A guide to the manuscript collections of the Bancroft Library 1963-1972

Bancroft Library

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Hammond, George P. (George Peter), 1896-1993

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George Peter Hammond was born on September 19, 1896 in Hutchinson, Minnesota, and spent the first 13 years of his life in Kenmare, North Dakota. In 1909 his family moved to California; they arrived in Fresno but shortly thereafter settled on a plot of land in nearby Caruthers. While his parents and older brother worked on the family's farm, Hammond attended the local grammar school, followed by high school in the town of Easton, eight miles away. He graduated in 1916 and started college at Berke...

Morgan, Dale L. (Dale Lowell), 1914-1971

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Author and historian of the Amercian West. From the description of Scrapbook, 1916-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122630659 Dale L. Morgan (1914-1971), Western historian, was born in Salt Lake City and educated at the University of Utah. He was state superintendent for the Utah Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (1940-42) and information specialist with the Office of Price Administration during World War II. As a Guggenheim Fellow for 1947-48, Morgan...