The Silicon Valley Archives:A Collections Explorer

A unique book of patterns and descriptions created by an early user of the revolutionary Jaquard loom, identified as "Richaud" on the cover of the book. Illustrated with hand-drawn Jacquard loom patterns and fabric samples.

Picture shows the Duc d'Aumale full length and facing right, accompanied by four members of his entourage; to his right, Carquillat, also full length but facing slightly left, holds his well-known portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard; another full length male figure stands to the right of Carquillat, gesturing at the portrait. The figures are standing in Carquillat's workshop in front of the loom which produced both the portrait of Jacquard and the item here described; a workman stands at the loom, body pointed away but looking over his shoulder at D'Aurnale and Carquillat.

Historical overview; a table of major events and participants arranged chronologically. Particular emphasis on botanically relevant events. Quoted observations from original sources.

Oral histories, memoirs, research files, photographs, newsclippings, maps, publications, adobe house preservation work, etc. Juana Briones (1802-1899) was a businesswoman and landowner in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Over his lifetime, Andrew Allen Harwood (1802-1884), great grandson of Benjamin Franklin, kept letters and notes of interest and autographs in a collection known as ODDS & ENDS. Letters, notes, autographs, portraits, and other materials collected by the Harwood Family over a period of two hundred-fifty years. Much of the early materials, including Revolutionary War era materials, are navy and military service related.

Thirty-six letters from Father Durán, in his role as administrator of Mission San Jose, to the fathers who held the office of Procurador of the Missions of California, concerning standing orders for supplies to the mission, and related financial and administrative matters.

1839 census of Mission Santa Clara, recording baptisms, marriages, confessions, communions, and deaths at the mission for the year, and baptisms, marriages, and deaths since the mission's founding. Entered and signed, with manuscript notes by, Father Jesús María Vásquez del Mercado.

Coding and decoding tables for use of a late-18th-century "cabinet noir" or "Black Chamber," the secret cipher departments of the European courts of the early modern age. Content and provenance link this specimen with the Bavarian Electoran court.

Zamorano's letter to the alcaldes of Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San José Guadalupe, requesting that they publish the attached manifesto informing the public of Zamorano's journey to Santa Barbara and his efforts to preserve peace in California.

Jose was the founder of the Estudillo family in upper California. The dealer believes the document is addressed to the Alcalde of the Pueblo of San Jose regarding a dispute between Ranchero Don Ignacio Ortega and locksmith Raphael Romero.

Leatherbound folio containing a letter from Josef de Iturrigaray, Viceroy of New Spain, to His Excellency Don José Antonio Cavallero, explaining an enclosed document containing testimony compiled by José de Arrillaga, governor of the Californias, describing damage to the Presidio caused by a storm in Dec. 1798-Jan. 1799, with recommendations for repairs and additional military personnel.

Statesman, soldier, craftsman, and California's first printer.

Handwritten letter addressed to H. French, Esq. introducing Mr. Charles Bernhardt as the agent for Santa Clara Co. regarding the sale of Roi du Savons soap and signed by Withington Williams. Verso of letterhead includes advertising inserts for Sacramento businesses.

The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and social landscape of the American West. The Chinese Railroad Workers Digital Materials Repository offers open access to materials that are selected for their qualities that they are difficult to retrieve, and rich for historical study.

Journal kept by ship's carpenter William F. Harden documenting the second voyage of the clipper ship Red Gauntlet under Captain Andrews, departing New York for San Francisco, Hawaii, and Canton on August 18, 1855. The journal records Chinese longshoremen strikes, confiscation of liquor, brutal punishments including floggings, the death of the Captain's youngest son, the death of the ship's cook after repeated beatings, forced prizefights between ship's boys for crew entertainment, and other harsh conditions aboard ship.

The broadsheet commemorates "the success of the most important undertaking of modern times." This sheet reflects that excitement with the vignettes, detailed descriptions of the celebrations and great enthusiasm for the memorable accomplishment.

Originally from Mass., Robinson first went to Calif. in 1829 as the representative for the hide-trading and shipping firm Bryant, Sturgis & Co. Primarily business correspondence to and from Robinson, in his role as a San Francisco merchant and as agent for the firm Howland & Aspinwall of New York, including: a letter book (Dec. 1848-June 1849) concerning prices of goods in San Francisco and suggesting cargoes to be sent to Calif. from the East coast; letters from Howland & Aspinwall in New York (1848-1849); and other business correspondence from various individuals and companies (1848-1849).

Consists of personal and business correspondence, indentures, legal documents, ship's papers, accounts, inventories, and maps, documenting the activities, business interests, and land holdings of early California merchant Jacob P. Leese, his wife Rosalia Vallejo de Leese, and his partner Thomas O. Larkin, between the years 1837 to 1862.

Letter from Charles and Nathaniel Curry of C. Curry Guns and Fancy Goods, San Francisco, to William S. Hardy and Samuel S. Kennedy of Hardy & Kennedy Co., Forest Hill mining district, regarding an order of three pairs of large pistols with Damascus barrels and holsters.

A prominent merchant and landowner, Leidesdorff also served in a number of civic positions, including United States vice-consul to Mexico (appointed by Thomas Larkin in 1845) and treasurer of San Francisco. Leidesdorff's business correspondence and records document his transactions with many prominent early Californians, including Yerba Buena alcaldes Francisco Guerrero and George Hyde; Thomas Larkin; William Davis Merry Howard; Samuel Brannan; Stephen Smith; Nathan Spear; Henry Dalton; Concepcion Avila; and Henry Mellus.

Howard was a merchant and financier in San Francisco, California. Correspondence, invoices, and receipts from pioneer Calif. residents, merchants, and companies, reflecting Howard's extensive commercial activities through his firm, Mellus & Howard Company, including letters to and from business partner Henry D. Mellus, Francis Mellus at the Los Angeles branch of the firm, Abel Stearns, Henry F. Teschemacher, and Joseph P. Thompson.

At the time of the letter, Butler Ives was an assistant engineer with the Central Pacific Railroad. Handwritten letter, January 25, 1869, requesting more men at work "on our line at the point where the U.P. line strikes it east of Ogden," along with a photoprint copy of a stereocard showing Butler Ives on horseback in the mountains.

Notes from Root's book, "Personal History and Reminiscences, 1845 to 1921." Also notes from the DAILY ALTA CALIFORNIA, 1860-1863.

Bulk of the letters are requests for purchasing the Fowler adding machine and the circulars advertising the product. Several letters are responses to the company's advertisement seeking agents throughout the United States to sell the machines.

Journals (1856-1870), daybooks (1854-1866), cashbooks (1855-1875), receipt books (1855-1865), petty accounts and ledgers (1855-1868), ledgers (1854-1868), and a payroll book (1865-1873) of Towne and Bacon Printers.

Correspondence, legal and financial documents, ledgers, reports, research notes, photographs, maps, plans, profiles, charts and artifacts relating to the operation of the New Almaden Mine and the Quicksilver Mining Co.

Reports and letters giving overviews of mines either purchased by or of interest to the firm of Adelberg & Raymond. Includes gold, silver, iron, quicksilver, and tin mines.

Stock certificate issued to C.G. Myrick for ten shares in the capital stock of the mining company. The mine location is White Pine District, Nevada.

Birdseye Creek was one of California's earliest hydraulic mining companies to use thir private telegraphic codes. Beginning in the 1870's there were several firms publishing cryptographic code books so that messages could be sent from the mining superintendent to the officers without divulging the content of the message.

Two documents (1864 and 1867) concern ownership of the Sanchez de Pacheco land grant, Rancho San Miguel. The 1863 document concerns the Savage Mining Company.

Shows owners, Quito Ranch line, proposed railroad from Alviso to Saratoga, Lawrence and Santa Clara depots, etc.

Copies of transcript of proceedings in case No. 238, Maria Antonia Mesa, claimant vs. The United States, defendent for the place named "Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito," 1853 and 1861; and notes on Ranchos of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties from Capt. William M. Kerr Collection, San Diego Serra Museum.

The collection consists of deeds and legal documents relating to property that was owned by Leland and Jane Stanford, or Stanford University. Leland and Jane Stanford owned over 100,000 acres throughout California . Of special interest are the deeds to the Stanford's three primary residences in Sacramento (1861), San Francisco (1875), and Palo Alto (1876).

The corner of Market Street and San Fernando Street in San Jose, with the division of the Mesa family land into six parcels, surrounded by Antonio Sunol and Brown & Co. land.

Shows coastal outline, hills, roads, vegetation, and settlement locations of Jones, Steinbergen, and Carr in the vicinity of Palo Alto. Includes a profile of the base line (length 6.53 miles) and a sketch showing the location of the base line in relation to the southern half of San Francisco Bay.

Nonetheless, Hart is remembered for his work in visually documenting the construction of the western half of the first transcontinental railroad. Photographic series documenting construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, 1866-1869, presented both as an album and stereographs. Also includes mounted stereograph views of the Leland Stanford residence in Sacramento, 1862-1863.

Account book (1855 May 16-1856 May 12) and diary (1858 Jan. 1-1859 Nov. 12) kept by harbor master Elijah G. Greenfield recording wharfages collected from ships and daily events in Stockton, Calif.

Includes 1. "The Hewes Receipt," by Ralph W. Hansen; and 2. "The 'Goat Island Grab'," by Ted Wurm (2 copies).

Defendants include ca. 140 names, many of which are from early Santa Clara County families.

A petition to the California state legislature from San Francisco citizens, calling on the government to reform the official pilotage system.

Based on the contents, the letters are primarily concerned with conflicting claims to land between the Central Pacific Railroad and American settlers in California. Many of the letters involve Joseph S. Wilson in his role as the General Land Commissioner.

The journal is largely about his work at the Sacramento Seminary, then at the school of Mr. E. Crowell until he leaves Sacramento for Santa Clara when appointed to a post at he new Pacific College (later University of the Pacific). He writes of his enjoyment working with young students.

Carleton E. Watkins was a 19th century photographer based in San Francisco who made his name documenting the rapid growth of the American West. This collection contains albumen prints taken throughout Watkins's career, between the years of 1856 and 1885. The bulk of photographs depict Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove between 1861 and 1881.

Burgess was an artist, silversmith, miner, and teacher. Consists of 13 letters and some incomplete letters to Burgess's mother in England; newspaper clippings and reminiscences of Burgess and the Burgess family; notebooks and writings belonging to or written by Burgess; and 29 pencil and ink sketches of California scenes.

Architect Samuel Charles Bugbee helped plan the Stanford family home in Palo Alto, and perhaps also contributed to the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers in the late 19th century. This collection consists of three sketchbooks and some loose drawings on onion skin paper. Most of the drawings are either portraits or sketches of interiors and exteriors.

Notes and outlines for a history of the Stanford campus area originally prepared for a class assignment. Focusing on the pre-Palo Alto Stock Farm period, Ballard's subjects include early inhabitants, Spanish ownership, land grants and title deeds, and early residents such as Peter Coutts, George Gordon, Jose Pena, and Sandy Wilson.

Consists of ephemeral items relating to people widely known and relatively unknown in California. Contains mostly newspaper obituaries, but also includes: handwritten biographical documents, invitations, wedding announcements, family reunion newsletters, genealogy forms, family trees, memorials, political speeches, campaign material, correspondence, and newspaper and magazine clippings.

Small collections and miscellaneous single items pertaining to various periods, persons, and phases of California history (1760-1963). Includes letters, journals, diaries, reports, financial and legal documents, pictures and maps, some typescripts and photostats.

Oral histories, memoirs, research files, photographs, newsclippings, maps, publications, adobe house preservation work, etc. Juana Briones (1802-1899) was a businesswoman and landowner in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The first series of scrapbooks was created by mayor (and later governor) Washington Bartlett, containing articles pertaining to political and civic issues in San Francisco and California from 1855 to 1886, as well as some notes and memoranda chronicling his duties as mayor. Other scrapbooks were assembled by Mary Sheldon Barnes in the 1890s and include articles and other ephemera related to the American West, including material on Native Americans, Oregon territory, Alaska, Pacific and Asiatic relations, and the San Francisco Peninsula.

Paul Percy Parker was a newspaperman in California'a Salinas Valley. Correspondence, manuscripts of narratives and memoirs, official documents, and clippings dealing predominantly with the Monterey and Salinas Valley areas before 1900.

This collection of prints, mostly lithographs (including chromolithographs and colored lithographs), as well as one engraving, primarily portray San Francisco city views, public buildings, and landscapes. Subjects also include San Jose, Stanford University, the U.S. Navy Yard at Mare Island, San Diego, and San Luis Rey.

Thirty-seven page autograph signed filled-in Gregory's Express Pocket Letter Book, written by an Iowan gold seeker in California to his wife with an interesting detailed description of the mild climate and successful farming in the Santa Clara Valley, preceding its development as the world's leading fruit growing region in the early 20th century.

Diary of Hallidie's voyage with his father from Liverpool to San Francisco via New York and Panama aboard the ships Pacific, Brother Jonathan, and Brutus. Discusses everyday life aboard as well as engineering aspects of the ships, including propulsion equipment and functional problems during a storm.

A. S. Gibbons was an itinerant Methodist preacher who spent one year teaching at Santa Clara College. Collection consists of letters from A. S. Gibbons and his wife, Sarah Cloud Gibbons, to her family in Virginia (1852-1857). The letters describe domestic problems and the temperance movement.

Consists of 14 journals kept by Chester Smith Lyman documenting his voyages from New York to Hawaii (1845-1846), from Hawaii to San Francisco (1847), and from San Francisco to Connecticut (1850), as well as his observations and experiences in Hawaii and California between the years 1846 and 1850.

Includes correspondence, diaries, and photographs. The Collection reflects J. O. Culver's experience as a lawyer, his service as an Army Paymaster and Post Office Inspector, his endeavors in small fruit culture, and his excursions into prospecting and mining. In general, the family letters and papers give a panorama of middle class society in New York, Wisconsin and Missouri, and Colorado and California, from 1860 to 1915, a familiar pattern in the United States of looking ever westward for opportunity.

Letters of Leroy Daingerfield (miner and rancher) and William Daingerfield (lawyer and businessman) from California to their family in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Letters are revealing of legal, mining, and business conditions of the time.

Leatherbound diary, primarily documenting Jagger's overland journey with other members of his gold mining company from Warren, Ohio to Georgetown, El Dorado, County, Calif., Apr. 1849-Jan. 1850; along with smaller sections of entries at the front and back of the journal, recording an 1846 trip to Lake Superior and daily conditions in Woodside, San Mateo County, Calif.

Littlefield writes about his experiences in California, giving details of selling lumber, traveling from Benicia to San Francisco by steamer, staying at the Temperance House, and telling of the many ships and their cargoes that he observes on San Francisco Bay.

Handwritten copy of a ship's log kept by Bradley, a passenger on the bark Orion, on a voyage from Boston to San Francisco via Rio de Janeiro and the island of Juan Fernandez. Entries record the weather, the ship's course and location, ships spoken, and significant shipboard events.

Letters of Charles and Edward Hosmer, two brothers who left Avon, New York in 1849 for California. The letters describe Charles' overland trip by wagon train and Edward's trip around Cape Horn to California, their work in San Francisco and Edward's unsuccessful prospecting in the Feather River area.

The entries in Joseph Eastman's diary, dated May 1846 to May 1849, begin when Eastland was a 14-year-old from his home in Nashville, Tenn. and New Orleans, La. Eastman's letters to family members, dated 1846 to 1853, include several written from San Francisco, giving details about Thomas' business ventures in quartz mining and real estate, and about Joseph's employment with Donahue's Union Iron and Brass Foundry.

Early in the 1860s, Stanford joined with three other Sacramento merchants--Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Collis P. Huntington--in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad. In 1885, Leland and Jane founded Leland Stanford Jr. University in memory of their son. Correspondence, telegrams; business, legal, financial, and official papers; speeches, journals, and newsclippings; and other materials relating to the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, Stanford's political career, business and financial interests, and the founding and construction of Stanford University.

3 letters were mailed from Green Oaks and describe episodes of her life on the Steele brothers' dairy; one was mailed from Aspinwall, the Atlantic port of Panama, before crossing by train to the Pacific.

Manuscript logbook documenting the second voyage of the extreme clipper ship Spitfire under Captain John W. Arey, comprising approximately 9,000 words of daily entries. The voyage departed Boston in November 1854, arriving at San Francisco on March 21, 1855, after a passage of 118 days. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Daily record of the ship's voyage from New York to Panama via the Straits of Magellan, under the command of Lt. David D. Porter, U.S. Navy. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Moses Schallenberger was an early California pioneer. Correspondence and photographs (1847-1898) covering the period after the arrival of Schallenberger in California. Also included is an account, recorded by Mary Sheldon Barnes, of Schallenberger's overland journey to California from Missouri in 1844.

An original unpublished manuscript journal of Collin's telegraph expedition departing San Francisco, CA on July 3, 1865 to Nikolayefsk-on-Amur, Russia. After Civil War service, Bush joined Perry Collins' Russian-American Telegraph Expedition (the Western Union Extension) to explore the proposed route to connect the United States with Europe by way of the Bering Strait.

Undated manuscript translation of a portion of the Mission Santa Clara marriage register, beginning with record number 2873 (1846 Jan. 3) and ending with record number 3003 (1847 Dec. 11).

A 43 page hand-written record book in a contemporary notebook. Includes minutes of the meetings from 1869 up to 1871.

Letter from U.S. Navy civil engineer Calvin Brown to arms manufacturer James T. Ames describing Brown's first impressions of the Mare Island Navy Yard, then under construction.

Letters written by Ord to his wife during the period when Ord was on a survey of the Pacific Coast, including descriptions of the region, details of incidents and problems relating to the survey, Indian campaigns, and other matters relating to the West Coast. Also includes several letters pertaining to military matters.

First financial record of San Francisco, kept by the elected treasurer, William A. Leidesdorff. The journal contains eleven pages of entries, recording cash received and expended, and expenditures for goods and services, including payments made for the salary of Alcalde George Hyde, the first survey of San Francisco by Jasper O'Farrell, and construction of streets, wharves, and the first schoolhouse.

Two students' manuscript notebooks documenting the use of Jacquard's punched card silk weaving method in 1884 and 1885. These manuscripts appear to be students' handmade coursebooks (or year-long "final projects"?) created under the tutelage of P. Audibert, a professor at the school of weaving in Lyon (historically an important center of the weaving industry).

These portraits hung in the Stauffer Chemical Company San Francisco offices until their closure in 1987.

French manuscript documenting Jacquard loom programming methods and textile production, containing 94 textile samples with corresponding loom programming instructions and machine patterns. The manuscript represents either professional training documentation or proprietary trade information for the Lyon silk industry, demonstrating early programmable machine technology that prefigured computer punch card systems.

