free Speech time line of events. The project is to be “On October 3, 1964, the Free Movement held its first legal rally on the presented to the public at a Bancroft Speech Movement was founded. Since steps on Sproul Hall accompanied by exhibit opening and symposium on that day we have worked unceasingly Joan Baez ballads. April 13-14, 2001. for free speech by attempting to create a These history-making events and The Collections feature the Univer- public dialogue on the issues; by many others are recorded in photo- sity Archives’ Free Speech Movement protesting regulations we think uncon- graphs, books, flyers, speeches, and other Records, with files focused on student stitutional, inadequate, and unfair; and documents housed in The Bancroft movements primarily in California. finally by reluctantly violating certain of Library. Bancroft launched the Free However, the selection of original the regulations. Tomorrow the question Speech Movement Collections in the material stretches from the 1960s Civil of free speech will be considered by the summer of 1999. In the spring of 2001 Rights protests to the early 1970s when final authority, the Board of Regents.” we now celebrate its completion. A the Vietnam War ended and utilizes a Later events included the famous Greek pioneer project for Bancroft, the concept number of Bancroft collections includ- Theatre meeting on December 7, 1964, combines original images and text ing the Social Protest Collection, the Continued on page 3 Photograph by Ron by Enfield Photograph

Berkeley students and supporters march under Sather Gate, Fall 1964. N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY

From the Director The Bancroft–Wells Fargo Audiotape Project

the Friends. We soon realized that we We very much wanted to have the needed technical expertise in order to tapes in the hands of the public before prepare a work plan and a budget for such Christmas. That gave us just over three a presentation. months to tape the lectures, design the Here serendipity stepped in, since Kate packaging materials and accompanying Gaitley, daughter of Council member brochure, and produce and mail 7000 sets fter a Bancroft presentation in the fall Charles Stephenson and the Media of tapes. This proved to be a tall order. of 1999 by Tony Bliss, Curator of Director for the San Francisco Opera, was That we were able to fill it is a tribute first RareA Books and Literary Manuscripts, and willing to sign on for the project. Kate and to Jim Holliday, Jim Rawls, and Bob Hirst, Bob Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Dick put together a detailed marketing for being willing to prepare lectures on Twain Project, at the Belvedere-Tiburon and work plan, which the Council such short notice, and to Kate Gaitley as Library, Friends Council member Allan approved last May. The next step required project manager. We began to mail the Littman wondered why we hadn’t re- the search for a corporate sponsor. tapes out just before Thanksgiving to all corded Tony’s and Bob’s remarks. Serendipity took another hand. One of members of the Friends, of course, but also Allan, an advisory partner with the San our new Council members is Bob to all public libraries and high schools in Francisco law firm of Pillsbury, Madison Chlebowski, Executive Vice President of California, and to public officials from & Sutro, is nothing if not persuasive. At the Wells Fargo Bank, who offered to find Governor Davis on down to county his urging the Council of the Friends out if the Wells Fargo Foundation would supervisors. We also plan to make them established an ad hoc committee to entertain a proposal. Foundation represen- available to public radio and television explore the possibility of producing tatives soon invited us to a meeting. On a stations as premiums for their membership audiotapes based on Bancroft events. The Friday afternoon last July, Allan, Dick, drives. Those that remain will be released group identified a number of questions: Kate, and I met with Bob and Tim for commercial distribution. Was the audio quality of live presentations Hanlon, President of the Wells Fargo Just after Thanksgiving, Wells Fargo sufficient? If we produced a set of tapes, Foundation, and made our pitch. After it hosted formal presentations in San how and to whom would we distribute was over, Allan rather diffidently asked Francisco and Los Angeles. We were them? How much would it cost to mass- Tim and Bob when we might expect to pleased to have in attendance Executive produce tapes? What would they be hear from the Foundation. Tim and Bob Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Gray, about? Most importantly, what purposes looked at each other, and Tim said, “Do our distinguished speakers, and representa- would the tapes serve? How would this fit you want to tell them or shall I?” Where- tives from Wells Fargo. in with Bancroft’s primary mission as a upon Bob proceeded to tell us that the Wells Fargo and Bancroft hope that scholarly research library? Foundation would be very pleased to this is just the beginning of a long partner- It soon became apparent that we support the project. We left walking on ship between two of the oldest institutions needed outside help; and we were fortu- air. in California. Wells Fargo was established nate to find it in the person of Dick We discussed various possibilities for in 1852, while Bancroft dates back to Carter (Cal ’69), an advertising and the subjects of this first set of tapes. We 1860. Bancroft and Wells Fargo also hope marketing specialist who volunteered to fixed on the Spanish Missions, the Gold that these tapes will bring to a larger help the committee to analyze its objec- Rush, and Mark Twain in the West. audience the lessons of California’s history, tives and to prepare a marketing plan. We Everyone who has heard Jim Holliday both the romance and the reality. decided that the goal of the project was speak knows that he was the logical By the way, if you’d like another copy not to produce income for Bancroft choice to talk about the Gold Rush; Bob of the tapes, please send a check for directly but rather to raise awareness, Hirst, General Editor of the Mark $20 (Friends, $10) to Audiotapes, among the general public, of Bancroft and Twain Project, was equally obvious. For The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, CA its unique resources, particularly the the third subject, the Spanish Missions, 94720-6000. unparalleled depth and breadth of Jim recommended Berkeley Ph.D. Bancroft’s collections on California and James Rawls, co-author of one of the the American West. This would help us to most widely-used textbooks on Califor- Charles B. Faulhaber increase membership in and support from nia history. The James D. Hart Director The Bancroft Library P AGE 2 / SPRING 2001 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY

FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT from page 1 A Wrong Turn Led to a Half-Century of Service Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Vivian C. Fisher at The Bancroft Library Collections, and the Malcolm Burnstein Papers. As one looks through the material, it becomes clear that certain May 2000 marked my fiftieth anniver- bindings and the spine title of Bancroft’s elements of these different protests are sary with The Bancroft Library. I joined Works. That did not sound very French related. the staff just weeks shy of receiving my to me. As I started my homework, two A number of photographers contrib- bachelor’s degree in 1950. I was hired for a people whom I took to be librarians, uted their work on the Free Speech temporary student job, checking in began to measure the floor space of the Movement to the project including Ron microfilm copies of documents from room, calling out numbers to each other. Enfield, Steven Marcus, and Ronald Spanish and Mexican archives. I was After this had gone on for perhaps five Hecker. A selection of Helen Nestor fortunate that the director, Dr. George P. minutes, I gathered up my books and FSM photographs is available through Hammond, was able to scrape together left. It was only later that I realized I had the courtesy of the Oakland Museum. enough money to pay my salary of ninety- found my way to Bancroft’s old reading A major component of the Free eight cents an hour while I completed my room and that the people were planning Speech Movement Collections includes training as a teacher of high school Spanish space for the new one. new oral histories. Lisa Rubens of the and English. Working in Bancroft was so With the completion of the Moffitt Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) pleasant and the prospect of teaching was Undergraduate Library, space was freed has created many hours of interviews for me at the time so unpleasant that I in the Annex, and in 1973 a major with participants and observers of the applied for the first career position for remodeling project resulted in more Free Speech Movement. In addition to which I qualified (basic typing skills, some space for administrative offices and the these and ROHO’s previous oral knowledge of The Bancroft Library, and reading room. Prior to the move into histories, several institutions have knowledge of Spanish). My formal service this new area, undergraduates were generously allowed us to mount one or in Bancroft ended forty years later with my actively discouraged from using the more of their oral histories on the retirement. My informal position contin- reading room because there was insuffi- Internet: California State Archives’ ues today, as I continue to conduct cient space and not enough personnel to interview with Jerome Byrne, the research in a variety of topics. supervise the unique collections. The Berkeley Historical Society’s interview My introduction to Bancroft was quite Bancroft gladly welcomed undergradu- with Robert Treuhaft, and the Columbia memorable. Someone mentioned the ates into the new reading room, which University Oral History Offices’ inter- Library of French Thought on the third soon overflowed with researchers. By the views with Mario Savio, Barbara floor of the Doe Library Building, so one mid-1980s, Bancroft was forced to limit Garson, Steve Hamilton and Pam and day I went looking for it. I must have research time for undergraduates. Steven Brier. taken a wrong turn because I found myself Faculty of some of the large undergradu- The symposium program is designed in a dark, dreary room with long tables, all ate classes staggered the due dates and to promote scholarly interest in and use of which had rows of books down the topics of papers to help ease the situa- of Bancroft social protest and twentieth middle. The books all had the same Continued on page 4 century collections, digital and other- wise. We hope that scholars and interested individuals of all ages will come explore this topic with us. Faculty, staff and friends of Bancroft have devoted much time and imagination to creating an outstanding program. Please take a look at our website at www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/FSM to view documents and for more informa- tion about the symposium. Photograph by Dan by Photograph Johnston

—Elizabeth Stephens Project Archivist

Vivian Fisher at work with microform collections.

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VIVIAN FISHER from page 3 tion. The explosion in research activity Latin American Treasures on Display at the Bancroft continues today, and staff continues to answer reference questions and keep for Bay Area Symposium research materials flowing to patrons, while On Friday October 6, 2000 approxi- Stanford University; Carlos Delgado, exerting every effort to preserve the mately seventy-five faculty and gradu- Berkeley’s Librarian for Latin American collections. ate students from the extended Bay Collections for Doe Library; and Another change occurred at the time of Area and northern California region, Susana Hinojosa, Berkeley’s Librarian the move into the new quarters. We had and a small delegation from the state of for Government and Social Science always referred to and spoken of Bancroft Arizona, gathered at Berkeley to enjoy a Information Services. After lunch, the Library. An employee found an old brass day-long program on the diverse Latin audience gathered for an afternoon plaque that had engraved on it “The American holdings at the University of session moderated by William B. Bancroft Library.” It must have belonged California, Berkeley; Stanford Univer- Taylor, Professor of History at UC to Hubert Howe Bancroft himself, and so sity; and the Sutro Library in San Berkeley. Panelists for this session were: we changed our name ever so slightly. Francisco. The goal of the symposium Walter Brem; Martha E. Whittaker, During the directorship of Dr. Charles was to provide a venue for researchers Librarian and Mexican Specialist, Sutro B. Faulhaber, Bancroft has continued to to meet new colleagues and discuss Library, California State Library; change with the times and to adapt itself common interests and issues in their Theresa Salazar, Curator of Bancroft to the needs of preserving its materials fields and to offer an introduction to Collection for Western Americana; and while augmenting them with new collec- the libraries, rare books, manuscripts, Roberto Trujillo, Frances & Charles tions and continuing to assist the broad and archival resources housed in the Field Curator of Special Collections and research community and our faculty and participating libraries. Co-sponsors for Head, Department of Special Collec- students. New, powerful computer this event included The Bancroft tions, Stanford University. terminals have replaced most of the old Library, Stanford University Library, The symposium concluded with a card catalog. The floor space that catalogs the Centers for Latin American Studies reception at The Bancroft Library, occupied now has additional shelving for at UC Berkeley and Stanford, the including an opportunity to view an frequently consulted reference works. exhibition of “Latin American Treasures The staff has grown in numbers during California State Library, and the of The Bancroft Library.” Comments those fifty years but not in proportion to Townsend Center for the Humanities and evaluations received from audience the collections, and their users. In 1950 a at UC Berkeley members identified a number of topics dozen people in the reading room in a day Following welcoming marks by for future meetings, and supported the was considered to be busy. Now only a Charles B. Faulhaber, The James D. value of gatherings such as this one. dozen in the room at any given time is a Hart Director at The Bancroft Library, Typical comments included, “Thanks quiet day. The computer is partially the participants engaged in a panel for putting this on. Even as a very busy responsible for this increase. But so also discussion moderated by Walter Brem, grad student I think this was a great use are an increased interest in research and no Associate Curator of the Bancroft of my time.” doubt an increase in available time and Collection for Latin Americana. —Walter Brem funds for travel, to say nothing of the Panelists for this session included Adan Associate Curator of the increase in scope and numbers of books, Griego, Curator for Latin Americana at Bancroft Collection for Latin Americana manuscripts, pictures, and other formats. I find it difficult to envision what Bancroft will be like fifty years from now. I prefer not to dwell on the time when Bancroft’s collections will be available to me in my own home, and I will no longer be able to smell the dust and must of old books and manuscripts, to feel the texture of paper several centuries old, and to enjoy the camaraderie of the staff. It

would certainly not be the same. I hope Scheiman Catherine by Photograph to have all my research completed before that time comes. —Vivian C. Fisher Emeritus Librarian Robert Trujillo, Theresa Salazar, Walter Brem, Martha E. Whittaker, and Adan Griego.

