Water Resource Collections and Archives

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Contact
Theresa Salazar, Curator
Phone: 510-642-3781
Fax: 510-642-7589
Email: bancref[at]library.berkeley.edu

About the Collection
Description of San Francisco water-related materials:
The Bancroft Collection includes material related to water and land issues in the bay area from the Spanish Colonial period to the present. Topics which can be explored include water supply, land and water use, urban development, landfill, landscape and watershed preservation/deterioriation, water rights, etc. All different formats are represented, including strong manuscript and pictorial resources. Among the most useful collections are the Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy Papers, Spring Valley Water Company, Land Case records and maps, Save-the-Bay records, Sierra Club records (and many other environmental collections), Clyde Sunderland Photographic Collection.

Time Period: Pre-1848, 1848-1899, 1900-1920, 1921-1949, 1950-1963, 1964-1980, 1981-Present
Types of Material: Architectural Drawings, Audio Recordings, Books, Diaries/Journals/Papers, Digital Files, Ephemera, Films/Videos/Moving Images, Government Documents, Institutional Publications, Institutional Records, Large Format Papers, Manuscripts, Maps, Microfiche/Microfilm, Newspaper Clippings, Newspapers, Oral Histories, Photographs, Postcards, Press Releases, Printed Works, Prints/Posters, Rare Books, Serials, Slides, Statistical Data, Technical Drawings, Unprocessed

Access:
Open to the Public? Yes
Reservations Required? No
Public Fee? No
Hours:Monday-Friday 10am-5pm
Open to Scholars? Yes
Reservations Required: No
Scholars Fee? No
Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm

Access Procedures:
Online catalog, photocopy and other services related to image reproduction. Non circulating collection. Open to the public.

Collection Management Information
Catalog:
Pathfinder: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/
Online Archive of California (OAC) for finding aids: http://oac.cdlib.org/

Digital Formats:
Search the OAC for digital images using "image search"

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Submitted: 3/27/2007
Last Updated: 3/27/2007