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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
The Bancroft Library is the University's main special collections library. It is one of the largest and most heavily used libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and unique materials in the United States including more than 600,000 volumes, 60,000,000 manuscript items, 8,000,000 photographs, 43,000 microforms, and 23,000 maps. Of interest to genealogists are the premier Western Americana, and Latin Americana collections, including Native Americans, Spanish encounter and colonial settlement, western America | The Bancroft Library is the University's main special collections library. It is one of the largest and most heavily used libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and unique materials in the United States including more than 600,000 volumes, 60,000,000 manuscript items, 8,000,000 photographs, 43,000 microforms, and 23,000 maps. Of interest to genealogists are the premier Western Americana, and Latin Americana collections, including Native Americans, Spanish encounter and colonial settlement, exploration of western America, maps and atlases, the Mexican War, westward migration, the Gold Rush, mining, land surveys, religious and Utopian communities, and ethnic communities. Themed collections include CalHeritage, California Cultures, California Loyalty Oath, Chinese in California, Italians in California, Japanese Relocation, and private land claim cases in California (ca. 1850-ca. 1890).<ref>[http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/ Collections] in ''The Bancroft Library'' Internet site (accessed 26 October 2013).</ref> | ||
=== Tips === | === Tips === | ||
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=== Guides === | === Guides === | ||
*[http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/camera.html Collection guides] finding aids (OAC). | *[http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/camera.html Collection guides] Bancroft Library's finding aids (OAC). | ||
*Dale L. Morgan, and George P. Hammond, ''A guide to the manuscript collections of the Bancroft Library'', 2 vols. (Berkeley : Published for the Bancroft Library by the University of California Press, 1963-1972). {{WorldCat|579978|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|137888|item|disp=FHL Book 979.467 A3b}}. | *Dale L. Morgan, and George P. Hammond, ''A guide to the manuscript collections of the Bancroft Library'', 2 vols. (Berkeley : Published for the Bancroft Library by the University of California Press, 1963-1972). {{WorldCat|579978|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|137888|item|disp=FHL Book 979.467 A3b}}. | ||
*Charles Faulhaber, and Stephen Vincent, eds, ''Exploring The Bancroft Library'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Bancroft Library in association with Signature Books, 2006). {{WorldCat|62896560|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. | *Charles Faulhaber, and Stephen Vincent, eds, ''Exploring The Bancroft Library'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Bancroft Library in association with Signature Books, 2006). {{WorldCat|62896560|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. | ||
*[http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/genealogy.html Biography and Genealogy Resources] including books, manuscripts and other printed materials, newspaper and periodical indexes for California, handbooks and manuals. | *[http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/genealogy.html Biography and Genealogy Resources] at the Bancroft Library including books, manuscripts and other printed materials, newspaper and periodical indexes for California, handbooks and manuals. | ||
*Barbara Lee Hill, ''Genealogy: A Guide to the UC Berkeley Library'' (Berkeley, CA: The Library Associates, The General Library. University of California, Berkeley, 1984). {{WorldCat|11785638|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|367164|item|disp=FHL Book 979.465/B1 A3h}}. | |||
=== Alternate Repositories === | === Alternate Repositories === | ||