P AGE 4 / SPRING 2001 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY Images of Native Americans

he Friends of The Bancroft Library proudly hosted the opening recep- tionT and lecture for “Images of North American Indians,” an exhibition of rare and unique materials including rare books, pamphlets, and journals, in addition to selections of original photographs, lantern slides, sketches, and a series of notable nineteenth and twentieth century paint- ings. William E. Brown Jr., Coordinator for Research and Instruction at The Bancroft Library, collaborated with numerous curators and staff members to draw from Bancroft’s world-class holdings “View of the Great Treaty at Prarie Du Chien,” Aboriginal Portfolio, James O. Lewis on the history of Western Americana and the many visual images of North American Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky and created by non-Indians. Simple ques- Indians. The selection of materials offered Mountains and Prairies of America, by tions, Vizenor reminded us, are crucial to a compelling and dramatic perspective on George Catlin (London: 1844) to com- understanding the ultimate value or use of the history of Indians in our society. plete The Bancroft Library’s collection of an image as a “truthful” document. “Who The four major nineteenth century landmark works in this field. created an image?” “What audience(s) was colorplate volumes of North American Lewis’ rare and stunning work required an image intended to entertain or inform?” Indians served as the cornerstone of the extensive conservation treatment in order “How is an image shaped by the personal exhibition. Primary among these works to mend tears to individual pages and to views of an artist, photographer, or illustra- was a newly acquired treasure, the Univer- repair and reinforce a worn and separated tor? ” These questions and others are a vital sity Library’s nine millionth volume, The binding. The Bancroft Library published aspect of all images of North American Aboriginal Portfolio, or, A Collection of a commemorative poster to mark the Indians. In an informative and thought- Portraits of the Most Celebrated Chiefs of the occasion, selecting the portrait, provoking slide presentation, Vizenor North American Indians, by James O. “WAA-NA-TAA or the FOREMOST IN juxtaposed images created by non-Indians Lewis. Published in Philadelphia in 1836, BATTLE, Chief of the Sioux Tribe,” in a with images created by Native Americans. this volume is the first great book of numbered edition of 1,000. “There are no eternal, authentic images portraits of Native Americans. The large Professor Gerald Vizenor, a mixed- of natives; what we review and construct as folio volume contains 72 hand-colored blood member of the Minnesota a cultural object was either an intentional lithographs including portraits of Indian Chippewa tribe simulation, or an act of creation. Once chiefs done from life at various treaty and Professor of discovered and possessed, however, the conferences in the early 1830s. The Lewis Native American distinctions between simulation and Portfolio joins three other major color plate Literature at the creation are lost. Surely, we cannot do works of nineteenth century Native University of without the will to critique the simulations American portraiture: History of the Indian California, of natives” Professor Vizenor cautioned. Tribes of North America, with Biographical Berkeley offered He also placed the study of images and Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal opening remarks and their multiple meanings in a scholarly Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and and a slide context: “The critique of the many images Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in presentation. In of natives, artistic and photographic, has the Department of War, at Washington. by his remarks, become more important in cultural studies McKenney and Hall (Philadelphia: 1838- Vizenor exam- and history. Clearly, the stories of natives 44; 3 volumes); Reise in Das Innere Nord- ined the historical are never the same once the simulations America in Den Jahren 1832 bis 1834; by evolution of have been revealed and compared; the Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied, published in “images” of notions of authentic cultural images are Coblenz, by J. Hoelscher, 1839-41, with North American overturned by closer study.” Karl Bodmer’s illustrations; and Catlin’s Indians, views —William E. Brown, Jr. North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting that were crafted Gerald Vizenor delivers his remarks. Coordinator, Research and Instruction

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purchasing an archival copy for the output Collecting the California Feminist Press Materials of the northern California feminist presses. UC Santa Barbara became the depository omen in California have been 1994 the California Feminist Presses for the archival copies of publications of forerunners in feminist writing, Project. A survey was made of all known southern California feminist presses. All printing,W and publishing of the Women’s current feminist presses in California the publications added to the collections Movement of the late 1960s and libraries requesting information about their annual were to be catalogued in Melvyl and local in the UC system have been instrumental publishing output, size and cost of campus catalogs with an added entry under in collecting and preserving some of these backlist, and materials. The Bancroft Library has plans for deposit- collected fine press titles for many years ing of archives. including all the works of Kelsey Street About 18 presses Press, a women-owned press located in were identified Berkeley that publishes women’s experi- including several mental prose and poetry. UC Santa Cruz from the Bay Library’s Special Collections has collected Area: Aunt Lute the works and archives of HerBooks, Books, Down Papier Mache Press and Shameless Hussy There Press, Press. These archives contain first Feminist Book- editions, manuscripts, correspondence, store News, Frog etc. However, no one library in the state in the Well, was collecting comprehensively the Kelsey St. Press, output of all California feminist press Post-Apollo Press, publications. And as publishing costs have Third Woman risen, many smaller presses have been Press, and The Woman Without Experiences, Book jacket design, Kelsey St. Press Records. forced out of business and their archives Woman in the lost or given to repositories outside of the Moon Publications. To ensure that “California Feminist Presses Collection” so state. students and scholars would have access to that researchers studying the history of Seeing a critical need for a systematic all the publications of these presses feminist publishing could readily find a list identification of California feminist press Consortium members next assigned each of all those titles published in California. publications and for an organized plan for UC campus responsibility for acquiring a Jacquelyn Marie, UCSC Women’s the collection and preservation of these circulating copy of all publications of Studies librarian and Beth Sibley, UCB materials and archival files, the UC presses assigned to them. The Bancroft Women’s Studies librarian became co- Women’s Studies Consortium consisting Library along with UC Santa Cruz coordinators of the project and have of UC women’s studies librarians began in Library accepted responsibility for maintained regular contact with the presses to ensure that their publications and archive files are collected and preserved. Publica- tions and archives of defunct presses are also being sought as are new presses to be added to the project. This year Girls Press joined the project list with UCLA agreeing to buy the circulating copy and UCSB the archival copy. Since the project began, Bancroft has added hundreds of titles to its Feminist Presses Collection. For more information about the California Feminist Presses Collection contact Tony Bliss, Rare Book Librarian, [email protected], or Beth Sibley, Women’s Studies Librarian, [email protected] —Elizabeth Sibley Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories, Book jacket design, Kelsey St. Press Records. Women’s Studies Librarian

