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	''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org''		''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org''

			[[Image:Bancrofts History Factory on Valencia 1880s AAK-1218.jpg]]

			'''Bancroft's History Factory on Valencia, c. 1880s.'''

			''Photo: San Francisco History Room, SF Public Library AAK-1218''

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	'''~~Second~~ site of Bancroft's Library and "History Factory" on Valencia at Army (today, site of St. Luke's Hospital).'''		'''Third site of Bancroft's Library and "History Factory" on Valencia at Army (today, site of St. Luke's Hospital).'''

	''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org''		''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org''

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	'''Bancroft's History Factory, 1875, 723 Market Street, between 3rd & 4th Streets. Street work underway. Johnson & Best cabinet makers at left.'''		'''Bancroft's History Factory, 1875, 723 Market Street, between 3rd & 4th Streets. Street work underway. Johnson & Best cabinet makers at left.'''

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			'''Bancroft's History Factory, c. 1905, opposite Grant Avenue.'''

			''Photo: Provenance unknown.''

	''Photo: courtesy [http://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.03777.jpg OpenSFHistory.org]''		''Photo: courtesy [http://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.03777.jpg OpenSFHistory.org]''

Ccarlsson at 00:54, 7 May 2020

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	''Photo: courtesy [http://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.03777.jpg OpenSFHistory.org]''		''Photo: courtesy [http://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.03777.jpg OpenSFHistory.org]''

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			'''Bancroft's History Factory on Market Street, burning in 1886.'''


	[[Image:800px-Hubert Howe Bancroft.jpg\|240px\|left]]		[[Image:800px-Hubert Howe Bancroft.jpg\|240px\|left]]

Ccarlsson at 21:51, 7 September 2018

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	[[Image:800px-Hubert Howe Bancroft.jpg\|240px\|left]]		[[Image:800px-Hubert Howe Bancroft.jpg\|240px\|left]]

	'''Hubert Howe Bancroft''		'''Hubert Howe Bancroft'''

	''Image by [~~http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7d5nb5sw?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere, Public Domain,~~ https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2138417 Bradley & Rulofson]''		''Image by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2138417 Bradley & Rulofson]''

	In the 1870s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Howe_Bancroft Hubert Howe Bancroft] employed dozens of scribes to systematically write the History of the West. Bancroft made use of index cards in the organization and compilation of facts for his lengthy and massive series of historical volumes. In the course of his organization of source material and writing, Bancroft made use of scores of research assistants, the contributions of some of whom amounted to the output of co-writers. Originally he seems to have intended to use topical sections of writing produced by his assistants as the basis of a broad narrative which he himself would write, but as the work progressed he came to use the statements as they were, with only slight changes. He said his assistants were capable investigators, and there is evidence that some of them deserved his confidence; Frances Fuller Victor, in particular, was a well-known author. However, his failure to acknowledge each contribution created doubt about the quality of the work. Overall, although Bancroft considered himself the author of his works, in contemporary terms it is more accurate to consider him an editor and compiler.		In the 1870s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Howe_Bancroft Hubert Howe Bancroft] employed dozens of scribes to systematically write the History of the West. Bancroft made use of index cards in the organization and compilation of facts for his lengthy and massive series of historical volumes. In the course of his organization of source material and writing, Bancroft made use of scores of research assistants, the contributions of some of whom amounted to the output of co-writers. Originally he seems to have intended to use topical sections of writing produced by his assistants as the basis of a broad narrative which he himself would write, but as the work progressed he came to use the statements as they were, with only slight changes. He said his assistants were capable investigators, and there is evidence that some of them deserved his confidence; Frances Fuller Victor, in particular, was a well-known author. However, his failure to acknowledge each contribution created doubt about the quality of the work. Overall, although Bancroft considered himself the author of his works, in contemporary terms it is more accurate to consider him an editor and compiler.

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Created page with "''' Unfinished History ''' Image:Bancrofts-History-Factory-1875 wnp37.jpg '''Bancroft'..."

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''' Unfinished History '''

[[Image:Bancrofts-History-Factory-1875 wnp37.jpg]]

'''Bancroft's History Factory, 1875, 723 Market Street, between 3rd & 4th Streets. Street work underway. Johnson & Best cabinet makers at left.'''

''Photo: courtesy [http://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.03777.jpg OpenSFHistory.org]''

[[Image:800px-Hubert Howe Bancroft.jpg|240px|left]]

'''Hubert Howe Bancroft''

''Image by [http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7d5nb5sw?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2138417 Bradley & Rulofson]''

In the 1870s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Howe_Bancroft Hubert Howe Bancroft] employed dozens of scribes to systematically write the History of the West. Bancroft made use of index cards in the organization and compilation of facts for his lengthy and massive series of historical volumes. In the course of his organization of source material and writing, Bancroft made use of scores of research assistants, the contributions of some of whom amounted to the output of co-writers. Originally he seems to have intended to use topical sections of writing produced by his assistants as the basis of a broad narrative which he himself would write, but as the work progressed he came to use the statements as they were, with only slight changes. He said his assistants were capable investigators, and there is evidence that some of them deserved his confidence; Frances Fuller Victor, in particular, was a well-known author. However, his failure to acknowledge each contribution created doubt about the quality of the work. Overall, although Bancroft considered himself the author of his works, in contemporary terms it is more accurate to consider him an editor and compiler.

[[Image:Bancroft-map-history-of-California-1840-1845-Vol-XI-p-244.jpg]]

'''Map of California in 1841'''

''from Bancroft's ''History of California 1840-1845'', Vol. XI, p. 244''

[[Image:Bancroft-Library-1883 wnp37.jpg]]

'''Second site of Bancroft's Library and "History Factory" on Valencia at Army (today, site of St. Luke's Hospital).'''

''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org''

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