The Colors of California Agriculture

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The exhibition, The Colors of Cali-fornia Agriculture, in The Bancroft

Library Gallery that closed on July 26, 2013, featured a selection of Peter Goin’s digital color photographs and Paul Starrs’s text from their Field Guide to California Agriculture (University of California Press, 2010). Their work was shown in the context of histori-cal materials from Bancroft, including Depression-era photographs of agri-cultural workers by Johanna Hansel Meith and Dorothea Lange, a map of “Mid-California’s Garden of the Sun” and a scrapbook of illustrated fruit labels (both produced by the Schmidt Lithography Company in the 1920s), and a 2002 drypoint of the Sacramento Valley by Wayne Thiebaud.

The title of the exhibition was taken from Goin’s print, “Colors of California Agriculture: From Alfalfa Flower to Zucchini Blossom.” The print comprises 160 individual color squares, each of which presents the color of a specific crop or agricultural object that Goin photographed. He isolated the colors for the individual squares by sampling his digital photo-graphic files. The uppermost left square is the actual color of alfalfa flowers and the last square on the lower right is the color of zucchini blossoms as captured by Goin’s camera. Referenc-ing the work of Josef Albers and Piet Mondrian (Goin teaches art history), this grid is both an elegant abstraction and a photographic representation of

the diversity of crops grown in Califor-nia and the variety of implements and machinery used in their cultivation. The grid also evokes industrial agriculture, a mega-enterprise with a long history in California that demands checkerboard rows of crops and squared-off trees and bushes to enable efficient mechanized harvesting.

Color lends vitality not only to the photographs but also to the language that describes the agricultural products. It’s as if California agriculture de-manded a vocabulary of color: Aspara-gus (row 1– square 7), Blood Orange (row 2– square 7), John Deer Tractor Green (row 10– square 3), Pinot Noir (row 4– square 15), Yellow Chard (row 10– square 15). Paul Starrs’s captions

Colors of California Agriculture: From Alfalfa Flower to Zucchini Blossom by Peter Goin. BANC PIC 2013.047—FR.

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The amount and variety of teach-ing that The Bancroft Library

contributes to the Berkeley campus and the community is one of its great and underreported glories. In addition to the nearly 7,400 patrons who consulted original materials in the Reading Room in the past year, 2,970 Berkeley stu-dents had a class session in the press room or one of the Bancroft seminar rooms. And some of them had many more. Seven courses and an Under-graduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) group were taught entirely at Bancroft or Magnes facilities by Berke-ley faculty and lecturers. These figures do not include the number of Cal stu-dents who heard guest lectures by the circuit-riding Bancroft curators, who were featured in courses held elsewhere on campus, or the number of individu-als in the community who had a chance to hear Bancroft staffers lecture on the collections at a variety of regional venues. Fifteen UCB programs received teaching support from Bancroft in the 2012-13 academic year. Based on these numbers, the teaching Bancroft provides Berkeley students annually could be compared to that offered by a medium-sized academic department on campus.

Bancroft teaching focuses on authentic primary materials and the techniques that are necessary to pre-serve and interpret them. Each semester students work hands-on—under the supervision of Cal faculty and Ban-croft staff specialists—with treasures from the collections. Many of these Bancroft courses have a performance or studio component. In his course on the hand-printed book, for example, master printer Les Ferriss teaches four classes a year on how to set, print, and bind a previously unpublished text, as

his students also learn the history of the western book from him by study-ing original items from the collection that date from the 15th century to the present. These students analyze rare first editions and then they actually produce one. Similarly, in his course on telling life stories, Regional Oral History Office Director Neil Henry has students analyze biographical profiles as he is teaching them how to interview subjects and write profiles of them.

Many Bancroft courses teach students how to verify and interpret primary evidence. A lot of this work in-volves learning to reconstruct, read, and construe older texts, the languages in which they are written, and the cultures to which they bear witness. Courses at the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri ex-pose students to the full range of these complications. With only about five percent of its material analyzed to date, the work of CTP includes everything from piecing together disintegrating bits of papyrus fragment, to teaching students to read the ancient languages written on them, and interpreting these

ancient texts within the traditions that they document. Director Todd Hickey has even had his classes make papyrus so that they can better understand how writing on this material works.

In the Mark Twain Project stu-dents who study with General Editor Bob Hirst often transcribe original manuscripts by Samuel Clemens and his correspondents as a first step toward learning how to edit texts. While Clemens’s 19th-century Ameri-can hand is arguably more accessible to most Berkeley undergraduates than the Greek of some of the Tebtunis fragments, it is still unfamiliar to those students who are no longer taught to read or write cursive in grammar school. But they can still pick up these skills in the most intriguing ways at Bancroft. This spring a group of URAP students, working with Profes-sor Thomas Laqueur (UCB History) and Magnes Fellow Daniel Viragh, tackled the original papers of Berke-ley faculty members who fled Europe during the 1930s, which are part of the University Archives collection in

Two URAP students, Maiya Moncino and Elena Kempf, participate in a URAP project at Magnes that studied original papers from Berkeley faculty who fled Europe during the 1930s. (Photo by Peg Skorpinski.)

From the Director

TEACHING AT BANCROFT: Added Value for the Campus Curriculum

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Bancroft. The fruits of this research will be the basis of an exhibit at The Magnes Collection in the coming aca-demic year.

These courses taught in conjunc-tion with Bancroft’s research groups and printing program are only part of the Bancroft teaching story that I look forward to telling you more about in future issues of Bancroftiana. The role of the Bancroft curators and other staff specialists, for example, on and off the Berkeley campus deserves a sketch of its own. And so do the courses that Berkeley faculty choose to teach at Bancroft because of its unique collec-tions and facilities. But, as Kipling was

wont to say, “that’s another story.”Let me close this first vignette on

teaching at Bancroft with a curious fact. You can search Berkeley’s General Catalog or the curricula of individual Cal departments in vain for a list, or even a mention, of courses that are taught at Bancroft or have a significant Bancroft (or Magnes) value-added dimension of the kinds I have just mentioned. Because Bancroft is not an academic department, it cannot offer courses under its own brand, even when Bancroft staffers teach them. So the printing class appears in the Catalog

under Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies (UGIS), as does the under-graduate course on primary research taught jointly by Bancroft Deputy Director Peter Hanff and Professor James Casey (UCB Mechanical Engi-neering). The courses on oral history are sponsored by Media Studies. The papyrology classes show up on the Classics Department curriculum as Greek. The Mark Twain class appears as an English course. And I teach my Bancroft courses for the German Department. Dozens of other courses across the UCB curriculum feature regular—but unadvertised—sessions at Bancroft.

So how does a Berkeley student ever discover the fabled “Bancroft printing class” unless someone whis-pers in her ear that it’s listed under UGIS? Or how can an aspiring editor guess that he might learn his craft in an English course on Mark Twain? With great difficulty!

Teaching at Bancroft, by Bancroft staffers, or with Bancroft materials is a great value-added feature of the Berke-ley learning experience, but it remains one of the best-kept secrets on campus.

We will be telling you more about it.

Theresa Salazar, Curator of the Bancroft Collection of Western Americana, with teachers from the CLAS Summer Institute 2011, explains original materials from the collection.

Professor James Casey teaches an Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies class in the Stone Seminar Room. His teaching partner, Bancroft Deputy Director Peter Hanff, is behind the camera.

Les Ferris demonstrates the printing press during the popular printing course taught at Bancroft.

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Mexican farm workers harvesting strawberries near Jensen Road, Monterey County, BANC PIC 2013.47:Ag000356 —ffALB.

COLORS OF CALIFORNIA Continued from page 1for the photographs and his text for the Field Guide are replete with color and wit: “From the air, California seems like the empire of a creator bent on constructing the world’s most cruelly demented jigsaw puzzle, a vast agriscape cast in shades of green, tan, emerald and gold” (Field Guide to California Agriculture).