P AGE 6 / SPRING 2001 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY Bernard Rosenthal, the Antiquarian, Scholar, and Friend of The Bancroft Library

ernard Rosenthal is one of the with manuscript annotations, or “books French antique book trade. Margherita’s great, long-time friends of The with marginalia.” This new discipline, family had been printers and book dealers BBancroft Library. Barney gives graciously really a “history of reading,” began to in the German province of East Prussia, of his time and expertise to help with the receive renewed scholarly recognition in now Poland. acquisition of rare books, teach classes, the 1960s, a time when Barney was All this came to an end with Hitler’s and offer sage counsel as a constant gathering material for a catalog of books rise to power. Erwin moved his family to Friend of The Bancroft Library. on this topic. The Beinecke Library of Florence and then to France. As the Barney comes from a long line of Yale University, which subsequently political situation was clearly deteriorating antiquarian book collectors and dealers. published the catalog in 1997 as The in Europe he decided to immigrate to the “In the aristocracy of bibliophiles, Rosenthal Collection of Annotated Books, United States where relatives in New York Barney’s family is royalty,” notes Bancroft purchased Barney’s entire collection. anxiously waited. Barney finished high Director Charles Faulhaber. When Barney discusses the great school in Paris and an Italian friend who Barney is somewhat guarded in libraries and book collections, like the had spent a year at the University of revealing his literary passion, annotated Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the California in Berkeley convinced him to Medieval and Renaissance volumes. Plantin Museum in Antwerp, or the apply there. His early memories of However, he cannot hide the care and Vatican Library, there is a special tone to Berkeley are vivid, “International House, pride he has for his “inventory,” in his voice. Bancroft gets high praise too. where I lived for almost a year after my particular a six-inch thick, perfectly “I’m very proud of our local library,” as he arrival, was a friendly community into bound volume in the original boards and refers to it. which someone of my background fit leather, by Erasmus of Rotterdam, Barney was born in Munich in 1920, easily. When I noticed that part-time jobs Adagiorum Chiliades, Basel, Hieronymus one of Erwin Rosenthal’s and Margherita were available, I applied for one and, to Froben, 1541. This volume sits promi- Olschki’s five children. On the Rosenthal my great surprise and joy, was hired as a nently atop an elegant lectern. Barney side his grandfather, Jacques, was one of bus-boy working in the I-House cafeteria continues to study the book’s annotations, the three Rosenthal brothers, all leaders in for a few hours every day.” In describing scripted in elegant calligraphy along the the nineteenth century German and margins of this beautiful volume. Continued on page 15 “Adagia” is a collection of sayings, proverbs, folk wisdom, commonplaces and the like, drawn from classical and biblical sources — a sort of forerunner of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. It was enormously successful and went through a number of editions that Erasmus regularly improved and augmented until his death in 1536. Barney’s father collected illuminated manuscripts and had a marvelous aesthetic eye. Barney has always preferred annotated manuscripts and the thrill of finding the sources and explanations for their annotations. “I buy books because they appeal to me aesthetically but also because of a scholarly appeal. I try to put my own blood into the book to make it more valuable to people who value scholarship.” Barney Rosenthal, Berkeley, California, 1999. As an eightieth birthday present to Barney, his wife, Ruth, donated funds to the Bancroft to acquire a volume in Barney’s honor. The Ursperg Chronicle, Strasburg: Crato Over the years Barney has also Mylius, 1549, is a wonderful tribute to a great book dealer, collector, and friend. This work is the second edition developed a fascination for printed books of a work first printed in 1515. The 1549 edition is the first edited by the German humanist Caspar Hedio and contains an additional 162 pages, extending the historical coverage to 1549. The white-on-black medallion portraits of the Emperors make this a striking Renaissance illustrated book.

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The Philip Whalen Archive

he Bancroft Library has acquired Ginsberg organize the event, also read and In Whalen’s poems these snippets the archive of the poet Philip acted as Master of Ceremonies. from the already-created world, together Whalen,T who was on the stage with Allen Lamantia’s work faded from public with his own perceptions, connections Ginsberg at the Six Gallery in San view fairly quickly, but the other poets and insights, are arranged in interwoven Francisco that September night in 1955 have gone on to become something that patterns of scenes or sequences that are when the public first heard the poem far transcends the notoriety of their early related to each other in a rich network of “Howl” read aloud, the night the Beat days. They’ve become accepted keepers of multiple connections. People have Generation was launched. The Six the national conscience and explorers of attempted to compare Whalen’s poems to Gallery, in the Marina district, had been spirituality for believers who dare to mosaics or collages, and while that’s a converted from an auto repair garage to speculate about their spirituality. Michael useful approximation, his poems are really an art space less than a year before, and in McClure has won acclaim and honors for more like mobiles. The scenes or se- that time had hung a number of group his plays as well as his poetry and essays; quences are suspended in relation to each and one-artist exhibitions. It had also Gary Snyder was awarded the Pulitzer other, so that as you read past them the hosted performances, including a reading Prize for poetry and is recognized interna- relationships between the scenes or of Robert Duncan’s verse play Faust Foutu. tionally as an effective activist in the sequences are constantly changing, like a Given the way this gallery converted a ecological movement, as is McClure; mobile, whose pieces are constantly mechanical and consumerist space into a Allen Ginsberg won the National Book moving in relation to each other. venue for art, poetry and drama, it was an Award for poetry, and also was recognized Like most post-moderns, Whalen is appropriate launching pad for the Beats, as an activist and leader in many move- very aware of his reader, and expects his all of whom, like prophets in their own ments from the anti-Vietnam war to Gay reader to “make sense” of the poems by land, critiqued America’s mechanistic, Rights. Philip Whalen, who has been a doing essentially what Whalen himself did materialistic, consumerist culture as a practicing Buddhist priest since February in writing the poems—by taking note of kind of cannibal Moloch, devouring its 3, 1973, has produced more than twenty those always-shifting relationships in what own young. On the bill that evening with volumes of poetry, fiction, commentary he perceives and in the connections he Ginsberg and Whalen, and helping to get and interviews, including the major draws between them. He has described his the Beat generation into orbit, were three collections of poetry On Bear’s Head own work in these terms: “This poetry is a other young poets—Gary Snyder, (Harcourt, 1969) and most recently, picture or graph of a mind moving, which Michael McClure, and Philip Lamantia. Overtime (Penguin, 1999). is a world body being here and now (The oldest, Whalen, was thirty-two.) Whalen is arguably the most under- which is history . . . and you. Or think Kenneth Rexroth, who had helped appreciated of the Beat writers, in part about the Wilson Cloud-chamber, not because his Buddhism has kept him out ideograms, not poetic beauty; bald-faced of the public eye as a personality, and in didacticism moving as Dr. Johnson part because his poems at first seem less commands all poetry should, from the user-friendly than those of the other particular to the general. My life has been Beats. Whalen’s poems are far less discur- spent in the midst of heroic landscapes sive or narrative than Ginsberg’s, and far which never overwhelmed me and yet I less lyrical than Snyder’s short poems. live in a single room in the city— the They also range more widely in their room a lens focusing on a sheet of paper. reference than most Beat poetry. Typically, Or the inside of your head. How do you a lengthy Whalen poem can refer in a like your world?” casual, often playful way to pre-Socratic The range of his reference is matched Greek philosophers, figures from Hindu by the range of voices that speak in his mythology and Buddhist lore, sports, poems. Most often this is Whalen’s own events from European or American voice, a deeply committed artist, whose history, TV programs, popular songs, art is not a “career” but a true vocation, a science, Japanese and Chinese artists, even calling to a daily practice—not just the quotations from teen-agers walking down writing of poems, but the intense observa- the street, and more. tion and enjoyment of the world that Woodcut, “Woman with musical instrument.” precedes the writing of the poem. This

