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Bernard Taper papers, approximately 1940-1995.
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Title:

Bernard Taper papers, approximately 1940-1995

Creator/Contributor:

Taper, Bernard, creator, creator.

Abstract:

Includes correspondence, personal files; course materials; Berkeley Shakespeare Festival materials; California Shakespeare Festival materials; resumes; biographical material; drafts of essays; research notes for memoir on Taper's experience repatriating Nazi looted art in World War II; research materials on George Balanchine; research notes on Tuskegee, Alabama gerrymandering; and research notes on Charles Abrams; research notes on Alan Chadwick.

Date:

1940 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Taper, Bernard -- Archives
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Journalism.
Berkeley Shakespeare Festival.
California Shakespeare Theater.

Note:

UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via a Special Collections Request link.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Bernard Taper papers, BANC MSS 2018/193, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Digital materials transferred to the Digital Collections Unit of The Bancroft Library.
Gift of Mark Taper 2018.
Bernard Taper was born on January 28, 1918, in Scotland. At the age of eleven he migrated to Los Angeles and later attended the University of California, Berkekley. He was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II, and in 1946 he was discharged and accepted a position with the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Program (MFAA) Section of the Allied Military Government in Germany. As an art intelligence officer, he was tasked with investigating and recovering works of art looted by the Nazis. After returning to the United States Taper completed his degreee at Berkeley, received a Master's degree in English from Stanford University, and pursued a career in journalism. He published books on George Ballentine and civil rights of the 1960's. In 1970 he joined the faculty of UC Berkeley's new School of Journalism where he taught until 1998. Taper passed away in Berkeley in 2016.

Type:

Faculty papers.

Physical Description:

print
15 (12

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via a Special Collections Request link.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.