New Acquisitions
Louis Marie Prudhomme:
Biographie universelle et
historique des femmes célèbres
mortes ou vivantes (Paris, 1830)
Prudhomme’s biography of famous
women is especially valuable for its
information on the women of the
French Revolution. Prudhomme was
the author of Révolutions de Paris, so he
knew many of his subjects personally.
The Pauline Fore Moffitt Library Fund
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Thomas Marriott: Female conduct:
being an essay on the art of pleasing.
To be practised by the fair sex,
before, and after marriage. A poem
in two books. (London, 1760)
This didactic poem laments the lack of
women’s education in 18th-century
Britain. Marriott notes that women
receive the first and last finishing
strokes of education from their dancing
master, which makes them easy prey for
fops and beaus.
The Imogene and William Merrill Memorial Book Fund
Album of postcard views of Petaluma, California, ca. 1907–1921
Photographic postcards provide wonderful
documentation of many locales in California
in the early part of the century. This
album includes photos of the chicken and
egg industry for which Petaluma was well
known, and views of the downtown area,
commercial buildings, homes, parades, and
shipping on the Petaluma River.
The Edna Parratt Fund
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Luis de Paramo: De origine et
progressu Officii Sanctae
Inquisitionis, eiusque, dignitate &
utilitate. (Madrid, 1598) The Augusta M. Higginson Endowment |
Records of The Grass Valley Daily
Union and The Weekly Union,
1866-1937
This amazing archive of the principal
Grass Valley newspaper provides not
only details about the operation and
finances of the newspaper, but also a
wealth of information about individuals,
local businesses, advertising, local
printing, and demographics. Included,
for example, are subscription lists,
hundreds of business letterheads,
receipts, billheads, clippings of ads,
circulation statements, and accounts.
The Peter and Rosell Harvey Memorial Fund
Herbert Huncke Papers
Chiefly editor’s proofs of Guilty of
Everything, the autobiography of
Herbert Huncke, with holograph
corrections. Huncke is credited with
introducing the term “beat.” He
appears as a character in Kerouac’s On
the Road, Burrough’s Junkie, and John
Holme’s Go.
State funds
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Thomas Manuel Fernández:
Tratado legal, y politico de
caminos publicos, y possadas,
dividido en dos partes.
(Valencia, 1755)
The first study of the roads and inns of
Spain, this work presents an excellent
view of the infrastructure of the country
in the mid-18th century, when both
inns and roads were notoriously bad.
The Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Fund
in memory of Jerry Gamble Chambers
Sara Diamond Collection on the
U.S. Right
This ongoing collection, already
comprising over 75 linear feet, is the
result of a 14-year documentation of
the Christian Right and other rightwing
movements by sociologist and
author Sara Diamond (Ph.D. UCB,
1993). Gathered in the course of
writing four books, the collection is
probably the largest private collection of
such primary source material and a
significant complement to the library’s
Social Protest Collection.
Gift of Sara Diamond
Volume 112
Spring 1998
Table of Contents
DeFeo, Conner papers add to Bancroft’s Beat collection
From the Director: What does Bancroft collect?
The Digital Scriptorium
Towards a Renaissance in medieval manuscript studies
Robert Frost Collection includes photos inscribed by the poet
Bancroft Fellows research images of the American West, history of Mexico’s Cora Indians
Freshmen discover the wonders of Bancroft
Bancroft staffer in the spotlight
An Oral History of Jack Stauffacher From letterpress to computer-designed fine printing
Where is the last portrait of Mark Twain?
