Newsletter of The Friends of The BANCROFTIANA Number 135 • University of , Berkeley • Fall 2009

Gold Rush Daguerreotypes Donated n recent years, ambitious endeavors guerreotypes, measuring 41/4 × 51/2, are The late photographic historian Peter Ihave dominated Bancroft Library unusual; the majority produced were Palmquist published an article in news. Building infrastructure for the quarter-plate (31/4 × 41/4) or sixth-plate the Daguerreian Annual (1993) that 21st century, providing state-of-the-art (23/4 × 31/4). While the Weber pioneer analyzed the Stockton views. The preservation environments, exploring portraits are priceless additions to Ban- Bancroft Library is honored to have cutting-edge approaches to bringing croft’s Pictorial Collections, priceless been chosen as the permanent home historical content to the internet: these among other reasons because, unlike for these unique images, and to make are just a few of the challenges and many daguerreotypes, the sitters are them available, along with the Weber improvements that occupy Bancroft identified, the jewels in the crown of Family Papers, to future generations of staff and our Friends. this gift are 12 views of the town of historians. Happily, these undertakings have Stockton. They consist of four pictures The Weber and Murphy family not meant that collecting the pioneer of the Weber home, two of El Dorado photographs are not the only excep- West has abated! While Bancroft has Street from the Stockton Channel, tional gold-rush era images to come been engaged in preparing for the new and six of the waterfront, two with the Continued on page 3 century, core holdings in 19th-century side-wheel steamer Saga- California have been richly enhanced more at dock. One bears by two magnificent gifts of gold-rush an inscription to Weber era photographs. Daguerreotypes, from photographer Wil- unique photographic images on silver- liam Henry Rulofson, plated copper, are the products of the who later became one earliest photographic process. They are of the partners in the highly valued both for their early date famous San Francisco and their remarkable beauty. Daguer- photography studio of reian portraits of California gold Bradley & Rulofson. miners and outdoor daguerreotype The Weber family scenes of any kind are among the most daguerreotypes are true sought-after 19th-century photographs. treasures of California In late 2004, just as Bancroft history. Through the prepared for renovation, the descen- family’s forethought dants of Captain Charles M. Weber and recognition of of Stockton, members of the Weber, their significance, they Kennedy, and Cahill families, donated had been conserved, their trove of Weber and Murphy fam- studied, and occasion- ily photographs from the 1850s, 1860s, ally exhibited before and later. It includes dozens of first-rate their arrival at Ban- portraits of their California pioneer croft. Some had been forebears—from a large “half plate” shown at the Haggin portrait of Captain Weber himself, to Museum of Stockton, charming hand-tinted glass ambro- others at the Oakland Alonzo J. Doolittle posed in miner's clothing with small leather bags of gold nuggets, types of his children. Half-plate da- Museum of California. ca. 1850-1854. Quarter plate daguerreotype. BANC PIC 2005.071:01--CASE. Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

From the Director Bancroft and the Budget

One of the real opportunities we see in both on and off campus; interviewing for the current situation is a great expan- oral history projects. sion in our use of volunteers. We have Our collections and programs are so always had some volunteers in Bancroft, broad and varied that we have something primarily to help with processing collec- of interest for practically anyone. e live in interesting times. You tions, but usually never more than one One of the things that makes it pos- Wwill, of course, understand or two at a time. sible to contemplate a greatly expanded the allusion to the old Chinese curse. Volunteers can help Bancroft in a volunteer operation is the renovated However, there is an even more appo- whole variety of different ways: building. After about a year of teething, site reference to Chinese: My colleague Behind-the-scenes work in Techni- we have resolved the inevitable problems, Peter Zhou, Director of the East Asian cal Services: processing archival and we know how it works, and we have Library, reminds me that “the Chinese manuscript collections by sorting, become comfortable with its quirks and word weiji ‘crisis’ is composed of reorganizing, and rehousing materials; foibles. More importantly, we have much two characters, ‘danger’ wei and ‘oppor- cataloguing the negatives and prints more staff space now than we had in the tunity’ ji.” from the San Francisco Examiner photo- old building. We would be delighted to Make no doubt about it: The 20% graphic collection; copy cataloguing new make some of it available for volunteers. cut in the budget of the University of printed materials; helping to maintain What do we need from volunteers? California is a real crisis and presents Bancroft’s various web sites; scanning Enthusiasm, commitment, time, and real dangers. It affects the University Li- and digitizing materials for web presen- knowledge. In order to make this work, brary at Berkeley as well as the academic tation; transcribing original Mark Twain we will need individuals who can commit departments. The Library has lost 30 letters and manuscripts or papyri held to one or two days a week for a total of staff positions through attrition during by the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri four to eight hours for a period of at least 2008-2009 and will need to shed an- (a knowledge of classic Greek would be a year. The Library is currently work- other 30 during 2009-2010—this from essential for the latter!). ing through its procedures and policies its staff of 318 (down from a high of 472 Public Services: staffing the in- in order to make it feasible for us to use positions in 1990-91). Moreover, fund- formation desk in the Bancroft gallery more volunteers than we have in the past: ing for the Library’s 700 student em- and the registration desk in the Heller Are there liability issues? How do we ployees (60 of them in Bancroft) will be Reading Room, photocopying printed handle access outside of public hours for cut by 25%, and all staff will take a pay and manuscript materials for patrons, non-employees? We expect that sometime cut of 4%-10% in the form of a required handling orders for Bancroft publica- this fall we shall be able to issue a call for furlough. This requires us to rethink the tions. volunteers (a postcard invitation to all kinds of services we can provide to our Administrative support: coordna- members of the Friends). Additionally, users both on and off campus. tion of other volunteers (reviewing we shall post volunteer positions with de- In the first instance we shall most applications, matching qualifications to tailed job descriptions on VolunteerMatch likely have to reduce the hours we are job descriptions, scheduling), telephone (http://www.volunteermatch.org/), a local open as a result of the furlough. If the reception, maintenance of mailing and non-profit agency that puts individuals in campus is simply shut down for a longer e-mail lists for the Mark Twain Project, contact with organizations. period over holiday breaks, Bancroft the Regional Oral History Office, and The Friends of The Bancroft Library would be closed at the same time. Al- the Friends of The Bancroft Library, have been remarkably generous with their ternatively, we might have to reduce our maintaining correspondence and acqui- gifts to Bancroft for more than 60 years. opening hours by four to eight hours a sition files, personalized acknowledg- We still need your financial assistance, but week in order to maintain a balance be- ments of gifts. increasingly we shall need the gift of your tween public and back-office operations. Outreach: docents for Bancroft time and energy as well. Together we can But with danger comes opportunity. exhibitions; assistance to curators in help Bancroft maintain its stature as one We shall be taking a hard look at all of selecting materials for exhibitions and of the great libraries of the world. our operations and procedures to ensure classes and reviewing recent acquisitions that they are still needed and are done by those with specialized subject knowl- as efficiently as possible, not simply be- edge; exhibition preparators; helping to cause “we have always done it this way.” organize, host, and staff Bancroft events The James D. Hart Director The Bancroft Library