This is the first book woven entirely in silk using programmable punch cards (Jacquard loom method). At the time of its invention in 1801, the Jacquard Loom was the most complex programmable machine in existence for which thosands of punched cards were employed as automated weaving instructions to a mechanized loom.

Title papers, together with various bound ledgers of the Remillard Brick Company (San Francisco and Oakland, California) covering the period 1879 to 1921. Records of sales, purchases, jobs, inventory, employee records, etc.

Concerns the various interests of parties involved with the ore-processing furnace, who are from either San Francisco or San Jose. John Howell is to be paid $1000. for the exclusive right of Rankin Brayton & Co. to manufacture the "Howell improved White furnace."

Requests repeal of the monopoly claimed by Act of 1866.

Business and legal documents and correspondence which deals with the creation and organization of the Oakland Home Telephone Company.

A native of Dedham, Massachusetts, Atherton first came to the Pacific coast around 1834 to work for a ship chandlery firm in Valparaiso, Chile. He settled in Valparaiso in 1840 and became a successful merchant dealing in hides and tallow, foodstuffs, and other commodities. The collection comprises business records and correspondence documenting Atherton's mercantile relationships and activities in Boston, California, Hawaii, and Valparaiso; correspondence, deeds, and other documents relating to Atherton's real estate investments in California, including Las Milpitas Ranch and Bolsa de San Cayetano Ranch in Monterey County, San Lorenzo Ranch in Alameda County, Los Putos Ranch in Solano County, and Valparaiso Park in San Mateo County; and legal documents and other papers concerning Atherton's estate after his death.

List of customers, their purchases and the prices paid for their supplies.

Collection consists of records of a general merchandise store in North Bloomfield, Nevada County, California (1862-1936), and bound records of various other mercantile and mining establishments in California (1837-1938). Included are legal documents, agreements, correspondence, general accounts, production records, and samples of various forms.

Schedule, with fold out maps of the world, United States, New Zealand, and the British Isles. Schedule includes timetables for connecting transporation services: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe System; Chicago & Alton; Chicago & North-Western (the North-Western Line); Union Pacific; Oceanic S.S. Co. of San Francisco; and Oceanic S.S. Co. of New Zealand.

Legal papers, accounting reports and other papers pertaining to the company.

The Bradford papers contain James Otey Bradford's correspondence from 1888-1919. Much of it is correspondence pertaining to his duties with the Wells, Fargo & Co. Correspondence (1888-1919); articles on early stagecoaching and its problems, and on the Pony Express; photographs of stagecoaches; and identification photographs of Wells Fargo employees.

Correspondence and documents concerning the Southern Pacific Company and the Northern California operations of the Central Pacific Railroad. Topics include: accidents, brakes, employee problems, engines, engineers, rates pay, and train delays.

Business correspondence of the Southern Pacific Railroad between December 1887 and May 1889. The letters include daily reports of the operations of the railroad, employee problems, maintenance, and purchases.

Mention of various railroad men and companies. Worked with Henry Root in Oakland, later C.P. Huntington and Leland Stanford in California and elsewhere. Covers the period 1864-1903.

Since the early 1860s, The Manzanita Water Company distributed water for domestic, manufacturing, and irrigation purposes. Correspondence, journal, stock journal, bylaws, description of lands, water grants, legal documents and other papers pertaining to Leland Stanford's association with the Manzanita Water Company.

Fifty-three male portrait busts with Collis Potter Huntington in the center. Each attendee to the reception is identified by name. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

The street car photo includes the driver, John McCord, and Henry Casebolt, president. The portrait of Henry Casebolt, president of the Sutter Street Railroad Company in 1872, was made by I.W. Taber.

I. The legal obligations and the manner in which they have been observed. II. The benefits promised and how they have been realized.

Includes: 1. Extracts from the land agent's report, 1880; 2. The stock of the Central Pacific Railroad Company by Fisk & Hatch, 1880; and 3. Central Pacifc report to stock holders by Fisk & Hatch, 1881.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

Legal brief presented in the Fourth judicial district court of the State of California by plaintiffs Anthony Egl, Anthony Coolot and John R. Robinson vs. The Central Pacific Railroad Company. Defendants are Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Collis Potter Huntington. The stockholders are claiming that they are being swindled out of their bonds in the company.

The Donohoe, Kelly Banking Company was a large private banking company formed in the second half of the nineteenth century, and flourishing until 1929 when it transferred its business to the Bank of America of California, later the Bank of America, National Trust and Savings Association. Represented in the collection are a variety of business papers including those documenting liquidation of Donohoe, Ralston and Company (1863-1867) when W. C. Ralston left the company, routine business papers regarding accounts and bank business, and volumes of cash books, collection journals, checks and deposits volumes, and balance sheets.

Several of the stock certificates were signed by Charles F. Crocker.

Lists latest mining news, removals, morning sales, previous day's afternoon sales, stock brokers' cards, and lost or stolen shares.

William Chapman Ralston, born 12 June 1826 in Ohio, was a banker and steamship owner. In 1864 he helped organize the Bank of California and served as its first president. Letters primarily to Ralston, dealing with William W. Cargill of the Oriental Bank Corporation of London and Charles de Long, U.S. Envoy and Minister to Japan.

Single-sided printed broadside, with one small woodcut, arranged as if an uncut eight-page pamphlet. Describes the arrangement of the books as well as "The Scope of the Business: Books, Stationery, Music & Musical Instruments, Printing, Lithography & Engravings, Binding and Blank Book Manufacturing, Publishing."

Pacific Improvement Company payroll ledger, 1883. The ledger shows the actual rates of pay, which is difficult to locate elsewhere.

Pacific Improvement Company was a large holding company in California, formed by C. P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Business areas covered include land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.

The Pacific Improvement Company was a large holding company in California, formed during the days of C.P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Contains materials related to the development of the Monterey Peninsula and to the general business areas of land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.

1 business ledger (labeled "day book," 7 original photographs, and related business documents).

Charles Conklin Wooster, born in Albany, NY, in 1845, was a horse trainer and coachman for Leland Stanford from about 1870 until Stanford's death in 1893. Images in this collection include Stock Farm horses Electioneer and Lady Russel; Leland Stanford, Jr., with the horse Cheatano, 1882; trainers and grooms at the Stock Farm, 1881 and 1884; two trotters racing; and the Wooster home on campus.

The Palo Alto Stock Farm comprised the major farming properties of Senator Leland Stanford. Records of Leland Stanford's Santa Clara County property, the Palo Alto Stock Farm (devoted to the breeding and training of trotting horses) and his Tehama County property, the Vina Ranch (primarily a vineyard and winery with some horse breeding facilities.) Includes correspondence, letter books, auction catalogs, daily journals, stud records, farm records, breeding registers, time books, foal records, maps and employee records of the Palo Alto Stock Farm and winery, and clippings about the Stock Farm.

Compilation of ranch records from the Steele Ranches of San Mateo County, California. Includes financial papers, legal papers, photographs, maps, and miscellaneous background notes written by Mrs. Catherine Steele. The collection covers over 100 years of ranching in California.

Sutro was the mining engineer who planned the Sutro Tunnel, which was constructed through Mount Davidson to reach the Comstock lode. Collection includes correspondence dealing with construction of the Sutro Tunnel (1869-1890); applications for employment on the Sutro Tunnel project (1873-1877) and in the Baths (1892-1895); personal bills (1869-1890); miscellaneous correspondence (1870-1895); miscellaneous papers and printed matter (1865-1889); and a safe book (1861-1899).

Harpending gained notoriety, however, for his role in the swindle known as the Great Diamond Hoax (1872). Consists of correspondence, deeds, agreements, accounts, receipts, manuscript maps, and other papers reflecting Asbury Harpending's business and speculative activities in the Western United States, Kentucky, New York, and Latin America between the years 1862 and 1919. Deeds, accounts, receipts, and other financial records reflect Harpending's interests in numerous mining properties in the Western United States, Mexico, and Colombia.

Greystone Quarry, formerly known as Goodrich Quarry, was the source for the sandstone used to build Stanford University in the 1880s and 1890s. Map, instructions, and photographs (with negatives) from a tour of Greystone Quarry led by Robert Butler and Rixford Snyder in April 1994; a clipping on the quarry, 1984; and a replica of the business card of Jacob Pfeiffer, proprietor of Goodrich Quarry.

Correspondence, legal and financial documents, ledgers, reports, research notes, photographs, maps, plans, profiles, charts and artifacts relating to the operation of the New Almaden Mine and the Quicksilver Mining Co.

This album documents approximately forty downtown San Francisco real estate holdings of the heirs of real estate, silver, and railroad magnate James Graham Fair. The album contains 39 gelatin silver prints (most approximately 6 x 8 inches, with two panoramic views, 3 ¾ x 11 inches), each mounted on card with a manuscript map locating the property.

The brochure includes a Palo Alto map by H.W. Simkins, city clerk and editor of the Palo Alto Times, from which a large segment on Stanford University, its founders, and the environs of Palo Alto is reprinted.

Nine and one-half acres in Santa Clara County, Calif.

Over 300 blueprint maps mounted on 144 canvas-backed, bound sheets showing various towns and localities in the Western United States and depicting the real estate holdings of the Pacific Improvement Company from 1880-1920.

Herbert C. Nash (1860-1902) was private secretary to Leland Stanford, tutor to Leland Stanford Jr., and librarian at Stanford University. Letter from Holtzman, Washington, D.C., real estate agent, to Herbert C. Nash pertaining to the disposition of Leland Stanford's house and property in Washington.

The collection consists of deeds and legal documents relating to property that was owned by Leland and Jane Stanford, or Stanford University. Leland and Jane Stanford owned over 100,000 acres throughout California . Of special interest are the deeds to the Stanford's three primary residences in Sacramento (1861), San Francisco (1875), and Palo Alto (1876).

8 abstracts of title, city of San Jose, 1889-1919; 1 abstract of title, city of Santa Clara, 1914; and 1 abstract of title, Solano County, 1910 (lacking title page).

In 1876, Leland Stanford acquired 650 acres of the former Rancho San Francisquito with the intention of establishing a rural residence. Abstracts of titles and transcripts of titles to various property holdings of Leland Stanford, including the Palo Alto Stock Farm (Santa Clara Co.), the Vina Ranch (Tehama Co.), the Grindley Farm (Butler Co.), Mayfield Grange (Santa Clara Co.), the Gwinn Ranch (Contra Costa Co.), and San Francisco properties.

The maps in this collection pertain to the University campus, to other lands owned by Jane and Leland Stanford or the University, and to adjacent communities.

Included in the photo of pioneers is a photo of the "California."

Collection contains outlines of corporate histories of railroads in the United States and Canada including some streetcar lines and electric interurban lines. Includes dates of incorporation, lists of points served, lists of mileage, time schedules, maps of lines, and lists or reports of accidents.

Taber was a noted commercial photographer whose studio was based in San Francisco beginning in 1871. 33 mounted prints by Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) documenting California mountain scenery and the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Consists of two documents: notice to Santa Clara Supervisors relative to planting trees along Mayfield Road (undated but initiated by Leland Stanford) and "field notes of proposed change of road from Mayfield to Searsville" by J. G. McMillan, November 1887.

Redington received passes from many railroad companies, both before and after his retirement as Assistant Treasurer for the Southern Pacific Company.

Includes timetables for the New England states (The Pathfinder Railway Guide, (1849-1854 & 1896), the west coast (The Pacific Rail Road Guide, 1869, Standwell's Pacific Coast Railroad Guide and Business Directory, 1869, and Union and Central Pacific Rail Road Line via Omaha or Kansas City to San Francisco, 1883), and the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1880-1884 and 1946.

Correspondence, records, logs, clipping books, timetables, tickets and legal documents pertaining to early railroading in England, India, and the United States. Topics include the construction of the Central Pacific railroad, shipping and aviation.

California surveyor and engineer. Worked for both the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads; later for the San Francisco Water Works Company. Correspondence, notebooks, maps, etc. relating to railroad and engineering ventures in California and the West, 1864-1879.

Map, estimates of water flow, and letter to Leland Stanford relating to proposed pipeline extending from a proposed dam on Corte Madera Creek to a proposed dam on San Francisquito Creek, 1887.

Niles Dam on Alameda Creek was built in 1887 by the Spring Valley Water Company, at the same site where Jose de Jesus Vallejo had build a dam for his grist mill in 1841. This collection consists of the Niles Dam Historic American Engineering Report in three sections – the report, the figures, and the measured drawings.

Angelo F. Semino received his a.b. in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1922. Land deeds for property in Mountain View, California (the Mayfield Mall), together with a 79 page typescript about its history. Original typed reports, copies, reprints, and manuscript notes on heat exchanges in the petroleum industry.

Large crowd of men and one woman is gathered in front of the three-story brick Mechanics' Hotel on Kearny Street near Broadway. The hotel has been elevated on wooden supports to widen the street.

The Geological Club at Stanford University was founded in 1892, and was later reorganized into a geological society in 1899 and included both students and alumni. Minute book of the Geological Club of Stanford University.

J. C. L. (John Charles Lounsbury) Fish (1870-1962) was a Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus, at the School of Engineering, Stanford University. One plane projection with applications to mapping, location and earthwork.

John Richards was a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, 1895-96. Contains ten lectures on shop management; topics include expense, plant implements and processes, plant design, employees, measurements, machine tools, invention, cooperation, and selling the product.

Hoskins was professor of applied mathematics at Stanford University from 1892 until his retirement in 1925. Notebook of Hoskins' mimeographed lectures kept by Thomas Henry Pomeroy, with some problem solutions done by Pomeroy, a member of the Stanford class of 1895.

Letters from Horace Davis, A.S. Hallidie, David Starr Jordan, and L.A. Buchanan, largely pertaining to the Lick School of Mechanical Arts, of which Merrill was principal.

In October 1892, the Department of Education at Stanford University established a kindergarten on campus to serve in part as a laboratory for advanced students of the education department. These records from the School of Education at Stanford University consist of kindergarten records including drawings and short stories by the children, 1892-93; class reading under Clara Vostrovsky; stories, correspondence and notes, 1893-1894 ; and a scrapbook of child studies and learning definitions from schools across the United States, 1891.

The first professor to be named at the new Stanford University in 1891, Branner served as professor of geology at Stanford as well as executive head of the Geology Department. Personal papers of John Casper Branner including correspondence, manuscripts, field notebooks, photographs from field work, line drawings of geological formations, scrapbooks of photographs of the effects of the 1906 earthquake, report of the commission investigating the Panama Canal, slides, genealogies of the Baker and Branner families, and books and articles by Branner, many annotated.

Once at Stanford, his work focused on California flora, with a special interest in the study of trees; he was instrumental in the establishment of the Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Papers include field notes, a diary, manuscripts, articles and reprints, maps, and correspondence; most of the field notes relate to California, with occasional later annotations by other botanists.

Formerly a student of art, Andrew Putnam Hill became a professional photographer in 1889, opening a studio in San Jose, California with his partner, Sydney J. Yard. The images in this album primarily document the Palo Alto residence of Jane and Leland Stanford, the Palo Alto Stock Farm horses, and Stanford University.

Mounted albumen prints, commercially produced by Hill and his two studios, Hill & Yard and Hill & Watkins, of the newly established Stanford University and of the activity of the Palo Alto Stock Farm, upon which the University had been built.

This collection consists of mounted albumen prints commercially produced by A. P. Hill and his two studios, Hill and Yard and Hill and Watkins. Subjects include views of the Stanford University campus, interior and exterior shots of major buildings, events such as the university's opening day and the funeral of Leland Stanford, student groups, and the Palo Alto Stock Farm and horses.

During the construction of Stanford University, Treat took photographs of the work in progress that were regularly sent to Leland Stanford to keep him informed. These papers pertain largely to Treat's association with Leland Stanford and the history of the University and include correspondence, a notebook (largely in shorthand), his typescript reminiscences, and two letters by his daughter pertaining to her father.

Jordan was a naturalist-first a botanist and secondly and of greater significance an ichthyologist. The collection consists primarily of Jordan's voluminous correspondence (62.25 linear ft.) relating to professional and university matters, but also contains other types of material such as writings (published and unpublished), clippings, journals and diaries, scrapbooks, financial papers, biographical and genealogical information, and photographs. He developed the idea of a junior college and was responsible for developing Stanford University into an intellectually competitive university rather than the technical training school envisioned by the founders.

In the Spring of 1891, Leland Stanford offered Jordan the presidency of the university established in memory of the late son of Leland Stanford and Jane Lathrop Stanford. The collection consists primarily of Jordan's correspondence relating to professional and university matters, and also contains writings (published and unpublished), clippings, journals and diaries, scrapbooks, financial papers, biographical and genealogical information, and photographs. Materials in the collection reflect Jordan's embrace of and advocacy for eugenics, including his leadership in 19th and 20th century eugenics organizations.

Professor of Organic Chemistry at Stanford University (1891-1902). Letter recounting the first year at Stanford University, in particular difficulties from the lack of equipment, the success of the football team in its first game against Berkeley, and a hiking trip Richardson and his wife took from Stanford to Pescadero.

Clark was Stanford University Librarian, 1907-1928 (emeritus 1928 until his death in 1940) and co-founder and first president of the California Library Association. These papers relate primarily to Clark's research on the life of Leland Stanford and include correspondence, 1924-1935, historical documents, 1862-1893, clippings, photographs, and two notebooks, 1928-1930,for his comprehensive biography of Senator Leland Stanford, published by the Stanford University Press in 1931.

Founding of the University was accomplished by a Grant of Endowment by Jane and Leland Stanford, dated November 1885. Manuscript on parchment, bound with blue leather and ribbon at the top with a manuscript decorative monogram cover signed by Carl Eisenschimel. Includes deeds of land from various counties.

Henry Zenas Osborne (1848-1923) was owner/editor of the Los Angeles Evening Express (1884-1897), gold miner, and California state representative from 1917 until his death in 1923. These papers consist of a letter from Leland Stanford (on U.S. Senate letterhead), 1892; a telegram from Jane L. Stanford, March 1896, thanking Osborne for his loyalty to Leland Stanford; a letter from David Starr Jordan about the Dept. of Mining at Stanford, 1899, with a mention of the success of Herbert C. Hoover (an early graduate of the Dept.); and a letter from John C. Branner, 1921, commenting on an article by Osborne and his opinion on Japan.

In 1885, Jane and Leland Stanford founded the Leland Stanford Junior University, in memory of their son. Memorial edition published after the death and funeral of Jane L. Stanford.

