September 20, 2011 - January 6, 2012
The Bancroft Library Gallery
Open from 10am - 4pm

The exhibition invites the viewer to embrace the rich and diverse history of the state through The Bancroft Library's unique and rare holdings and makes manifest the many stories that interweave the broader history of what is today collectively known as California. Selected from Bancroft's voluminous collections, the original manuscripts, drawings, paintings, photographs, rare publications and prints highlight the often contradictory and competing claims to history from the points of view of the original peoples and the national interests that set in motion California's coming of age.