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photographic city of Burbank. An unusual group additions, all portrait that includes Mayor Charles made since the J. Brenham of San Francisco and a library’s 1999 striking daguerreotype portrait of Fer- Cased Photo- dinand Ewer, publisher of the Pioneer graphs Project Magazine (and the famous Dame Shir- put its earliest ley Letters), were significant acquisi- photographic tions of 2006. holdings online The growth of Bancroft’s daguerre- (bancroft. otype collection provides an excellent berkeley.edu/ example of curatorial efforts to build collections/ on the library’s strengths while also casedphotos/ documenting contemporary facets of a project.html). diverse California. Twenty-first-century Several signifi- improvements and the preservation Stockton founder Captain Charles M. Weber’s prominent home, photographed from cant purchases challenges posed by vast modern film the south, ca. 1850-1852. Half plate daguerreotype by William Henry Rulofson. BANC PIC 2005.029:01--CASE have been made archives like that of the San Francisco possible by generous donors and the Examiner dominate staff efforts, but under Bancroft’s care during our Friends of The Bancroft Library. Of every opportunity to strengthen Ban- refurbishment. Jean Henry, a descen- particular note is a mining scene of croft's documentation of early Califor- dant of miner and cartographer A.J. four men working by a sluice with an nia is enthusiastically pursued as well. Doolittle, also made us a gift of mar- unidentified town in the background. The gold rush may have ended more velous family heirlooms. Vermont- Purchases of small family collections than 150 years ago, but its treasures born Doolittle, who came to Califor- include portraits of Peter J. Barber of continue to enrich the scholars who nia in the 1850s, is best known for his San Francisco (later mayor of Santa mine Bancroft’s holdings. 1863 map of California and Nevada. Barbara) and of David Burbank, San James Eason His descendants were well aware of Francisco dentist and founder of the Archivist for Pictorial Collections the historical importance and value of the gold head of his walking stick. It is richly ornamented and engraved with Doolittle’s name, the date 1854, and an assertion that the gold used in the handle came from Doolittle’s South Yuba River mining claim. This treasure was presented to the library along with several daguerreotypes of Doolittle, his wife, and other family members. One of these shows Doolit- tle in his miner’s garb, standing, with two “gold pokes” (small bags of gold nuggets) proudly displayed on a studio prop at his side. This portrait rivals in historic value the beautiful California gold cane handle, for it is among the finest known portraits of a California gold miner. It has all the elements one hopes to find in such a portrait—plus a dynamic charm and personality of its own. These gifts may be an embar- rassment of riches, for they are the best daguerreotype acquisitions any collection of Western Americana could hope to make, welcome addi- tions to an already-rich collection. Yet they are joined by more California Gold miners working by a sluice with a mining town in the background, ca. 1850-1853. Half plate daguerreotype. BANC PIC 2002.095--CASE.

Page 3 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library A Pal of Cal or, Oski Ward-Ward!

hile enjoying Keith Scott’s instead the letter J (with no period) back into antiquity. To present society Wbook, The Moose That Roared: so that he could eventually choose his it is meaningless; to the people of past The Story of , Bill Scott, A own moniker. (He would later settle ages it was a potent health charm.” Flying Squirrel, and A Talking Moose, on “Jay.”) Troplong was his mother Members considered Abracadabra to I stumbled upon a pleasant discovery: Juanita’s French birth name. Ward’s be “an independent, unified organi- Ward, a producer and an animator of father, who worked in real estate, left zation, rich in friendship, tolerance, the classic cartoon show Rocky and His the family to become a wine whole- and good living.” Yet don’t let these Friends (which included the adven- saler in New York after losing money somewhat staid descriptions fool you. tures of Rocket J. Squirrel, Bullwinkle during the Depression. An only child, An undated informal initiation asks J. Moose, Mr. Peabody and his boy Ward was brought up by his singer- that new members “do most solemnly Sherman, and Dudley Do-Right, dancer mother. He attended Cal with swear, in the name of our patron among other memorable characters), two of his closest childhood friends, Saint, Sockatoomee.” It appeared to be was a 1941 graduate of the University future collaborator Alex Anderson and just the right place for someone with of California, Berkeley. Scott offers an Luther Nichols, Jr.1 Ward’s quirky sense of humor. overview of Ward’s Cal connection in We must join our hero at the His freshman-year bio in the Au- his extensive history, but it led me to end of his student career to trace its gust 1938 edition of The Abra reads: wonder if delving into the university beginning. The 1941 Blue and Gold “J. T. Ward—just plain J—lives in archives would unearth more about yearbook portrays a serious-looking Berkeley. Supreme egotist, unflinch- Ward’s activities as student and alum- Ward. His narrative summary reveals ing liar, but seldom serious in either. nus? It would, and now here’s some- that he was a general curriculum ma- House bad boy and ringleader in thing I hope you’ll really like! jor who took part in the Abracadabra many underclass pranks, J has earned J Troplong Ward was born in San fraternity, Proskopoi, Meadowbrook, a real reputation in his first year. An Francisco on September 20, 1920. Advertising Service Bureau, Soccer, embryonic activities man, on A.S.U.C. His parents decided against naming Orientations, Radio Commission, and elections committee, deputations, him Joseph after his father, selecting various class committees. Grizzly staff and other pastimes.” The Fortunately, sophomore Ward continued to be the University an “activities man,” as this tongue- Archives houses in-cheek entry from 1939 describes: a small but rich “Jay does nothing with an ease that collection of astounds the other hard-studying and records from hard-working Abras. His hobbies are the Abraca- joining as many activities as possible, dabra House but he is usually dropped from one (which merged when he joins another, so he is seldom with Delta ahead.” That year, his childhood friend Chi in 1960). Alex Anderson began his freshman According to year and joined Ward in the frater- the August nity. Anderson’s newsletter bio sounds 1938 issue of its prescient: “Alexander Anderson—an newsletter, The Abra lad with real talent in that most Abra, the frater- interesting art—cartooning. Alec, a nity, founded in local contribution, has been gaining 1895, originally practical experience by working for chose its name his uncle, Paul Terry, who produces “for its oddity animated movie cartoons. He also is a rather than its sturdy athlete, and is indispensable to meaning; [it] Abra’s intra-mural athletic teams.” An- has a history derson would later play a key role in and significance launching Ward’s career in animation. Ward fittingly used this version of himself in the Robert Gordon Sproul Associ- that runs far While Ward apparently also belonged ates newsletter RGSA 4:1 (June 1972).

