Collection Summary
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: California As It Is: A Collection of Questionnaires,
Date (inclusive): 1886-1889
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-D 989
Creator:
H. H. Bancroft and Company
Extent:
Number of containers: 4 boxes
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Includes over three hundred printed questionnaires, apparently filled out by agents of H.H. Bancroft with information supplied
by California settlers involved in agriculture or related industries. Responses to questions on printed side of form are chiefly
statistical; verso of form usually contains a brief biography of interviewee.
Box 4 contains more completed questionnaire forms, usually without biographical information; some of these are captioned "Statistics
of California Industries."
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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
[Identification of item], California As It Is: A Collection of Questionnaires, BANC MSS C-D 989, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
This collection forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.