Summary Information

Title: Levi H. Bancroft Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1863-1956

Creator:

• Bancroft, Levi H., 1860-1948

Call Number: Platteville Mss Y; Platteville Micro 14; Micro 661; File 1884 June 18 Oversize; PH 2471; PH 2472

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (1 archives box, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize folder), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and 50 photographs (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and certificates of appointment kept by Bancroft, a Richland Center, Wisconsin, Republican politician and lawyer, who served as attorney general of Wisconsin from 1911 to 1913. Included are letters from Bancroft to his family describing his life at the University of Wisconsin Law School, 1882-1884; a few family letters written during the early years of his practice in Richland Center; Civil War letters from Robert M. Delap; correspondence to his wife, Myrtle De Lap Bancroft, concerning her paintings of Senator Robert La Follette and other Wisconsin political figures; and genealogical notes on the Bancroft and De Lap families. Photographs primarily include portraits of Bancroft, his family, and associates, including fellow U.W. students, circa 1861-1948.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pltv000y

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