Collections largely consists of photographs taken during the tour, some of which are arranged in an album; subjects include the visit to Stanford University, San Francisco, Monterey, Sacramento, Salem (Oregon), the Presidential train and its crew, the Presidential party, and crowd scenes at various depots. The pioneer railroad builder had invite d the President to his ranch in Palo Alto to discuss a professorship at the newly built Stanford University and to participate in the dedication of that institution.

Correspondence between Jack W. Shoup, secretary of the Alumni Association, and alumni concerning memories of Senator and Mrs. Stanford (1955-1956), which included attending parties at the Stanford home, Mr. Stanford observing work on Encina Hall, Mrs. Stanford observing work on Memorial Church, Mrs. Stanford visiting Roble Hall, their attendance at Sunday Chapel on campus, and Mrs. Stanford's funeral.

The Stanford Photograph Collection contains over 16,000 images of Stanford scenes including photographs of and relating to the Stanford family, views of the campus and individual buildings, photographs of students and student life activities, and photographs of faculty and administrative staff.

The collection contains biographical files on faculty, staff, and other individuals affiliated with Stanford University.

Eighty glass plate negatives of Stanford images, circa 1890-1900. Subjects include construction, students, faculty, the museum, and the campus.

Loose and mounted photographs of Greystone Quarry and quarry workers, Stanford campus buildings, Stanford students.

The Search for Jane's cold Cream Jar is an interactive CD containing images and information about the history, artifacts, and archaeology of the Stanfords' Palo Alto home.

Collection consists of the items placed in the time capsule by Jane L. Stanford and interred at the cornerstone laying of the library on November 2, 1898. Included are university circulars and registers, entrance exams, commencement programs, photograph of T. W. Stanford, letter by Jane L. Stanford, Bible, crucifix, newspapers of the day, and coins.

In 1885, Jane and Leland Stanford founded the Leland Stanford Junior University, in memory of their son. The papers of Jane L. Stanford pertain largely to the founding and administration of Stanford University, along with her personal and social affairs; included in the papers are correspondence, business records, legal and financial papers, speeches, news clippings, and biographical materials.

The collection consists of four major components: Stanford correspondence pertaining to Judge Leib's association with the Stanford family and his responsibilities as a member of the first Board of Trustees of Stanford University (1891-1923); personal correspondence (1885-1910); correspondence pertaining to Leib's fruit and other farm interest (1883-1919); and legal and business correspondence pertaining to his San Jose law practice and local business interests (1881-1920), including cases resulting from the failure of the Savings Bank of San Diego County.

The collection includes minutes, reports, correspondence, leases, proposals, and other records pertaining to financial and business aspects of the administration of Stanford University. Among the subjects covered by the records are property matters, land development, building projects on campus, academic departments and professional schools, faculty and student housing, the hospital and medical center, SLAC, shopping center, industrial park, Jasper Ridge, relations with Palo Alto, roads, and water.

Notes and research materials for Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Angle of Repose , which was based on the life of American author and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote.

Probably collected by a Californian, possibly Mary Sheldon Barnes or someone in her history class, because the clippings come from San Francisco and San Jose newspapers.

Carleton E. Watkins was a 19th century photographer based in San Francisco who made his name documenting the rapid growth of the American West. This collection contains albumen prints taken throughout Watkins's career, between the years of 1856 and 1885. The bulk of photographs depict Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove between 1861 and 1881.

This collection by Eadweard Muybridge encompasses stereographic cards, gelatin silver prints, mammoth plates, an 1877 panorama of San Francisco, and Muybridge's motion studies plates.

Muybridge worked closely with Senator Leland Stanford on experiments to record horses in motion, trying first to answer the question of whether or not all four feet are off the ground during the trot. This collection includes original Muybridge glass plate negatives and prints, as well as modern day copy prints of his photographs.

Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) was an American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer. Includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, and mounted albumen prints taken by Isaiah West Taber. Images are of California scenes, early railroad construction in the Sierra Nevada (California and Nevada) and commercial studio portraiture.

Portrait print mounted in a folder. Auradou mentions that Henry Steinegger engraved the image about 1875, and that it is rare that a protrait of this size should be engraved on stone.

Stories based on the Leadville characters, especially her first novel, The Led-Horse Claim (1883), established Foote's reputation as a Western writer. Correspondence with Helena Gilder, spanning their friendship of fifty years (1868-1916), and with other friends, family, and business associates. The papers include correspondence, literary manuscripts, and artwork.

Pauline Lane (d. 1902) was the wife of Levi Cooper Lane, president of Cooper Medical College in San Francisco. Primarily ordinal writings by Pauline Lane, translations of foreign works into English, and books of poems.

Photographs documenting construction of Leland Stanford Junior University, used as progress reports and sent to university founder Senator Leland Stanford for his approval. Views include the Stanford quadrangle, museum, mausoleum and Encina Hall, and some group shots of the construction workers.

Time record notebook for employees on Palo Alto Ranch, maintained by J. C. Conway. Includes records for named employees and the hours spent on specific Quad construction jobs during March 1892.

Research and production materials for the book, HISTORIC HOUSES III: SAN JUAN NEIGHBORHOOD, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, published by the Stanford Historical Society in 2005. Includes Byron Feig's original watercolor painting used on the cover and his original pencil drawings of each house; and copies of architectural drawings for several of the houses featured in the book.

Research files of Hametia Fielder King relating to the design and construction of the Stanford Museum of Art, used by the Museum docent program for their "Stanford Portfolio." Materials include notes and correspondence of Mrs. King, photocopied historic sources, and contemporary brochures, articles, and clippings.

Microfiche copies of architectural drawings of buildings on the Stanford University campus; and photocopy of the department's "vault inventory" of drawings, most of which are included in these copies. There are also some copies of drawings for the Hanna House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The album contains original albumen prints of the mansion and grounds of Milton S. Latham in Menlo Park, California. This album, with images approximately 14 x 17 inches, was originally presented to David Farquharson, architect of Thurlow Lodge.

Pair of large original photographs (27 x 33 cm) by Taber of the California Winery’s exhibition at the Midwinter Fair (1894). The photos show the building’s ornate entrance (with the entrance designed to appear as a wine barrel) as well as the decorative Tasting Room, with many tables (and bottles) but sans visiteurs.

A sampling of the books contained in the libraries of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Leland Stanford, and their son, Leland Stanford, Jr. Included are Bibles, religious publications, children's stories, a number of adventure series for boys, history books, travel essays, tourist guides, and novels. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Volume 1, issue 1, of a one-page advertiser issued in Mayfield, CA, Oct. 21, 1876. Includes short notice that Peter Coutts was building a brick tower near his home.

This collection includes artotype images of private homes, public buildings, businesses, and other images of San Francisco and the Bay area from 1887 to 1902. The artotypes were published along with the San Francisco Newsletter, and are dated accordingly.

Consists of ephemeral items relating to people widely known and relatively unknown in California. Contains mostly newspaper obituaries, but also includes: handwritten biographical documents, invitations, wedding announcements, family reunion newsletters, genealogy forms, family trees, memorials, political speeches, campaign material, correspondence, and newspaper and magazine clippings.

Annotated photograph album of California landscape and topographical views. The prints include 19th century views of Palo Alto, Stanford University, San Francisco, Monterey; and in Southern California, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Riverside and Redlands.

49 photographs. Includes Sierras, boats, Golden Gate Bridge under construction, one unidentified portrait, Pacific Coast Amateur photography association meeting 1889 photographing a solar eclipse, Higuera House in Warm Springs (Fremont) in 1882, interior views.

Photographs by or published by Carleton E. Watkins in the form of cabinet cards or stereographs. All but one depict California scenes, including the railroad ferry Solano , Spring Valley Water Works projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, and views of Santa Monica, Monterey and Yosemite.

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Named the Director and Curator of the Stanford University Museum in 1899, he remained there until 1918, adding collections to the Museum and writing historical papers. Consists of lantern slides and photographs circa 1892-1917.

Articles describe leading business establishments and institutions in Santa Clara County and its cities. Includes many illustrations and several pages of advertisements.

Collection contains one print and 22 glass plate negatives, the latter depicting the grounds and interior of a large estate, probably the Doyle residence known as Ringwood in Menlo Park. The mounted albumen print is captioned "Western Union Telegraph Company at Hotel Del Monte, Nov. 8, 1897," and is credited to C.W.J. Johnson.

View of University Avenue. Printed on wall of building on the left is "Mail pouch tobacco."

Letters, reminiscences, interviews, and term papers written for and collected by Mary Sheldon Barnes and her students in Stanford's Pacific Slope history class. Includes manuscripts of William B. Ide and others on the Bear Flag Revolt; a letter by Jessie Fremont; and other materials pertaining to California mining and early life in the Pacific states.

Articles of interest to settlers and pioneers of California including mining news, obituaries, local observances, biographies and illustrations.

The first series of scrapbooks was created by mayor (and later governor) Washington Bartlett, containing articles pertaining to political and civic issues in San Francisco and California from 1855 to 1886, as well as some notes and memoranda chronicling his duties as mayor. Other scrapbooks were assembled by Mary Sheldon Barnes in the 1890s and include articles and other ephemera related to the American West, including material on Native Americans, Oregon territory, Alaska, Pacific and Asiatic relations, and the San Francisco Peninsula.

Jean-Baptiste Paulin Caperon (better known in California as Peter Coutts), was a successful French businessman, book collector and editor of the republican, anti-royalist paper, LA LIBERTE. In 1875 Caperon, now known as Peter Coutts, purchased 1,400 acres just north of Mayfield and named it Rancho Matadero. Collection consists mostly of clippings and published articles, with two unpublished papers: Geoffrey Bilson, "Peter Coutts - 'The Frenchman'" and Regina Kriss, "The influence and effects of French politics (1848-1880) on the life of Stanford's Frenchman, Peter Coutts," 1965.

This collection of prints, mostly lithographs (including chromolithographs and colored lithographs), as well as one engraving, primarily portray San Francisco city views, public buildings, and landscapes. Subjects also include San Jose, Stanford University, the U.S. Navy Yard at Mare Island, San Diego, and San Luis Rey.

The photographs depict two scenes along Main Street with a railroad, parade of horse-drawn carts and several buildings, one displaying the American flag. Vacaville was hosting eastern newspaper editors in order to promote their town and orchard industry.

Consists of photo albumn with 62 photos and an additional 18 loose photos. Depicts Agnews State Asylum in Santa Clara, California. The images depict residents, staff, grounds, and the interior of the asylum including: offices, kitchen, dining room, workshops, the pharmacy, and other areas.

A transcript of "A Camping Trip to California" undertaken by four friends: Charles Wheeler and his soon-to-be-bride Lily Marsh, and James de Fremery (driver and photographer of the expedition) and his wife Wilhelmina Suermondt de Fremery over two weeks in the summer of 1887. This is a bound typescript of the account originally written by Wilhelmina de Fremery to share her adventure with her family in Holland.

Photographs, mostly cabinet cards, and one tintype of unidentified friends and family members, taken by San Francisco photographers.

Photo album from the early 1870s commemorating a trip to California with prints by Carleton Watkins, Alfred Hart, Eadweard Muybridge, and others. While there is little known documentation about its creation or provenance beyond the inscription "Amy White, from her brother Howard. Christmas 1871," evidence suggests this scrapbook was compiled to commemorate a trip (probably by Amy, and possibly with her brother) through the western United States on the Central Pacific Railroad, traveling through Utah, Nevada, the Sierras and Yosemite, San Francisco and the peninsula, Napa, Mendocino, and southern Oregon.

The family settled on the East Coast, later moving West; the Andersons contributed to society in the fields of theology, education and literature. Personal and business letters, literary and scientific manuscripts, official and legal documents, and clippings comprising a history of Edward Coffin Anderson (1821-1890); his sons, Melville Best Anderson (1851-1933) and Edward Playfair Anderson (1856-1951); and grandsons, Malcolm Playfair Anderson (1878-1949) and Robert Van Vleck Anderson (1884-1949); together with general material on the Anderson, Best, Playfair, Gurnee, and Van Vleck families.

Personal diaries of author and poet Charles Andrew Gunnison capturing his daily life in San Francisco, friendship with Timothy Hopkins, and travels in Europe and Asia. The journals include newspaper clippings of his poems and articles printed in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin and Sacramento Record Union.

Includes correspondence, diaries, and photographs. The Collection reflects J. O. Culver's experience as a lawyer, his service as an Army Paymaster and Post Office Inspector, his endeavors in small fruit culture, and his excursions into prospecting and mining. In general, the family letters and papers give a panorama of middle class society in New York, Wisconsin and Missouri, and Colorado and California, from 1860 to 1915, a familiar pattern in the United States of looking ever westward for opportunity.

Includes a list of deaths, prices of supplies, verses of songs, a recipe for "cleansing the teeth" (the only item in English), notes of departures for family members (to Sulphur Banks, Lake County; Guadalupe, Los Angeles, Idria, etc.), and on the last page of writing, an account of the trip from Tepic to Mazatlán to San Francisco to San Jose to Hacienda de Nueva Almaden.

Ellen Coit Elliott, wife of Orrin Leslie Elliott, Stanford University's first registrar, was the author of several books of poetry and an autobiography, IT HAPPENED THIS WAY; AMERICAN SCENE. These papers consist of photocopies of a diary, 1891 to 1893, and of her letters to her husband written from Pacific Grove, 1898 to 1904; as well as a typescript poem and a copy of her book UNICORNS BROWSING AT DAWN (1942).

Emil Fischer (October 9, 1852 – July 15, 1919) was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Family albums, glass negatives, album of (52) loose vintage photographs; personal letters, scientific publications, documents, clippings, and miscellaneous items. The materials document the lives of Emil Fischer, Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer and Agnes Fischer Peterson.

Growing up in California, Shay served in a wide variety of positions throughout his life, including special reporter for Sacramento and Virginia City newspapers, accountant and telegrapher for the Sutro Tunnel Company, and, after completing his law degree at Hastings Law College, attorney for the Southern Pacific Company and personal counsel for railroad president Leland Stanford. Autobiography, annotated by the author.

Timothy Hopkins became a protégé of Senator Leland Stanford, a treasurer of the Central Pacific Railroad, a Director of the Southern Pacific Railroad and of the Wells Fargo Bank. This keepsake, presumably made for the family and in all likelihood unique, contains the following original documents (in order of inclusion): individual cabinet photographs of the Mary and Timothy; the engraved wedding invitation; the engraved "At Home" invitation to the reception at the Windsor Hotel; press clippings from three different newspapers containing accounts of the wedding and the reception in New York; a photograph of the bride in her wedding dress; two press clippings describing the reception held in San Francisco; and a final press clipping describing a "German" or "Cotillon" entertainment given at the Hopkins mansion in February 1882.

Diary written during her visit to the Hopkins estate, Sherwood Hall, in Menlo Park, California, with a few entries during her return trip to Massachusetts. Other people mentioned include Jane and Leland Stanford, Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Burrage, and James C. Flood.

Early in the 1860s, Stanford joined with three other Sacramento merchants--Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Collis P. Huntington--in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad. In 1885, Leland and Jane founded Leland Stanford Jr. University in memory of their son. Correspondence, telegrams; business, legal, financial, and official papers; speeches, journals, and newsclippings; and other materials relating to the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, Stanford's political career, business and financial interests, and the founding and construction of Stanford University.

Images in the album are largely of Leland Stanford Jr., from the age of 3 months to 14 years; others include one image of Leland Jr. with Jane Stanford, which has been hand colored, and several images of Leland Stanford Sr.

Leland Stanford, Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. Leland Stanford, was born in Sacramento, California on May 14, 1868. Correspondence, journal, notebooks, drawings, personality studies and school work of Leland Jr., and condolences to Senator and Mrs. Stanford regarding the death of their son.

Collection contains 29 greeting cards, 1880-1883 and undated; photographic reproductions of several cards; and a clipping about the collection, 1982. Several cards were sent by Wilson Taylor, a friend of Leland Stanford Jr., to Stanford family members for Christmas 1882.

Primarily studio portraits (mounted albumen prints) of Senator Leland Stanford, Jane Lathrop Stanford, Leland Stanford Jr., Gertrude Stanford, and Elizabeth Stanford. There are also a few images taken by Leland Stanford, Jr.

Family scrapbooks, compiled for the Stanford family. Subjects cover a wide range of family activities including railroad affairs, the Palo Alto Stock Farm, the Vina Ranch, the University, the United States Senate, politics, personal affairs of the Stanford's, and horses.

Two uncaptioned photo albums and some loose prints chronicling the travels and university studies of a student or group of students. Apparently setting out from the east coast on his way to Stanford, the photographer includes photos of Harvard University, New England, the grave markers of famous writers, Yellowstone Park, Native Americans, soldiers and military posts, rodeos, farming & mining operations, river boats, Mt. Shasta, and the San Francisco Bay Area. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Under the provisions of the 1892 Geary Act, which amended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, all Chinese in the United States were required to apply for, obtain, and carry a government-issued certificate of residence proving their legal presence in the United States. Collection consists of 17 certificates of residence for Chinese laborers in California, dated from 1894 to 1897.

Dennis had several partners during the following years and was burned out twice, but he prospered by providing the paints, oils, glass, etc. needed by the growing city. Diaries of Dennis J. Oliver, his wife, Bridget, and their children: Joseph, Anna Maria, and Minnie. Oliver was involved in the founding of the Hibernian Society and the Irish Emigrant Society.

Walter Ngon Fong (1866-1906) and Emma Fong Kuno nee Howse (1873-1948) met at Stanford University and were married in Colorado, as interracial marriage was prohibited under California Law. Photographs, manuscript materials, and printed materials related to the lives of Walter Ngon Fong (1866-1906, widely reported to be the first Chinese student to graduate from Stanford [class of 1896, A.B.]) and his wife, Emma Howse Fong.

Newspaper clippings and one manuscript written by King, together with published responses primarily by William H. Tiffany bound in a scrapbook kept by King. New York medical doctor, a spiritualist.

One document appoints her an approved member of the national society by virtue of her descent from William Russell, who "with unfailing loyalty rendered material aid to the cause of American Independence as a Brigadier General during the Revolutionary War." The other document appoints Mrs. Leib as Chapter Regent of the Daughters of the American Revlution in the City of San Jose, California.

Collection consists of 2 volumes: 1893 Santa Clara County, CA Index Poll Tax List & Sheriff's Register of Actions; 1895 Santa Clara County, CA Sheriff's Register of Actions #9.

Voting register, listing occupation, age, height (and other physical characteristics), country of birth, town of residence, ability to read and write, and if departed, destination.

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

The correspondence and contract are with the Merchants' Association of San Jose. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

The collection documents the intersecting agriculture, food processing, and marketing industries, particularly in California, with large holdings of labels for beverages, canned foods, and fruits, especially apples, pears, and citrus fruits. Comprises thousands of crate, can, and bottle labels, the bulk of which were designed and created between the 1920s and 1940s by San Francisco and Los Angeles lithography companies.