University of Nevada Professors Goin and Starrs traveled thousands of miles over a five-year period to complete a com-prehensive and concise survey of California agriculture. Their survey combines the latest government data with thousands of hours spent in the field conducting interviews, mostly in Spanish. The photographs document California’s cornucopia of agricultural products from tree, vine, bush, field, root, and row crops to grain, hay, pasture crops, and livestock.

The genesis of the exhibit was a show-and-tell meeting in 2006 in which Goin first showed me his photographs, and Starrs provided the commentary for their project and book. Since that first meeting, Goin and Starrs have been excep-tionally generous donors, presenting proof photographs, the longest panoramic photographic print that I have ever seen, galleys proofs of the book, as well as their field notes to The Bancroft Library. Then at the beginning of 2013, after the biblical number of seven years had passed, Goin presented Bancroft with the extraordinary gift of a portfolio of more than 60 of his final photographs from which we selected 35 prints for the show.

This elegant exhibition, called on all of us to stop and take a closer look at the food many of us may take for granted as we speed along the interstate highways of California that continue to be the nation’s fruit and vegetable basket.

— Jack von Euw, Curator, Pictorial Collection

Mexican farmworkers harvesting strawberries, near Jensen Road, Monterey County. BANC PIC 2013, 047:Ag000356 --ffAIB

Thompson seedless grapes, horizon, trellis, Madera County. BANC PIC 2011.022:Ag00178—f fA LB .

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I was told this many years ago by a very wise newspaper editor. Rule

number one: The best way to reach out and grab the reader, figuratively speaking of course, is with a good photograph, lithograph, or some other form of graphic illustration that at once enhances the story and catches the eye. A picture is worth a thousand words; that was the phraseology I think. Rule number two: Rule number one is es-pecially important when the subject is history, should the least curious reader opt out and hastily turn the page.

A pity, really, since history, namely California history, is arguably one of the most interesting fields of social science. The aspiring historian, need I say, must not confine his (or her) ob-servations to words and pictures alone. One must venture forth into the Sierra foothills, talk to the old people whose ancestors were 49ers, and visit the lonely, deserted gold camps of a bygone era to return no more.

Not too long ago—about the time my casual interest in the Mother Lode warped into a mania—my wife, Barbara, and I departed the Bay Area lowlands and moved to Sonora, in Tuolumne County, where I soon began writing weekly columns for The

Union Democrat. First published in April 1854, the Democrat is said to be the state’s oldest, continuously oper-ated daily newspaper still in print. At last count, I am up to 658 published articles in this historic paper, a large number of which have been greatly improved upon by The Bancroft Library’s on-line digital image collec-tions.

Now, I often work past mid-night to meet deadlines. I begin my next article before the ink on my last one has had a chance to dry, and the keys on my keypad have worn thin. But do I worry that someday my supply of research material and story ideas will peter out, as did the gold placers in 1860? Not in the least. The Union Democrat, again figura-tively speaking, is an inexhaust-ible gold mine of breaking news from olden times, i.e., those stirring days of the Wild Old West. As for pictures to accompany my humble narratives, I am told that some eight million historic images are embosomed within The Bancroft Library’s vast holdings.

Simply put, between The Bancroft Library and the Democrat’s dimly lit

Grabbing the Reader’s Interest with Pictures

“morgue” of ancient, yellowed newspa-pers, I am hardly at a loss for well-illus-trated stories to grab the attention of my loyal readers—stories of gold strikes and wild doings, shootouts, daily murders, lynchings, both lawful and unlaw-ful, conflagrations that reduced whole towns to ashes in a matter of minutes, stagecoach holdups, sluice box rob-bings, bear and bull fights, tong wars, buried treasure rumors, ongoing saloon updates, etc., and accounts that go into great detail of the noisy Fourth of July celebrations in gold camps with strange-sounding monikers. The possibilities are endless.

I could devote several volumes to this fascinating subject, and I would do that if it were not for the narrow space of my columns. Stories from the diggings (told as truth, I might add) are vivid reminders of old California’s “Golden Harvest.”

— Bob Holton Researcher and Historian

Sunset, California Scenery by Albert Bierstadt, 1868 – Friends and Neighbors Magazine, autumn issue, 2010. Story Title: “Gold Lake – Lost Gold Mines of the Sierra Nevada.” BANC PIC 1963.002:0401—B.

Riverbed Mining, 1850 – The Union Democrat, May 31, 2012. Story Title: “Good Old Days.” BANC PIC 1905.16242:084—CASE.

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Two-thousand thirteen is the “Year of the Bay.” The America’s Cup

sailing race, the anticipated opening of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, and the staging of a major ex-hibit, “Above and Below: Stories From Our Changing Bay,” at the Oakland Museum of California are just three events that will direct attention to the body of water that binds—and separates—our region. The Bancroft Library, too, will contribute to the Year of the Bay with an exhibit featuring recent photographs of the construction of the new eastern span and with an oral history project on the Bay Bridge looking back from its construction in the 1930s up through today.

The genesis for the oral history project was the listing of the original eastern span on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. According to regulations, before the span can be demolished, Caltrans must first under-take a historical mitigation program.

The forthcoming Oakland Museum exhibit is part of that mitigation, as is the Bay Bridge project of the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO), which was funded by the Oakland Museum of California, Caltrans, the Metropoli-tan Transportation Commission, and the Bay Area Toll Authority.

To date, ROHO has conducted 14 interviews for the project, with another one or two yet to be completed. All told, about 40 hours of interviews will be recorded. Project historian Sam Redman and I have conducted inter-views with a wide variety of people, all of whom point to the Bay Bridge as having played a significant role in their lives. There is Frances Ryan, for example, who took a job as a toll col-lector on the bridge during World War II. Not only did this job provide her (newly arrived from the Central Valley) with a good wage, but she also met her future husband on the job—an officer with the California Highway Patrol.

He fell quickly for the young toll taker. A number of the interviews are

with the men who worked in profound-ly contrasting positions on the bridge over the past 60 years. We spoke, on the one hand, with structural engineers who knew the bridge mathematically and factually from blueprints and designs and, on the other hand, with maintenance workers and tow truck drivers who came to know bridge intimately through its rivets, bolts, steel plates, towers, moorings, and grime.

Berkeley-educated engineer Bob McDougald ’54, for example, recounts the process by which the bridge was substantially redesigned in the late 1950s, when the lower deck was retrofitted so that it could carry automobiles rather than the rail lines that had been there since 1936. He recalled, “We discovered that the framing for the upper deck consisted of cross floor beams, stringers—only four stringers—and then a joist that

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A view of suspension towers 6, 3, and 2 looking west from Yerba Buena Island toward San Francisco a year into construction. BANC PIC 1905.14239:108—PIC.

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went across; that supported the deck. It turned out that the deck up there on that side was over-stressed, so we had to add additional joists between each one of the existing joists.” And he goes on in similarly detailed fashion for the next several minutes. Compare this to the ac-count offered up by Bob Sorenson, who worked in bridge maintenance from the 1970s through the 1990s: “Probably the worst, kind of the most—you just did not want to do this job—was cleaning the pans. On the deck, on the upper deck, you have expansion joints that would allow things from the upper deck to fall down onto the lower deck traffic. They would have then a drain down at the far end.

“What that was for was to collect water, and what it also collected was cigarette butts, dirt, anything that came off the trucks and the traffic on the upper deck. So we would have to go in there occasionally and clean the pans. You probably had about, oh, five and a half feet of clearance inside these things. They were probably as wide as maybe 12, 13 feet wide. So you would go in there, and traffic is going right over your head. Katoom, katoom, katoom, katoom, katoom. You crouched down. You got a dust mask on. Boy, that was a thankless job!”

