Previous Exhibitions
 2007 - 2000
1999 - 1990
1989 - 1980
1979 - 1970
1969 - 1968
2007 March - January
Past Tents: The Way We Camped
2006 April - August
1906: The Great Quake: The Legacy of a Disaster
2006 February - December
The Bancroft Library at 100: A Celebration 1906-2006
2006 January - March
1906: The Great Quake: The History of a Disaster
2005 April - June
Chinese in California, 1850-1925: Between Two Worlds
2004 December - March
Annual Gifts to The Bancroft Library
2004 September - November
Memory Lines: Fifty Years of Oral History at the University of California,
Berkeley
2004 April - July
Breaking Through: A Century of Physics at Berkeley
2004 December - March
Gifts to The Bancroft Library
2003 August - November
Towards and Sustainable Earth: Issues, Challenges, and Leadership in the Environmental Movement
2003 March - July
Then and Now: Student Photographs of the Berkeley Campus
2002 December - 2003 February
Celebrating Donors: Gifts to Bancroft, 2000-2002
2002 August - November
Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly at The Bancroft Library
2002 May - July
Sites of Discovery: Art & Archaeology in 19th Century Photographs of the American Southwest
2002 January - April
The Foundations of Anthropology in California, 1901-1960: A Centennial Exhibit
2001 August - December
California Culinary Culture: Sampling the Collections of The Bancroft Library
2001 April - August
PROTEST
2000 December - April
Gifts to the Library
2000 September - December
Images of Native Americans
2000 March - September
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Visions of the Future in the Golden State
1999 September - December
Ancient Lives: The Tebtunis Papyri In Context
1999 March - September
Biotechnology at 25: Perspectives on History, Science, and Society
1998 September - December
Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad
1998 March - August
"I am bound to stick awhile longer" - The California Gold Rush Experience
1997
Gifts to the Library
1997 April - June
British Heritage in California (Doe Library)
1996
Gifts to the Library
1996
Beat Poets
1994 December - 1995 April
Gifts to the Library
1994 May - November
Family Papers in The Bancroft Library
1993 December - 1994 April
Gifts to the Library
1992 April - November
A Victorian Affair in Two Centuries: Harriet Matineau as Collected by Reinhard S. Speck
1992 December - 1993 April
Gifts to the Library
1992 June - November
El Encuentro
1992 February - May
Robert Duncan: A Poet's Art
1991 December - 1992 January
Gifts to the Library
1991 June - November
Legacy of James D. Hart
1991 February - May
Printing and the Book of Nature (including items loaned by Stanford)
1990 December - 1991 January
Gifts to the Library
1990 June - November
Yosemite in the 19th Century (Speaker: David Brower)
1990 February - May
Fine Printing of the 18th Century (Speaker: William P. Barlow, Jr.)
1989 December - 1990 January
Gifts to the Library
1989 June - November
Rudyard Kipling in America 1889 (Speaker: Prof. Thomas Pinney, Pomona College)
1989 February - May
The Books and Manuscripts of Elinor Raas Heller (Speaker: James E. O'Brien)
1988 December - 1989 January
Gifts to the Library
1988 May - November
The Mexican Heritage of the American Far West (Speaker: Regent Vilma S. Martinez)
1988 February - May
Contemporary Danish Book Art (loan exhibit, Speaker: Poul Steen Larsen)
1987 December - 1988 January
Gifts to the Library
1987 October - November
The Word in Many Languages, Eight Centuries of the Bible (Speaker: Prof. Robert B. Alter, UCB)
1987 April
Andrew Jackson Grayson, Audubon of the West (opening of TBL traveling exhibit at Oakland Museum, Speaker: Andrew Hoyem)
1987 June - September
The Chinese and Japanese in California (Speaker: Maxine Hong Kingston)
1987 February - May
400 Years of English Diet and Cookery, The Dr. and Mrs. John. C. Craig Collection (Speaker: Dr. John C. Craig, UCSF)
1986 December - 1987 January
Gifts to the Library
1986 October - November
Bret Harte's 150th Birthday (Speaker: James D. Hart)
1986 June - September
Nineteenth-Century Illustrations of California Sights and Scenes (Speakers Round Table: John Berggruen, Lawrence Dinnean, Joseph Goldyne, Therese Heyman)
1986 February - May
Spain in The Bancroft Library (reinstalled, Fall 1987 for the visit of King Juan Carlos, Speaker: Prof. Charles B. Faulhaber, UCB)
1985 December - 1986 January
Gifts to the Library
1985 October - November
The European Heritage of California (exhibit topic selected for the visit of the International Association of Bibliophiles to California, Speaker: James D. Hart)
1985 May - September
Huck Finn’s 100th Birthday (Speakers Round Table: Alan Dundes, Victor Fischer, Robert H. Hirst, Wright Morris)
1985 February - April
The Book as an Artifact (Speaker: Anthony Bliss)
1984 December - 1985 January
Gifts to the Library
1984 October - December
William Morris: the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection (joint exhibition with the University Art Museum, Speaker: Sanford Berger)
1984 April - May
Collector’s Choice: Books and Manuscripts Assembled by William P. Barlow, Jr. (displayed in Administrative Offices, Speaker: William P. Barlow, Jr.)