Page 4 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library to Proskopoi, an honorary fraternity shows into the 1960s, including George based on social service and citizenship of the Jungle. The company also created founded at the University of Califor- and produced the long-running Cap’n nia in 1933, no further documentation Crunch breakfast cereal commercials. of his membership could be found. Despite his busy professional Meadowbrook appears in Ward’s career, Ward remained devoted to his Blue and Gold senior summary of alma mater. He was a life member of activities. In Scott’s book, however, the Robert Gordon Sproul Associates his friend Luther Nichols, Jr., asserts (RGSA, renamed the Charter Hill that this was a mythical athletic club Society in 2008), the alumni group “dedicated to the proposition that that recognizes sustained annual giv- inferior athletes could, on a given day, ing of $1,000 or more to the campus. beat superior athletes if they had a cer- In a portrait of the cartoonist as a young In 1971, Ward was selected to lead tain amount of luck, guile, and Jay on man, Jay Ward appeared in his senior photo. RGSA in its fundraising efforts. The their side.” Members played basketball Blue and Gold, 1941. August 1971 issue of RGSA News and and baseball at playgrounds in the city Views includes a profile of Ward as and bet on big-league teams. Anderson Productions, Inc., in Berkeley, which incoming chair. It describes him as “a claims that the “perpetual trophy of would produce the first cartoons made man with a perpetual twinkle in his the UC gym still bears the Meadow- specifically for the still-new medium eye and a marvelous zest for anything brook name, attesting to Jay’s success.” of television. Crusader Rabbit, featur- he undertakes to accomplish….” Ward Not surprisingly, Ward showed ing Anderson’s limited-animation says in the story that “Bullwinkle and early interest in creative work. He technique (somewhat akin to moving all the Ward characters will be work- participated on the Advertising Service comic strips), first aired in 1949; it ran ing along with me for Cal and RGSA.” Bureau, which created copy and art for two seasons on NBC.2 Rocky and They might very well have, because an work for ads in ASUC publications as His Friends—later titled The Bull- article in the June 1972 issue reports well as posters for class activities. The winkle Show—debuted in November that 35 new members joined RGSA 1939 edition of the Blue and Gold pic- 1959. (As Rocky himself might say, during Ward’s first term as chair (in tures a smiling young Jay in a photo hokey smoke, has it really been 50 contrast to 13 cited in the August of the staff. He also served on the years?) By this time, Ward had moved 1971 issue). He also initiated a “chal- Orientations Council, which helped Jay Ward Productions to Los Angeles. lenge” program in which 10 RGSA new students and freshmen become Anderson did not want to relocate but members contributed $10,000 each, acclimated to campus life. served as a consultant to the new se- with $1,000 to be added to the annual After graduation from Berkeley in ries. Bill Scott would join Ward’s team fund with every new associate brought 1941, Ward moved on to Harvard to as voice actor, coproducer, and writer. into the program. Cal Band named begin graduate work in business man- Two other UC Berkeley alumni him an honorary member, and on agement. The draft interrupted Ward’s contributed to Ward’s animation ef- April 26, 1973, he received the Berke- studies, and he spent two years in the forts. Ted Key, class of 1933, was prob- ley Citation. Ward died on October Army Air Corps. After earning his ably best known for his long-running 12, 1989, at age 69, but the contribu- master’s degree from Harvard in 1947, comic strip, , which spawned a tions that he and the other Berkeley he decided to enter the real estate busi- 1960s television show. Key also created alumni made to animation history live ness as his father had. He and his wife the “Peabody’s Improbable History” on in their cavalcade of classic charac- Billie settled in Berkeley, where he segment of Rocky and His Friends. Like ters. Or is it a Cal-valcade? opened his own company. Yet a twist Ward, he was quite active as a stu- Kathryn M. Neal of fate would end that career before dent at Cal. His Blue and Gold senior Associate University Archivist it completely began. On his opening summary notes that he was art editor day, Ward was severely injured when of and associate a runaway lumber truck crashed into editor of the California Pelican. Key’s 1 Keith Scott, The Moose That Roared: The Story him as he stood outside talking with younger brother Leonard also attended of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, A Flying Squirrel, and A the mail man, crushing him against a Cal with Ward and Anderson, gradu- Talking Moose (New York: St. Martin’s Press, wall in the office. He returned briefly ating in 1942. He lent his merchandis- 2000), 4-5. to real estate after a lengthy convales- ing skills to both Crusader Rabbit and 2 Ibid, 6-11 cence but soon made what would Rocky and His Friends, directing sales become a life-changing decision. for Ward Productions and running In 1948, he and friend Alex its New York branch until 1960. Jay Anderson formed Television Arts Ward Productions continued to create