A picture apparently taken at the airfield at Redwood City, California, in operation from 1915 until the 1930s as site of a School of Aviation then owned by World War I flying ace Walter Varney, an aviation pioneer who later founded a company that evolved into United Airlines. Photograph inscribed "Sincerely Yours, Wallace S. Chinn. 7-13-20".

Collection contains corrected typescripts of chapters 1 through 15, list of figures, illustrations, and index. Alfred S. Niles was professor of aeronautic engineering at Stanford University from 1927 until his retirement in 1959. In 1929 the first edition of Airplane Structures by Alfred S. Niles and Joseph S. Newell was published by John Wiley & Sons.

Davis was closely associated with aircraft development through the early part of the 20th century. Included are Davis's original papers and photographs for the innovative airfoil he theorized, designed, uniquely tested and finally patented. Known as the Davis Wing, it bettered performance by 20% and was used by Consolidated in production of their PBY-5 Catalina and Liberator B-24's - outstanding long-range bombers during WW II.

Irmgard Flugge-Lotz was professor of engineering at Stanford from 1949 until her retirement in 1968. These reports and papers on aerodynamics are primarily in German, with a few in French, Italian, and English; research facilities represented include Aeodynamische Versuchsanstalt in Gottingen and Deutsche Versuchsanstalt fur Luftfahrt in Berlin-Aldershof.

As the first Director of the Development and Planning Department, he proposed the creation of the Missile Systems Division to develop ballistic missiles and satellites. In 1961, he was named President of Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, and in 1969, he became Group Vice President of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The Leonard Eugene Root papers document his personal life and career in the aerospace industry from the 1940s to the 1960s, and includes correspondence, notebooks, business files, publications, memorabilia.

These are patents for foil for passage through a fluid (Great Britain, 9 May 1938) and improvements in fluid foil (France, 21 Apr. 1939). [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Nicholas J. Hoff was a professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University at the time of his death in 1997. Collection includes articles and papers by Hoff on aircraft structures and other matters, 1944-1981; diplomas, awards and other biographical materials, 1928-1997; and materials he collected on the history of aviation including articles, reports, and photographs, 1903-1958.

Although his early research was in marine engineering, Durand was best known for his contributions to the science of aeronautics, specifically the development of the first variable pitch propeller. Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, research notes, reports, reprints, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to his research in engineering and aeronautics and professional matters; a copy of his published autobiography; and biographical and scientific writings by others relating to Durand.

An archive of six original photographs, fifteen letters, four scientific papers, one typescript of a article for RADIO-CRAFT and one news clipping, all related to three early electro-mechanical equation solving analog computers.--vendor.

The Guy F. Atkinson Company is a construction and engineering firm founded in 1926 that specializes in civil projects such as dams, tunnels, and roadbuilding. The records contain materials related to the construction business (estimates, contracts, agreements, indexes of jobs, calculations, budgets, business correspondence, summary sheets, overheads, as well as individual projects' files), legal and financial papers, along with industrial publications, various leaflets, catalogs, clippings, photos, and scrapbooks.

Construction firm, San Francisco. Correspondence, contracts, bills and estimates relating to Palmer and McBryde's construction of the Stanford Stadium (1921) and reconstruction of the stadium stands (1925, 1927).

Records include specifications and calculations, estimates, correspondence, engineering drawings, charts, reports, and photographs pertaining to banks, schools, factories, and other commercial buildings. San Francisco buildings include Children's Hospital, Gallileo High School, Horticultural Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, City Hall, and California Academy of Sciences.

This collection contains materials related to the life and work of noted civil engineer William McMillan, who received his Bachelors and Engineers' degrees from Stanford University in 1911 and 1912. Incluided are biographical materials, news clippings, correspondence, and technical reports related to McMillan's engineering career.

One of the founders of the Magnavox Company was Edwin S. Pridham, who graduated from Stanford University in May 1909 with an a.b. in physics. Other subjects covered in this history include the company's research in Napa, California, the invention of the loudspeaker, anti-noise systems used by the military, and the company's facility in Oakland, California.

An exceptional technical handbook written in a student's neat calligraphic hand for textile-weaving courses, taught in Lyon at the École de la Salles by professors Brocard and Granger. The volume is richly decorated with a numerous drawings and 137 original fabric samples.

Comprises correspondence, news clippings, business documents, and ephemera related to the history of Eloesser-Heynemann Co., an early clothing manufacturing company founded in San Francisco. The company was a competitor of Levi Strauss & Co., and known for its denim and workwear, and its trademark logo, "Can't Bust 'Em."

This collections consists of approximately 282 black and white photographs depicting the General Cable Corporation factory(ies) used to manufacture the power transmission lines for the Hoover Dam. The images also include the Hoover Dam under construction, Lake Mead, transmission lines to Los Angeles and a Southwestern Portland Cement Factory plant.

From 1897 to 1911 the Risdon Iron Works designed and built 63 gold dredges, many of which were shipped to mining fields in other parts of the world. Collection of photographs, catalogs, notebooks, blueprints, and other records from the Risdon Iron Works and Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California, particularly concerning the manufacture of dredges and mining machinery.

Gladding, McBean and Company is a California firm that manufactures clay roofing tiles. Photocopy of contract book with brief entries on building, location, owner, architect, material, and amount; included are entries pertaining to buildings on the Stanford University campus.

Sherry earned his a.b. in chemistry at Stanford University, 1904, and his M.A. in 1905; he was a metallurgical engineer. Papers consist primarily of charts, drawings, illustrations, and photographs used in his book STEEL TREATING PRACTICE, published in 1929.

The Stauffer Chemical Company was founded in 1885 in San Francisco by two European immigrants, John Stauffer, Sr. and Christian de Guigne. The company mainly produced herbicides for corn and rice. The materials include minutes books, financial statements, correspondence, and photographs.

He joined the Stanford faculty in the Department of Mining and Metallurgy in 1921. Includes bibliographical references and photographs.

Occupational photograph showing male and female workers at Hickmott Canning Company, in which some affectionately hold hands and/or have their arms draped around each other's shoulders.

C. Lyn Fox was assistant to Thomas G. Plant, the President of the Waterfront Employer's Union, and wrote news memoranda for the president, 1935-1936.

Correspondence with John Steinbeck, 1936-1940, including 3 cards, 4 letters, and 1 telegram from Steinbeck to Thomsen, 2 letters from Carol Steinbeck to Thomsen, and carbons of 2 letters from Thomsen to Steinbeck. Included is one file about the John Steinbeck Committee, a short-lived California farm labor advocacy society, 1939, and references to the Associated Farmers.

The diary records first-hand observation and eyewitness accounts of the coal strikes and ensuing violence that occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1900's.

Arthur Otto Tallaksen was a Norwegian longshoremen. The materials document Tallaksen's involvement with the International Longshoremen's Association, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Norsk Matros- og Fyrbøter-Union [Norwegian Seafarers' Union], and the United States Coast Guard.

Frazer charged that "Madame Secretary Perkins" - Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to a presidential Cabinet post - had "deliberately overruled the uniform line of court decisions to protect Communists, radicals, 'pinks' and similar vermin" by refusing to deport "obnoxious" and "troublesome" Red agitators who were trying to organize migratory farm worker unions in California's central valley. The Associated Farmers group had just been formed by "big growers" of the California Farm Bureau Federation and State Chamber of Commerce to prevent this "serious menace to the welfare of the state ... threatening the existence of the state's vast agricultural industry."

Documentary photographic portrait of the workforce for a California grower at the end of the season, with 61 women and 74 men-all Caucasian-and in the center, Kyusaburo [Harry] Sakata, a Japanese immigrant who was the co-owner of the operation.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notes, press releases, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and ephemera related to the Mooney case, likely created or collected by San Francisco Chronicle political editor Earl C. Behrens. Pro-Mooney pamphlets and ephemera were published by the International Workers' Defense League and the Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee.

Bell Labs had been involved with developing improved sound recording and reproduction since 1915, and was willing to record Stokowski and the orchestra among other test subjects, and so in in 1931 and 1932, one hundred experimental high fidelity, long playing, and stereophonic recordings of the Philadelphia Orchestra were produced. Master dubs on open reel tape, commercially released LP pressings, and a metal part for the Bell Telephone Laboratoriesalbums titled "Early Hi-Fi Wide Range and Stereo Recordings Made by Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1930s - Leopold Stokowski Conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1931-1932."

A photograph album consiting of more than one hundred 7 1/2 x 11 inch photographs each mounted on linen. The photographs offer a view into the state-of-the-art in telephone/telegraph cabling and outside plant as well as how that infrastructure was used to justify rates in 1925.

Collection consists of 5 Guglielmo Marconi postcards from Italy. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

The diaries begin with joining the Anglia at Greenwich on January 7, 1902, and from there on there is a daily record of the voyage to Brisbane where the first leg - from Southport to Norfolk Island - begins. In April 1903 Clifford joined the Colonia laying the cable from Manila to Honolulu via Guam and Midway. In addition to the diary entries there are many clippings about the cable and ships, lists of expenses, and other notes including a diagram of the faults in the cable on the Anglia.

Describes and illustrateds different models, and describes why Baird televisions are better than the competitors. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

"Report Of The Directors", "Statement Of Accounts "and other information provided to the shareholders. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Includes articles and illustrations about radio stations designed and built by Elwell, the Elwell mast, the Elwell Poulsen Arcs, and the continuous Wave Radio Station.

Cyril Frank Elwell (1884 – 1963) was an American inventor and pioneer in the development of radio-telegraphy and long-distance communication. Contains several versions of Elwell's autobiography, including one written under a pseudonym and correspondence with possible ghost writers, especially R. B. Stone. Also includes engineering papers, clippings, biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs.

Mayes has an interest in the history of radio tube development.

Early 20th century photographs depict the first Poulsen arc from Denmark; a wireless telephone station; generators and cabinets; interior and exterior views of various telegraph stations in the United States, Ireland and England; and construction sites for new stations.

Notebook with diagrams and explanations of the development of the audion amplifier and oscillator, indexed, 1912. Record of patent infringement lawsuits, ca. 1933, with published record of notebook contents. Newsclips from The Palo Alto Times, 1947, re the significance of the electronic discoveries made in Palo Alto.

Karl Spangenberg (1910-1964) served as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. This collection contains correspondence, teaching materials, subject files, and research notes of Karl R. Spangenberg relating to his work as an electircal engineer specilizing in vacuum tubes at Stanford.

The Lester L. Libby papers consist of files created and maintained by Lester Louis Libby (1916-2002) pertaining to his work in the technical field of sound engineering and the application of microwave frequency technologies in various industries including radio, television, and early electronics from the 1930s to the 1970s. Materials include Libby's resarch notebooks, work papers, diagrams and schematics, articles he authored, and patents received.

The interview by Arthur L. Norberg covers high school and first jobs (1-8), interest in amateur radio (8-18), Heintz and Kaufman, Inc. (18-44), Eitel McCullough, Inc. (44-96), and appendices (including copies of photographs).

Diagram of the first successful "television" transmitter exhibited at South Kensington Museum.

The collection consists of a photograph album and a typescript by Ralph M. Hare, a United States Navy wireless operator at the Farallon Island Wireless Station from 1918-1919. The typescript is primarily about the equipment used at the wireless station.

A single file folder with thirteen documents created between 21 April and 7 July 1930. The file deals with a crucially important moment in the history of television technology, Vladimir Zworykin's evaluation of Philo Farnsworth's competing system of "electronic" television, followed by RCA's decision to devote the bulk of its resources to electronic rather than mechanical television development. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Russsell and Sigurd Varian were co-inventors, with William W. Hansen, of the klystron and rhumbatron and co-founders of Varian Associates. Joined by his brother, Sigurd, a pilot with Pan American Airlines, he began work on microwave technology as a research assistant with Professor William Hansen. In addition to original research notebooks and correspondence regarding the klystron, the collection includes materials on numerous other inventions and ideas from Russell's work for Philo Farnsworth and Humble Oil as well as the brothers' years at Stanford and at Varian Associates.

Foodstuffs, probably only for one household for a few days. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

The Company established stations in Alaska at Nome, Kodiak, Sunrise, Eagle City, Circle City, St. Michael, Unga, Unalaska and others, and in Dawson in Canada, as well as various other Canadian stations. Includes general accounts dating between 1888 and 1940, financial reports of Unalaska, annual financial reports and lists of stockholders of Alaska Commercial Company. Also included are stock certificates, stock journals, private and general ledgers, fur book, fur average record, and a Yukon Saw Mill ledger.

Ledger of the historic Duff & Doyle General Store, located in Menlo Park, California contains the food, liquor, sundries and supplies for 74 accounts. Listed also are all manner of purchases such as bread, salt, eggs, and more obscure fare such as scythe stones, sulphur and overalls, among others.

Guest book with A-Z tabs where guest have penned the names, addresses, and sometimes phone numbers. There is a pencil notation "Occidental Hotel, P.A.Calif" on the free fly.

The Schwabacher Company records in this collection include records of several of the enterprises in Seattle, the Stockton Milling Company in Stockton, California, and of Schwabacher Bros. of San Francisco. Collection includes miscellaneous reports and letters concerning the Seattle enterprises (1910 and 1921-1923); accountant's reports and balance sheets for each of the four Seattle companies represented (1910-1933); minute book and cash book, as well as sundry agreements and correspondence for the Stockton Milling Company (1894-1920); and checkbooks and a trial balance for Schwabacher Bros. in San Francisco (1906-1944). [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Collection consists of records of a general merchandise store in North Bloomfield, Nevada County, California (1862-1936), and bound records of various other mercantile and mining establishments in California (1837-1938). Included are legal documents, agreements, correspondence, general accounts, production records, and samples of various forms.

This photo album contains photos that show the construction/maintenance of Big Bend PowerHouse, built by the Great Western Power Company on North Fork of the Feather River in California in 1915-1917. Included are 70 photos, including views of worker's dormitory, later used as a military camp.

Includes a photograph of Lick Observatory on the top of Mt. Hamilton, as well as a schedule and fare information.

Includes pamphlets, typecript decisions of legal proceedings (many involving the Ferryboatmen's Union of California), tariff rate schedules, and other material.

"Four per cent. Sinking fund gold bonds, $35,275,000. Coupons payable 1st of April and 1st of October. Bonds dated June 7th, 1902 Due April 1st, 1927."

The Pacific Car Demurrage Bureau also called the Pacific Car Service Bureau seems to have been a sort of collection agency for the different west coast railroad companies. Collection contains business records including: receipted vouchers, payrolls, register of vouchers, cashbooks, time books, journals, and ledgers.

Among other lists and information, the papers include a list of the railroads serviced by the company at this time, and the number of cars reported for each.

Business and personal correspondence, business, legal and financial papers, bills and acts of Congress, governmental documents, political campaign material, minutes of meetings, texts of articles and printed materials covering the period of Shoup's presidency (1929-32) and vice chairmanship (1932-38) of the Southern Pacific Company and his interest and involvement with development and oil companies, notably the Tide Water Oil Group.

The San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways formed in 1912 from a merger of the San Francisco & San Jose Consolidated Railway and the Oakland Traction Co. Three of the organization charts provide names of the board of directors and heads of various departments.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

Advertising card for livery stable in Palo Alto, Calif., with train schedule to San Francisco and descriptive text on Stanford University.

The United Railroads of San Francisco, as well as the Market Street Railway Company and the Municipal Railway Co., were all aggregations of smaller street railway lines that provided urban transportation for San Francisco. Business and legal papers, financial papers, record books, stock records, statistics, ledgers, clippings, and other records.

The Donohoe, Kelly Banking Company was a large private banking company formed in the second half of the nineteenth century, and flourishing until 1929 when it transferred its business to the Bank of America of California, later the Bank of America, National Trust and Savings Association. Represented in the collection are a variety of business papers including those documenting liquidation of Donohoe, Ralston and Company (1863-1867) when W. C. Ralston left the company, routine business papers regarding accounts and bank business, and volumes of cash books, collection journals, checks and deposits volumes, and balance sheets.

Francis V. Keesling Sr. was a prolific figure in the Bay Area. He was a Stanford alumnus and had a hand in politics, legal affairs, and life insurance work. The collection contains Francis V. Keesling Sr.'s diaries from 1906 to 1953 and the reprints he collected.

Business records of H. King Hathaway, who was a consulting engineer associated with the Schlage Lock Company in San Francisco and the Tabor Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Collection consists of reports and correspondence concerning the reorganization of various companies, mainly in the East and New England, but in several cases in San Francisco, for which Hathaway worked as a consultant.

James Deitrick (1864-circa 1932) was a businessman and speculator with interests around the world, including Russia, Asia, Mexico, and Nicaragua. The collections contains correspondence, legal and financial papers, extracts, notes, lists, printed material, and maps covering the period from 1900 to 1918, primarily 1914 to 1917.

Pacific Improvement Company was a large holding company in California, formed by C. P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Business areas covered include land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.

The Pacific Improvement Company was a large holding company in California, formed during the days of C.P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Contains materials related to the development of the Monterey Peninsula and to the general business areas of land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.

He became associated with the Crockers and after making a success of the Crocker-Hoffman Land and Water Company, which he managed, he was subsequently offered a position managing the Pacific Improvement Company in 1915. Contains personal correspondence of Samuel Morse, correspondence of the Pacific Improvement Company relating to liquidation of the company, and a report (12 v.) prepared for the Pacific Improvement Company in 1916, titled, "Iron, Steel, Coal & Coke on the Pacific Coast."

Photographs, dealer catalogs, and specification sheets concerning trucks, mostly from the 1920s and 30s, and trucking company ephemera from the early 1950s. This collection was created in 1960 with the cooperation of the Western Highway Institute, primarily to preserve the records and pictures of the early days of highway transportation west of the Rocky Mountains.

Testimony is presented as to the land's value as a park and the value of the timber alone. Letters are printed from several readers.

Photographs taken by Hill of Sequoia sempervirens and its habitat in Big Basin, including Waddell Creek, and Mt. Ben Lomond. Represented are the founding members of the Sempervirens Club among whom are Hill, W.W. Richards, R.S. Kooser, Carrie Stevens Walter, Mrs. S.A. Jones, J.F. Coope, J.Q. Packard, H.L. Middleton, Charles Wesley Reed and their guide, Andy Baldwin, and cook, Thomas Croon.

Shown is a group of five deer being offerred food by an unidentified man. In the background are redwood trees and an automobile and structure.

Includes forms used by the California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Industrial Welfare. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Ms. Chase's family owned the company and its pear orchards from the 1870s to the late 1960s. The collection includes photos, legal papers, family memorabilia, letters, materials related to the State Fair, including booklets from 1927, 1928 and 1929, as well as photos of the company booth and display cards, and other documentation.

