Biographical/Historical note
Conditions Governing Access note
Conditions Governing Use note
Preferred Citation note
Related Archival Materials
Scope and Contents note
Processing Information note
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library
Title: Margaret Wood Bancroft Collection
creator:
Bancroft, Margaret Wood, 1893-1986
Identifier/Call Number: LA.2012.0201
Physical Description:
1.0 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1929-1945
Language of Material: English
Abstract: The Margaret Wood Bancroft Collection consists of one box of archival material including correspondence, a photographic album
documenting the 1930 expedition cruise of the Gulf of California, an expedition to the Sierra San Pedro Mártir in 1935, manuscript
materials, and documents regarding the Bancroft Egg Collection.
Biographical/Historical note
Margaret R. Wood Bancroft, (1883-1986), was an American amateur naturalist who with her husband, ornithologist and oologist
Griffing Bancroft, explored the Baja California coastline, documenting bird and wildlife of the region. In 1935, Bancroft
led a search for the lost mission of Santa Ysabel in the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California.
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open to researchers by appointment. Contact the Research Library Director, San Diego Natural History Museum.
Conditions Governing Use note
Copyright may be reserved. Consult the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library Director for more information.
Preferred Citation note
[Identification of item], Margaret Wood Bancroft Collection (Archives collection 2012.0201). Research Library, San Diego Natural
History Museum.
Related Archival Materials
Margaret Bancroft: a personal portrait : Smith, Virginia M. http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z240q
Recollection of Hubert Howe Bancroft and the Bancroft family : oral history transcript: and related material, 1977-1980,
BANC MSS 80/144 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z240q
Baja California Photographs by Griffing Bancroft, UC San Diego Special Collections, http://roger.ucsd.edu/record=b8901187-S9
Scope and Contents note
The Margaret Wood Bancroft Collection includes correspondence, manuscript typescript, a scrapbook of clippings and notes,
and an annotated photographic album that documenting collecting trips and exploratory travels in Baja California.
Processing Information note
This is an unprocessed collection in the archives of the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library; not all of the
contents of this collection have been fully inventoried. Photographs from the photographic album have been digitized.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Description and travel
Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Pictorial works
Bancroft Family
Manuscripts
Women naturalists -- United States
Field notes
Bancroft, Griffing, 1879-1955
Green, J. Elton (Josiah Elton), 1908-1986
Harbison, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1904-1989
Huey, Laurence M. (Laurence Markham), 1892-1963
Klauber, Laurence Monroe, 1883-1968
Pierce, Wright M., 1886-1937