What do these wildly different perspectives of the Bay Bridge tell us? In addition to the basic information about the bridge, perhaps difficult to uncover elsewhere, the interviews each offer up unique, personal experiences of a very real thing: the bridge. These recollections reveal how the monu-mental structures around us influence, and are influenced by, the way we move about in the world, physically perform labor, imagine concepts of nearness and distance—indeed, they affect the very manner in which we inhabit space. The interviews quoted here augment and enliven other kinds of documents preserved at The Bancroft Library, including hundreds

of photographs of the construction of the original span in the 1930s or the Joe Blum photographs commissioned by Bancroft to document the build-ing of the new eastern span. And the Bay Bridge oral history project carries on the tradition established by Hu-bert Howe Bancroft in the 1860s. By recognizing that the story is never—indeed, can never be—fully realized in the written documents of an era, ROHO’s interviews capture the voices, memories, and subjective experiences that flesh out, quite dramatically, the historical record for the benefit of future generations.

—Martin Meeker Associate Director, ROHO

With the suspension span in place, workers begin the western Bay Bridge approach in San Francisco just 9 months before the bridge would open to traffic. BANC PIC 1905. 14239:594—PIC.

Worker safety was ad hoc and regulations virtually nonexistent during construction in the 1930s, as shown by this worker on the upper deck of the eastern span. BANC PIC 1905. 14240:190—PIC.

Suspension tower 2 as seen from the San Francisco waterfront. BANC PIC 1905. 14242:6 —PIC.

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Established originally to recognize individuals who have made a

significant contribution to historical research and scholarship on California and the American West, the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award has in recent years also been presented to creative writers for their distinctive interpreta-tion and imaginative recreation of the region and its history. This year for the first time the Award was presented to a visual artist, renowned California painter and long-time UC Davis faculty member, Wayne Thiebaud.

The Friends of The Bancroft Library gathered for their Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 27, 2013. The day began with a business meeting held in the Krouzian Seminar Room at Bancroft to discuss successes of the past year and plans for the future.

Kirsten Weisser, Chair of the Council, described exciting opportuni-ties during challenging times, includ-ing the importance of raising funds for endowment and current use. Treasurer David Lei reported that the Bancroft administration was keeping expendi-tures under budget, and that while en-dowment income is up, we are seeking greater contributed income at all levels. It has been four years since the tremen-dously successful renewal campaign,

during which generous donors provided Bancroft with its new gallery, making it possible for the first time to show-case items from the collection [like the photographs in The Colors of California Agriculture.] This exhibition, which ran through July, brought to the public photographs and panoramas by Peter Goin and field research notes by Paul Starrs, and included materials that they compiled during the five years in which they co-authored their Field Guide to California Agriculture (University of California Press, 2010), the first major survey of agriculture in California in 30 years.

After the business meeting, the Friends of The Bancroft Library and their guests enjoyed lunch and a history-making awards ceremony in the Reading Room.

After lunch and lively conversation, Bancroft Director Elaine Tennant an-nounced that world-renowned painter Wayne Thiebaud was the 2013 recipient of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award. Before this year, the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award had never been made to a visual artist. This was something the Friends of The Bancroft Library were eager to change in recognizing Wayne Thiebaud at the Sixty-Sixth An-nual Meeting.

Director Tennant described the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award as a measure of the Friends’ highest esteem and appreciation of individuals whose work can be understood in the spirit of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s original project, which amounted to nothing less than maintaining the record of California, as it was happening, and in its widest manifestations, beginning first in the Gold Rush period, and then extending backward and forward as far as his researchers could reach.

The original geographic focus of the collection on California was expanded during Bancroft’s lifetime to include the vast area from the Rock-ies to the Pacific and from Alaska to Panama. And over time the scope and the formats of the collection expanded as well. Only in the mid-20th century, for example, did The Bancroft Library begin to collect literature, and even more recently did it begin to develop its pictorial collections in a serious way with the purchase of the Robert Honey-man, Jr. Collection of early Californian pictorial material. More recently the San Francisco Examiner collection has brought Bancroft millions of photos documenting the story of this vibrant region.

Born in Mesa Arizona, Wayne Thiebaud moved to California in his first year, and has remained here ever

The Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting Made History

Elaine Tennant, Betty Jean Thiebaud, Judy Dater, and Wayne Thiebaud pause and pose after the festivities.

Wayne Thiebaud signs Hubert Howe Bancroft’s guest book.

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since. He grew up in Southern Califor-nia before WWII, where as a teenager he began drawing cartoons, working on set design, and taking art classes. There was a summer when he worked in the Disney animation studios. And in this early period of his life he also worked in restaurants and bakeries.

According to legend, this is when the characteristics for which he is best known came together: his appetite for hard work; his remarkable skill as a craftsman; and his love for the Califor-nia scene in all its detail. After serving as an artist and cartoonist in the Army during the forties, he became a com-mercial artist and illustrator in Los Angeles. In the fifties he studied studio fine arts and art history, taught paint-ing, and began to make extraordinary prints and paintings. He joined the Art Department at UC Davis in 1960 and for more than 30 years inspired genera-tions of students with his unparalleled skill and generosity of spirit.

The Annual Luncheon also included the presen-tation of the Fellowship Awards to 14 recipients—many in attendance and acknowledged by our own David Kessler of Bancroft Public Services. David, who retired in June, worked very closely for decades with students, faculty, and thou-sands of researchers, many of whom he helped through Bancroft’s online Reference Service, bancref. Many of the award recipients who were able to attend are pictured below with Wayne Thiebaud (center) and Bancroft Director Elaine Tennant (second from the left).

—Amy Sollins Development Director The Bancroft Library

Some of the Bancroft fellowship winners were able to attend the meeting and enjoy a moment with Thiebaud, who spoke of his enjoyment of teaching and working with students. From left to right: Adam Romero, Elaine Tennant, Susan Wood, Amy Lee, Samia Rahimtoola, Wayne Thiebaud, Reginald James, Marilola Perez, Hunan Rostomyan.

Wayne Thiebaud entertains the audience with his gracious acceptance of the HHB Award. (Photo by Judy Dater.)

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Digital scholarship is a rapidly growing field of endeavor for

many of today’s scholars. This broadly defined “digital” discipline encom-passes scholars working in both the humanities and social sciences who do the majority of their work digi-tally, using digital content and digital tools, most often resulting in a digi-tal outcome. The Bancroft Library, as a long-time leader in developing digital collections and digital library technologies, is in an ideal position to seize the momentum of this emerg-ing discipline to establish a more visible presence in this area. Bancroft has been at the forefront of building digital research collections for 15 years, and we have an opportunity to focus increased attention on that work and expand it through partnerships on campus with our faculty and students working in this new field.

With scholars’ work increasingly focused on digital materials, either digitized from physical collections or born-digital, we are seeing more demand for digital content and tools to carry out digital analysis, visualiza-tion, and computational processing,

among other activities. Perhaps this is due to the maturation of the field of humanities computing, or the avail-ability of more digital source content, or the rise of a new generation of digital native researchers. Whatever the reason, the role of the library is central to this evolving research area. With one of the largest primary source digital research collections in the UC system (based on Association of Re-search Libraries statistics 2011–2012), Bancroft is an obvious source of digital research materials for these scholars. Bancroft’s digital holdings include close to 500,000 digitized items, over a terabyte of born-digital content, and 2.5 million pages of digitized books. While we have an impressive digital collection already, considering that this represents only approximately 1.5% of our total physical holdings, the scale of the work before us is daunting.

Providing digital research materi-als aligns with our traditional role as a library. Bancroft can sustain this role by providing access to digital research materials through traditional activi-ties, such as acquiring and cataloging digital materials, and supporting new

digitization initiatives to continue to build our digital research collections. We can also take on new activities, such as supporting technology solutions (e.g., digital tools), providing or sharing digital lab workspaces and expertise, and facilitating bulk access to data and content through mechanisms such as Application Protocol Interfaces (APIs). Just as we have curated and facilitated access to analog research materials, we need to turn our attention to developing and supporting use of digital research collections.