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is also a very sensuous poet, always alert to the colors and sounds, the textures and smells, the sense perceptions that also make up his world. Wallace Stevens had said that “The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world,” and by that measure, Whalen is a wealthy man indeed, in spite of the monastic simplicity in which he lives, and in spite of the persistent theme of hunger and poverty in the poems, especially in the earlier ones. His commitment to this multi-dimen- sional world, and to sharing its sacramen- tal nature with the reader are two of Whalen’s major aims. As he puts it,

“What do I know or care about life and death My concern is to arrange immediate BREAKTHROUGH into this heaven where we live as music” Notebook, 1957-1965, pp. 107-108. witty, laid back, self-aware and self-ironic ate sources—all of these serve to under- This is serious play. voice is joined by a whole chorus of score the central thread that runs through Whalen, who earned his BA at Reed neighbors, friends, fellow shoppers, almost all of these poems and writings, College in Portland, Oregon (where he passers-by. They are the many voices that Whalen’s insistence that human beings was a classmate of Gary Snyder’s), learned make up the poet, Philip Whalen. Like live in a dense network of interrelation- calligraphy from Lloyd Reynolds, one of Whitman, Whalen is large, he contains ships in a number of different dimensions his professors there. Almost all of the multitudes, and like Whitman, many or registers simultaneously. This network Whalen manuscripts in this archive are voices speak through him. These voices of connections is in part a legacy of the written in this calligraphic script, and come from all levels of society, and Modernists, for whom people were always many of his worksheets and finished sometimes Whalen will include voices re-enacting mythological experience— drafts are illustrated with Whalen’s own from incongruous levels of discourse— Joyce’s Ulysses, Eliot’s “Waste Land,” Yeats’ drawings, diagrams, cartoons and doodles. deliberately, violating Dr. Johnson’s Ireland. But Whalen, like Snyder, extends Because of the high quality of Whalen’s insistence on “decorum,” the notion that the temporal and mythological range of own poetry and the fact that so much of it a poem’s language must be consistent these references far beyond the world of was written in the Bay Area and elsewhere throughout— formal and eloquent or classical Greece. In addition to the history in California, because of the uniqueness of casual and slangy, but the same all the way and mythologies of Asian cultures these calligraphed and illustrated manu- through. In defiance of decorum, Whalen (Japanese, Chinese, Indian), Whalen scripts, and because of Whalen’s exchanges addresses an octopus at the aquarium as refers to the lore of science and popular of correspondence with some of the major “O yummy and noble beast!” In “Mon- culture, insisting that human beings live literary figures of our time, this collection day in the Evening” a spirit evoked in a material and social as well as spiritual and will be a major resource for many years to seance spews out an endless list of wants, metaphysical lives, on scales that range come for scholars doing research in late including “I want a vision of the New from the intergalactic and the pre-historic twentieth century art and literature and Heaven and the New Earth/ I want a to the microscopic and the daily. Snyder into California or Bay Area writing or the bottle of rootbeer.” had claimed, “My values go back to the San Francisco literary renaissance, as well This combination of free-floating late paleolithic”; Whalen titled one of his as other fields. voices that often merge together to books Memoirs of an Interglacial Age and —Ron Loewinsohn become indistinguishable, of levels of another one Prolegomena to the Study of Department of English discourse that merge together (“Yummy/ the Universe. Noble,” “Heaven/Rootbeer”), and of these As smart as Whalen is and as thinky as references to such a wide range of dispar- he can be, as abstract and intellectual, he

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David Ross Brower, Leader of the Environmental Movement July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000

natural features of the Sierra Nevada.” local and regional level to issues of global This historical legacy and activist commit- concern. With FOE, Brower’s work took ment exemplified by Muir, finds one of its on an international perspective, including

