The Bancroft Library holds company records in various industries such as lumber and mining, many dating as early as the mid-1800s. While not typically viewed as environmental collections, these materials provide insight on business practices that had great impact on the environment. In addition, they record the beginnings of the conflict between conservation and the exploitation of natural resources, as well as the need to manipulate and control water.
Logging truck carrying a load of redwood logs
Image citation: Save-the-Redwoods League photograph collection, BANC PIC 2006.030--PIC, Carton 5, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Union Lumber Company records, 1854-1973
BANC MSS 68/21
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T.B. Joy & Co. records, 1854-1958
BANC MSS 67/67
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Pacific Lumber Company records, 1864-1938
BANC MSS C-G 95
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Caspar Lumber Company records, 1905-1956
BANC MSS C-G 288
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Rockport Redwood Company records, 1907-1969
BANC MSS 70/184
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Harry W. Cole papers, 1912-1961
BANC MSS 67/46
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California State Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers, AFL-CIO records, 1945-1981
BANC MSS 84/120
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Golden Gate Mining Claim, No. 2
Image citation: Photographic views of the Golden Gate Mining Claim, BANC PIC 19xx.197 Set 2:2--ffALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Mariposa Land and Mining Company of California records, 1863-1923
BANC MSS C-G 127
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Amador Mining Company records, 1866-1886 (bulk 1867-1872)
BANC MSS C-G 129
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Thomas Clark family mining papers, 1880-1986 (bulk 1894-1913)
BANC MSS 98/57
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Quintera Mining Company records, 1880-1909
BANC MSS 69/19
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Homestake Mining Company records, 1888-1999
BANC MSS 2005/297
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Argonaut Mining Company records, 1890-1984 (bulk 1893-1948)
BANC MSS 85/38
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La Grange Mining Company records, 1893-1914
BANC MSS C-G 75 (container listing in catalog record)
Homestake Mining Company collection of McLaughlin Mine manuals, 1980-1986
BANC MSS 2004/216
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Orvana Resources Corporation records, 1980-1996
BANC MSS 2017/171
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There are also two Oral History Center projects focusing on this industry: Global Mining and Western Mining.
Hetch Hetchy Resevoir with Kolana Rock
Image citation: M.M. O'Shaughnessy photograph collection, BANC PIC 1992.058--PIC, Carton 3, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Spring Valley Water Company records, 1856-1952
BANC MSS C-G 189
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M.M. O'Shaughnessy papers, 1882-1937
BANC MSS 92/808
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John S. Eastwood papers, 1884-1969 (bulk 1895-1924)
BANC MSS 2010/178 (container listing in catalog record)
Miller & Lux records, 1869-1965
BANC MSS C-G 163
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Paul Schuster Taylor papers, bulk 1895-1984
BANC MSS 84/38
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J. Rupert Mason papers, 1935-1958
BANC MSS C-B 865
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Henry J. Kaiser papers, 1873-1982
BANC MSS 83/42
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Crown Zellerbach Corporation records, 1876-1992
BANC MSS 88/215
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Edgar F. Kaiser papers, 1886-1981
BANC MSS 85/61
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Mason-McDuffie Co. records, 1904-1983
BANC MSS 89/12
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Eugene E. Trefethen, Jr. papers, 1930-1980
BANC MSS 87/35
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Six Companies records, 1931-1941
BANC MSS 77/195 (container listing in catalog record)