The collaborative nature of digi-tal humanities and social sciences projects—and centers—brings together researchers, technologists, tools, and content. These “places” may take various forms, but in almost all cases, the library and the historical content it collects and preserves play a central role as the “stuff” of which digital humanities and social science research and scholarly production is made. To date, however, such a Center has not been established in the Library.

With its historical role in collecting and providing access to research materi-als, supporting teaching and learning, and long affinity with using technology for knowledge discovery, The Bancroft Library is well positioned to further sup-port this work and be an active partner in the supporting digital humanities and social sciences scholarship. We have the impetus to move forward, but lack the funding to get this work off the ground.

Bancroft has already begun to move in this direction through participation and support for events hosted by the Digital Humanities Working Group on campus, offering to teach workshops for the newly launched D-Lab that supports digital social science and humanities projects, authoring papers and editing publications on digital humanities, and serving as a resource to colleagues in the library who are interested in the field.

With additional funding, we could further pursue this area of interest by establishing a digital collections curator to provide digital scholarship support;

Digital Scholarship Increases Bancroft’s Reach

Figure 1: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The 1906 Earthquake and Fire Collection was digitized in the last 15 years.

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collaborating further with colleagues at D-Lab; establishing a “collabora-tory” space in the library where digital scholarly projects could be developed, vetted, and shaped; reaching out to students and faculty working in this area; offering fellowships in digital scholarship; and establishing a pool of funding to pursue projects in this area.

The Importance of Being Digital

Supporting digital scholarship is a natural role for Bancroft to assume. Bancroft has been in the vanguard in launching digital scholarship projects and building digital collec-tions over the past 15 years, including the Digital Scriptorium, California Heritage Collection, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Archive (figure 1), Mark Twain Project Online, Advanced Papyrological Information System, Digital Zamorano 80, and many more. These projects have made digital primary source materials avail-able to scholars throughout the world and have contextualized these materi-als, with the goal that they encourage further exploration and research.

Evidence of the success of this work is shown by how well used our digital collections are. These collec-tions were accessed through the Cali-fornia Digital Library by more than 282,000 unique visitors with 1.7 mil-lion pages viewed in one year (2012). Our digitized books on the Internet Archive have been downloaded more than 4.2 million times since 2009. These virtual visits are not limited by geographic or economic restraints and therefore provide an important avenue of access to Bancroft’s collections to anyone around the globe, which is especially important for those who are unable to walk through our doors.

We anticipate that these num-bers will continue to grow as more and more researchers do their initial searching online and as researchers increasingly use digital materials in part or exclusively in their work. An example of this is the Early California Cultural Atlas project at UC Berkeley that integrates multiple types of data with digitized historic land case maps

from Bancroft and plots those onto Google Earth to show historical data related to the colonization and settle-ment of early California (figure 2). This type of reuse is becoming more common and is made possible because the materials are searchable and acces-sible online. By expanding knowledge of our digital holdings and increasing the rate at which we digitize our physi-cal collections, we will see new and increased use of our online materials in the years to come.

This increasing use of what is only a tiny percentage of our total holdings

Figure 2: Early California Cultural Atlas, Rancho / Land Grant founding in Los Angeles Area digitally integrates many types of online data with historic maps. http://ecai.org/ecca/SpanishMexicanLandGrants/index.html

makes clear the need to develop our digital holdings in a thoughtful and deliberate way to expand online access and facilitate research. With the rapid growth of digital scholarship, the time is right to put more resources toward this work, to establish a more visible presence for Bancroft in this field, and to expand our digital research collec-tions through partnerships with our friends, campus partners, and faculty and students.

—Mary W. Elings Head of Digital Collections

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Gifts Totaling $10,000 or MoreAeroflex FoundationAnonymousAssured Guaranty CorpMr. and Mrs. Paul Bancroft, IIIBarkley FundJohn E. CahillHelen Kennedy Cahill †Mr. Donald CairnsMrs. Isobel Smith ChristensenBarry and Debbie CohnJanet M. and William F. CronkGladys Krieble Delmas FoundationElsie Reimers FalconerProfessor and Mrs. Charles B. FaulhaberRenee B. Fisher Foundation, Inc.Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert FoundationRichard and Rhoda Goldman FundColleen and Robert D. HaasHellman Family FoundationFlorence and Leo B. HelzelFrederick J. Isaac Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community FoundationThe Magnes Museum FoundationJP Morgan Chase FoundationFarley P. Katz and Carolyn FuentesDavid L. Klein Jr. FoundationMr. Sidney KonigsbergKoret FoundationLakeside FoundationProfessor Raymond Lifchez and Judith Lee Stronach †Mark Twain FoundationMs. Nancy McGieMr. Richard Nagler and Ms. Sheila SosnowAndrea Pierceall and Terry O’ReillyMs. Susan ReedSierra ClubMr. Barclay SimpsonMarion Slusser and Willis S. SlusserGeorge and Camilla SmithTod and Catherine SpiekerMr. Robert J. StreichTaube PhilanthropiesPeter D. Tremblay for The Tremblay FamilyNancy P. WestonTheresa H. and Pasteur S. T. Yuen

Gifts totaling $5,000 - $9,999Susan Honeyman CrawfordDr. Lawrence CrooksMr. and Mrs. Donald W. DavisMs. Suzanne Lake De VosLester E. Dewall and Mary Stephens DewallMs. Amey A. DefriezRobin G. and Peter B. FrazierMarianne and Herb FriedmanVirginia Robinson FurthFred F. and Carol D. GregoryDavid M. and Jane M. HartleyMr. Stephen Brooks HerrickMrs. Meri JayeKatharine Hotchkis JohnsonWalter S. Johnson Foundation

Professor Catherine and James KoshlandLeakey FoundationDave and Rebecca LivermoreConnie and Robert LoarieMs. Neylan McBaineMrs. Lorraine ParmerMs. Barney QuinnDorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial FundMalcolm and Joan RossMrs. Joan P. RossDr. William J. RutterMr. Kenji SayamaKatherine and Chris SchwarzenbachBenjamin and Susan Shapell FoundationCharles and Tracy StephensonLaszlo N. Tauber Family FoundationMs. Janet TraubMonte UpshawMr. Steven WalskeJeanne and Leonard WareMs. Maryellen R. WeberSheila Wishek

Gifts Totaling $1,000 - $4,999Mark and Michele AldrichDr. Donald L. Allari, ’58AnonymousMs. Susan M. ArbuckleLynne Baer and Jay PidtoJerry BagnaniLinda and Mike BakerBancroft-Clair FoundationJeffrey W. and Beverly J. BausS.D. Bechtel, Jr. FoundationBecton Dickinson and CompanyAmy and Matt BerlerMr. Paul A. BermanDonna Lyons BlackMrs. Barbara Binsacca BowlesThomas A. Brady, Jr. and Katherine G. BradyMr. Victor BradyMr. and Mrs. John CakebreadMr. and Mrs. Donald B. CampbellJames and Missy CherryDr. Lawrence and Roberta CohnMr. Leonard CollinsMr. Robert Paul CorbettDana Corvin and Harris WeinbergJon Cosby and Kathi GwynnMrs. Claire DaggettMrs. Patricia Dietrich DalyMr. John A. De LucaMs. Frances DinkelspielMarci and Marc DollingerEdward Dong and Linda NakamuraMs. Ruth DonohughProfessor Georjana Barnes and Professor David DrubinHon. James C. EmersonProfessor Edwin M. and Dr. Sandra P. EpsteinMr. and Mrs. Morley S. FarquarLucy Rau Ferguson, Ph.D.Mrs. Frances Streeter FlanneryAnn and David Flinn

