UC Berkeley

Original documents and contemporary copies, emanating from or relating to the California missions. Include correspondence, circular letters, reports, accounts, a few padrones, and one book of marriages.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s comprehensive collection—more than 19,000 works of art and 16,000 films and videos—is characterized by artistic excellence and innovation, intellectual exploration, and social commentary. Representing a tremendous diversity of global cultures and historical periods, the collection reflects the central role of education in our mission. The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant-garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Arthur Brown, Jr. Papers largely document the buildings designed by Arthur Brown, Jr. as a member of the firms Bakewell & Brown (1905-1927) and Arthur Brown, Jr. and Associates (1927-1950), through manuscript materials and drawings. Records also reflect the professional career of Arthur Brown, Jr., and, to a lesser extent, the personal life of the architect.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Artistic Homes of California consists of twenty-seven views of exteriors (and a few interiors) of mansions located in California. Most of the mansions are located in San Francisco. A few are located in San Jose and Oakland. The individual photomechanical reproductions were published by Britton & Rey between 1887 and 1890 as supplements to the . They were also issued collectively with the title . The Bancroft Library holds copies of this collection which are more complete than the present collection. This collection includes the residences of R. H. Pease, Charles Holbrook, Charles Crocker, Edward W. Hopkins, J. C. Flood, …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Views of natural features and scenery, members of the survey party and their camps. Locations include the Sierra Nevada range of California and Nevada and numerous sites in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Several Central Pacific Railroad views are included.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Asian American Political Alliance Oral History Project was led by Professors Elaine Kim and Harvey Dong at UC Berkeley in 2018. The mission of the project was to document the history of the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) through oral history interviews with key members of the UC Berkeley chapter. AAPA was formed in 1968 and its two main chapters were at UC Berkeley, formed by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, and at San Francisco State College by Penny Nakatsu and others. AAPA was an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, Third World political organization that fought for self-determination and liberation for Asian …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

Letters written to him; copies of letters written by him; biographical sketches and personalia; bibliographies and bibliographic notes; financial records; MSS of his writings; copies of his articles and speeches, MSS and printed; copies of introductions, statements and book reviews written by him; lecture notes; subject files; clippings and photographs. Primarily re his career, after his retirement from the Berkeley Police Department, as professor of police administration at the University of California, Berkeley; as consultant; and as author.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Harry Babcock Photograph Albums collection contains 175 photographic prints taken between 1881 and 1883, presumably by Harry Babcock. The collection contains many scenes of outdoor recreational activities, including hunting, fishing, boating, and camping. The natural locations photographed include Yosemite, San Andreas Lake, various parts of the Sacramento, McCloud and Pitt Rivers, Lagunitas, Mt. Tamalpais, Mt. Shasta, Eddy Mountain, San Francisco Bay, Mud Lake, Picayune Lake, Buck Lake, Castle Lake, Pilarcitos, and the Suisun marshes. There are also photographs of Babcock's hunting dogs, hunting partners, and killed game....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Volume 1 edited by Dale L. Morgan and George P. Hammond. Volume 2 edited by G. P. Hammond....

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

The Berkeley and Oakland Businesses and Scenes collection contains 52 photographs and 3 post cards dating from around the turn of the century to the 1930s. The collection contains a miscellany of residences, businesses, street scenes, group portraits, and churches. A large portion of the collection apparently documents the iron ornamentation of many of the featured buildings--perhaps the work of Liberty Ornamental Iron and Wire Works, Inc., which is pictured in at least one photograph. Notable buildings and locations include the Berkeley City Hall, the University of California at Berkeley, the Lutheran Church on Bancroft Way in Berkeley, Shattuck Avenue, …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library