Photograph by Tom Turner Tom by Photograph most successful, if controversial, twentieth the founding of independent FOE century spokespersons in David Ross organizations in other countries. Friends Brower. of the Earth continues today with Brower joined the Sierra Club in operations in sixty-eight countries. 1933, became a member of its Board of David Brower founded Earth Island Directors in 1941, and served as its first Institute in 1982, an umbrella organiza- Executive Director in 1952, a post he held tion which works globally in support of avid Ross Brower, outstanding until 1969. Brower would return at innovative environmental projects. Earth champion of the Environmental various times in the 1980s and 1990s to Island Institute, through its various DMovement died Sunday, November 5, serve on the Club’s Board of Directors. projects, works towards efforts related to 2000 at his home in Berkeley, California. His activist position is well documented global peace, environmental preservation, Described by many environmentalists as in both the Sierra Club’s institutional and social justice. “a twentieth century John Muir,” Brower papers as well as Brower’s Sierra Club The personal papers of David Brower, was uncompromising in his commitment Members Papers. These records document also housed in The Bancroft Library, to the preservation of the natural environ- Brower’s many campaigns to conserve the provide another level of insight into this ment. At various times in his long and environment, including the long fight to public figure. The materials include dedicated career Brower led The Sierra stop the building of dams and roads correspondence files, diaries, clippings, Club, Friends of the Earth, and Earth within national parks and the loss of the speeches, and subject files associated with Island Institute, and through his efforts Club’s tax-exempt status as a direct result his work and activities in conservation drew a broad range of popular support to of political lobbying. Among his success- and environmental protection. The the Environmental Movement and its ful battles, Brower was a major force in Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at causes. Brower was a provocative writer the 1960s in stopping the construction of The Bancroft Library created a number of and speaker and a discerning editor and two government dams in the Grand oral histories with David Brower, further photographer. In addition, he was an avid Canyon. He also was instrumental in documenting his environmental activities hiker and was skilled in ski mountaineer- lobbying to block a proposed dam along and other aspects of his life. ing and rock climbing. These sporting the Green River in Utah, a project that These historical resources related to and recreational interests complemented would have flooded parts of Dinosaur Brower document the environmental Brower’s leadership as an advocate for the National Monument. Brower helped gain movement’s path in the twentieth century natural landscape and its inhabitants. passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and also reflect a collecting priority for David Brower’s career can be traced which preserves millions of acres of public The Bancroft Library. The Brower Papers here at The Bancroft Library through his lands. He also created the genre of serve as a cornerstone for our environ- personal papers and oral histories, and “exhibit format” books of superlative mental collections and the papers of the through the records of several environ- outdoor photography, tied to a conserva- organizations and individuals dedicated to mental organizations. The first gathering tion theme, and pioneered the practice of the preservation of the environment of David Brower’s Papers came to running full-page environmental cam- represent one of The Bancroft Library’s Bancroft as part of the Sierra Club Papers. paign advertisements in newspapers. All most heavily-used subject collections. The Founded in 1892 by John Muir and these efforts are richly recorded in history of California and the American others, the Sierra Club was organized, “to documents at The Bancroft Library. West is intimately linked with this topic, explore, enjoy, and render accessible the After leaving the Sierra Club, Brower and scholars, students, and citizens of the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to went on to found Friends of the Earth world will benefit from the use of these publish authentic information concerning (FOE) in 1969. The Bancroft Library is materials for years to come. them . . . [and] to enlist the support and the repository for the FOE Papers, a —Theresa Salazar cooperation of the people and govern- collection that documents the evolution Curator of Western Americana ment in preserving the forests and other of the environmental movement from the

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Home at Last—Four Manuscript Chapters of Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad Come to Bancroft sing the Flora Lamson Hewlett were privately sold to collectors and the unbound pages, but it doubtless also Fund, and with the thoughtful manuscript dealers, probably by Dana S. belonged to other collectors from time to Uassistance of Peter B. Howard as well as Ayer in Worcester, Massachusetts, acting time until it was recently offered to the generosity of Mark Twain collector for members of the Bliss family. Bancroft. Waring Jones, Bancroft has just succeeded Three of the newly acquired chapters Before this recent purchase, only 33 of in purchasing four complete chapters of were among several dozen that were the 56 chapters and appendixes that made Mark Twain’s manuscript for A Tramp handsomely bound in red or blue up the printer’s copy for A Tramp Abroad Abroad: chapters 2, 21, 44, and 49. These “straight-grain morocco, by Bradstreet,” had found their way into institutional manuscripts join two chapters (4 and 43) each supplied with a specially printed title collections. Three chapters appear to have earlier given to the Mark Twain Papers, as page. These three bear the bookplate of been broken up and their pages sold well as uncounted pages written for but William Harris Arnold, who was probably piecemeal, and the remaining 20 chapters “crowded out” of that book, which have the first collector to own them. His were either known or presumed to be in been part of Mark Twain’s papers ever collection was sold in 1924. Auction private hands (collectors or dealers). For since he published it in 1880. All of this records show that Arnold had owned 16 that reason, single chapters of Tramp have manuscript will ultimately form the of the 56 chapters and appendixes. long since ceased to appear with any indispensable basis for a scholarly edition The same chapters also contain the frequency in the market. of Mark Twain’s second most popular bookplate of Jerome Kern, who likely Bancroft’s purchase increased the travel book (after The Innocents Abroad). bought them in 1924 and who famously number of chapters in safe harbor to 37, Mark Twain never gave away or sold sold his entire collection just a few years and decreased those in private hands to 16. the manuscript for A Tramp Abroad— later, in January 1929 (these particular something he did do for the manuscript manuscripts are not listed in the official Continued on page 15 of Huckleberry Finn, and the manuscripts Anderson Galleries auction for books like Connecticut Yankee and Life catalogue). Alas for Kern on the Mississippi. Why then were these he invested the proceeds chapters for Tramp not already among his from that sale in the New papers? York stock market. The Simply because Mark Twain did not chapters themselves must value his manuscript enough to retrieve it have passed through the from the typesetters after the proofs had hands of still other been read and the book issued. We know collectors not yet identi- that he also left the manuscript for The fied, but sometime before Gilded Age in the hands of Elisha Bliss, Jr., 1975 they ended up in the of the American Publishing Company in hands of Waring Jones of Hartford. Dozens of pages from Gilded Wayzata, Minnesota, who Age were, with Mark Twain’s consent, only recently put them up inserted in the first volumes of the De for sale. Luxe autograph edition of his writings The fourth chapter (1899), which was limited to fewer than (chapter 49) has been 1,000 sets. And a few pages of Tramp traced back as far as the Abroad were likewise used in other library of Dr. James B. collected editions, or sold as souvenirs Clemens (no relation to after his death in 1910. Samuel), and we know it But sometime after the American was sold in January 1945. Publishing Company was dissolved about It passed at one point into 1914, hundreds of Mark Twain’s letters to the hands of Arthur Elisha Bliss and to his son Frank, as well Wilmer-Lissauer, whose as the bulk of the manuscript for Tramp bookplate appears in the Abroad and what remained of Gilded Age, clam-shell case containing From Chapter 2, the start of “Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn.”