William S. Floyd, Jr., ‘56 and Cynthia FloydBing Yue Fong Memorial FundRon and Barbara ForsstromMrs. Marianne M. GagenNancy Hult Ganis, ‘78, M.J. ‘81 and Sid GanisDavid P. and Sheila S. GardnerTheodore and Frances GeballeMr. John E. Gibson, in memory of KateJ. Keith and Janice W. GillessLisa and Douglas Goldman FundMr. Timothy J. HachmanTom and Phyllis HammerKenneth and Janet Gray HayesAdele M. HayutinRuth and Alfred HellerPaul D. HermannDr. and Mrs. Kenneth HeulerWilliam and Flora Hewlett FoundationMs. Aurora D. HillSheila and Michael HumphreysRobert † and Beth JanopaulJohnson and JohnsonDavid and Maureen JordanMary Grace Soares KaljianDeborah and David KirshmanDr. and Mrs. Watson M. LaetschMrs. Helga LazzarottoLehrhaus JudaicaDavid and Linda LeiEdwin H. Lennette M.D., Ph.D.Dr. and Mrs. N.B. Livermore, IIIMrs. Lolita L. LowryDr. Alexander LucasMacy’s FoundationMr. Charles Hamilton MarstonDoris Cuneo MaslachRandall Maycock and Karen Barton-MaycockFritz and Beverly MaytagMechanics BankProfessor Robert MiddlekauffMr. Randall T. MillikenRobert London Moore, Jr.Richard H. and Laurie C. MorrisonC.D. Mote, Jr. and Patricia L. MoteTim and Nancy MullerMuller Family FoundationMs. Linda H. NakamuraNew York UniversityKirstin Clark Nichols, ‘68 and Frederic H. NicholsChip and Arlene NielsenMrs. Margaret J. O’DrainOliver and CompanyProfessor Roberta J. ParkMs. Connie Crowley PeabodyMs. Gladys Perez-MendezMr. David Wingfield PettusPfizer Foundation Matching Gifts ProgramDr. Daniel PinkelCarolyn and Gary PomerantzMr. John R. PostMs. Nancy J. ReavisMr. William S. Reese

Skip RhodesLila S. and Neville RichMs. Justine RobertsLeigh and Ivy RobinsonMr. Thomas W. RogersMr. and Mrs. John W. RosstonRoger and Jeane SamuelsenDonald A. and Joanne SandstromMrs. Barbara W. SeeburgerDr. Andrew M. SesslerMs. Susan SeverinGary and Dana ShapiroMr. Richard A. SilverbergLiz and Les SimmondsAlan and Janet StanfordMs. Leslie Crary and Mr. Andrew J. StoloffDr. William StriderMr. Jeremiah J. SullivanRoselyne Chroman SwigSwig FoundationMs. Marcia TannerProfessor Elaine C. TennantMs. Mary Ann TonkinScott and Julia WhiteJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc.Mr. Peter B. Wiley and Ms. Valerie BarthTom and Amy WorthDavid and Diane Werronen WymanPeter and Midge ZischkeMichael Zischke and Nadin SponamoreDonna ZitomerErnest E. amd Leslie M. Zomalt

Gifts Totaling $500 - $999Mrs. Brent AbelHoward and Ann N. AllenWinifred and Harry B. Allen FoundationPaul Alpers †AnonymousMr. Nick J. AretakisMrs. Elizabeth B. AustinRon and Sue BachmanBarlow and Hughan CPAsMichael and Marianne BeemanMs. Diane BirchellDon and Joan BishopMs. Denah S. BooksteinRichard M. Buxbaum and Catherine HartshornJerry Cahill and Kathleen KingChristine Lee CampbellEunice M. ChildsProfessor William A. Clemens and Dorothy T. ClemensMs. Susan Coliver and Ms. Sandra ColiverMs. Dorene Connelly and Ms. Carol ArnoldMr. Crawford CooleyJack and Mary DoldJohn and Karen DowdellFaith B. and Frederick K. DuhringMs. Rosalie B. EisenMr. William D. EpsteinMary T. Escherich

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ExxonMobil FoundationJack and Iris FarrCarol and John FieldMary Ann FisherPaul and Selma Forkash Family Charitable TrustDoris Foster FoundationMs. Gloria Y. GeeGeneral Electric FoundationJohn GilmoreMr. and Mrs. Philip J. GoldMr. Michael Goldstein and Ms. Susan BalesDr. Lucille M. GolsonRabbi Roberto GraetzAaron and Frances GreenbergMrs. Evelyn Q. GregoryMs. Sophie Hahn and Mr. Eric BjerkholtHewlett-Packard CompanyMrs. and Mr. David S. HindawiIBM CorporationElizabeth Bixby Janeway FoundationMrs. Theodore L. Johanson, Professor Harold S. JohnstonVivian Knudsen JohsensMichael A. and Susan T. JordanCarol and Howard JoryFred and Beth KarrenSid KeithMr. and Mrs. Dennis KellyMr. Holger KerstenMr. Noel W. Kirshenbaum and Ms. Diane RosenbergMs. Kimiko Fujii KitayamaMr. and Mrs. Robert KoenigMrs. Margaret L. and Mr. John R. LangleyPaul and Katie LarsenMrs. Dorothy and Mr. Ken LindauerJohn and Lois LindleyLeon and Rhoda LitwackMary E. MacDonaldMs. Martha Bancroft MacLaughlin †Mr. Michael ManicciaJoan and Roger MannDonald MastronardeMr. and Mrs. John W. MatthewsMrs. Dorothy H. MatthiessenDr.’s Thomas and Barbara MetcalfMitchner Family Philanthropic FundNeal MiuraMr. Akio Joseph MochizukiMorgan Stanley and Co., Inc.Audrey J. Naylor, M.D., Dr.P.H.Michael and Catherine NewmanCarol Davis NorbergMs. Miriam OstroffRichard C. OtterMr. Garry I.G. PartonPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPMr. Mathew QuilterMr. Howard Alan RandallGale Bolton RandallMs. Sue Reinhold and Ms. Deborah NewbronProfessor Gene RochlinMr. William C. RossoProfessor and Mrs. Sheldon RothblattMr. Klaus Ullrich RotzscherSalesforce.com FoundationDr. Martha E. SchafferJohn R. Schwabacher, in memory of Roberta SchwabacherProfessor Paul C. SmithMarian and Abraham SofaerMichael and Deborah SosebeeJim and B. J. Spitze

Mrs. Jackolyn Byl StadtmanBurton and Nancy SwensonMr. Matthew ThurlowMr. Stephen K. TollefsonMrs. Audree and Dr. Morris S. WeissProfessor Gerald WestheimerDr. and Mrs. Calvin D. WoodXerox FoundationDr. Irina Yefimov

Gifts Totaling $250 - $499Aetna Foundation, Inc.Dr. Judith P. AikinMs. Terry P. AlexanderLoretta AltshulerAnonymousGale Antokal and Neil Gozan, M.D.Mr. and Mrs. Robert ApteJane P. ArdleyMr. Milton C. AxtMr. David A. BaileyMr. Zachary M. BakerWm. P. Barlow, Jr.Albert P. BeltramiMr. Thomas C. BenetBerkeley Hillel FoundationProf. Emeritus and Mrs. Howard A. BernMs. Robin Berry and Mr. William RingerAdam Arthur BierMr. Irwin and Mrs. Rita BlittMs. Judith Gold BloomMs. Joan Evans BohnettMr. J. Dennis BonneyAllan G. Bortel, MBA ’65 and Sydne K. Bortel, MSW ’63Mrs. Rena BranstenMr. George BreedMr. John BriscoeMr. David W. BrownMs. Maxine BrownsteinMs. Eleanor BurkeMr. Robert J. CalderoneMs. Daina L. CarbonaroLisa CarlinMr. John T. CarlsonRobert S. and Candace E. ChapmanDr. and Mrs. Theodore Chase, Jr.Earl and June CheitMr. and Mrs. Robert W. ChernyMr. Angelo J. CifaldiMs. Denise B. Cohn and Mr. Bob CorsoMr. Hunter T. CookLloyd and Nancy CoyneMr. Barrett and Mrs. Muriel L. CrawfordMr. Joseph De SalazarMr. Thomas B. Debley and Ms. Mary Jane HolmesAndrea Seltzer Decker and Robert W. Decker, M.D.Dr. Ann Huberty Duncan, ’56Dr. Jonathan P. and Mrs. Caroline EarhartIris and Bill EdlundRoy and Betsy EisenhardtMs. Claire Louise EnglanderErnst and Young FoundationMr. Jay EspovichGrant D. EsterlingDr. and Mrs. E.C. Evans, IIIGarry and Ann FathmanHal and Diana FeigerMrs. Michael A. Ferrigno, in memory of Michael FerrignoMrs. Susan Fesus