From paragraph (i) of the Articles of Incorporation, "The primary purpose for the organization of this corporation is to pack, process, clean, store and warehouse the beans delivered to it by the California Bean Growers' Association, a California cooperative marketing association..." The first series consists of minute books, bylaws, legal papers, correspondence, leases, and account books of the Corporation (1922-1947). The second series includes minute books, bylaws, administrative material, and account books which document the California Bean Growers' Association (1918-1929).

Charles Conklin Wooster; born in Albany, NY, in 1845; horse trainer and coachman for Leland Stanford from about 1870 until Stanford's death in 1893; continued to work for Jane Stanford, and after her death in 1905, for the University; died in 1935. Photographs of Wooster with family members, horses, and his marriage certificate. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Frank Y. Chuck (1900-1994) was a research chemist who patented a technique for the dehydration of milk and the stabilization of whey products through crystallization so they would dissolve easily in liquid, a process that allowed milk products to be shipped overseas during wartime and is still used today in the production of household items such as instant hot cocoa mix and powdered milk. Included are photographs, academic transcripts, diplomas, domestic and international patents, professional papers, notebooks, correspondence, and an oral history interview transcript.

Henry Kingwell, a resident of Colusa, California, served for decades as Glenn County's Agricultural Commissioner until his retirement in 1951. Photographs include 38 photographs (8x10 or 4x5) showing displays of fruits and horticultural products at the Glenn County Fair, 1921-1931. Many other photographs of agricultural topics (e.g., apricot drying) and photos of meetings of other California Agricultural Commissioners.

Detailed description by a professional appraiser of lands along the eastern bank of the San Joaquin River and as part of the Sand Slough field (whih was frequently irrigated or flooded). A report on agricultural land in California's Central Valley before the introduction of state and federal irrigation projects.

Small sales album documenting the use of Kayso, or powdered calcium caseinate, to increase the coverage and effectiveness of pesticides and fungicides following World War I. The album was issued by the California Central Creameries, Inc., circa 1922, to promote the value of using their calcium caseinate powder as an effective additive to pesticide and insecticide sprays for orchard farming.

Compilation of ranch records from the Steele Ranches of San Mateo County, California. Includes financial papers, legal papers, photographs, maps, and miscellaneous background notes written by Mrs. Catherine Steele. The collection covers over 100 years of ranching in California.

Business records of an early-20th century Basque bakery in Hollister, California. They catered to the local Basques, performing services such as finding them employment in the mines and loaning them money.

Includes a history of Pacific Coast Borax Company. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Schuette was the general manager of the mining operation at New Almaden Mines from 1940 to 1945, when it was owned by the New Almaden Corporation. General and personal correspondence to and from the general manager,1943-1944, and business statements related to New Almaden Corporation.

Daniel Cowan Jackling (1869-1956) was a mining engineer who established several mining companies in the Western United States. Primarily correspondence, together with ledgers pertaining to Jackling's finances, photographs, annual reports, and clippings.

James MacDonald Hyde, a mining engineer, earned his A.B. in geology at Stanford University in May 1901. These papers consist of three patents for mining apparatus, 1912-1919; three maps of the Sullivan Mine (Congress Junction, Arizona); photographs of Hyde's machinery, 1912-1916 and undated; letters of reference for Hyde, 1900-1907, including two by professor John Maxson Stillman and vice-president John Casper Branner; and Hyde's diploma, 1901.

Manuscript letter copy book comprising 292 copies of letters, dated 21 October 1908 to 22 April 1914. Includes business correspondence from the Secretary of the company to other members of the company, and people who are doing work for them (surveyors, attorneys, etc.), or individuals they need to deal with in the course of doing business (tax collectors, assessors, recorders, and more).

Correspondence, legal and financial documents, ledgers, reports, research notes, photographs, maps, plans, profiles, charts and artifacts relating to the operation of the New Almaden Mine and the Quicksilver Mining Co.

The Colusa Sandstone Company was a San Francisco based company and one of the largest suppliers of sandstone from the Colusa Sandstone Co. Quarry (aka the Knowles Quarry or Brownstone Quarry)for Stanford Univesrity after the 1906 earthquake. Colusa Sandstone Company employee record books listing employees involved in reconstruction following the 1906 earthquake.

Submitted to the Department of Geology. Student Report--Stanford University, 1939.

Materials include a variety of documents related to mining operations (primarily in California and Nevada, though with some documents related to Colorado and British Columbia), including plans, printed matter, reports on properties, agreements, financials, maps, several reports on tungsten, blueprints, photographs, and negatives.

Semino received his A.B. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1922. Student notes from Stanford's early mechanical engineering and electrical engineering classes, 1919-21; typescript articles, charts, reports, and reprints (by Semino and others) largely pertaining to research done for Shell Oil Company of California, 1922-32; manuscript of THE OIL HEAT EXCHANGER by Semino and F.L. Kallum, 1925; and correspondence, 1934-37.

Logs contain information for an estimated 6,000 oil test wells in California from an area extending from Eureka to the Salton Sea.

Robert Moran has been recognized as an early pioneer in the fields of petroleum geology and petroleum engineering and was one of a handful of geologists who gathered in 1924 to assist in the formation of the Pacific Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Collection includes reports, maps, correspondence, cross sections, logs, notes, printed material, production data, and other miscellaneous material relating to the professional career of Robert Moran.

An archival scrapbook pertaining to the life of Oscar Sutro, Vice-President and counsel of Standard Oil Company of California. The archive was likely created at the time of his death (1935) by a member of his family and contains newspaper clippings, pamphlets and typescripts of addresses of Mr. Sutro, handwritten correspondence, ephemera, a printed funeral address, and a 29 page biography.

This collection contains information from approximately 5,000 oil wells in California from an area extending from Eureka to the Salton Sea.

With a large map of the property in question on one side, 8 photographs of available domiciles on the other, with a pictorial representation of suburban bliss. Scarce brochure extolling the virtues or property on the San Francisco Peninsula, "Homes of the rich who had the world to choose from have always been here. Lately, people of moderate means are beginning to share the wonderful climate, easy accessibility from San Francisco, fine transportation, country comforts with city convenience..."

Promotional leaflet from the Carnall-Hopkins Company advertising building lots available in Menlo Heights, adjacent to Stanford University land, now a part of Menlo Park, California.

Over 300 blueprint maps mounted on 144 canvas-backed, bound sheets showing various towns and localities in the Western United States and depicting the real estate holdings of the Pacific Improvement Company from 1880-1920.

The maps in this collection pertain to the University campus, to other lands owned by Jane and Leland Stanford or the University, and to adjacent communities.

The Office of the General Counsel (OGC) is responsible for addressing all of the legal issues arising out of the activities of Stanford University, Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Records from the legal office pertain to real estate matters, including the Stanford Shopping Center, other leases, and gift deeds.

Also includes "Data and Computations of Stanford Triangulation System," by unknown author (Noname text).

"Stanford Geological Survey Summer 1923" written in ink at top.

"Stanford Geological Survey Summer 1923" and "8/25/23" written in ink at top.

Shows "the position of street monuments, monument line ties, and street and monument ties. Prepared by direction of the Board of Supervisors under resolution No. 1764 (new series), October 12 1908. Marsden Manson, City Engineer, and Charles H. Holcomb, Asst. City Engineer." [From the title page map].

Five versions of the same map. Covers quarry area, source of sandstone for Stanford University buildings. Accompanied by field notebooks.

Property is adjacent of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Relief shown by contours (interval 10 ft.) and spot heights. General vegetation, with actual acreage amounts shown, and percentages in various tracts.

Three versions of the same map. Covers Greystone and Greystone Quarry areas, source of sandstone for Stanford University buildings.

Includes, among others, lands belonging to Spring Valley Water Company, Manzanita Water Company, Leland Stanford, W.A. Newell, Morris Doyle, and Cornelius O'Conner.

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

"Reconnaissance" and "Stanford Geological Survey 1923" written in pen at top.

Includes pamphlets produced about various bridges and bridge engineers.

Charles D. Marx was professor of civil engineering at Stanford University from its founding in 1891 to his retirement in 1923. Collection pertains to the construction of a bridge from San Francisco to Oakland.

This collection consists of photographic materials showing the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, in California. The materials include 11 albums containing approximately 1,050 gelatin silver prints (1934-1936) showing various aspects of bridge construction and a separate group of 52 photographs and 142 real photo postcards depicting views of the bridge and tunnel construction from both the banks of the San Francisco Bay and the bridge span itself (1933-1936).

The photographs were probably taken by a construction worker.

Early 20th century negatives from the lighthouse station on the Farallon islands off the coast of San Francisco, California. Collection contains 53 glass plate and 8 film negatives, along with some empty sleeves.

Collection contains outlines of corporate histories of railroads in the United States and Canada including some streetcar lines and electric interurban lines. Includes dates of incorporation, lists of points served, lists of mileage, time schedules, maps of lines, and lists or reports of accidents.

Binder "Golden Gate Bridge & Highway District, Daily Calendar, Francis V. Keesling, 1929-1937." Binder "Rapid Transit over Golden Gate Bridge, report of Joseph B. Strauss, Chief Engineer, 1934."

Includes the book THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, report of the Chief Engineer to the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, California, 1937. Other pamphlets include information on the Bay Bridge as well as the Golden Gate, and there are newsclippings and magazine articles that also have photographs.

Photographic documentation by Standard Oil Company of California of the building of The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco (Calif.).

Photograph collection containing various accessions of original and copy prints depicting railroads, street cars, airplanes, automobiles, and other forms of transportation. Material was formerly part of the Hopkins Transportation Library.

He resigned from the Navy in 1920 and managed various California corporations until his appointment as general manager of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District in 1933. The collection consists of reports and correspondence concerning the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and some material dealing with Reed's earlier activities, such as his association with the Celite Company in Los Angeles, Public Works and management activities in Philadelphia, and involvement in a project on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Joseph Baermann Strauss (1870-1938) was an American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. Original bridge plans and construction drafts. Four different bridge types are represented: Strauss direct lift bridge, Strauss trunnion draw span, Strauss trunnion bascule bridge, and Strauss vertical lift bridge.

Approximately 60 prints collected by Randolph Brandt depicting transportation and other subjects in California, especially railroads and street cars. Brandt, whose father was an investor in the Ocean Shore Railroad, contributed many images to books and magazines on the history of railroads and the San Francisco Bay Area.

The progress reports contain numerous photogrpahs, and some maps and drawings.

Rixford Snyder was a professor of history at Stanford University. Photocopies of photographs, illustrations, and articles with additional text by Snyder, concerning the Peninsular Railway, the electric trolley that ran between San Jose and Palo Alto, California, passing through Stanford University.

Theodore (or Ted) Huggins, was a public relations executive at Standard Oil Company of California and an amateur photographer who convinced his superiors to let him document the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. Comprises black and white prints taken by Ted Huggins of the Golden Gate Bridge, with an emphasis on construction during all phases, from groundbreaking to opening day in May 1937.

View of Golden Gate Bridge spanning the bay, direction towards Marin County.

The University Avenue Underpass Project is the reprinting of a series of photographs taken in 1939 and 1941, before and after the construction of the underpass that connects downtown Palo Alto and Stanford University. Collection includes sets 29, 35, and 81, along with a text page explaining the project.

Waldemar Fenn Dietrich earned his A.B. in geology at Stanford University in 1913 and his engineer's degree in 1914; he was professor of mining engineering at Stanford, 1916-30. Report on the feasibility of certain railroad electrifications as a future means of fuel oil conservation, submitted to D. M. Folsom, Federal Oil Director for the Pacific Coast.

Collection of photographs and research material concerning railroads, street cars and other public transportation in and around Oakland and Berkeley, California from historian, collector and local railway employee William Everard Gardiner (1869-1949).

Shows Southern Pacific Railroad tracks, proposed dam, waterways, Bay Cities Water Company, Spring Valley Water Company. Canals with directional arrows, land divisions, roads.

Cecil C. Killingsworth and Cooper Hyde were graduate students studying geology at Stanford during the 1930s. A report on the underground water supply of Stanford University and its vicinity from 1932.

Titled "The Construction of the Boulder Dam, 1931-1936," this film was sponsored by the Six Companies, edited by Dowling & Brownell, Hollywood. The film is in black & white and has intertitles and no soundtrack.

He came to Stanford in 1891 as Professor of Civil Engineering and taught here until his retirement in 1923. Correspondence, reports, research notes, manuscripts, drawings, financial records, clippings, minutes, reprints, and photographs largely pertaining to engineering projects, most of which concern dams and water systems in California; other subjects include his years as student and lecturer at Cornell University, his civic work, and other professional activities.

Report "Requested by Mr. Charles H. Lee, Chief of Division of Water Supply and Sanitation." Describes Treasure Island's soil, the various systems on the island (such as water, gas, and sanitary), and describes the results of "tests made to determine the amount of electrical protection necessary to stop [...] leaks which were developing."

Report "Requested by Mr. Charles H. Lee, Chief of Division of Water Supply and Sanitation" on electrical protection installed on Treasure Island's underground pipes. Describes the method of testing and the results.

Report, correspondence, photographs (94), and maps (27 with index), relating to a project undertaken for the Western Power Company of Los Angeles (later known as the Great Western Power Company) on the feasibility of creating a large reservoir at Big Meadows, on the North Fork of the Feather River (Plumas County, California), and creating a hydraulic power plant at Big Bend (on the North Fork) in order to deliver electric power to San Francisco and other places in northern California.

The materials consist of photographs documenting the construction of the Felt Lake Dam.

An extensive collection pertaining to California water projects including printed research material, correspondence, official reports, maps, and over 2,600 captioned photographs He had a long career specializing as a "municipal and reclamation" engineer. This specialization had him working on all aspects of irrigation projects for specific water districts to consulting on flood control, especially relating to the Yuba, American, and Sacramento Rivers.

44 cardboard sheets mounted with 138 black and white photographs. Images include personnel, work crews, equipment, aerial views, a few accidents, and site shots, some showing multiple shots of work progression at a specific location.

Preliminary report showing the feasibility of a coast stream water supply for the Palo Alto Water Disctrict.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District Map and Drawing Collection are materials owned and selected for digitization by the Santa Clara Valley Water District. The materials are related to water resources management in Santa Clara County, California dating in the early 1900s.

The photographs depict the building of California dams.

Legal papers documenting the agreements between the Spring Valley Water Company and Stanford University regarding Searsville Dam and Resevoir, 1919; and recordbook of measurements of the depth of Searsville Lake and amount of rainfall, 1905-1913, with some notes pertaining to pipes, water flow, and effect of the 1906 earthquake.

William W. Helbush (circa 1895-1965) served as an engineer for the San Francisco Department of Public Works. The collection contains project records, including reports, contracts, notes, specifications, plans, blueprints, and site photographs, as well as administrative records, financial records, and reference material related to the design and construction of various water projects, most notably the Hetch Hetchy water supply project, the enlargement of O'Shaughnessy Dam, and the Richmond-Sunset sewage treatment plant and reservoir for the San Francisco Water Department.

Japanese American Toichi Domoto (1902-2001) was a noted horticulturist who began in his family's Domoto Brothers Nursery and later founded his own nursery in Hayward, California. The collection contains family and business correspondence, legal advice concerning the Alien Land Law of 1913, early nursery business records, early nursery catalogs (from the Yokohama nursery, the Domoto Bros. nursery, and Toichi Domoto's nursery), photographs of the Domoto family and early nursery business, class notes and subject files.

He remained Professor of Physics at Stanford until 1954, when he retired. The papers of David Locke Webster document his career as a professor and physicist and include course material from physics classes taught at Stanford (1946-1954); notes and notebooks from his earlier teaching career at Harvard, Michigan and M.I.T.; correspondence and subject files on Army research projects; budget material for the Stanford physics department (1924-1943); reprints of articles; research data; photographs of apparatus used in experiments; manuscripts; correspondence (1939-70) regarding Webster's interests (e.g. Klystron Tube, compton effect); research notebooks (1916-1970); correspondence relating to the Physics Department during the 1940's; glass plates for printing graphs; photographs; maps.

Grandmother grew up in Fresno and attended Stanford in the 1900 to 1905 time frame. The first eighteen pictures provide a gallery of Stanford in the fall of 1900.

Florence Mary Grace graduated from Stanford University in 1906 with an A.B. in math; while a student she was a member of the women's basketball team. Photographs of Stanford students and campus scenes including Memorial Church, quad views, campus entrance gates, Roble Hall, the Stanford Mausoleum, campus roads, reservoir on the former Peter Coutts estate, Encina Hall residents, football team, women's basketball team, student excursions off-campus, and Prof. Fernando Sanford.

A single scrapbook including mementos from Georgina Rolph's junior year at Castilleja Girls School such as concert programs, notes from friends, photographs, drawings, and more.

Myron C. Burr earned his A.B. in civil engineering at Stanford University in May 1907. Included are photographs, correspondence, clippings, typescripts of short articles, memorabilia from student days at Stanford University, and a scrapbook. Subjects of the campus photographs include the Quad, Memorial Church, Encina dormitory rooms, club members on the porch of the Entre Nous eating club, athletics, and the laying of the last keystone in the outer Quad arcades.

Collection consists of two scrapbook pages of photographs and one illustration of football players, Coach Thornhill, and the construction of the Big Game bonfire, with one image of Herbert Hoover and family in front of the Hoover home on campus; and four images of the large hangar at Moffett Field, undated.

Album, possibly kept by John Stephens Martin, with photographs of athletic players and games (football and baseball), dormitory rooms, and groups of male students, ca. 1905-1906; most of the athletic uniforms have a "B" or "Belmont" on them, probably representing the Belmont School in Belmnont, Calif. There are several photographs of Stanford football players and of Stanford campus buildings before and after the 1906 earthquake.

Baum earned his engineering degree at Stanford University in 1898; he was assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford from 1898 to 1903. Galleys (incomplete) from his book, THE ALTERNATING CURRENT TRANSFORMER, with his corrections and annotations.

The papers of Frederick Emmons Terman, dating from 1920 to 1978, document all phases of his long and influential career as an educator, electronics engineer, administrator, and author. The collection consists of nearly 200 boxes of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches and miscellaneous materials accumulated by Dr. Terman and his staff throughout his professional life.

Harris J. Ryan was a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford (1905-1931; emeritus, 1931-1934), head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and first director of the Ryan High Voltage Laboratory. Collection includes syllabi and notes on alternators, synchronous motors, transformers, transmission lines and other topics, 1899-1917; correspondence regarding a lecture tour of Japan, 1930-32; Harris' articles and publications, 1911-31; articles and clippings on the Ryan high voltage lab; guest book from the Ryan High Voltage Lab, 1920-1931; and biographical information and bibliographies.

