The archivists of the Bancroft Library are pleased to announce that in the last quarter (April-June 2024) we opened the following Bancroft archival collections to researchers:
Oliver Williamson papers (Michele Morgan and Marjorie Bryer)
Howard Luck Gossage papers, approximately 1960-1973 (Jaime Henderson and Lara Michels)
Barbara Oliver collection of theatre materials, 1945-2012 (Jaime Henderson and Lara Michels)
Mary Moore papers, 1975-2002 (Presley Hubschmitt)
Arif Press records, approximately 1970-1991 (Dean Smith)
Letters from Victor Palfi to Dody Weston Thompson, 1961-1964 (Jaime Henderson)
Tulare County Sheriff’s Office scrapbook of wanted flyers, cards, bulletins, and posters (Lara Michels)
Robert Jackson archive of Zen Buddhism in Berkeley, California (Marjorie Bryer)
Gladys L. Collier papers (Marjorie Bryer)
[Stuart H. Ingram photograph album of the class of 1908] (Jessica Tai)
Brett Weston and Dody W. Thompson correspondence and journals, 1949-1989 (Jaime Henderson)
Rosario Curletti papers (Marjorie Bryer)
Gay Olympics (Gay Games) scrapbook, 1982 (Marjorie Bryer)
Art Varian collection of scrapbooks and photographs, 1911-1945 (Marjorie Bryer)
Granary Books collection of publishing ephemera, 1986-2021 (Marjorie Bryer)
African American choir ephemera collection, approximately 1931-1946 (Marjorie Bryer)
Hadassah San Francisco, Lakeside Chapter records, cookbooks, and photographs, 1980-2005 (Lara Michels)
Charles W. Hope papers (Lara Michels)
Prisoner rights ephemera (Marjorie Bryer)
Sandra Ramois collection on Eldridge Cleaver, 1984-1998 (Marjorie Bryer)
Diana Russell collection on Lakireddy Bali Reddy sex trafficking case, 1999-2018 (Jaime Henderson and Marjorie Bryer)
Emma Fong Kuno papers, 1907-1942 (Marjorie Bryer)
Tobyanne Berenberg collection of Ethel Duffy Turner papers, 1860-1984 (bulk 1955-1969) (Marjorie Bryer)
Paul Steiner family papers (Presley Hubschmitt)
Arthur St. John Oliver journal, 1899 (Michele Morgan)
Mare Island Naval Shipyard Structural Shops Training Program Course Packet, 1958 (Michele Morgan)
Elisabeth C. Caldwell Niles letters, 1858-1866 (Marjorie Bryer)
Mariana Ruybalid papers (Jaime Henderson and Marjorie Bryer)
The Pictorial Processing Unit opened:
70 small collections and single items (approximately 7,160 items, total)
Including:
A 2,450 item collection of Frashers Fotos real photograph postcards of California views, published approximately 1925-1955.
Over 1250 snapshots in a Photograph album documenting California travels, Christian Endeavor events, approximately 1925-1945.
A collection of William Alsup’s well-documented and beautifully printed photographs of the Sierra Nevada, with recent additions.
And also made available:
A newly published finding aid to the Robert Altman photograph archive of rock-and-roll and counter-culture images, chiefly of the 1960s and 1970s.
Additions to the Art Hazelwood Collection of San Francisco Poster Syndicate Political Posters