David and Ann Cahill FidanqueJohn M. FindlayIn memory of Timothy J. Fitzgerald, Class of 1989Mr. J. Arthur FreedMr. Philip R. FriedelProf. and Mrs. Douglas FuerstenauEugene and Anneke GaenslenArthur B. and Miriam GaussDr. and Mrs. Sherman GeeChristina M. and John R. GillisMs. Amanda Golbeck and Mr. Craig A. MolgaardMr. Thomas GoldwasserMr. Mark C. GoniwiechaMr. and Mrs. Claude GruenMs. Annabella GualdoniMrs. Ann Armstrong GuildMr. David M. HamiltonDr. Susan K. HarrisMr. Leif C. HatlenMr. and Mrs. Richard HeggieDr. Richard D. HerringCharles and Sandra HitchcockMrs. Lorraine and Mr. Victor HonigGeorge J. HouleAlice Q. HowardMs. Paula E. HoweKathleen Graham HutchinsonMs. Katharine H. IrwinIra JacknisMr. Bruce J. JanigianMr. and Mrs. Andrew C. JanosMs. Marcia L. JensenNicholas and Debra JewellJK Group/LLNL HOME CampaignMary-Ellen JonesCoby JordanMr. Russell T. KawahataKen and Karen KellerCarol and Jack KingMr. Andrew KivelYvonne C. KoshlandMr. Theodore J. KotzinMrs. Janet R. KoupalDr. Marion R. Kramer, M.D.Steve and Arlene KriegerProfessor George LeitmannNancy Stewart LenzMs. Jill O. MallyWilliam O. MartinDr. W. Michael MathesMr. Edward E. MatthewsMr. Glen McLaughlinMs. Barbara J. MeislinProfessor Howard C. MelMr. and Mrs. Alan C. MendelsonMr. and Mrs. Robert MerrittMs. Margaretta K. MitchellVan and Carolyn MollerMrs. Catherine Hurley Moody, ‘38Ms. Barbara H. MorganMr. Matthew MorrisonMr. John Geoffrey MotlowProfessor and Mrs. William K. MuirKarl Frederick MunzKathryn M. NeriBrian L. NordenJeremy M. NormanMr. Steven H. OliverProfessor Roderic B. Park and Mrs. Catherine B. ParkMr. Harry A. PeshonBarry and Ruth PhillipsFrances Bauch PierceSharon and Ronald PlomgrenLinda O. PolsbyMr. William Pomeranz and Ms. Harriet Prensky

Mr. Gregory T. PriceProfessor David H. Pyle and Mrs. Connie J. PyleMs. Susan C. RaynesKatherine A. ReaganDonald and Gwen ReichertW. Robert ReidelbergerMr. Thomas Hugh ReynoldsJudge and Mrs. Richard W. RhodesMr. John J. Riley and Ms. Sachiko MinowaBarnes Riznik, ‘52Mr. Norman J. Ronneberg, Jr.William and Joan RothSan Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical SocietySanta Barbara FoundationMr. George L. SaywellHarry N. Scheiber and Jane L. ScheiberMilton and Sondra SchlesingerMrs. Grace L. and Mr. Smitty L. SchmidtMrs. Jane N. and Mr. Edward SchwartzShell Companies FoundationJanetta Thompson ShumwayMr. Ernest J. SilveriaArthur and Elizabeth SpanderMs. Nancy E. StoltzMr. Jeremiah J. SullivanMr. Anson Blake ThacherThe Gee Living TrustCarl and Kay ThoresenThomas K. and Roxanna S. TrutnerDr. Constantine TsonopoulosHonorable Richard E. Tuttle and Sally TuttlePaul A. ViolichCarol Norris Voss, ’58Marilyn and Murry WaldmanKathryn and David WerdegarJudith R. WessingMartha E. WhittakerMr. and Mrs. Witold T. WillerNancy M. Wright, ’61 and Gerald E. WrightMs. Vera ZatkinTodd and Linda Zucker

Gifts Totaling $1 - $249Ms. Marcy AlancraigMs. Terry P. AlexanderMr. Robert AlterKaren and Victor AlterescuProfessor Joel B. AltmanJean T. and Howard B. AlvordMs. Karen L. AndersonJudith L. AndersonVirginia and Henry AndersonLawrence and Phyllis AndersonAnonymousMr. Robert Oser AppletonMs. Regina Aragon and Mr. Lawrence R. LevittMs. Ann Gabor ArancioMs. Arlene ArkyStephen S. Arnon, M.D.Mr. Fred AstrenMrs. Bobbi and Mr. Marty BachMrs. Eleanor J. and Mr. William G. BadeHoward and Nancy BaetzholdDaniel C. Bancroft, ’55Bank of AmericaMr. and Mrs. Bradley BarberEugene and Nancy BardachBarbara Graham BarkerMr. and Mrs. James K. Barnett, IIIMr. Marlo H. Barsotti

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Elizabeth H. BartkyMr. Herbert BaskinMrs. Rosyland and Dr. Robert S. BauerPauline Wood BauerMr. Alvin H. BaumMr. Paul F. BaumannMs. Joan Finton BaumrindDr. David and Roxana BeachMr. Joseph and Mrs. Joyce BeharMs. Jaynelle K. BellMrs. Barbara A. BellMs. Evelyn A. BenasProfessor Jonathan BendorMr. Bruce G. BentzTodd I. and Betty J. BerensMs. Harriet BergProfessor Emilie L. BergmannDiane and Edwin BernbaumJoAnne and Alan E. BernsteinMrs. Cynthia F. BerrolPeter and Nancy BickelAdam Arthur BierDr. John BirdMs. Phyllis B. BischofMs. Adelie BischoffMr. Edwin H. BlackburnBeverly F. Blatt and David H. FilipekMrs. Judith L. BloomMs. Shirley BoltonAnne and Daniel BookinMrs. Iris Y. BorgBarbara L. BouckeMarilyn and Nick BowlesJean and James BoydenDr. and Mrs. David BradfordMs. Susan BrandtSally and Lawrence BrandtMr. Robert BranstenRaymond and Patricia BranstetterMichelle Padams BrantMs. Louise BraunschweigerAlfred and Ardis BreslauerMr. Mark and Kathleen BresslerMrs. Lisa J. BrinnerPaul BrocchiniJudith F. and Samuel BroudeDavid and Patty BrownMr. and Mrs. Robert W. BrownDr. and Mrs. Martin Brownstein, D.D.S.Mr. Richard BucciMelinda and Bob B. BuchananMr. Douglas A. BuckMs. Catherine BucklessMr. Colin I. BusbyBrian Bushnell and Linda BushnellMr. Lewis ButlerMr. Samuel Buttrey and Ms. Melinda HardyMr. Bryant H. ByrnesDr. Edward L. CahillMr. Walter C. CambraLois Morrison Hartley CannadyRobert and Jean K. CannonMr. Adam CardamonDr. Bartley L. CardonMs. Catalina CariagaDr. Bruce and Mrs. Susan CarterLetitia and Craig CasebeerMalca ChallFred and Tessa ChernissChevronTexaco Matching Gift ProgramBessie ChinMr. David P. ChowNancy and Thomas ChristieMr. William S. ClarkBeverly A. Clark