Experiments designed to illustrate fundamental points of electrical science.

Stephen Prokofievitch Timoshenko, a world-renowned authority on theoretical and applied mechanics, was educated at the Munich Polytechnic Institute and at the University of Gottingen. Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, notes, reprints, photographs, passports, awards, and other items; some materials are in Russian or German.

Hoover, Stanford University Trustee, founded the Hoover War Library at Stanford in 1919. Letter from Hoover to Frank A. Golder, director of the Hoover War Library, indicating the forwarding of documents relating to the history of the Library.

Located in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1907 by Mary Ishbel Lockey (a Stanford alumna) to offer girls a comprehensive, college preparatory education, taking its name from the first girl's school in Palo Alto known as Castilleja Hall.

Located in San Jose, then Belmont, California. Founded in 1851 as the Academy of Notre Dame. Chartered in 1868 as the College of Notre Dame.

Photocopy of undated notes by Espinosa on Adelante Villa, a preparatory school for girls founded by Lucy Fletcher and Eleanor Brooks Pearson and first located at Stanford.

Located in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1893 as Manzanita Hall. Became Palo Alto Military Academy in 1919. Closed in 1972.

Established in 1857 as the Minns' Evening Normal School. Became California State Normal School in 1862 and the California State Teachers College at San Jose in 1921.

Located in Mountain View, California. Opened in 1924. Closed in 1991.

First located in Santa Clara, California. Chartered in 1851 as California Wesleyan College, soon changed to University of the Pacific.

He made geological research trips to China and Argentina, before coming to Stanford University in 1915 to succeed John C. Branner as head of the Department of Geology. Collection includes diagrams from Appalachian structures labeled "Experiments in Folding"; a pamphlet "Bailey Willis Speaks"; two typescript papers on geology, 1944 and undated; report on the San Andreas Fault Valley, ca. 1933; report of the Golden Gate Bridge & Highway District regarding Willis' criticism of the bridge foundation and his comment on the report, 1934-35; biographical materials, 1949-62; and a manuscript poem by Willis, 1939.

French, plant physiologist, was director of the Dept. of Plant Biology of the Carnegie Institution, located on the Stanford University campus, from 1947 until his retirement in 1973. Papers include correspondence, articles, speeches, manuscripts, lab notes, charts, and computer printouts pertaining largely to his research interests in the photosynthesis of purple bacteria, spectroscopy of plant pigments, and the construction of spectroscopic equipment.

He rose through the various ranks to professorship in 1931 and becdame head of the Department of Physiology in 1938. Correspondence, research notes, poetry and prose manuscripts, lectures and research papers. Subjects include animal and human physiology and other related topics.

He taught at Indiana University before coming to Stanford University in 1897 as assistant professor of botany. Peirce's papers are primarily incoming and outgoing correspondence pertaining to his professional interests (research, publications, teaching positions) and his administrative duties at Stanford.

Hungarian mathematician George Pólya was educated at the University of Budapest and the University of Paris, and taught at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich from 1914 to 1940. Papers relate to Pólya's research and teaching in mathematics and include professional and personal correspondence with mathematicians worldwide, 1910-1984; course materials including lecture notes; mathematical research notebooks dating from 1917 to 1960; manuscripts including those from his published works Complex Variables , How to Solve It , Mathematical Discovery , and Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning ; ephemera; reprints; and photographs.

The first professor to be named at the new Stanford University in 1891, Branner served as professor of geology at Stanford as well as executive head of the Geology Department. Personal papers of John Casper Branner including correspondence, manuscripts, field notebooks, photographs from field work, line drawings of geological formations, scrapbooks of photographs of the effects of the 1906 earthquake, report of the commission investigating the Panama Canal, slides, genealogies of the Baker and Branner families, and books and articles by Branner, many annotated.

The first professor to be named at the new Stanford University in 1891, Branner served as professor of geology at Stanford as well as executive head of the Geology Department. Photographic prints belonging to John Casper Branner documenting geological changes and property damage after the 1906 earthquake. Likely images from surveying group led by Branner, who was a member of the California State Earthquake Investigation Commission.

He served as the first director of the Stanford Computation Center, 1953-61, taught the first programming course at Stanford in 1955, and helped found the computer science department at Stanford in 1965. These papers document his career as a mathematician and include his notes taken while a student at Brown University, 1937-41, and his master's and doctoral theses, 1940-41; research files (notes, computations, articles, computer printouts, some correspondence, and other materials) on Fourier series, Schlicht functions, spline theory, and other topics, 1940-83; memos, minutes, correspondence, and other records pertaining to Stanford's Dept. of Computer Sciences and the Stanford Computation Center, 1946-92; correspondence, notes, and reports pertaining to his Fulbright year, 1962-63; and bibliographic and biographical materials.

Pierre van Rysselberghe, a chemist and chemical engineer, earned his masters (1928) and doctorate (1929) at Stanford University. He taught at the University of Oregon and at Stanford. Papers include correspondence, class materials, articles and reprints, lab notes, and other materials pertaining to his research and his teaching career.

Artificial collection of photographs chronicling the after-effects of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The core of the collection consists of images from the California State Earthquake Investigation Commission expeditions led by John Caspar Branner, many of which were published as figures in their reports.

Astronomer. In addition to practical astronomy, his research interests included asteroids, comets and variable stars, latitude measurements, and seismology. Personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, research notes including astronomical observations and geological measurements, articles, lectures, personal diaries, family genealogy, and a collection of family photographs including glass plate negatives and a glass plate negative format camera.

"A series of papers reviewing the genus Lupinus... issued in dated signatures..."

Cyrus F. Tolman was a professor of economic geology at Stanford University These mimeographed syllabi are for Geology 4 and 5, the summer courses on field and topographic geology.

Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, born 19 February 1866 in Missouri, was an astronomer and mathematician who established laws of the Formation of the Solar System and founded the science of cosmogony. Consists of original drafts and copies of scientific papers.

Once at Stanford, his work focused on California flora, with a special interest in the study of trees; he was instrumental in the establishment of the Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Papers include field notes, a diary, manuscripts, articles and reprints, maps, and correspondence; most of the field notes relate to California, with occasional later annotations by other botanists.

Linder was Professor of History at the College of San Mateo for over forty years, teaching world history and women's studies courses. Doris Linder's papers includes research and teaching files and notes, drafts and correspondence related to her published research, travel and country files, family and personal correspondence and ephemera, slides, and published material.

Professor Adams taught European history for his first six years at Stanford, but in 1908, with the reorganization of the department, he took over recent American history, and especially British-American relations. Professor Adams directed the acquisition of materials throughout Europe after the war; these papers formed the original collections in the new Hoover War Library (later renamed the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace). Personal and professional correspondence, drafts, manuscripts and research notes for various publications, and other papers.

Although Hutchinson's professional field was chemistry, these papers pertain to his interest in history. They primarily relate to his research (done in the late 1960s) on scientific research in England prior to World War II and includes notes on the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Chemistry Research Board, National Physical Laboratory, Physics Research Board, and the Radio Research Board and his typescript paper "The Radio Research Board and the Early History of Radio Direction Finding."

Henry Rushton Fairclough (1862-1938) was a classical philologist from Ontario, Canada. Fairclough came to Stanford in 1893 as an associate professor in Classics, teaching Latin, Greek, and Classical Literature. Correspondence with family and associates including Melville Best Anderson, John Casper Branner, Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover, David Starr Jordan, Chester H. Rowell, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, and Ray Lyman Wilbur. Also includes diaries, notes, photographs, newsclippings, pamphlets, published works, medals, and memorabilia.

Papers related to mathematics professor Harold M. Bacon '28, MA '29, PhD '33, and his wife, Rosamond '30, MA '32, their son Charles R. Bacon, and their cousins Orrin and Harriet Dunn. Materials are related to the Dunn (Bacon) House, and Stanford history, inluding Jane Stanford and Herbert Hoover.

Gauld, who earned his A.B. in history at Stanford in 1932, was a lecturer at Stanford and assistant editor of HISPANIC AMERICAN REPORT. These papers pertain largely to Stanford anecdotes and history and include his typescript articles on George E. Crothers and Jane Stanford; letters from George E. Crothers, 1956, regarding vandalism to the Angel of Grief statue and the rebuilding of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake; and his letter to Herbert Hoover requesting a few words on Crothers and a copy of Hoover's reply, 1956.

Jordan was a naturalist-first a botanist and secondly and of greater significance an ichthyologist. The collection consists primarily of Jordan's voluminous correspondence (62.25 linear ft.) relating to professional and university matters, but also contains other types of material such as writings (published and unpublished), clippings, journals and diaries, scrapbooks, financial papers, biographical and genealogical information, and photographs. He developed the idea of a junior college and was responsible for developing Stanford University into an intellectually competitive university rather than the technical training school envisioned by the founders.

In the Spring of 1891, Leland Stanford offered Jordan the presidency of the university established in memory of the late son of Leland Stanford and Jane Lathrop Stanford. The collection consists primarily of Jordan's correspondence relating to professional and university matters, and also contains writings (published and unpublished), clippings, journals and diaries, scrapbooks, financial papers, biographical and genealogical information, and photographs. Materials in the collection reflect Jordan's embrace of and advocacy for eugenics, including his leadership in 19th and 20th century eugenics organizations.

Elinor Cogswell received her A.B. in English at Stanford in 1916, her M.A. in 1917; she was a journalist with the PALO ALTO TIMES and served as editor from 1938 to 1954. Correspondence, manuscripts, articles, photograph album and photographs, diploma, memorabilia, and diaries (1912-1916, 1931) largely pertaining to her association with Stanford University.

Francis Albert Smith earned three degrees in chemistry at Stanford University: AB 1922, AM 1923, and Ph.D 1926. Collection includes two appointment letters from Ray Lyman Wilbur, 1922-23; 3 letters from Edward C. Franklin, 1923-32; fundraising letter from Herbert Hoover re the Stanford Re-investment Fund ca. 1940; letter and menu for Sigma Xi President's Dinner, 1924; booklet on Palo Alto, ca. 1930; and photographs of a Stanford chemistry lab and the cactus garden on campus.

Reminiscence regarding Frederick E. Terman as chairman of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University presented in a talk to the Stanford faculty women's club, 1982.

Fletcher lived on campus in the Tower House with his family from 1910 to 1918. This two page typescript details Fletcher's experiences growing up on campus including playing with John D. McGIlvray's kittens and participating in Professor Terman's study on intelligence in children, and includes descriptions of the Tower House.

In 1885, Jane and Leland Stanford founded the Leland Stanford Junior University, in memory of their son. Memorial edition published after the death and funeral of Jane L. Stanford.

The Stanford Photograph Collection contains over 16,000 images of Stanford scenes including photographs of and relating to the Stanford family, views of the campus and individual buildings, photographs of students and student life activities, and photographs of faculty and administrative staff.

The collection contains biographical files on faculty, staff, and other individuals affiliated with Stanford University.

Two copies of the deed of grant and one copy of the deed of gift, issued by Jane Lathrop Stanford via the Board of Trustees in 1901. Parchment and ink, tied with red ribbons and sealed with red sealing wax, each copy is signed by Jane Stanford and other university officials.

Head, Department of Mining and Metallurgy (1919- ) and founding dean of the School of Engineering (1925-1936). Manuscript (typescript) excerpt from "Memoranda," the unpublished autobiography of Theodore J. Hoover. As most of the papers of Dean Hoover were lost in a fire, this manuscript provides valuable insight into the world of an early Stanford student, professor, and administrator (1897-1936).

Of primary interest are Crothers' writings on his alma mater, Stanford University, which he served as attorney for Jane Stanford, as member of the university 's Board of Trustees, and as part-donor of two graduate dormitories. Correspondence (1905-1957), speeches, articles, legal documents, photographs, newsclippings and scrapbooks.

Peterson, born in Iowa in 1876, was curator of the Stanford Museum from 1900-1917; after leaving Stanford, he directed the Sutter's Fort Museum in Sacramento. Collection includes administrative and personal correspondence, 1888-1936; reports, statistics, acquisition records, exhibit captions, and publications of the Stanford Museum, 1894-1917; glass slides of Stanford images probably used to illustrate talks; and research materials compiled by Peterson on the Gold Spike (ceremonial spike used to connect the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads), Stanford history, and Peter Coutts, including an original letter by Coutts, 1879.

Herbert Hoover was elected to Stanford University's Board of Trustees in 1912. Letter from H.C. Hoover to Timothy Hopkins, President of the Board of Trustees, July 30, 1913, regarding the location of athletic fields on the Stanford campus.

He was president of the Sperry Flour Company for 40 years. Jane and Leland Stanford appointed him to the original Board of Trustees for Stanford University in 1885; he served on the Board until his death in 1916. The bulk of the papers concern Stanford University, its Board of Trustees, and the problems it faced; subjects include salaries, tuition and fees, faculty retirements, student discipline, the 1906 earthquake, and the organization of the Board.

In 1885, Jane and Leland Stanford founded the Leland Stanford Junior University, in memory of their son. The papers of Jane L. Stanford pertain largely to the founding and administration of Stanford University, along with her personal and social affairs; included in the papers are correspondence, business records, legal and financial papers, speeches, news clippings, and biographical materials.

Trust agreement and Terms and Agreements for the Scholarship; the latter document relates family history concerning the origins of the scholarship and the original source of its funds.

Leland Whitman Cutler was President of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University (1942-1954) and insurance businessman. These papers are chiefly correspondence and working papers of the Board of Trustees. Included are reports and programs on future expansion of the University, papers of the Graduate School of Business and its Industrial Relations Division, the Lower Division, and the Department of Education.

He served as lecturer and professor of physiology and of medicine (1897-1903), Dean of the Cooper Medical College (Stanford) (1911-1916), third President of Stanford University (1916-1943), Chancellor of Stanford University, and Secretary of the Interior (September 1929-1933) under President Hoover. Administrative files from the president's office. Included is correspondence relating to administrative, financial, and educational affairs at Stanford, particularly as relates to departments and schools, athletics, organizations, buildings, clubs, individuals, and the Stanford Medical School.

The collection consists of four major components: Stanford correspondence pertaining to Judge Leib's association with the Stanford family and his responsibilities as a member of the first Board of Trustees of Stanford University (1891-1923); personal correspondence (1885-1910); correspondence pertaining to Leib's fruit and other farm interest (1883-1919); and legal and business correspondence pertaining to his San Jose law practice and local business interests (1881-1920), including cases resulting from the failure of the Savings Bank of San Diego County.

The Board administers the invested funds, sets the annual budget, and determines policies for the operation and control of the University. Records of the Trustees pertaining to legal issues, financial affairs, investments, academic departments, student housing, gifts received, real estate, campus development, and other administrative concerns.

Correspondence, financial statements, and reports relating to absorption of the Cooper Medical College and Lane Hospital, San Francisco, by Stanford University. Correspondents include Timothy Hopkins, David Starr Jordan, J. M. Stillman, and Ray Lyman Wilbur.

The bound volumes in the collection (ledgers, journals, day books, and cash books) pertain to university finances, the Palo Alto Stock Farm, the Vina Ranch, Durham Ranch, and Lane Hospital (San Francisco). Additional accessions contain historical salary rolls and account ledgers.

The Academic Council was organized by the Stanford University faculty in 1904 and currently consists of members of the Professoriate and certain officers of the academic administration as specified by the Articles of Organization. In 1968 the Academic Council created the Senate of the Academic Council, composed of representatives elected from the Council. They include minutes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, election records, agendas and supporting documents, rosters, memorial resolutions on deceased members, and audiotapes of meetings.

These records include letters from the President to the Board of Trustees, 1902-1948; budget records, 1906-1960; departmental appointment records, 1901-1909; salary rolls and letters of appointment, 1901-1924; contracts and agreements largely between Jane Stanford and David Starr Jordan, 1893-1902, regarding faculty salaries and university fees, budget matters, and the ground lease for University land; and reports of committee actions, 1898-1910. Presidents represented in these records are: David Starr Jordan (1891-1913), John Casper Branner (1913-1915), Ray Lyman Wilbur (1915-1943), and Donald B. Tresidder (1943-1948).

In 1925, the formerly independent engineering departments were organized into the School of Engineering with Theodore Jesse Hoover as Dean. The collection consists of general office files from the School of Engineering Dean's Office. Included are subject files regarding school and departmental affairs as well as interests of the individual deans; files regarding teaching appointments of non-tenured assistants, lecturers, instructors, assistant professors and visiting faculty; annual budget files (1925-1960) and annual reports to the President (1945-1964) regarding school and departmental activites, goals, faculty achievement and funding.

Requisitions from the Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1926-40, the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1926-40, Ryan High Voltage Laboratory, 1930-40, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1926-46, Guggenheim Aeronautic Laboratory, 1927-44, and the Dept. of Mining Engineering, 1936-40.

The collection includes minutes, reports, correspondence, leases, proposals, and other records pertaining to financial and business aspects of the administration of Stanford University. Among the subjects covered by the records are property matters, land development, building projects on campus, academic departments and professional schools, faculty and student housing, the hospital and medical center, SLAC, shopping center, industrial park, Jasper Ridge, relations with Palo Alto, roads, and water.

Webster was professor of physics at Stanford University, 1920-1954, and emeritus professor, 1954-1976. Correspondence, 1970, between Webster, Albert A. Bartlett, physics professor at the University of Colorado, and George W. Wheelwright, III, concerning Dr. William Duane's years in the Physics department at Harvard University; also includes a clipping about Duane's career, 1954.

Widely known as a photographer of natural landscapes, most especially for his images of the Sierra Nevada and Yosemity Valley, Adams was also an environmental perservationist. Contains 26 black and white photographic prints taken by Ansel Easton Adams. Photographs include nature and landscape scenes; portraits; and city scenes of San Francisco.

Arthur L. Dahl held various positions in the United States Civil Service, among them personal secretary to Gifford Pinchot, who was then National Forester. However, the great majority of the collection is lists and copies of articles that Dahl had published in various magazines and other periodicals between 1910 and 1937. Writing was a profitable hobby, at which he spent his spare hours from his business career.

Upon Herbert Croly's demise, Bliven succeeded as editor of New Republic. Continuing his freelance literary career, Bliven completed several works, including Five Million Words Later, his autobiography, and A Mirror for Greatness a biography of six famous Americans. Correspondence, notes, printed materials, photographs, and clippings covering Bliven's journalistic and literary careers.

Sheet music collected by Stanford alumnus Chester Barker. Based on their music store stamps, Barker purchased this music in and around Palo Alto for the most part, and many were probably used in local theatrical productions. This collection contains approximately 70 items dating from 1891-1973, the majority of which are from musicals.

