Bancroft Library Gallery
April 21 – September 1, 2017
For the first time in many years The Bancroft Library presents an exhibition of recent additions to its major collections. The exhibition also includes recently rediscovered masterpieces carefully collected in years past. Gold Rush-era memoirs and advertisements, early editions of William Langland and Jane Austen, “branded” books from 18th c. Mexico, and David Johnson’s photographs of the African American community in San Francisco after World War II are but a few of the items featured.
The exhibition showcases the Bancroft curators and their distinctive collecting practices, which expand the remarkable vision of library founder Hubert Howe Bancroft–documenting California as it was happening and building a library for the American West that would rival its European antecedents.
Presented by the Friends of The Bancroft Library.
The Bancroft Library Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm, excluding holidays.
For more information, please call 510-642-3782 or visit bancroft@berkeley.edu.
