The Bancroft Library is the primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retain the name Bancroft Library in perpetuity. The collection at that time consisted of 50,000 volumes of materials on the history of California and western North America. It is now the largest such collection in the world. The library's current building, the Doe Annex, is in the center of the university's main campus, and was completed in 1950.
Bancroft Library, September 2010.
Hubert H. Bancroft, the library's founder and namesake
Herbert Eugene Bolton, founding director
Theos C. Bernard - G. Eleanore Murray Collection and Archive bookplate provided by the California Digital Library
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley is also a founding member of the Association of American Universities. It has been regarded as one of the top universities in the world.
View from Memorial Glade of Sather Tower (the Campanile), the center of Berkeley
Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais
The interior of the Hearst Mining Building, dedicated by Phoebe Hearst in honor of her late husband, George.
Doe Memorial Library