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Willa Baum, ROHO Director, is Honored on Her Retirement

hen Willa Baum first arrived at to attract and retain a talented staff, not Bancroft’s Regional Oral History by monetary rewards but by inspiring and OfficeW in 1954, it was a two-woman office supporting their efforts to do interesting and she worked six hours a week, around and worthwhile work while allowing her children’s schedules. By 1958 she had them time for meaningful personal and become program director. family lives. Long before terms like “flex- ROHO hosted the California Living time” or “job sharing” were current, the History Reception on December 2nd, to oral history office was offering people a honor Willa and all those who have had chance to do professional work on a part- their histories recorded. Morrison Library time, flexible schedule. was full with approximately 250 living The staff tends to stay long-term: one interviewees and their families. At this ROHO staff member (besides Willa Living History reception, Willa Baum herself) has been with the office since the received the Berkeley Citation from 1950s, two since the ’60s, several since the Chancellor Robert Berdahl and the ’70s and early ’80s. No one really retires

University of California Citation for from ROHO; Willa cajoles each of her Willa Baum, 1971. Excellence from Provost and Senior Vice officially retired interviewers, with their President Jud King, representing President irreplaceable expertise, to stay on for “just three to four interviews, but in that time Richard Atkinson. The awards were a one more project.” one cannot delve into the personality of the surprise to Willa, adding to the electricity Willa Baum said the first interviewers interviewee to discover where the ideas and of the event. were educated in the “sink or swim” the drive come from. Spending more time Gray Brechin, a scholar who uses oral method. As a few oral histories were done, is more expensive, but makes for more histories in his work, spoke eloquently of and through analyzing what worked and worthwhile interviews. If one is interview- the importance of this resource. Former what drew a blank, the interviewers ing significant people, an in-depth inter- Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Affairs, became more skilled and efficient. view is imperative. Many of the procedures Russ Ellis, followed by reminding everyone Guidelines were drawn up which encour- developed at ROHO are now standardized that it is now time to find the resources to aged the interviewers to research before in oral history manuals and the guidelines fund the next century of oral history they began, and not to talk too much of the National Oral History Association. projects. themselves but rather to listen. The meat Ongoing ROHO projects include oral One of Willa’s great strengths has been of a person’s career can be obtained in histories of the wine industry, mining, the environmental movement, the Disability Rights Movement, the Free Speech movement, anthropology, UC history, engineering, science, biotechnology, music, architecture, and the arts. ROHO’s largest projects document California government from the Earl Warren Era to the present. As she retires, Willa Baum, leaves ROHO busily engaged. She points out that ROHO needs more space, more interviewers, and additional funding. In her honor, The Bancroft Library has launched a campaign for a Willa K. Baum endowment to provide support for the Regional Oral History Office.

—Camilla Smith Editor

Willa Baum receives the Berkeley Citation from Chancellor Robert Berdahl.

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ROHO Disabilities Symposium Highlights Civil Rights Intersections o inaugurate the new Bancroft identical, the disability movement shared the Greensboro Woolworth’s collection on disability rights history, much in common with other movements. lunchcounter (site of the first sit-in for theT Regional Oral History Office Ruth Rosen, professor of history at integration in 1960), and Berkeley (ROHO) hosted a daylong symposium UC Davis and author of The World Split pioneer Ed Roberts’ wheelchair, she noted entitled, “Intersections of Civil Rights and Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement that unremarkable objects can become Social Movements: Putting Disability in Changed America, continued that theme platforms for social change, some actually Its Place” on November 3, 2000, in Pauley in the first panel of the morning. A social become icons, linking us to memories Ballroom. movement names the obstacles, stirs up and the public meanings of events. The planning team well knew that debate, indeed changes the nature of the Three groundbreaking organizers of disability history is the least visible among debate, and sees backlash as an indicator early civil rights actions held a spellbound the social movements of the last half of success, she said. audience in an afternoon panel on century, rarely making the standard list of Paul Longmore, professor of history at organizing strategies and tactics. Diane civil rights groups. The team was aware San Francisco State University, told of his Nash, leader of the first lunch counter sit- also of the common image of disability as uneasy feeling of stigma as a child with a in in Nashville in 1960 and cofounder of one framed with archaic stereotypes of disability and the relief of finally naming the Student Nonviolent Coordinating pathos and helplessness. it as discrimination as he grew older. Committee (SNCC), recounted details of coordinating the Freedom Rides to integrate interstate transportation. Charles Cobb, an organizer of black voter registration in Mississippi in the 1960s and field secretary of SNCC, talked of the organizing tradition of the black civil rights movement, the quiet organizing as well as the mass protests in public spaces. Kitty Cone, principal organizer of the 26- day sit-in by disabled people for federal accessibility regulations (Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973) in 1977, described the strategies of that sit-in, saying that “at every moment, we felt ourselves direct descendants of the civil rights movement of the sixties.” The day concluded with the open- ing of the new Bancroft collection, the Disability Rights and Independent David Landos (left), ROHO interviewer, talks with Charles Cobb, civil rights activist. Living Movement (DRILM), an These stereotypes were shattered by Similarly, the personal experiences of ongoing series of 50 oral histories of those who have led the fight for national Waldo Martin, professor of history and disability movement leaders and two policy reform such as the Americans with co-editor of Civil Rights in the United hundred linear feet of documents, Disabilities Act (1990). The group wanted States: An Encyclopedia, and Horacio photographs, and personal papers from the symposium to spotlight this shift in Roque Ramirez, doctoral candidate in individuals and Berkeley disability consciousness and social policy, and to Comparative Ethnic Studies, both at organizations. encourage the use of the new collection for Berkeley, gave texture and immediacy to The DRILM collection is now scholarly research into disability as a social presentations on black civil rights and the available for research purposes. Videos of and civil rights movement. gay Latino community, respectively. the symposium are available from Wrap In the keynote address, Jonathan Katherine Ott, curator at The Up Productions (510-886-5183). Young, associate director for disability Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Highlights from the video and a selection outreach at the White House Office of American History, used paired slides to of written transcriptions of symposium Public Liaison and doctoral candidate in illustrate the curious history of collecting speakers will be available soon on the history at the University of North Caro- artifacts of twentieth century social ROHO website. —Susan O’Hara lina, made the case that although not movements at the Smithsonian. In pairing Disability Rights Project Consultant PAGE 13 / SPRING 2001

