Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Centennial History Office Records,
- Dates:
- [ca. 1950]-1967
- Creators:
- University of California (System). Centennial History Office
- Extent:
- Number of containers: 4 boxes
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Centennial History Office records, CU-5.92, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from Wordperfect; finding aid encoded by Xiuzhi Zhou. Date of source: Unknown.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Centennial History Office records, CU-5.92, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, University Archives, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- (510) 642-6481