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Growing Up With the Country Pioneer Narratives and Historical Memory

hen David Jackson Staples re- for posterity. Since the mid nineteenth bilities for social mobility on the frontier. Wcounted his first three decades as century, prominent citizens throughout In California, the sudden influx a California resident in 1878, he did so the American West had been compos- of gold seekers in 1849 created unique with a clear sense of his place in history. ing similar narratives as a means of opportunities and incentives for both resi- Not only was he among the first wave of commemorating their agency in the dents and newcomers to begin fashioning forty-niners to arrive in the state follow- development of frontier communities. themselves as pioneers. As early as 1850, ing the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, Although women too wrote autobio- the Society of California Pioneers was he was also a founding father of the graphical accounts, the vast majority of established by a group of San Francisco town of Stockton. In recollecting his de- pioneer narratives were written by men residents whose arrival predated the gold cision to purchase land near the town in of middling economic origins who had rush. The Pioneers organized parades, 1850, Staples congratulated himself on achieved at least a modicum of success banquets, and other commemorative his foresight in recognizing the region’s in business, agriculture, or other profes- activities in an effort to secure their place untapped potential. “It was my impres- sional endeavors after relocating to the as civic leaders in the face of a rising tide sion from the beginning that this would West. Their narratives typically wove of outsiders. For much the same reason, be a valuable country for agriculture,” he together two stories of social mobility: early settlers in rapidly expanding towns explained, “I acted on that idea, and set the first was the author’s own pursuit of and cities throughout the state also began out orchards and planted grain.” He also social and economic advancement; the composing pioneer narratives for publica- proudly recalled his role in organizing second, the growth of his adopted town, tion in local newspapers or circulation in Stockton’s political institutions, noting, city, or state. manuscript form. In a period of unusual “During the formation of society, the The emergence of this genre was part social fluidity and intense demographic voting on the Constitution of the State, of a gradual refashioning of the pioneer mobility, these texts both established the and the establishment of government, I as an American archetype. In the early author’s connection to his adopted com- took an interest in all these movements republic, popular literature generally munity and displayed his middle-class and participated in them.” To Staples, portrayed the pioneer as a shiftless and sensibilities. these experiences imbued his life story liminal figure who lacked the industry In many western states, systematic with historical interest and entitled him and perseverance necessary to transform efforts to compile pioneer narratives to the designation of pioneer. the wilderness into civilization. “In all began shortly after the Civil War. Hubert Although his memoir was composed societies there are off-casts,” J. Hector Howe Bancroft initiated one of the most at the behest of historian Hubert Howe St. John de Crèvecoeur wrote in 1782, ambitious of these projects in the 1870s, Bancroft, men like Staples needed little “this impure part serves as our precur- ultimately collecting hundreds of written prodding to document their experiences sors or pioneers.” This conception began memoirs and dictations from residents to change, however, as westward move- of California and neighboring states. ment surged following the War of 1812. Although Bancroft and his staff went to In these years, the rise of a distinctly great lengths to procure accounts from middle-class paradigm of self-made mas- a diverse array of individuals, the count- culinity endowed the pioneer with new less pioneer narratives that survive in significance as a symbol of self-reliance archives and in published form nonethe- and entrepreneurial striving. Increas- less capture only a narrow cross-section of ingly, boosters and other proponents of the frontier experience. Not only do they westward expansion depicted the pioneer represent an overwhelmingly white, male as a young man of modest means who perspective, they also privilege stories of steadily acquired wealth and prominence success over failure and geographic persis- as he labored to build up new towns tence over mobility. Yet a careful analysis and cities on the frontier. In 1817, for of their production and preservation is example, author Henry Brackenridge essential to understanding the cultural extolled the many “enterprising youth… construction of the pioneer as a symbol of moderate patrimony” relocating to of self-made masculinity in nineteenth- the trans-Appalachian West in order to century America. It is this key compo- “grow up with the country, and form nent of frontier mythology that is perhaps establishments for themselves and fami- the most enduring legacy of self-styled lies.” By midcentury, this middle-class pioneers like David Jackson Staples. Pioneers documented their experiences for posterity, model of pioneering informed the way contributing to the frontier mythology of the self-made William Wagner man. BANC PIC 2004.037--AX ordinary Americans construed the possi- Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History Page 6 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library Mark Twain and the Future of Publishing

ne of the first calls I received New York trade publishers) and Oafter announcing the launch of pay authors half of the profits HarperStudio was from ICM (Interna- instead of the traditional author tional Creative Management), one of royalty. I wanted to sell these the largest literary agencies, who very books on a nonreturnable basis graciously invited me to present my to bookstores, as opposed to plans to their staff. I went to see them the current practice, in which the following week, and at the end of unsold books are returned to the meeting, Heather Schroder—one publishers for full credit (the of their top agents—said, “I’ve got the average returns percentage perfect project for you.” She was right; across our industry is now 40 that project became Who Is Mark percent of new adult hardcov- Twain? ers). And I wanted to focus on From 1990 until 2008, I was pub- online marketing and experi- lisher of Hyperion, the book publish- ment with new digital formats ing company I founded for Disney in as well. 1990. I had spent six months begging Who Is Mark Twain?was for that job, and for most of my years the perfect project for us for a there it remained a fulfilling pursuit. number of reasons. First of all, But one of the odd consequences of Twain had been published by success is boredom, and during my our ancestors at HarperCol- last two or three years, I wasn’t feeling lins, Harper Brothers, from as excited about my work as I wanted 1895 to his death in 1910, and to be. I was paying million-dollar ad- there was something wonder- vances, managing a staff of 60 people, fully ironic about starting an Working with Bancroft, HarperStudio printed 24 publishing more than a hundred high- allegedly futuristic publish- previously unpublished pieces written by Mark Twain. profile books each year. But the money ing venture with century-old we were spending started to feel like material and a century-old if they could have been published a Monopoly money, and I was being backlist. Secondly, as we learned from few months ago in The New Yorker or managerial more often than I was be- Bob Hirst, the Twain scholar who Harper’s —and in fact, excerpts of our ing creative. So I surprised my staff— carries on in Twain’s spirit as head book have appeared in each of these and myself—and left to start a new of Berkeley’s Mark Twain Project, magazines. publishing imprint for HarperCollins, Twain himself spent his career trying We published Who Is Mark called HarperStudio. to convince publishers to work with Twain? on April 21, 2009, the 99th My hope for HarperStudio him on a profit-share basis. When anniversary of Twain’s death, to a very was—and is—that we would devote Twain couldn’t convince publishers gratifying response. We’ve had superb ourselves to experimenting with new to do so, he started his own pub- reviews in the Los Angeles Times and approaches to the business. I wanted lishing company instead (Webster), The Washington Post, interviews on to publish a smaller list of books (no which published the memoirs of his National Public Radio, and all sorts more than two per month) with a friend Ulysses S. Grant on just such of attention online. We’ve been back smaller staff (there are only five of us, a profit-share basis with Grant (it was to press three times already, only one through we have the use of Harper- only after Webster folded that Twain week after publication. We’re heart- Collins for preproduction, production, relented and began his relationship ened to see that people are as passion- subsidiary rights, and sales services) so with Harper). And finally, there is the ate about Twain today as they were in that I could be much more involved material itself, which in spite of being his time—perhaps even more so—and in the thousands of creative deci- written roughly a century ago, could would like to think that Twain, the sions that actually determine a book’s not be more modern in its sensibil- fearless experimenter, is smiling from fate. I wanted to limit our advances ity (in the Los Angeles Times’s review on high to see that his book was the to $100,000 per book (still an as- of the book, Timothy Rutten called first from our bold new venture. tronomical amount by small press Twain “the timeless iconoclast”). The Bob Miller or university press standards, but a 24 previously unpublished pieces that Publisher, HarperStudio starvation diet compared to the major make up Who Is Mark Twain? read as Page 7 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library Annual Meeting Friends of The Bancroft Library

