The archivists of The Bancroft Library are pleased to announce that in the past quarter (July-September 2023) we opened the following Bancroft archival collections to researchers.
General and UARC Collections:
Michael Paul Rogin papers (processed by Marjorie Bryer)
Acción Latina records and El Tecolote newspaper archive (processed by Marjorie Bryer)
Pam Levinson papers (processed by Presley Hubschmitt)
William Moore journals and other papers (processed by Lara Michels)
Renee Gregorio papers (processed by Simi Best)
Howard A. Brett collection of Panama Canal materials (processed by Lara Michels)
C. (Walter Clay) Lowdermilk papers (processed by Presley Hubschmitt)
Mosaic Law Congregation records (processed by Presley Hubschmitt)
Daniel Holmes collection of Sierra Club burro trips and Yosemite National Park backcountry research (processed by Jaime Henderson)
Triangle Gallery records (processed by Dean Smith)
Western Jewish History Center records (processed by Presley Hubschmitt)
Bransten and Rothmann family papers (processed by Presley Hubschmitt)
Friends of the River collection (transfer from UC Riverside; additional processing work by Lara Michels and Jaime Henderson)
George W. Barlow papers (processed by Jessica Tai)
Streetfare Journal records (processed by Lara Michels and student processing assistant Malayna Chang)
Roger Parodi collection of art museum and gallery announcements (processed by Lara Michels and student processing assistant David Eick)
Israel Louis Greenblat papers (processed by Presley Hubschmitt)
American Cultures Center records (processed by Jessica Tai)
Larry Orman archive of The Friends of the Stanislaus River materials (processed by Jaime Henderson)
Hamilton Boswell papers (digital materials processed by Christina Velazquez Fidler)
Pictorial Collections:
130 small collections and single items (approximately 6,650 items, total)
William F. Knowland’s gubernatorial campaign of 1958 photographs (and miscellaneous subjects added in Series 4 of the Lonnie Wilson archive)
3,155 new scans from Thérèse Bonney’s WWII era photographs from Finland, 1939, and France, Portugal, Belgium 1940
Collections Currently in Process:
Elizabeth A. Rauscher papers (Jessica Tai)
Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley, records (Jessica Tai)
California Faience archive (Jaime Henderson)
Jan Kerouac papers (Marjorie Bryer)
Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate papers (Marjorie Bryer)
Nathan and Julia Hare papers (Marjorie Bryer)
Morris M. Goldstein papers (Presley Hubschmitt)
Hertzmann and Koshland family papers (Presley Hubschmitt)
Bush Street Synagogue Cultural Center records (Presley Hubschmitt and student processing assistant Malayna Chang)
Charles Muscatine papers–digital component (Christina Velazquez Fidler)
ruth weiss papers (Simi Best)