Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus

Link: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/bridge/

Bridging the Bay logo

At a time when the Bay Area’s bridges are being analyzed and new structures are being planned, it is important to recognize the diversity and depth of the research collections that exist on the Berkeley campus. The exhibit includes books, documents, architectural drawings and renderings, blueprints, artifacts, maps, and photographs. The bridges documented include the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Carquinez Bridge, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, the Antioch Bridge, and the Dumbarton Bridge. The exhibit also contains documents detailing Bay Area bridge projects that were seriously considered, but were never built.

Dec 01, 2006 | Categories: Exhibits | enordmei

The Lehmer Family at Berkeley

Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/Math/intro.html

Lehmer Family

Selections from the University Archives of The Bancroft Library
and the
Lehmer Family Papers

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Dec 01, 2006 | Categories: Exhibits | enordmei

Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad

Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/index.html

In 1853, at the age of seventeen, Samuel Langhorne Clemens left his home in Hannibal, Missouri, for his first extended trip. Over the next fifty-seven years he crisscrossed the globe, at first working as an itinerant typesetter in several major eastern cities, then as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, and later as a prospector and newspaper reporter on the American frontier, where he first used the pseudonym "Mark Twain." He made one-night lecture stops at hundreds of small towns, settled down for months in hotels and rented villas in England and Europe, escaped life's hurly-burly on tropical isles, and basked in society's limelight in many of the world's great cities. He visited five continents, steamed across the Atlantic twenty-nine times, and crossed the Pacific and Indian oceans as part of one complete round-the-world circuit.

Dec 01, 2006 | Categories: Exhibits | enordmei

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