he 62nd Annual Meeting of the Katherine Schwarzenbach and the million balance devoted to research TFriends of The Bancroft Library, development of a Young Profession- and collections, $15 million has held on April18, 2009, celebrated two als Committee created and chaired by been targeted for Bancroft to use in firsts: the first time the Friends’ -An Kirsten Weisser. A special thank you establishing endowments for the Mark nual Meeting was held in the seismi- was given to Camilla Smith for her Twain Project, the Regional Oral cally retrofitted and totally renovated years of dedicated service as editor of History Office, and the Center for the building and the first time a formal Bancroftiana. Chair Loarie mentioned Tebtunis Papyri. Raising this amount luncheon was held in the third floor that Cal has mounted a $3.5 billion of money in the current economic reading room. The more than 80 capital campaign, with the Library’s environment will be difficult. The participants enthusiastically praised campaign goal set at $85 million. Of support of the Friends of The Bancroft the beauty of the “new” Bancroft and this amount $35 million will be used Library is particularly important to enjoyed a delicious lunch. for a major renovation of the Moffitt help us identify and cultivate new The big news for 2008-2009 Undergraduate Library. Of the $50 Friends and donors. was, of course, the dedication of the renovated building that took place on October 24, 2008. Speakers included UC President Mark Yudof, Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, Hubert Howe Bancroft’s great-grandson Pete Bancroft, and Charles Faulhaber. The Friends were thanked for their role in helping to make the renovation a reality. The ceremony was followed by a very festive reception with tours of the library.

Friends of The Bancroft Library enjoyed an elegant meal in the reading room.

Connie Loarie told of Friends activities during the year.

Council Chair Connie Loarie enumerated the many activities of the Friends during the past year and ac- knowledged several Council members for their dedication. She particularly noted the activities of the Southern California Committee chaired by Camilla and George Smith admired the efficient new setting. Page 8 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

Director Charles Faulhaber presented the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award to Bill and Jean Lane and to Joan and the late Mel Lane to honor the Lane family for Sunset magazine, the magazine that mirrored and shaped the modern West.

Friend Kirsten Bickford signs the guest book.

Summer Study Awards were won by Kathleen Anne Adams Rachel Brahinsky Elizabeth Allison Ferrell Cheryl Ann Holzmeyer Adam C. Lewis Rebeccca Munson Marques J. Redd Lauren Chase Smith Christina Maria Zanfagna

Charles Faulhaber congratulates Summer awardees Marques J. Redd, Rebecca Munson, and Cheryl Holzmeyer.

The Bancroft Study Awards for 2009–2010 were awarded to

Colin Dingler (Rhetoric, UCB). “Lyric Impurity: Genre, Serial Po- ems, and the Form of History in Mid-Century and Contemporary American Poetry.”

Sarah Lynn Lopez (Architecture, UCB). “Migrating Mexico: A Ma- terial History of Remittance Space in Sur de Jalisco and Los Angeles, California.”

Bill and Jean Lane, David Hartley, and Jamy Faulhaber toured the Mark Twain at Play exhibition as part of the annual meeting. Page 9 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Manuscript Survey Project

n 2007 Bancroft received $800,000 collecting strengths, and help Iin grants from the Andrew W. Mel- bring to light previously unrec- lon and Arthur and Rosalinde Gilbert ognized gems. Foundations to undertake a large-scale Bancroft hired us—four survey of all of its manuscript hold- trained archivists with a variety ings: approximately 13,000 collec- of archival and project manage- tions, or 55,000 linear feet of materi- ment experience—to conduct al—most of them stored off-site at the the survey: Marjorie Bryer, Northern Regional Library Facility Amy Croft, Dana Miller, and (NRLF) in Richmond. Elia Van Lith. In February Archivists found early memorabilia such as a Donner Party baby The primary goal of the survey 2008, we began an odyssey in tooth, protected in the glass vial by pink padding, in the Charles is to increase access to the collections the manuscript collections that Fayette McGlashan papers, 1878-1946. by improving their arrangement and is projected to last three years. description and ensuring that current We consider ourselves to be extremely The survey demanded that each guides accurately reflect the contents lucky, since not even staff members who collection be examined, its catalog of the cartons. It has been nearly 150 have worked at Bancroft for decades record scrutinized against its physical years since Hubert Howe Bancroft can claim to have laid hands on every contents, and its physical condition began collecting in the 1860s, and manuscript collection in the library! recorded. The sheer number of collec- over 100 years have passed since The We are reviewing manuscript collec- tions to be surveyed dictated a pace Bancroft Library opened on campus tions on a remarkable array of topics, that precluded reading every letter, in 1906. Archival standards have including Spanish mission documents; or even looking through every folder. changed frequently during that time. personal narratives from 19th-century Regardless, gems emerged from the Thus, another goal of the survey is to leaders and regular folks in California, mass of materials, to our delight. Only standardize documentation across the Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Arizona; a few weeks into the survey, Dana and manuscript collections, which will linguistic records of Indians of North Marjorie unwrapped a box holding a enable the hard-working staff members and Latin America; literary manuscripts vial containing a baby tooth found at who process and curate them to main- from prominent writers and poets; the Donner Party site, while Amy and tain and improve intellectual control documentation from the San Francisco Elia found a hand-illustrated magazine over Bancroft’s holdings to bolster earthquake and fire of 1906; and the from 1895 by a Folsom Prison inmate, current collecting areas, identify new papers of numerous important 20th- which includes a scathing commen- century scientists, many of tary on prison life. The dictations them members of the Cal collected by Bancroft and his team of faculty. scholars were particularly rich sources From 2005 to 2008, for frontier history in the Western when Bancroft underwent states. Every few days we would run its major seismic retrofit and across a heart-rending love letter from renovation, many of a lonesome pioneer, or a charming its oldest, most valuable, and poem written by a traveler making his heavily used collections were way westward to California. Examples housed temporarily at NRLF. of 20th-century gems include per- The survey began with these sonal letters from acclaimed writer collections so that they could Joan Didion (Cal ’56) to a college be moved back to campus friend and a box filled with colorful once construction was com- paper dolls sent by school children to pleted in late August 2008. Japanese-American author Yoshiko This meant that we began at Uchida (Cal ’42). We were thrilled at the library’s beginnings, with these discoveries and enjoyed sharing the materials on Califor- them with Bancroft staff. Indeed, the nia, the West, Mexico, and survey team, led by Dana, created a Central America that Hubert blog better to share these gems with Howe Bancroft started to col- the public: http://bancsurvey.blogspot. A hand-illustrated cover for “Foul Tip,” the Folsom Prison magazine, 1895, was a surprising discovery. lect in the 1860s. com/. Your comments are welcome! Page 10 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

