Saturday, October 3rd
120 Latimer, Pitzer Auditorium
2:30-3:30pm

Led by Jack von Euw, Curator of the Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection

Powerpoint presentation featuring highlights from the Pictorial Collection, as well as current and future collecting initiatives. The Pictorial Collection, consisting of eight million items, ranges from shipboard sketches and drawings from the early voyages of exploration to California and Alaska, major western American landscape paintings and photographs from mid 19th and early 20th centuries, and the recent donation of the San Francisco Examiner photography archive to photographs of the construction of the new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.