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Finding Aid to the Dorothy Ward Erskine Papers, circa 1950-1982
BANC MSS 83/79 c
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Collection Title: Dorothy Ward Erskine papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1950-1982
Collection Number: BANC MSS 83/79 c
Creators :
Erskine, Dorothy Ward
Extent:
Number of containers: 8 cartons
Linear feet: 10
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Consists primarily of subject files, arranged alphabetically,
concerning early conservation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some correspondence, notes, and
organizational records among the subject files. Of note are the People for Open Space
materials and the folders on preservation activities in Napa County.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite
and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as
the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from
the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Dorothy Ward Erskine Papers, BANC MSS 83/79 c, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Conservation related photographs from the Dorothy Ward Erskine papers, BANC PIC
1983.108-PIC.
Bay Area foundation history : oral history transcripts / 1971-1975, BANC MSS 77/67 c.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Erskine, Dorothy Ward--Archives
People for Open Space
Environmentalists--California--San Francisco Bay
Area
Environmentalism--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History
Napa County (Calif.)
Clippings.
The Dorothy Ward Erskine papers were given to The Bancroft Library by John Erskine
December 13, 1982. Additions were made on April 27, 1983.
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the container level.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2008.
Dorothy Erskine was born in 1896. A lifelong resident of San Francisco, she was involved in
early efforts supporting public housing in the 1930's. She later became an active leader in
local and regional environmental organizations. She passed away in San Francisco in
1982.
Scope and Content of Collection
Consists primarily of subject files, arranged alphabetically, concerning early conservation
in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some correspondence, notes, and organizational records among
the subject files. Of note are the People for Open Space materials and the folders on
preservation activities in Napa County.