1984 March - May
Acquisitions in Memory of Theodore R. Meyer (Speaker: Roger Heyns)
1984 January - February
Cobden-Sanderson's Bindings (exhibition adapted from Oct-Dec 1982, Speaker: John Dreyfus)
1983 December - 1984 January
Gifts to the Library
1983 October - November
The Work and Play of Adrian Wilson (Speaker: Adrian Wilson)
1983 June - October
The History of Science and Technology (Speaker: Jonathan Miller, reinstalled July-August 1985 for the visit of International Congress of History of Science)
1983 February - May
The Illustrated Book (Speaker: Prof. Jacques de Caso, UCB)
1982 December - 1983 January
Gifts to the Library
1982 October - December
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (Speaker: Norman Strouse)
1982 May - September
California Fifty Years Ago: the 1930s (Speaker: Jessamyn West)
1982 February - April
First Books by Notable Authors (Speaker: Wright Morris)
1981 December - 1982 January
Gifts to the Library
1981 October - November
Ecology and Conservation (Speaker: Norman Livermore)
1981 June - August
Photographs by Johan Hagemeyer (Displayed in University Art Museum)
1981 May - September
American Humor (Speaker: Art Hoppe)
1981 February - April
Before 1500 in The Bancroft Library (Speaker: Elbert W. Wall, Papyrologist, The Bancroft Library)
1980 December - 1981 January
Gifts to the Library
1980 September - November
Modern Hand Bookbinding
1980 May - August
Classic California Photographers (Speaker: Ansel Adams)
1980 February - May
Les Jeunes
1979 December - 1980 January
Gifts to the Library
1979 October - November
Robert Louis Stevenson in California (Speaker: Normal H. Strouse)
1979 June - September
Sir Francis Drake (Speaker: Prof. David B. Quinn)
1979 April
Great British Documents at UC Berkeley
1979 March - June
Great Maps and Atlases of The Bancroft Library
1979 January - February
Treasures from Friends of The Bancroft Library
1978 December
Gifts to the Library
1978 October - November
Sources for Scholars: Rare Materials and Published Works Based on Them
1978 June - September
Women Writers (Speaker: Joan Didion)
1978 March - May
Books in The Bancroft Library from the Collections of Famous People
1978 January - February
The Joseph M. Bransten Coffee and Tea Collection. (Speaker: Joseph M. Bransten)
1977 December
Gifts to the Library
1977 October - November
The Printed Book in America
1977 July - August
Andrew Jackson Grayson (Displayed in University Art Museum)
1977 August
California Mission Music (a small exhibit for the International Musicological Society)
1977 May - August
Drama and Theater Collections in the Bancroft Library (Speaker: William Saroyan)
1977 April
French History and Literature (a small special exhibit for the Society for French Historical Studies)
1977 March - April
Lawton Kennedy, Printer
1977 January - February
Hermann Hesse (with slide show on Hesse)
1976 December
Gifts to the Library
1976 September - November
The Nuremberg Chronicle and Adrian Wilson, Book Designer, Printer and Author (Speakers: Joyce and Adrian Wilson)
1976 June
Sheldon Cheney (a small special exhibition)
1976 May - August
U.S. Senators from California (Speaker: Sen. Alan Cranston)
1976 April
Campus Open House Exhibit (a selection of unusual Bancroft materials)
1976 March - April
The Allen Press (Speaker: Lewis Allen)
1976 January - February
Harriet Martineau, Radical Victorian Lady (Speaker: Dr. Stanley Speck)
1975 December
Gifts to the Library
1975 September - November
One Hundred Sixteen Uncommon Books on Food and Drink (from the collection of Marcus Crahan, Speakers Round Table: Marcus Crahan, Harry Levinson, R. Gordon Wasson)
1975 May - August
North American Indians (Speaker: N. Scott Momaday)
1975 March - April
George R. Stewart, Historian, Biographer and Novelist
1975 January - February
William Everson, Poet and Printer (Speaker: Wm. Everson)
1974 December
Gifts to the Library
1974 November
Sean O'Faolain's Papers (Speaker: Sean O'Faolain)
1974 September - October
John Baskerville, Printer and Typefounder (Speaker: William P. Barlow, Jr.)
1974 July - August
Gertrude Stein Centennial
1974 May - June
Selections from Some Privately Formed Collections in The Bancroft Library (Speaker: James Thorpe)
1974 April
The Book as an Artifact
1974 February - March
Harry Leon Wilson (Showing of the film, Ruggles of Red Gap)
1974 January
Modern Fine Bookbinding in England and America
1973 December
Gifts to the Library
1973 October - November
The Aldine Press
1973 August - December
Frederick Remington
1973 May - July
Some Treasures of The Bancroft Library (Speaker: Charles Hitch)
1972 December
Gifts to the Library
1972 May
Mark Twain Papers (Speaker: Henry Nash Smith)
1972 April
Theodore Dreiser (Collection of John Otvos)
1972 March
Bibles from the Near East to the Far Pacific
1972 January - March
Giovanni Mardersteig, Modern Master Printer
1971 December
Gifts to the Library
1971 November
Royal Deeds and Commoner's Works: Some Women Write History (Speaker: Natalie Davis)
1971 September - October
Gertrude Stein, Her Family, and Friends
1971 May
Western Americana (Speaker: Wallace Stegner)
1971 January - February
Rube Goldberg Memorial Exhibition (University Art Museum)
1970 December
Gifts to the Library
1970 May
California (Speaker: George R. Stewart)
1970 March - April
Centennial of the birth of Frank Norris (screening of Von Stroheim's Greed)
1969 December
Gifts to The Bancroft Library
1969 July
Manuscripts at Berkeley (Arranged for the meeting of The Manuscript Society)
1968 November
David Stacton Memorial
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