Mr. Edward ClarkeMs. Annabelle L. ClonerMr. Ladd CoatesMarvin and Suzy CohenLucy M. CohenLen and Roberta CohnMr. Robert H. ColeMs. Ellen Gilbert ColeMr. Paul ColginProfessor Paul ConcusMichael and Catherine ConnerShirley B. ConnerDr. Robert ConnickMs. Janet Audrey CooperLawrence Raffety CotterMr. Alfred CottonMr. Robert CovenDr. Constance J. Covington-DallmannMr. Robert F. CowanDr. and Mrs. John C. CraigMr. Harry W. CrosbyMr. Gerald F. CrumpMichael and Linda DaltonJaeileen and Robert DavidsonMs. Francine S. DavisMr. Peter F. De NicolaMr. Willett C. DeadySanford and Leslie DeLugachProfessor and Mrs. William M. DenevanDr. Robert P. and Mrs. Gerilyn T. DiamondMs. Leslie Burke DickeKaren and Ronald DickensonMs. Nina DickersonRobert M. DickoverMr. John P. DoyleMr. Howard B. DratchMs. Jordana DymMarlene Jensen Eastman and Rollin JensenCarol Brandstad EberDenise Ebright and Kevin HarringtonMs. Alla EfimovaArthur and Marian EichlinEli and Angela EisenpressMr. Amiram M. EisensteinMr. Uri and Mrs. Cindy G. EliahuMr. and Mrs. Jonathan ElkusLibby Ellis, in memory of Fred EllisMr. Joseph H. Engbeck, Jr.Mr. Marvin L. EngelMarvin A. Epstein, M.D.Ms. Yvonne V. EslerMs. Mary FabilliMs. Ruth Fallenbaum and Mr. Zeese PapanikolasGlenn J. FarrisMr. Paul J. FeissProfessor Lewis J. FeldmanDr. Robert FeldmanMrs. Vallery R. and Mr. Marc FeldmanMs. Diana J. Felton and Mr. Mike WallersteinMr. John A. FergusonMs. Gail L. FerrisProfessor Alexei V. FilippenkoMs. Mary Ellen FineJohn Finnick and Kathleen HegenMs. Nancy Balch FischerDr. Frances J. FischerMrs. Ruth E. FishMs. Nancy K. Fishman and Ms. Nina O. HaftDr. Barbara E. FongMr. Ronald G. FongMr. Mark K. Fontaine

Ms. Helena R. FosterDr. and Mrs. Jacob J. FosterMs. Anne FoxLinda and Eli FrankThe Frankel FamilyMrs. Marsha L. FranklinRobert and Sarah FreedmanMr. Sigmund A. FreemanMs. Grace FretterMr. Dale R. Friedman and Ms. Joan L. BradusK. Bruce and Lois FriedmanEdnah Beth FriedmanMrs. Harriet J. FriisCharles P. FroomMr. Robert FultonElaine and Gary GallaherSam and Catherine GallingerProfessor Jesus GarciaDr. Paul and Linda GeigerGenentech, Inc.Ms. Kathleen Ann GeritzMr. and Mrs. Robert E. GilbertPaula and Eric GillettPhoebe B. GilpinMr. and Mrs. Larry GoldenbergMr. Robert A. GoldsteinLois GoodallMs. Rosanne GoodwinMr. Norman E. GrabsteinAnn and Richard GraffisMs. Valerie A. GrayMichael GreenMs. Jane A. GreeneMr. Milton GreensteinMrs. Judith and Mr. Ralph GreifMr. Miljenko GrgichMs. Jeanne M. GriffithDr. Michael D. GriffithBarry and Barbara GrossElaine and Arnold GrossbergGordon L. Grosscup, Ph.D.Professors Emeriti Gregory and Joan GrossmanProfessor Erich S. GruenDr. Carl GrunfeldPaul A. GrunlandMr. Ronald GustafsonRobert and Jane HaasMrs. Ilse HaddaMrs. Ellen HahnMs. Katherine Hallal and Mr. Stanley WongMr. Robert L. HamiltonCarrie A. HammondJohn and Kathryn HansellMiss M. Antoinette HarrisRichard and Julie HarrisWilliam C. and Jean H. HartStephanie M. and Marc I. HayutinMrs. Edythe B. HedaTamra and John HegeMrs. Grete Unger HeinzMs. Elisabeth HeislerMr. Harvey Zane HelfandMr. Kenneth G. HellyarMrs. Susan P. and Dr. Richard A. HelmrichMr. Peter HendricksMs. Martha J. HendricksMs. Margaret O. HermanRichard and Valerie HerrDr. Richard Hershcopf, M.D.Mr. C.V. HerstMr. Frederick C. HertzSarah and Siegfried HesseMs. Lauretta Higgins

Ms. Leanne HintonRalph T. HitchcockMr. Peter HoMr. Henry and Mrs. Mary R. HoexterMr. Hal HoffmanMr. Stan D. HoffmanMr. Robert B. HofmannGemma and Edmond HonMs. Inge S. HortonMr. William HortonMs. Elizabeth C. HoughtelingMr. Larry C. HoweEstie and Mark HudesMs. Kathryn A. HummelCecelia Hurwich, Ph.D.Colleen M. HutchingsRuth H. IkedaMrs. Yasuko IkedaDr. Robert IlkoStephen L. ImsenLeonard and Joanne IsaksenMr. Ovid JacobDr. Proverb G. Jacobs, Jr.Professor and Ms. D. JenkinsJewish Historical Society of Napa ValleyArvilla T. JonesMs. Ann JorgensenElizabeth S. JudsonMr. Brewster KahleMs. Rachel Kahn-HutAndrew and Diane KalletDr. Theodore I. KaminsMr. J.R.K. KantorMr. Jesse S. KaplanMr. Irwin KaplanHoward † and Beverly KarnoDr. Myra L. KarstadtGary and Ilene KatzMr. Leonard KatzMs. Deborah KaufmanDr. Charles C. Kelsey, D.D.S.Mrs. Jean A. KelseyMr. Richard T. KenmotsuMr. James W. Kennedy, Jr.Brandon and Trisha KettRosalind and Sung-Hou KimDr. Clarissa T. KimberDr. Elliot KimmelMs. Shirley G. KimmelMr. Michael J. KingJohn K. KingMs. Beverly P. KivelMs. Susan Klee and Mr. David StoloffMs. Vivian KleimanLaura Klein and Tony CormanMs. Elsa C. KleinmanMr. Paul KlevenMs. Janet A. KluthoMr. Richard S. KnappGerald V. and Rosette KochPeter Koch and Susan FilterMrs. Virginia J. and Mr. Frederick O. KoenigMr. Kenneth KofmanJanet Mitchell KohnTakasumi and Katsuko KojimaMr. Stanley L. KorwinMs. Caitlyn Mae KowalczykSue Kramer, in memory of Lawrence I. Kramer, Jr.Ms. Sharon Krause and Mr. Bruce CohenMs. Jacqueline K. KrentzmanMr. and Mrs. Albert H. KuglerKenneth and Philomena KungMr. and Mrs. Thomas M. KunzMr. Gary F. KurutzSamuel and Tamara Kushner