We successfully completed our G. “Pat” Brown, contain survey of these collections before they over 1,000 cartons! Many were moved back to the new Bancroft are unarranged and have no guides, meaning that they cannot currently be used by patrons. The disar- ray of many NRLF collections requires us to spend more time with each car- ton to make notes and recommenda- tions regarding how best to arrange and describe them. This attention to detail has allowed us to continue discovering intrigu- ing documents. While surveying the Henry J. Kaiser Henry J. Kaiser’s papers (1873-1982) included a sketch from “Women papers, Dana and in Shipbuilding.” Marjorie discov- ered Women in Shipbuilding, arranged well enough to be used by a compendium of sketches patrons; making sure all containers in A cartoon from a high school yearbook at the Colorado River Reloca- tion Center in Poston, Arizona, Japanese American Evacuation and and photographs that docu- a collection are labeled with the correct Resettlement Records, was drawn in the 1940s. ments the first six months of call number; and providing inventories women’s employment at Kaiser’s of materials that previously had none, building in late August 2008. In shipyards. Amy and Elia, surveying such as oversize items. Currently, we September, we started to survey collec- the Japanese-American evacuation and are on track to finish the project six tions permanently housed at NRLF. resettlement records, came across some months early, which will enable us to The majority of these are more recent beautiful and humorous hand-drawn begin processing high-priority collec- additions, and most are significantly high school yearbooks created at the re- tions and updating catalog records. larger than those housed on site. Some, location camps between 1942 and 1945. Additional expected outcomes of like the papers of Governor Edmund While one of the long-term out- the survey include helping the Ban- comes of the survey croft curators to set processing priori- will be to improve ties and develop grant projects. The the intellectual con- library’s collection policy is scheduled trol over Bancroft’s to be reviewed every 10 years. It was manuscript collec- last revised in 2001, so the end date tions, the survey of the survey coincides with the date has already yielded of the next revision. At its conclusion, tangible results. the survey will enable Bancroft staff to Essentially, we are decide how best to use limited resourc- performing first es—financial, spatial, and personnel— aid: adding spacers to care for their collections and serve to preserve records their patrons. that are suffering Marjorie Bryer, Amy Croft, from debilitat- Dana Miller, and Elia Van Lith ing slump; letting Survey Archivists staff know when so-called “unar- ranged” collec-

Yoshiko Uchida’s papers (1903-1994) included handmade paper doll chains. tions are actually Page 11 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library

Preserved Work: The Philip Lamantia Papers

o some, Philip Lamantia (1927- T2005) needs no introduction, but to others he may. Let it suffice to say that the San Francisco-born surrealist was one of the most significant Ameri- can poets of the latter half of the 20th century, participating in the San Fran- cisco Renaissance and associating with the Beats, though remaining aloof from their aesthetic. The well-traveled Lamantia constitutes the point of intersection among artists as diverse as André Breton, Jack Kerouac, Paul Bowles, Henry Miller, Bruce Conner, and Cecil Taylor. deemed him of sufficient cultural im- port to warrant a substantial obituary, where he was identified as the prime link between French surrealism and American counterculture. Given his association with the Bay Area—where he returned to live for the last 30 years of his life—The Bancroft Library is the perfect home for Lamantia’s papers. After his death, the papers of Philip Lamantia, the San Francisco surrealist poet associated with the Beats, were Having known Lamantia near the acquired by Bancroft. BANC PIC 2006.073. end of his life, I assisted his wife, City Lights co-owner Nancy Peters, and Al- religious beliefs. By all rights, Tau of observations on poetry and subjects len Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan should have been his second book, and like dreams, ornithology, Egyptology, in assembling the papers before their I later had the pleasure of editing it for and surrealism, in addition to the odd acquisition by Bancroft. The melan- publication as # 59 of the City Lights diaristic entry on a particular experi- choly of this task was partly relieved Pocket Poets series (2008). (Bancroft, I ence. His letters form a fascinating if by the marvelous items continually should add, let me work on Tau before fragmentary record of his intellectual surfacing as I rummaged around his the papers were generally accessible, life and travels. Gone, unfortunately, apartment. Chief among these were for which I’d like to thank Tony Bliss is the 1943 letter from André Breton unpublished poems, in surprising and the library’s generous staff.) Other welcoming the then-15-year-old poet quantity given the small body of work finds included a typescript labeled into the surrealist movement—it dis- he chose to publish during his lifetime “Destroyed Work,” containing passages appeared along with other valuable be- (roughly seven slim volumes, allow- from his earlier work, much of which longings in Mexico in the late fifties— ing for overlap among various selected he burned in 1960; a handful of sound though Lamantia’s response survives by editions). Still, the number of what poems under the title “Babbel,” with virtue of appearing in Breton’s wartime seem to me great poems cast aside was an accompanying note on their gen- periodical VVV. (Lamantia’s copy is shocking. Many merit publication for esis; and a stack of largely handwritten in Bancroft.) But many other letters their inherent worth or biographi- poems grouped under the heading survive. Occasionally there are drafts cal significance or both, such as a “Symbolon,” a final book he worked of letters he sent, providing a glimpse poem detailing his encounter with the on between 1998 and 2001 but was into his beliefs all the more valuable Washo Indians and their peyote ritual unable to complete. Some of this ma- since he wrote so little in the way of during the 1950s. Among these hidden terial will eventually be published in a discursive prose. More often, there are gems was one complete manuscript, volume of collected poems. letters to him from correspondents Tau, announced for publication by Lamantia’s papers contain volu- both celebrated and obscure. In gath- Bern Porter in 1955 but withdrawn minous journals and notebooks in ering these, I happened to discover a by the poet because of his evolving which he kept an unsystematic record false back in one of his desk drawers,