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ROSENTHAL from page 7 A TRAMP ABROAD from page 11 his first job, Barney observed, “The first This is certainly the first time in recent while some collectors are generous about day I reported for work the manager, Mrs. history that four chapters have changed providing access or photocopies, others are Wilson, asked my name, ‘Bernard hands at once. Only three libraries own not. The kind of access editors and Rosenthal, Madam,’ I replied.” Her more than a single chapter of the Tramp scholars need—access to the originals, not response, “OK, we’ll call you Barney,” manuscript: the Honnold Library in the just to photocopies—becomes possible provided a nickname that has remained to Claremont Colleges (with 10 chapters), only when collectors either open their this day. the University of Virginia Library (with 7 holdings to such use, or transfer ownership Drafted into the United States Army chapters), and now The Bancroft Library to public libraries. In this case, we see the in 1942 he was assigned to an Intelligence (with 6 chapters). excellent stewardship given the manu- and Reconnaissance platoon. He became We recognize that often were it not for scripts, over many years, by several private a U. S. citizen in May of 1943. Barney collectors willing to invest their money in collectors. But ultimately, through the arrived in Normandy six days after D-Day such manuscripts, they might long ago generous efforts of one such collector and and in 1945 he was stationed in Germany. have been discarded, or been broken up a far-sighted antiquarian bookseller, they Discharged from the army in 1946, he and sold page by page as souvenirs, or have been returned to Mark Twain’s own immediately returned to Berkeley. perhaps destroyed in some even more final papers, where they are permanently After brief stints as a chemist and an way. But there is a crucial step in this accessible to present and future scholars. interpreter Barney decided that he, too, rescue process that is sometimes over- —Robert H. Hirst would try the antiquarian book business. looked. So long as preservation is left up to General Editor, Mark Twain Project In 1949, his relatives were booksellers in private collectors, scholarly access to the England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, documents is limited or nonexistent, for Argentina, the United States and Italy. His father thought he had gone mad. “I’ve already got a son who’s in the business,” he said, “and besides, there really are no HISTORY OF more good books—and the few that are EARLY CALIFORNIA left have insanely high prices.” Not discouraged, Barney served an apprenticeship at the firm l’Art Ancien in AUDIOTAPES Zurich, Switzerland, which had been founded by his father back in 1920. In Presented by the Friends of The Bancroft Library with Support from the Wells Fargo Foundation 1950 he married his wife Ruth (their son, David, is a musician). In 1951 Barney Tape 1: THE HISPANICIZATION OF returned to New York to work as a CALIFORNIA, 1769-1846, cataloguer for the Parke-Bernet Galleries, James J. Rawls later Sotheby’s. In 1953 he opened his Tape 2: THE CALIFORNIA GOLD own antiquarian book shop in New York RUSH: ITS IMPACT AND INFLU- with the intention of moving back to the ENCES, J. S. Holliday Bay Area within a few years but this did Tape 3: MARK TWAIN IN THE not occur until 1970. He operated a WEST, Robert H. Hirst bookshop in San Francisco until 1989, at which time he relocated across the Bay to Berkeley. Barney proudly says “My ORDERING INFORMATION: hometown in the United States since The set of three audiotapes may be pur- chased for $20 (this includes shipping and 1939 has been Berkeley.” handling). Members of the Friends of The Bancroft Library may purchase sets for $ 10. —Arlene Nielsen Friends of the The Bancroft Library To order please: enclose a check for the appropriate amount, made out to "UC Regents" and send the completed order to: Audiotapes, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000.

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ROUNDTABLES Spring2001Calendar The Council of the Friends An open, informal discussion group, the of The Bancroft Library EXHIBITS Bancroft Roundtable features presentations by Bancroft staff and scholars. All sessions are held in 2000–2001 December 14, 2000–April 1, 2001 the Lewis-Latimer Room of The Faculty Club at Annual Exhibition of Gifts to the Library noon on the third Thursday of the month. Alfred W. Baxter Gary Kurutz FEBRUARY 15 Anthony S. Bliss Allan Littman April 7 –September 17, 2001 Lynne Horiuchi, Bancroft Library Fellow John Briscoe Ian Mackinlay PROTEST Dislocations and Relocations: The Built Kimo Campbell Arlene Merino Nielsen An exhibition of materials relating to the Free Environmentst of Japanese American Internment Robert Chlebowski Richard Otter Speech Movement. MARCH 15 Gifford Combs Terry O’Reilly Russell Ellis Bernard Rosenthal Anne Keary, Bancroft Library Fellow LECTURES Politics of Translation: Missionaries and Indigenous Ann Flinn George L. Saywell People in New South Wales and Oregon Territory, Victoria Fong, Chair Camilla Smith Wednesday, February 21, 6:30–8:30 pm 1825–1845 Peter Frazier, Charles Stephenson Travels and Voyages in Northwest America: Treasurer Stephen Vincent APRIL 19 Colorplate Illustrations David P. Gardner Sue Rayner Warburg William Reese, Antiquarian Bookdealer C. Michael Bottoms, Bancroft Library Fellow Wade Hughan Thomas E. Woodhouse, Heller Reading Room, The Bancroft Library Every Colored Man is the Victim of Bitter Katharine Johnson Vice Chair Prejudice and Unjust Laws: Race and the Right to Monday, March 12, 6:30–8:00 pm Be Heard in California’s Courts, 1850–1873 Maxine Hong Kingston Charles B. Faulhaber, The Gold Rush Diary of Ramón Gil Navarro, Secretary D. Reher and M. Del Carmen Ferreyra, Editors MAY 17 Heller Reading Room, The Bancroft Library Daniel Ellsberg, Author Researching the Pentagon Papers BANCROFTIANA Number 118 ANNUAL MEETING LECTURES Editor Camilla Smith David Nasaw, Author Copy Editor William E. Brown, Jr. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst Production Catherine Dinnean 155 Dwinelle Hall Printer Apollo Printing Company

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