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Guide to the Centennial History Office records, [ca. 1950]-1967
CU-5.92
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Collection Title: Centennial History Office Records,
Date (inclusive): [ca. 1950]-1967
Collection Number: CU-5.92
Creator:
University of California (System). Centennial History Office
Extent:
Number of containers: 4 boxes
Repository: The
Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Centennial History Office records, CU-5.92, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Collection of materials for a History of the University of California for the Centennial of the instution in 1968. Includes
correspondence, reports, interviews, tape recordings, and negative microfilm of source documents.
This collection represents the work of Walton Bean, professor of history, to collect material for a history of the University
for the Centennial of the institution in 1968. Bean apparently proposed this project to President Sproul as early as 1950
and began to collect materials as a regular research project at that time. A few years later, funding was received from the
President's Office for the support and continuation of the project. It was apparently at this stage that Rena Vassar and Alex
Callow were employed as research assistants in the project. Bean's involvement in the project seems to have ended about 1960,
although a few materials in the present collection date after that time. It is not at all clear how these later materials
came to be integrated into the present collection.
The University later established another group, under Verne Stadtman, to prepare the Centennial publications. These files
are also in University Archives and may also be consulted by those interested in University history.