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Mu Phi EpsilonMs. Gloria MulhallMr. Norman M. MundellProf. Emeritus and Dr. Rollie J. MyersMr. and Mrs. Alan P. NadritchJohn and Barbara NagleAnita NavonMs. Susan H. NelsonMrs. June Kren Neuhaus ‘48Ernest and Eva NewbrunJohn and Mary Lee NoonanBernard M. and Eve R. NotasDr. and Mrs. K. Patrick OberMr. Anthony OertelMs. Patricia C. O’GradyJohn and Barbara OhlmannMr. and Mrs. Robert M. OliverCarey Edson OlsonMs. Rosalind Palmer OnoMs. Pil L. OrbisonMr. Craig N. OrenMarie Kendrick Otto Foundation/ Marie Luise OttoPacific Gas and Electric CompanyGwenyth M. and Robert A. PageMs. Olivia M. PalacioJoanne Bonner PalamountainRichard and Martha PastcanMr. Christopher Alan PatzDeborah B. PaullMrs. Kathleen Cifra PeckMr. Scott W. PectorDr. Carla PetievichMs. Jeanne PimentelDr. and Mrs. Leslie F. PiskitelChan. Emeritus Karl S. PisterMrs. Virginia PolakPerry and Sylvia Polk, In memory of Rosemary McClardArthur and Lucille PoskanzerMs. Beverly PosnerJohn and Susan PrausnitzMichael and Betty PrenterMr. and Mrs. Robert PrindleMs. Glenda L. ProsserMs. Harriet Meyer QuarreDr. and Mrs. Stephen D. and Wilma R. K. RaderProfessor Judith R. RafteryMs. Julia RandallMrs. Sonya RapoportDr. R. Kent and Kathleen RasmussenErik and Andrea RasmussenMs. Dyanne Ratner and Mr. Greg LaingDr. and Mrs. James J. RawlsRichard ReinhardtMs. Jeanne Reisman and Dr. Len GoldschmidtMrs. Margaret M. RennRoy and Joann RichardDr. Anne RichardsonMr. Richard RifferMs. Ronnette A. RileyAnn and Richard RobertsCarole F. and Norman M. RobinowMary Judith RobinsonHarriet RochlinMr. and Mrs. Svante RodegardJohn and Florence RosenbergCarla and Nicholas RosenlichtWilliam and Renee RothmannMs. Mary L. RottmanMs. Raine RudeMrs. Minnie S. Ruth

James and Jane RyanRobert and June SafranMr. Gordon T. Sakaue and Ms. Betty J. FisherMr. Ralph SamuelMr. Charles W. Savage, IIIMr. Tetsubumi K. SayamaHoward and Ethel SchachmanTerry Trosper SchaefferPeter and Charna SchakowMr. Nicholas B. ScheetzMr. and Mrs. M.D. SchiffmacherNorman and Adrianne SchlossbergJohn and Betty SchmelzerMs. Thelma C. SchoonmakerMrs. Helen and Mr. Donald SchulakMs. Judith S. SchulerMrs. Margrit SchurmanDouglas and Lisbeth SchwabMr. Cary and Mrs. Elaine SchwartzThomas C. SchwartzburgJudge and Mrs. William W. SchwarzerMr. and Mrs. Paul SedwayAndrew and Ellen SeligProfessor and Mrs. George F. SensabaughMr. Jerry J. SershenJuliet Popper ShafferHelen Park ShaperoProfessor Barbara J. Shapiro and Professor Martin M. ShapiroCarol Booth SharonJeanie and Alan ShaterianCarolyn Demeter Sheaff, ’58James and Sandra SheehanMrs. Perdita Loomis SheirichMr. and Mrs. John J. ShookProfessor and Mrs. Philip SiegelmanMr. Alan B. SielenMs. Syrl A. Silberman and Mr. Saul RubinMr. William H. SilcoxMr. Michael SilversteinMr. Andrew J. SimmondsJane and Benjamin SimonMs. Frances L. SingerMr. Dan SlobinJune Smith BruggerJames and Donna SmithProfessor Eugene SmolenskyMr. James B. SnyderMrs. Margaret M. SnyderMr. Jerome P. SolariMs. Amy SollinsDr. Deke SonnichsenLorelei and Jerry SontagMs. Barbara SpackWilliam and Anne SpencerJohn and Marjorie SproulProfessor Herbert H. SrebnikMs. Mary StaatsDr. W. K. StadlerProfessor and Mrs. Randolph StarnMr. and Mrs. Jack SteadmanLaurie L. StearnsHarold and Carol SteinbergMr. Joel SteinerLee and Bonnie StoneMs. Barbara StradcutterMs. Maria Elena Stratton and Mr. Stephen SadowskyMs. Betsy Strauss and Mr. Max SchleicherMr. Alan J. StraussMelinda and George Stuart

Mr. S. Kent SullivanMr. Thomas A. SutakMs. Donna K. SwartzMr. Roger G. SwearingenProfessor Ann Swidler and Mr. Claude FischerAlbert and Saori TadakumaMr. Charles TaftDinah Smith TakakjianDolores Taller, in support of the Magnes Collection, in memory of Stephen Lee TallerMarianne “Poppy” TannerMrs. Marilyn R. TaubmanMr. J. Curtiss TaylorMrs. Mayo TaylorSusan D. ThomasAnne Voorsanger TickProfessor Stephen TobrinerMr. Jason TokunagaMs. Joyce P. TovellProf. and Mrs. Charles H. TownesMs. Roslyn TunisCharlotte A. TylerFrances Esquibel TywoniakMs. Rebecca UllrichLloyd and Lassie UlmanMr. John R. UnderhillMr. Thomas S. Van Den HeuvelDr. Robert Wazeka and Prof. M. F. Van LooMs. Nina Van RensselaerMrs. Norma VanceMr. Patrick J. VazMrs. Helga B. VisscherMr. and Mrs. John D. VohsMarvalee and David WakeMr. Stephen A. WalkerMs. Frances Elizabeth WalshMs. Sheila WanderSusan and Felix WarburgSheridan and Betsey WarrickDr. Donald WarrinWillard D. WashburnMr. Arthur WeilIlene WeinrebMr. Norman C. Weinstein and Ms. Mary OwenMarilyn and Raymond WeisbergMr. Douglas WeisfieldWells Fargo Bank Community SupportMs. Mary Elizabeth WendtMr. Klaus W. WernerA. Marilyn Haskell Wheeler, ’53Marilyn and Howard WhelanMs. Ann WhippleMs. Barbara A. WhittonBoyd E. WickmanRita WielandHolly G. WillettMs. Diane B. WilseyMr. Edward O. WolcottMr. and Mrs. Harry WolfMrs. Sandra and Dr. Steven F. WolfeMs. Rhoda L. WolfeMs. Susan WolfeMrs. Lynn D. WolffFred WombleFlorence WongPat Wright, in memory of Timothy J. FitzgeraldGail M. ZabowskiMr. William Nicolas ZavlarisProfessor and Mrs. Sheldon ZedeckMr. Joel Zeldin and Ms. Karen Zeldin

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2013–2014

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Oral HistoryOn and Above

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Frederick F. GregoryNoah GriffinSophie HahnDavid HartleyTamra C. HegeSheila M. HumphreysBruce J. JanigianDebra L. KasperDeborah KirshmanLaurence A. LaskyBetsy Leland LinkMary E. MacDonaldRichard MorrisonRon NajafiDavid W. PettusSkip RhodesTheresa SalazarCamilla SmithSusan SnyderRichard WalkerSteven C. Walske

Through August 30, 2013

GLORIOUS PAST, GLORIOUS FUTURE: CELEBRATING CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STADIUMRowell Cases, 2nd floor corridor between Doe and Bancroft

This exhibition explores the colorful history of California Memorial Stadium, from its predecessor athletic fields and original dedication in 1923 to its 2012 reopening following renovation and seismic retrofitting. An array of mate-rial, drawn largely from University Archives’ collections, traces the rise of this campus icon.

Opens August 1, 2013

CLIPPER SHIP SAILING CARDS IN THE BANCROFT LIBRARYBancroft Corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library

The clipper ship sailing cards first appeared in the 1850s, advertising the departure of a ship on an imminent but indeterminate date. Numerous artists, engravers, and printers turned to this new advertising medium at a time when color printing processes were also improving. The cards were printed letterpress on cardstock, and accented by colorful wood-engraved images or dramatic let-tering. Today, The Bancroft Library is home to the largest collection of clipper cards.

Bancroftiana is made with 25% recycled post-consumer waste

The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Exhibitions • Summer 2013

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