Urmy was the first native poet of California. Includes correspondence concerning Urmy's work, letters to and from his sister Mabel (Urmy) Seares, manuscript and printed verse by Urmy, biographical material, photographs, and other material.

Frank Ernest Hill, son of photographer Andrew Putnam Hill (1853- 1922), born 29 August 1888 in San Jose, California, was a newspaperman, college professor, aviator, poet, and author. Collection includes typescripts, with some corrections in pencil ("Geoffrey Chaucer," WINGED HORSE ANTHOLOGY revision, FATHER WAS PRESIDENT, and unpublished poems), correspondence dating chiefly from the 1960's and pertaining to negotiations for the publication of articles and books, and miscellaneous unpublished works by Hill.

George H. McMurry (1898-1975) was a writer and journalist who studied with Wallace Stegner at Stanford and later worked for Stanford Libraries. Collection contains material related to McMurry's writing career and studies at Stanford; biographical research & writing about author and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) as well as other California historical topics; and correspondence and printed material related to the McMurry family and missionary work.

John W. Metcalf (1856-1926) was a composer, musician and music instructor. He wrote 126 songs and ballads, the most famous of which was "Absent."

Stories based on the Leadville characters, especially her first novel, The Led-Horse Claim (1883), established Foote's reputation as a Western writer. Correspondence with Helena Gilder, spanning their friendship of fifty years (1868-1916), and with other friends, family, and business associates. The papers include correspondence, literary manuscripts, and artwork.

Includes some early San Francisco and San Jose imprints. Also includes professional copies specifically for broadcast only.

The Theodore Wores Collection contains material especially pertinent to the painter's career in art. Includes correspondence, written works, clippings, articles, catalogs, and books, and reproductions by glass negative and print of his works.

Tell Me A Riddle was originally published in 1962, and its title novella received the O. Henry Award as the best American story of 1961. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, literary manuscripts by American author Tillie Olsen and others, material on the Longshoremen's Strike and the Socialist Party from during the mid-1930s, teaching material and student work, clippings, pamphlets, book reviews, awards, etc.

Walter R. Miles, a professor of experimental psychology at Stanford University in the 1920s and 30s, engaged in research on photographer Eadweard Muybridge, particularly the animal motion studies conducted with Leland Stanford. Collection contains Miles' correspondence about Muybridge, material about the Semi-Centenial Celebration of the studies at Stanford, ephemera and published articles about Muybridge, material about motion pictures and the didactic value of Hollywood film, and photographs and negatives used by Miles in his articles and publications about Muybridge.

Paul Turner, professor of art and specialist in architectural history from the 18th to 20th centuries, delves into the fascinating history of Stanford's Hanna House, with special focus on its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

After his service as a balloon observer during World War I, he returned to Palo Alto and began his practice as an architect.

Primarily original correspondence concerning the early stages of planning, construction and landscaping of Stanford University, 1886-1906. The construction of Memorial Church, the Library (1906), the Gymnasium (1906), the Museum, and parts of the Quadrangle are featured.

Arthur Brown, Jr. and John Bakewell, Jr. formed their San Francisco architectural firm, Bakewell and Brown, in 1906. These papers of Arthur Brown, Jr. include correspondence, professional papers, clippings, and architectural drawings, pertaining to Hoover Tower and other buildings designed for Stanford University.

Collection contains architectural drawings by Birge M. Clark, his brother David B. Clark, and other partners Walter Stromquist, David F. Potter and Joseph Ehrlich, with a few drawings by his father A. B. Clark. Projects were mostly located in Palo Alto, Stanford, and other communities on the Peninsula and included residences, schools, businesses, and city offices.

After his service as a balloon observer during World War I, he returned to Palo Alto and began his practice as an architect. He designed many homes and businesses in Palo Alto, including the Post Office, the Community Center, and the Hewlett-Packard plant. Series 1, Office Files, contains chronological correspondence files, 1921-1979; project files containing correspondence, contracts, financial documents, notes, small-scale drawings, memoranda, and other materials, 1924-1990; and files on administrative matters, articles and talks on Palo Alto's architectural history, and other professional activities.

Charles E. Hodges was appointed Resident Architect by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1891, a position he held until his resignation in June of 1906. Papers concern his architectural work at Stanford University. Included are carbon copies of his letters to Jane Stanford, March to August 1901; typescript description of the frieze on the Memorial Arch; two souvenir booklets of the University, 1902-06; photographs of campus buildings and construction, 1891-1901.

Collection contains two photograph albums belonging to Charles E. Hodges, resident draftsman and later architect at Stanford University.

In 1935, Paul and Jean Hanna commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design their home to be built on the Stanford University campus. Correspondence, blueprints, drawings, photographs, and other records relating to the planning, design and construction of the campus home of Professor and Mrs. Paul R. Hanna. The collection focuses on the Hanna's work with architect Frank Lloyd Wright extending from the initial planning of the house through later renovations.

In 1935, Paul and Jean Hanna commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design their home to be built on the Stanford University campus. Correspondence, blueprints, drawings, photographs, and other records relating to the planning, design and construction of the campus home of Professor and Mrs. Paul R. Hanna. The collection focuses on the Hanna's work with architect Frank Lloyd Wright extending from the initial planning of the house through later renovations.

Collection includes correspondence, financial documents, lists of fixtures and hardware, photographs, and architectural drawings for homes built on the Stanford campus for Ida Stauf, Maurice L. Huggins, William Leonard Schwartz, and Arthur Martin Cathcart.

Lee Emerson Bassett, professor of Speech and Drama at Stanford University from 1900 to 1938, built his home on campus at 740 Santa Ynez Street. Included in this collection are specifications by the architect, A. W. Smith; bills and one letter from Leon S. Bean, general contractor, 1909; an accounting for the cost of the house; a clipping about this house and one being constructed for Prof. A. B. Clark, 1909; a photograph of the house, with the Bassetts and their son David on the steps, ca. 1911; and two letters from Lucile Bassett (Mrs. David L. Bassett) with information on Prof. Bassett and his wife, 1981.

Both A. B. Clark and Birge Clark served as advising architects to Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover for their house on the Stanford campus. These papers consist primarily of correspondence between the Hoovers, Professor Clark, and Mr. Clark regarding planning and construction of the Lou Henry Hoover house; and sketches and specifications for the house.

San Francisco architect and nephew of Frank Lloyd Wright. Interview conducted by Paul R. Hanna, Jean S. Hanna, and Roxanne Nilan.

Typescript report of the Division of Works about the building of the Exposition and architectural plans. Includes photographs, blueprints, maps, graphs, tables, and an appendix by Markwart, assistant director of Works and chief of construction.

Research and production materials for the book, HISTORIC HOUSES III: SAN JUAN NEIGHBORHOOD, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, published by the Stanford Historical Society in 2005. Includes Byron Feig's original watercolor painting used on the cover and his original pencil drawings of each house; and copies of architectural drawings for several of the houses featured in the book.

Contracts between Jane Stanford and Nels Peterson for work on construction of the Quad (1901); bills and receipts for materials used and work completed (1901-1903).

The Commission of Engineers was charged with directing the restoration of the university's buildings after the earthquake of April 1906. Includes correspondence, the Commission's daily journals, photographs, negatives, and estimates of repairs.

Construction specifications, largely for power plant equipment for Stanford University Hospital at its San Francisco location; firms represented include Hunter and Hudson Consulting Engineers, Otis Elevator Company, and Bakewell and Brown Architects.

Microfiche copies of architectural drawings of buildings on the Stanford University campus; and photocopy of the department's "vault inventory" of drawings, most of which are included in these copies. There are also some copies of drawings for the Hanna House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Includes a one-page letter from Mrs. Dorothy Feltham, Secretary to Mr. J.H. Clark, explaining the memoir.

A gifted child who went on to study spectral intensity physics at Stanford, later following friends to Hollywood during its early heyday period. Still later, from Hollywood, he writes of his involvement with The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, his work with Ty Cowan (Associate Producer at Columbia Pictures) and Harry Engwight, and discusses the movies being made, much on Edward G. Robinson's work, contracts, and controversy; he gives much news of the studio, its projects, gossip about its people, his work.

Correspondence, work reports, inventories, financial papers, legal and official documents, American Consular Service reports on overseas film distribution, descriptions and illustrations for patent applications, scenarios, promotional brochures, miscellaneous printed articles, photographs of an educational film enterprise founded by T. K. Peters and D. Lever, with the assistance of the Stanford faculty and other California educators.

This report on the filming and developing of sound film, using the RCA Movietone and Vitaphone processes, presents the technical specifications and methods for producing sound cinema, complete with schematic diagrams and darkroom chemistry for successful production of a "talkie."

The press release discusses the use of six carrier pigeons to speed 32 photographs of the Cincinnati Reds - Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game to its studio four miles away for immediate transmission on the WLW-W8XUJ facsimile radio news broadcast.

The Frank Kester papers and photographs provide a detailed account of the life of a reporter and nature lover. Included are chapters of his autobiography, short stories, poetry and photographs that document many of his travels.

The Roy Pryor Collection consists of off-air recordings of local and network radio in Menlo Park, California between 1937 and 1949. There are a few entertainment programs (including the Standard Symphony Hour and Bell Telephone Hour) and sportscasts in the collection, as well as some Stanford-related content, but the majority of recordings feature news and commentary by announcers Raymond Gram Swing, H. V. Kaltenborn, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Walter Winchell, Dorothy Thompson, Gabriel Heatter, Wythe Williams, and Upton Close.

Photograph showing the contestants and associated folk at the Greater San Francisco Speedway in San Carlos, CA, on race day for the speedway's inaugural event.

Local printer who published mainly San Francisco and vicinity guides and histories. Examples of his books and pamphlets, as well as wood and metal printers blocks, original illustrations, and a bit of personal material.

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Includes several articles by Clarence Urmy and Walter Anthony, and includes such groups as the The Whitney Opera Company and the Savoy, Victory, and Columbia theaters.

The Stanford University Press was established as an independent printing operation at Stanford University in 1892. It publishes scholarly monographs, textbooks, and professional reference works. The collection consists of archival copies of books published by Stanford University Press.

She was active in many socially progressive organizations.

Alice Park was an American pacifist, a feminist and a socialist. Correspondence, pamphlets, newsclippings and flyers pertaining to the subject of birth control and planned parenthood.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a non-profit organization committed to the defense, preservation, and extension of civil liberties in the United States. Comprising correspondence, minutes, policy statements, reports, court transcripts, attorney notes, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other printed material created or collected by the ACLU-NC, these records document the establishment and activities of the northern California branch and its wide-ranging efforts to protect and extend individual liberties in California.

He became professor of machine design in 1908; he retired in 1936 with the rank of Professor Emeritus. Prof. Marx was also actively involved in many political and social issues. Correspondence, speeches, typed autobiography, reprints, press releases, minutes, pamphlets, clippings, and reports, 1898-1949, pertaining to his academic career at Stanford and his political interests which included repeal of criminal syndicalism laws, labor unions, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, cooperatives, and control of public utilities.

Collection contains papers from the movement for simplified spelling in the American Institute of Mining Engineers lead by W. H. Shockley, with letters to and from him and other members of the A.I.M.E., typescript arguments for simplified spelling, membership lists of A.I.M.E., and miscellaneous memoranda.

"A Woodside Reminiscence: as told by Grizzly Ryder," by Cutler L. Bonestell, is a recounting of a 1914 conversation between Cutler L. Bonestell and Grizzly Ryder on how he survived an attack by a grizzly bear near what is now called Bear Creek, near Woodside, CA.

Consists of ephemeral items relating to people widely known and relatively unknown in California. Contains mostly newspaper obituaries, but also includes: handwritten biographical documents, invitations, wedding announcements, family reunion newsletters, genealogy forms, family trees, memorials, political speeches, campaign material, correspondence, and newspaper and magazine clippings.

The scrapbook consists primarily of clippings about Santa Clara County history, as well as Monterey, Stanford, and Yosemite.

Three boxes of photo prints and lithographs depicting various locations in California.

Includes several pieces: 1. Carnegie; historical landmark in Corral Hollow (11 p.).

Includes several pieces: 1. Carnegie; historical landmark in Corral Hollow (11 pp.), by Earle E. Williams. 2. Tesla, Pottery and Carnegie in Corral Hollow, 1892-1912 (17 pp.), by Mrs. Josephine Leary, of Stockton, Calif. 3. Notes about California registered historical landmarks No. 740 and 755 (including the home of Edward B. Carrell).

Contains photographs and picture postcards depicting scenes of California places, people, activities, and cultural resources, mainly from the 1870s to the 1980s.

Named the Director and Curator of the Stanford University Museum in 1899, he remained there until 1918, adding collections to the Museum and writing historical papers. Consists of lantern slides and photographs circa 1892-1917.

The inveterate historian spent his entire adult life in one position after another related to history, particularly California Gold Rush Days. Correspondence, notes, memorabilia, typescripts. Included is material pertaining to Stanford University and Sutters Fort.

Henry Ambrose Holden attended Stanford University between 1911 and his death in 1914. Views taken by Holden and published by Underwood and Underwood as a boxed set. Subjects include Stanford University buildings and a student race on Lake Lagunita; homes in Palo Alto; Greek Theatre and the Faculty Club House at UC Berkeley; two bird's eye views of San Francisco and various animals in Golden Gate Park; redwood groves near Santa Cruz; and Point Lobos, Cypress Point, and other images of Monterey County.

Collection includes invitations and dance cards to Stanford events, including the Jolly-Up; dances at the Palo Alto High School; private dance parties in Palo Alto and nearby locations, including one at the Duveneck's Hidden Villa Ranch; and dances at other schools.

Joseph Collier (1836-1910) was a Scotland-born photographer. Leather bound album of 151 original photographs, including approximately 60 images of Stanford University. Other images include San Francisco buildings, views of San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Park, and the McGilvray Raymond Mine Company facilities.

Mayfield was a municipality adjacent to Stanford University; it is now part of Palo Alto. Promotional leaflet with map detailing the advantages of Mayfield; two copies.

George was a carpenter and contractor who moved to Palo Alto in 1892; Margaret Rosebrook was active in local civic matters including suffrage, temperance, and the church. Collection of over 300 plate negatives, most depicting The Rosebrook family and other families and their residences in Palo Alto, Stanford University, and various locations the Western United States. Some images of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake are present as well.

Includes some administrative material including financial records, files, and correspondence, as well as programs and newsclippings.

Contains images of San Francisco, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Treasure Island and the Golden Gate International Exposition, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, various ships, various locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California.

Collection of hand-written drug prescriptions from various physicians to various pharmacies. Many are on forms from I.D. Holden, druggist (sometimes apothecary or Holden's Drug Store), in Stockton, California, but others are from Palo Alto, San Francisco, Mayfield, and Niles.

Includes forms used by the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances from the City of Palo Alto and forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept., the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances from the City of Palo Alto, reports from the Palo Alto Health Dept., and forms used by the California Division of Animal Industry and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances from the Council of the City of San Jose and forms used by the San Jose Health Dept., the California Bureau of Child Hygiene and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances from the City of San Jose; forms from the San Jose Health Dept., Health Dept., the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control and the California Dept. of Public Health; and Skeleton map of San Jose water works system. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes a pamphlet entitled: Annual report 1931 / Health Department Palo Alto California; forms used by the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control, the Palo Alto Board of Public Safety, the Palo Alto Health Dept., and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes annual reports from the Palo Alto Health Dept., ordinances from the City of Palo Alto, and forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept. and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances from the City of San Jose; bulletins from the California Dept. of Public Health; and forms used by the City of San Jose Health Dept., the California Division of Animal Industry and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the City of San Jose Health Dept., the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the California State Board of Health and the City of San Jose Health Department. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes numerous pamphlets from the California Bureau of Child Hygiene and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Includes ordinances from Santa Clara County and the City of Santa Clara and forms used by the California Bureau of Child Hygiene and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept., the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control, and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the California Dept. of Public Health, the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control, and the Palo Alto Board of Public Safety. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes numerous forms from the California State Board of Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by San Jose Health Dept., the San Jose Building Dept., the California State Board of Health, and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances by the City Council of the City of San Jose and forms used by the City of San Jose Health Dept. and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms from the Santa Clara County Dept. of Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances from the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County; report, ordinances and charter from the City of Santa Clara; and forms used by the California Bureau of Child Hygiene and the Santa Clara Public Schools; and bulletins, reports and forms from the California Dept. of Public Health and the Santa Clara County Health Dept. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes minutes of the Executive Committee, Planning Committee of the Western States Division, and the Administrative Committee; Stanford and Palo Alto people represented include Ray Lyman Wilbur, Thomas A. Storey, and Dr. Russel V. Lee.

Originally the Stanford Convalescent Home, established on the Stanford campus in 1919 for needy children with long term illness, this privately supported organization changed its name to the Children's Hospital at Stanford in 1970. These records were collected by Ruth Spande Atwood, first superintentdent and administrator of the Stanford Convalescent Home (1923-1961), and include correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings and photographs.

Interested particularly in women's health, she carried out her research and writing interests both as a physician and faculty member in the Department of Physical Hygiene, the linear ancestor of Stanford's Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation. The collection includes writings, diaries, biographical and genealogical material, Mosher's survey of collegiate women regarding their sexual practices and attitudes, publications, and a sketch entitled,"Clelia Duel Mosher--The Questioner."

Notice issued by Dr. James W. Ward, President, San Francisco Health Commission, requesting all persons having knowldege of contagious disease to report to headquarters of the Board of Health. Broadside refers to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.

She began her pediatric practice in Palo Alto in 1927 and was a founding partner of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic. The bulk of the collection is Clark's notes, papers, exams, and lab books from Palo Alto Union High School, 1914-17, Stanford University, 1918-21, and Stanford University Medical School, 1921-25, including records of her research on guinea pig ovaries. Other items include correspondence, notes, speeches, charts, and other records from her medical practice, 1923-68; medical pamphlets and handbooks; reprints; personal correspondence, and photographs.

A founder of the Childrens Hospital at Stanford, Harold K. Faber was a professor of Pediatrics known for his polio research. Collection includes plans for the H.K. Faber Library; personal family papers and photos; the minutes of the Stanford Convalescent Home Auxiliary, 1933-1935; newsclippings of the Menlo Park Circus <1928>, a fund-raising event sponsored by the Auxiliary.

Includes ordinances from the City of Palo Alto, forms and reports used by the Palo Alto Health Dept. and forms used by the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances from the City of Palo Alto and forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept., the California State Board of Health and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms and annual report from the City of San Jose Health Dept., ordinances by the San Jose City Council, and forms used by the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes ordinances from the City of Palo Alto and forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept., the Palo Alto Schools, the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control, and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the San Joaquin Local Health District, the California Dept. of Public Health and the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

In 1913, Stanley accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer at the prison, a position he held until his retirement in 1951. Comprises scrapbooks, correspondence, writings, publications, and other materials created or collected by Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley documenting his personal research and professional work as a prison doctor, ship's physician, and medical experimenter (1913-1974).