Page 12 / Fall 2009 Newsletter of The Friends of The Bancroft Library behind which lay a treasure trove of appears as “Francis DaPavia.” Laman- world. These ephemeral zines and literary artifacts, including postcards tia once pulled these out while I was chapbooks have tremendous value in from Kerouac; correspondence be- visiting, and I managed to convince the aggregate as a record of surrealist tween the draft board and his some- him to privately print a chapbook activities throughout the world, par- time mentor Kenneth Rexroth, who of the work, Journey to the End, in a ticularly after the Paris group folded managed to convince the board of his symbolic 24 copies. Lamantia’s copy in 1969. I’m not sure there’s another protégé’s pacifism and general unfit- of this edition is in Bancroft, and the collection quite like it. ness for military service; and a 1955 poems have finally received the wider The list of amazing finds in letter from Henry Miller, predicting circulation they deserve by appearing Lamantia’s papers and collections that Lamantia will be “our greatest liv- along with Tau in Pocket Poets # 59. extends beyond the sampling above. I ing poet since Whitman.” It’s difficult Lamantia’s library was also purchased remember picking up a yellow folder, to describe the feeling of discovering by Bancroft; some of these books have in which I found a complete run of such material, though “spine-tingling” been dispersed into general circulation, Wallace Berman’s Semina; to handle comes to mind. but the most important collections— these, rather than view them through Among the other highlights of the poetry, philosophy, alchemy, Egyptol- museum glass, was another experience papers is a sheaf of pink, yellow, and ogy, and esoterism—have remained I’m unlikely to forget. There wasn’t blue onionskin pages containing the intact. Of particular note are Laman- time to linger over everything, but surviving poems of Beat legend John tia’s books relating to surrealism, which there’s consolation in knowing that Hoffman, who died in Mexico in 1952 constitute an archive in their own it’s all there in The Bancroft Library, at the age of 24. Lamantia read his right. Aside from now-canonical works preserved and catalogued for future friend’s poems in 1955 at the famous of classic surrealism, Lamantia served generations. Scholarly work on La- Six Gallery reading at which Ginsberg as a repository for publications sent mantia has only just begun, but it will, debuted “Howl,” an event depicted— to him, as the movement’s foremost I expect, continue for some time. colored pages and all—in Kerouac’s American exponent, by surrealist Garrett Caples The Dharma Bums, where Lamantia and parasurrealist groups around the City Lights Books

FRIENDS SPONSOR DARWIN EXHIBITION & PANEL PRESENTATION To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, The Bancroft Library has mounted an exhibition of rare books, manu- scripts, images, and scientific speci- mens drawn from the collections of nine of UC Berkeley’s libraries and museums. The exhibition explores the formative influences on Darwin's thought, the books he read that gave him his early stimulation, his celebrated round-the-world voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, and his major ideas and works. Highlights include the Librar- Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory ies’ unique collection of Darwin’s Wednesday, November 4, 2009 published books, rare illustrated 7:00 pm, in the Maude Fife Room, 315 books on natural history and travel, dozens of specimens of The Friends and the Townsend Center for the Humanities will sponsor a exotic insects and plants and South panel presentation featuring Berkeley professors Dacher Keltner speaking on American fossil specimens 1.2 to “Darwin’s Delights: Darwin’s Views on Positive Emotions,”and Kevin Padian 16 million years old, and two giant speaking on “Darwin’s Enduring Legacy . . . and Some Enduring Myths.” Galapagos tortoise shells. Reception and viewing of the exhibition Bancroft Library Gallery through December 22. in The Bancroft Library Gallery immediately following the program

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he 2008-2009 academic year Thas been an exciting time for the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri (CTP). Over the course of these months, CTP renewed its operations on campus, returning to the Doe Annex along with the other units of The Bancroft Library and organized several impor- tant seminars, lectures, and events throughout the year. CTP was one of the first Bancroft units to move back to campus. The relocation of tens of thousands of pre- cious papyrus fragments took place in the predawn hours of August 7th-8th. This intricately orchestrated process was facilitated by the involvement of Todd Hickey lectures to students of Near Eastern Studies 102B: The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. campus police and Atthowe Fine Arts Services. The ensuing weeks were oc- (Berkeley) presented papers discussing nar concerning the Ptolemaic papyri cupied with organization of the collec- various aspects of the Diary. of Euripides. tion and the CTP workspace. October During spring semester Professor CTP also hosted the Interna- 24, 2008, witnessed the grand reopen- Susan Stephens (Stanford) presented tional Workshop for Papyrology and ing of The Bancroft Library and the CTP’s eighth annual Distinguished Social History April 15th-17th, which resumption of CTP operations. CTP Lecture on March 31. Her talk, brought together leading scholars from opened its doors to the public in Janu- “Identity Politics in Ptolemaic Egypt,” the United States and Europe to dis- ary. was accompanied by a one-day special cuss recent developments in the field In honor of the new facility hous- exhibit utilizing Egyptian artifacts and opportunities for collaboration. ing the Tebtunis papyri, a signature from the Hearst Museum of Anthro- Dr. Christelle Fischer-Bovet, who sculpture was commissioned (see pology and papyrus documents from received her Ph.D. from Stanford in Bancroftiana 133, Fall 2008). This CTP. In conjunction with her lecture, 2008, has been working as a postdoc- scribal statue, created by local artist Professor Stephens conducted a semi- toral scholar at CTP since September. Amy Evans McClure, pays homage to the ancient Egyptian scribe Menches, whose dossier constitutes an important part of the CTP collections. CTP can now be found on the fourth floor of The Bancroft Library: Turn left at Menches! In September, CTP hosted the inaugural Berkeley-Oxford Papyro- logical Seminar, which focused on the Greek text of Dictys of Crete’s Diary of the Trojan War, a work purport- ing to be an eyewitness account. The Tebtunis collection includes a sub- stantial fragment of this text which, in its Latin version, was responsible for transmitting the story of Troy to Western Europe. Professors Stephen Oakley (Cambridge), Dirk Obbink (Oxford and Michigan), Todd Hickey (Berkeley), and Donald Mastronarde Papyri and artifacts are displayed in a case at the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri.

