Bancroft Library Regional Oral History
Office
A Register of Its Oral History Collection in the Library of
Congress
Prepared by Margaret McAleer
Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2007
Contact information:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division,
2007
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007108
Title: Oral History Collection
of the Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office
Span Dates: 1959-1979
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1969-1975)
ID No.: MSS54221
Creator:
Bancroft Library.
Regional Oral History Office
Extent: 19 items;
8 containers;
3.2 linear feet
Language: Collection material in
English
Repository:
Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Interviews pertaining
to California state politics and government, the suffragists, and to the life
and career of John S. Service, an American diplomat in China, and his wife,
Caroline.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped
by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
Personal Names
Service, John S., 1909-
Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.
Organizations
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Subjects
Diplomatic and consular service, American--China.
Diplomats' spouses--Interviews.
Labor unions--California.
Politicians--California--Interviews.
Suffragists--Interviews.
Women--Suffrage.
Locations
California--Politics and government--1850-1950.
California--Politics and government--1951-
China--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--China.
Related Names
Bary, Helen Valeska, 1887-1973. Helen Valeska Bary oral history interview.
Earl Warren Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974. Sara Bard Field oral history interview.
Gordon, Walter, 1894-1976. Walter Gordon oral history interview.
Governmental History Documentation Project (Bancroft Library)
John S. and Caroline Service Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Kent, Roger, 1906-1980. Roger Kent oral history interview.
Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 1894-1988. Burnita Shelton Matthews oral history interview.
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977. Alice Paul oral history interview.
Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Jeannette Rankin oral history interview.
Reyher, Rebecca Hourwich, 1897-1987. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher oral history interview.
Service, Caroline. Caroline Service oral history interview.
Suffragists Oral History Project.
Vernon, Mabel. Mabel Vernon oral history interview.
Walter Gordon Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Provenance:The Oral History Collection of the Bancroft Library Regional Oral
History Office, University of California at Berkeley, was given to the Library
of Congress by the Bancroft Library from 1974 to 1987 and by Amelia Fry in
1985.
Processing History:The records of the Oral History Collection of the Bancroft Library
Regional History Office were arranged and described in 1997 and the register
revised in 2007.
Copyright Status:Each interview transcript contains information concerning the status
of copyright.
Restrictions:Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication
of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript
Division concerning these restrictions.
Microfiche:The Earl Warren Oral History Project and the Suffragist Oral History
Project are also available on microfiche in the Library of Congress Microform
Reading Room.
Preferred Citation:Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the
following information: Container number, Oral History Collection of the
Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office, Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Oral History Collection spans the years 1959 to 1979 and consists
of nineteen volumes containing transcripts of approximately eighty interviews
conducted by the Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office at the
University of California at Berkeley. The transcripts are accompanied by
introductions, tables of content, indexes, and supplementary material including
photographs and copies of correspondence, reports, and clippings. The
interviews are arranged alphabetically by name of the oral history project.
The bulk of the interviews relate to California state government and
politics. They include twenty-seven interviews from the Earl Warren Oral
History Project concerning health insurance, labor, Japanese-American
relocation during World War II, Warren's early years in Bakersfield, and his
relations as governor with the public, press, and state legislature. An
extensive interview with Merrell Farnham Small, administrative secretary in the
governor's office from 1945 to 1953, is also included. Other oral history
projects pertaining to California are the Governmental History Documentation
Project which is represented in this collection by an interview with Roger
Kent, vice chairman and chairman of the California Democratic State Central
Committee from 1954 to 1965, and an oral history project documenting the career
of Walter Gordon, lawyer, civil rights leader, governor of the Virgin Islands,
and chairman of the California Adult Authority, a state agency responsible for
setting terms and granting paroles for adult prison inmates.
The collection also contains thirteen interviews from the Suffragists
Oral History Project. Included are interviews with Helen Valeska Bary, Sara
Bard Field, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Alice Paul, Jeannette Rankin, Rebecca
Hourwich Reyher, and Mabel Vernon, among others. The interviews explore their
subject's early formative years and their subsequent efforts on behalf of
woman's suffrage, welfare and labor reform, world peace, and passage of the
Equal Rights Amendment. An interview with Caroline Service, wife of diplomat
John S. Service, forms part of the China Series. Her interview covers her years
in China from 1933 to 1940 as the wife of a foreign service officer and her
husband's arrest in 1945 for allegedly passing secret documents to
Amerasia magazine, his testimony before the Loyalty Review
Board in 1951, and his subsequent firing by the State Department.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by name of oral history
project.
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China Series, John S. and Caroline
Service Oral History Project, interviews with Caroline Service,
1976
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Earl Warren Oral History
Project
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"Earl Warren and Health
Insurance, 1943-49," interviews with Gordon Claycombe, John W. Cline, Russel V.
Lee, and Byrl R. Salsman,
1970-1971
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"Earl Warren's Bakersfield,"
interviews with Maryann Ashe, Omar Cavins, Ruth Smith Henley, Ralph Kreiser,
Manford Martin, and Ernest McMillan,
1969-1971
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"The Governor and the Public, the
Press, and the Legislature," interviews with Marguerite Gallagher, Verne
Scoggins, and Beach Vasey,
1970-1973
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"Japanese-American Relocation
Reviewed"
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Vol. 1, "Decision and Exodus,"
interviews with Tom Clark, Edward Ennis, Percy C. Heckendorf, James Rowe, and
Herbert Wenig,
1971-1973
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Vol. 2, "The Internment,"
interviews with Robert Cozzens, Ruth Kingman, and Dillon S. Myer,
1969-1971
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"Labor Looks at Earl Warren,"
interviews with Germain Bulcke, Joseph W. Chaudet, Paul Heide, U. S. Simonds,
and Ernest H. Vernon,
1969-1970
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"Merrell Farnham Small,
Departmental Secretary," interviews with Small,
1970-1971
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Governmental History Documentation
Project, "Roger Kent: Building the Democratic Party in California, 1954-66,"
interviews with Kent,
1976-1977
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Suffragists Oral History
Project
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Bary, Helen Valeska,
1972-1973
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Butler, Jessie Haver, Miriam
Allen deFord, Ernestine Hara Kettler, Laura Ellsworth Seiler, and Sylvie Grace
Thompson Thygeson,
1972-1974
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Field, Sara Bard,
1959-1963
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Matthews, Burnita Shelton,
1973
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Paul, Alice,
1972
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Rankin, Jeannette,
1972
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Reyher, Rebecca Hourwich,
1973
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Vernon, Mabel, and Hazel
Hunkins-Hallinan,
1972-1975
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Walter Gordon Oral History
Project, interviews with Gordon, his associates, and family,
1971-1979
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vols.)
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