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Funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation has allowed her Desiderata to pursue a two-year research project Bancroftiana from time to time publishes lists of books that the library concerning ethnicity in the ancient would like to add. We would be particularly pleased to receive gifts of any Eastern Mediterranean. At the end of the books listed below. If you can help, please e-mail (preferably) Bonnie of that period she will join the Clas- Bearden, Rare Books Acquisitions Assistant, [email protected], sics Department at the University of or you may call (510) 642-8171. Southern California. The Center for the Tebtunis Blue & Gold Papyri remains committed to graduate We would like to upgrade some volumes of the Cal yearbook that have seen and undergraduate education in papy- heavy use: v. 35 (1909) rology. Graduate Student Researchers v. 47 (1921) continue to gain experience in the v. 73 (1946) discipline through various projects, v. 93 (1966) from editing papyri for publication v. 99 (1972) to augmenting the APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) California Mission Studies Association digital catalogue. This summer, they will assist with specialized (multispec- Conference. We lack numbers 1-18. tral) imaging of select papyri. CMSA Newsletter. We lack vols. 6, 14:2 and 18:2-4. To further undergraduate educa- tion and outreach, Professor Todd Vernon, Edward W. Mision Santa Rosa de las Palmas: founded by Hickey, CTP’s Associate Director, Father Sigismundo Taraval, S. J. 2002. continues to participate in the Un- Hoover, Robert L. Stealing California’s Mission Past. 1999. dergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program; in fact, one of his four ap- Hogarth Press prentices this year, Jesse Hoffman, was Riding, Laura. Voltaire. 1927. awarded the Library Prize for Under- graduate Research for his project, “A Woolf, Virginia. On Being Ill. 1930. Family of Prophets in 2nd Century Roman Egypt.” In addition, Hickey Padre Press introduced students of Egyptology to Palou, Francisco. The Death of the Venerable Father Fray Luis Jayme. the Center’s resources, showing them San Diego: 1994. selections from the collection and Healy, Valentine. Father O’Keefe: Rebuilder of Mission San Luis Rey. hosting a tour of the Center. Hickey Northridge: 1992, c1965. is also in the process of developing an outreach curriculum for K-12 stu- Vollmann, William T. The Ice Shirt: a Book of North American Landscapes dents. [Seven Dreams, v. 1]. Viking Press, 1990. As was the case last year, CTP Fathers and Crows: a Book of North American Landscapes. benefited from the generous dona- [Seven Dreams, v. 2]. Viking Press, 1992. tions of an anonymous benefactor. In Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs. Pantheon Books, 1993. addition to monetary gifts and books, the benefactor also donated ancient Butterfly Stories: a Novel. Grove Press, 1993. coins to CTP. These 11 silver and The Atlas. Viking Press, 1996. bronze coins, dating from the early to middle Ptolemaic period (ca. 285-145 Argall: a Book of North American Landscapes. B.C.), will enhance the papyrological [Seven Dreams, vol. 3]. Viking Press, 2001. curriculum. CTP remains grateful for Uncentering the Earth : Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly this significant support. Spheres. Norton, 2006. Jean Li Center for the Tebtunis Papyri Zamorano 80 Graduate Student Researcher The one title we lack, though we have later editions: Ridge, John Rollin. The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrat- ed California Bandit / by Yellow Bird. San Francisco: W.B. Cooke, 1854.

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The Council of the Friends F all 2009 Calendar of The Bancroft Library exhibitionS ROUNDTABLES 2009–2010 Fred Gregory Laurence Lasky May 18 – December 22, 2009 An open informal discussion group featuring presentations by scholars engaged in Bancroft Chair Leon Litwack AMAZING GATE: RESCUING research projects. Sessions are held in the Kirsten Weisser Alexandra Marston Vice Chair Dorothy Matthiessen A CAMPUS ICON Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club on Charles B. Faulhaber Beverly Maytag Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd Floor the third Thursday of the month at noon. Secretary Alan C. Mendelson Gregory Price Velma Montoya Thursday, September 17 Treasurer Tapan Munroe August 13 – December 22, 2009 frances dinkelspiel Hans Baldauf Ron Najafi Paul Bancroft III David Pettus Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Darwin and the Anthony Bliss Skip Rhodes Named Isaias Hellman Created California evolution of a theory Deborah M. Cole Katherine Schwarzenbach Narsai David Deborah G. Seymour To commemorate the 200th anniversary Thursday, October 15 John A. De Luca Camilla Smith of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th rachel brahinsky Richard P. Fajardo James M. Spitze anniversary of the publication of the The Making—and Unmaking—of Southeast Daniel Gregory Charles G. Stephenson Origin of Species, The Bancroft Library Noah Griffin Cindy Testa-McCullagh San Francisco is exhibiting rare books, manuscripts, Timothy Hachman Jeanne B. Ware images, scientific specimens, and other David Hartley Midge Zischke Thursday, November 19 materials, drawing on the collections of Robert Janopaul tom debley the campus's libraries and museums. Disrupting the Status Quo: The Story of Bancroftiana The Bancroft Library Dr. Sidney Garfield Number 135 Editor Camilla Smith Managing Editor Elizabeth Gardner Copy Editor Ben McClinton

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