Chiefly diaries entitled Events of the Day from period of professional work as the Resident Physician of the Medical Department of the California State Prison at San Quentin. These narrative accounts are supplemented by annual reports of the prison hospital, minutes of prison committees, articles and speeches by L.L. Stanley, correspondence, criminal and medical case histories, notes on effects of coffee on sleep and whey experiments, black and white photoprints and collected clippings and articles.

The French Hospital was founded in 1851 by La Société Française de Bienfaisance Mutuelle (The French Mutual Benevolent Society) to serve French-Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area Logbook for the French Hospital in San Francisco, with entries spanning the years 1903 to 1908. Each entry contains information about a patient, such as name, nationality, date of entry, doctor, and diagnosis.

The French Hospital was founded as La Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance Mutuelle on December 28, 1851. It was established by the French Benevolent Society to serve French-Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area and was the first private hospital in San Francisco. Logbook for the French Hospital in San Francisco, with patient entries spanning 1903 to 1908.

Includes ordinances from the City of Palo Alto; forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept. and the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control; and forms and bulletins from the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

The hospital established by Peninsula Hospital, Incorporated, was Palo Alto's second hospital; the first was opened by the Students Guild of Leland Stanford Junior University during the typhoid epidemic of 1902-03. Includes list of original stockholders, 1908; petition by property owners and residents objecting to location of the hospital in block 54, 1908; deeds and other legal documents relating to property in lot 26, 1909-1913; and an agreement with the Students Guild of Leland Stanford Junior University regarding care of its members at the hospital, 1913.

Includes ordinances from the City of Palo Alto and forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept. and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes articles III-V of the Health Code of the City of Palo Alto / Palo Alto City Council. Includes forms used by the City of Palo Alto Health Dept., the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control, and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms, ordinances, reports and bulletins from the City of San Jose Health Dept.; forms used by the California Bureau of Child Hygiene; directory and pamphlets from the San Jose Chamber of Commerce; charter, ordinances, and budget by the City of San Jose City Council; and forms used by the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes a pamphlet entitled: Let us increase milk consumption / E.P. Bernard and A Wealth of good water / San Jose Water Works. Includes forms used by the California Bureau of Child Hygiene, the San Jose Dept. of Health and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the California State Board of Health and the City of San Jose Health Department. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the Palo Alto Dept. of Public Health, the California Dept. of Public Health, the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Include ordinances from the City of Palo Alto; reports and forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept.; and forms from the California Bureau of Milk and Dairy Foods Control and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the California State Board of Health, the California Department of Agriculture and the San Jose Health Department. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes: Meteorological Data, San Jose, California / U.S. Department of Agriculture. Weather Bureau. and forms used by the California Department of Agriculture and the California State Board of Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the Palo Alto Health Dept., the California State Board of Health, and the California. Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the California State Board of Health and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes a pamphlet entitled: Proposed charter for the City of Santa Clara. Includes forms used by the Santa Clara Schools, the Santa Clara County Health Dept., the California State Board of Health and the California Dept. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms from the Town of Santa Clara Board of Trustees, Santa Clara County Health Dept., the California Division of Animal Industry, and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes an annual report from the Santa Clara County Hospital, forms and bulletins from the Santa Clara County Dept. of Health, and forms used by the Santa Clara School Dept., the Santa Clara County Sanatorium, and the California Dept. of Public Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Includes forms used by the City of San Jose Health Department and the California State Board of Health. Submitted to Stanford University, Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

At the time of these reports the Stanford University Hospital (also known as Lane Hospital) was located in San Francisco. In addition to a census of patients, these typescript reports cover the nursing school, medical supplies, dietary kitchens, operating room, housekeeping, engineering services, clinics, social service department, and medical departments such as obstetrics, anesthesiology, radiology, and physical therapy.

The family settled on the East Coast, later moving West; the Andersons contributed to society in the fields of theology, education and literature. Personal and business letters, literary and scientific manuscripts, official and legal documents, and clippings comprising a history of Edward Coffin Anderson (1821-1890); his sons, Melville Best Anderson (1851-1933) and Edward Playfair Anderson (1856-1951); and grandsons, Malcolm Playfair Anderson (1878-1949) and Robert Van Vleck Anderson (1884-1949); together with general material on the Anderson, Best, Playfair, Gurnee, and Van Vleck families.

Collection of Takeo Shikamura’s papers and photo albums, Hatsu (Helen) Yamamoto's and her family’s papers, photos albums, journals.

Collection consists primarily of letters written by the children of Otto and Caroline Brasch to their brother Frederick E. Brasch. The letters date from 1891 to 1920 and originate from San Jose, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Hawaii.

These letters were written to his fiancée Rowena Gray, in Chowchilla, CA, while Sullivan was at Stanford and training for the military, 1918, and then working in Los Angeles, June-August 1919, and Salinas, 1919-21. His letters generally talked about his work, his social activities, family affairs, and their relationship.

Biography of Christian K. Binkley [1870-1938], Stanford class of 1899, by his son Charles, briefly discussing his public school teaching career, his attempts at farming in Santa Clara County, and his poetry and writing.

Includes correspondence, diaries, and photographs. The Collection reflects J. O. Culver's experience as a lawyer, his service as an Army Paymaster and Post Office Inspector, his endeavors in small fruit culture, and his excursions into prospecting and mining. In general, the family letters and papers give a panorama of middle class society in New York, Wisconsin and Missouri, and Colorado and California, from 1860 to 1915, a familiar pattern in the United States of looking ever westward for opportunity.

David Locke Webster, professor of physics (1920-1954; emeritus, 1954-1977) and chairman of the Physics Department at Stanford (1920-1942), was born in Boston November 6, 1888. Subjects covered in this autobiography include sailing experiences, airplane testing during World War I, life at Stanford from the 1920s to the 1950s, experiences working on rockets during World War II, and his experiences as a pilot.

A manuscript diary of William Harrison Hanns, future newspaper editor, Indian trader, and I.W.W. supporter, born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, kept while living in Palo Alto and Los Angeles, California, and while in Gallup, New Mexico from 1906-1909.

Includes photostatic pictures of Ernesto Galarza's mother, Henrietta Galarza, ca. 1900, sisters Nora and Henrietta and younger brother, ca. 1905, and pictures as an adult in 1959, 1965, and 1972.

Correspondence, photographs, diaries, and ephemera.

Gilbert R. Jones attended Stanford University during 1906 and 1907; his career included teaching shop at University High School in Oakland, CA. The majority of the photographs in the album are unidentified; subjects include camping trips and other outdoor excursions, Stanford University scenes, ships and boats, Robert Fowler and his biplane, bridge and trestle construction, irrigation set-ups, scenic landscapes, and family and friends.

Daughter of Josiah Winslow Stanford, Jr., and grand-niece of Leland Stanford. Correspondence, memorabilia, newsclippings, photographs, and albums, belonging to Helen Stanford Canfield and her husband David Canfield.

Consists of: 1) bound manuscript with t.p.: A.B. Saroyan, 114 King Street, New-York, Nov. 24th '905, Journey from Erzeroum to New-York City : second part, from Trabizond to Marseille; 2) letter dated 1906; 3) letter dated Campbell, Cal. Mar. 26, 11; 4) envelope stamped Jun. 24 1971 with William Saroyan's handwritten message: Campbell Mar 1911, handwritten letter in Armenian from Peprov.

He spent most of his life as Chief Physician and Surgeon at the California State Prison at San Quentin. He did take time out to travel, however, usually as the ship's doctor on large luxury cruises. Diaries are written in the form of a daily log and include photographs, menus, passenger lists, ship's newspapers, maps, programs, trip literature, newspaper articles, and some correspondence. Also included are some case histories of various men he had known in prison.

The photos are of Martin's friends on board ship, family members, vacations on land, ports of call in Panama, Europe, San Francisco, etc. Mr. Martin was a merchant seaman, probably of Swedish descent, with family apparently in the Seattle area.

A native Californian, J. Henry Meyer was a successful San Francisco businessman. Series I includes memorial resolutions, correspondence, and documents pertaining to Meyer family properties and business interests such as deeds, abstracts of title, and stock certificates. Series II consists of drawings of the Meyer/Buck estate.

Mildred Crew Brooke Hoover (1872-1940) was a California history writer who published "Historic Spots in California" in 1932. Privately printed memoir with an introduction, interpolations, and epilogue by her husband Theodore J. Hoover, engineering professor at Stanford University and brother of Herbert Hoover.

Minna Stillman earned an A.B. in mathematics at Stanford in 1903; she was a document librarian in the Stanford University library. Diary includes entries from a European trip, 1898-99, and an account of the 1906 earthquake, primarily its impact at Stanford University.

This collection concerns two American families, related by marriage, who chose not to remain in their native Kansas, but sought opportunity wherever it took them. Primarily photographs, some correspondence, ephemera, and rock samples. The Crawford portion of the collection contains many photographs of Ottawa, Kansas, Los Angeles and other parts of California, Idaho, Alaska, and Japan and China.

Scrapbook containing a page for each week of the year created by various friends of a woman, Mrs. Sanford, of Palo Alto, in convalesence. Pages feature poems, photographs and cyanotypes, drawings and watercolors, letters, graphs and postcards contributed by different people.

Dr. H. Sidney Newcomer worked in applied optics as it related to the motion picture industry during the 1950s, an important period in the evolution of this technology. Collection contains diaries and journals, letters, lecture notes reflecting pre-World War I mathematics and optics education at the University of Wisconsin, scientific reprints, patents, and photographs. A diary or record book of Sidney's life from birth to age 24, kept by his mother, together with other of her papers.

He served as lecturer and professor of physiology and of medicine (1897-1903), Dean of the Cooper Medical College (Stanford) (1911-1916), third President of Stanford University (1916-1943), Chancellor of Stanford, and Secretary of the Interior (September 1929-1933) under President Hoover. Includes correspondence; scrapbooks; publications; speeches and trip notes; rough draft of Wilbur's "Memoirs"; R.L. Wilbur's will; honorary degrees; letters from Mrs. R.L. Wilbur to her children; and files on associations with which Wilbur was involved, friends and associates, clubs to which he belonged, conferences, and issues such as environmental protection, civil defense during World Wars I and II, prohibition, and anti-vivisection. Papers also include Wilbur family correspondence (1829-1949).

Collection consists of materials created and compiled by Rosemary Benet Dawson and relating to Kathleen Norris and the Norris Ranch-"La Estancia" in Los Gatos. Includes copious notes regarding the history of the Norris ranch "La Estancia" in Los Gatos, and Rosemary Dawson's reminiscences on spending summers there as a child; also contains correspondence: 2 letters dating from 1887 to the Thompson family, one from Kathleen Norris to her future husband CiGi Norris roughly 3 months before their marriage, one describing the funeral of a friend Billie Hermann, one talking of CiGi as he was dying, a variety of to/from personal news and thoughts to Rosemary Dawson and 2 "aunts" Cora and Jane Rowan and several letters from the Benets (her father, William, and her aunt Laura /"Lolly") to Rosemary Benet Dawson.

Lawyer and one of the original trustees of Stanford University. Photographs of Leib's home and gardens in San Jose; also includes four views of Stanford University and one view from Mount Hamilton.

Included are a mix of clippings, primarily about Shafter family members and their friends, and the Pacific Grove, San Jose, and Marin County areas. There are also wedding announcements and theatre reviews and programs, including programs for the Cort and Columbia theatres and the Pacific Musical Society.

Josiah and Leland Stanford remained in California and became successful businessmen, and Thomas Welton Stanford continued on to a successful career in Australia. The Stanford family papers include letters, telegrams, newsclippings, photographs and photograph albums, genealogical notes, legal and financial papers, pamphlets, and printed materials of Josiah Stanford (1817-1890) and his wife Helen Allyne Barker Stanford (1831-1909), Josiah Winslow Stanford (1864-1937) and his wife Alice Herrick Stanford (1858-1940), Charles Stanford (1819-1885), Asa Philips Stanford (1821-1903), DeWitt Clinton Stanford (1826-1864), Thomas Welton Stanford (1832-1918), Welton Stanford (1849-1922), and Welton Stanford, Jr (1878-1947).

Images in this album include family portraits, houses, parades, cars, trains, the Monterey mission, Clermont (Iowa), San Francisco scenes, Stanford University buildings, and the Troy Laundry wagon (San Jose, Calif.). There are also several images of preparations for and the flight of a hang glider assisted by a hot-air balloon.

He was one of Palo Alto's first physicians, establishing his practice there in 1904; he continued a close affiliation with Stanford, serving on its Board of Athletic Control from 1916 to 1928. Correspondence, notes, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to Williams' affiliation with Stanford University and Palo Alto Hospital, including syllabi and notes from classes, 1895-96; his World War I service in Scotland; and his family.

Timothy Hopkins was a businessman, member of the original Stanford University Board of Trustees (1885-1937), and served as president of the board (1908-1914). Collection includes correspondence (1804-1805, 1885-1935), daybook (1889-1928), newsclippings, and miscellaneous publications regarding the Hopkins family (1885-1935).

Photographs, attributed to F.T. Moshiba, of campus buildings damaged by the 1906 earthquake, including Memorial Arch, the Library, Memorial Church, Encina Hall, and the quad buildings. Also includes eight views of damaged cathedrals in San Francisco.

Ralph Allen Hopkins earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford in 1907; he had a career with Westinghouse, which awarded him the Order of Merit when he retired in 1949. Collection contains a photograph album with images of Stanford and San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake; portrait of the Electrical Engineering Society at Stanford, 1907, of which Hopkins was the secretary; Senior Week Program for the class of 1907; and a 1958 pamphlet by Laurence M. Klauber "Two Days in San Francisco Year - 1906" which contains his letters about the 1906 earthquake.

Construction site and on verso two portrait prints, one of a child seated in a tree, the other of a woman seated on a bench.

The collection includes eyewitness accounts of the 1906 earthquake at Stanford; and eyewitness account of earthquake damage to the Stanford and Hopkins houses in San Francisco by Ah Wing, employee of the Stanford family (in Chinese with an English translation). Also included are magazine and newspaper accounts of the earthquake and its aftermath; and a 1908 map of San Francisco showing reconstruction of the city.

The materials consist of photographs documenting the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco and at Stanford University.

Photographs taken by Carl Breer on the Stanford University campus and in San Francisco shortly after the April 1906 earthquake, accompanied by text written in 1963-64. Volume one depicts destruction on the Stanford campus, including Memorial Church, Memorial Arch, Encina Hall, the new Library and Gymnasium buildings, and the Aggasiz statue.

Frank Kurananga opened a successful Japanese art and curio business in Pasadena in 1903, soon expanding into a lavish restaurant and tea room. Collection includes photograph postcard and 2 autographed letters. From a young farmer about the new Japanese-American Methodist Episcopal Church in Mountain View, built with support from wealthy local lumber man Earl Minton in what was then a rural town of "orchards and ranches, horses and buggies on dirt roads."

More than 1200 black and white photographs documenting the Kato family. The photographs include studio photographs, weddings, funerals, Boy Scouts, Stanford versus University of California Big Game, army training, road trips and other events. Also includes photographs of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.

While at Berkeley, Kann began writing a popular history of the Petaluma Jewish chicken ranching community with support from the California Historical Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The collection contains interview tapes and transcripts used as research for author Kenneth Kann's two books about the Jewish community in Petaluma, California, during the twentieth century.

Report, correspondence, interview transcripts, questionnaires, and printed matter, relating to the social and economic status of Chinese, Japanese, other Asian, Mexican, and other minority residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada, and to race relations on the Pacific Coast.

Augustus Taber Murray was a professor of classical literature at Stanford (1892-1932; emeritus, 1932-1940) and member of the Society of Friends. Contents include manuscript lectures and sermons, notes and newsclippings about Professor Murray, and correspondence with Herbert Hoover regarding Murray's Service as Head of the Quaker congregation in Washington, D.C. during Hoover's administration.

Joel Bean (1825-1914) was a Quaker minister and school teacher and a founder in 1889 of the College Park Association of Friends. Collection includes records from the semi-annual meetings of the Association, 1889-1936; minutes of the Board of Trustees 1899-1927 (transcribed by Tom M. King, 2000); articles of incorporation and by-laws; notes on the original source; and typescripts of poetry found in Joel Bean's diaries.

Photo depicts Odd Fellows in parade uniform and a large group of people and dignitaries in front of the new Spanish-style Odd Fellows Home. The building still stand at 14500 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, and is the center-piece for the Saratoga Retirement, still owned by the Odd Fellows.

Dr. David Charles Gardner was chaplain at Stanford University from 1902 until his retirement in 1936; he also taught Biblical history and literature and served on the board of the Stanford Home for Convalescent Children. Materials pertaining to Gardner include notes for a talk "Memories of Stanford"; typescript of his address at the dedication of Memorial Church, 1903; typescript article on the Bible, n.d.; appeal letter by Gardner laying out the idea of a convalescent home for children, 1919; letter from John C. Branner regarding the evils of smoking, 1902; typescript copies of articles on Gardner's retirement, 1936; and typescript copies of remarks at Gardner's memorial service, 1949.

Pamphlets, newsclippings, articles and correspondence relating to the 1928 alleged D.A.R. blacklist of men and women accused of being communists, socialists and liberals and/or pacifists who would not be welcome as speakers before D.A.R. members. Inclusion of Stanford President David Starr Jordan on this list prompted the Palo Alto Chapter of the D.A.R. to resign its membership in the national organization.

Captain and Mrs. (Mary Belle) J.W. Glover administered the Palo Alto Shelter as well as helping at the San Francisco Shelter. Letters, photographs and newsclippings dealing with both the Palo Alto and San Francisco Shelters.

Reuben Lloyd Litchfield was a native of San Francisco who enlisted in the U.S. Army there 12 Dec 1917. Before that, he had served for six months in Section XIV of the American Field Ambulance Service, comprised of students of Leland Stanford Junior University, which left for France on 17 Mar 1917. Consists of 44 letters with envelopes plus 3 postcards, the bulk (33 letters) written in 1917. The letters are addressed to his future wife, Miss Alice Gillis of San Francisco.

Most of the collection is devoted to the Thomas's stay in the Philippine Islands, 1900-1905, during Jerome Thomas's service as a U. S. Army surgeon, immediately after the Spanish-American War. Correspondence from the Thomases while resident in the Philippines, 1900-1905; sketches, photographs, maps, newsclippings, and diaries. It also reveals aspects of military operations in the Philippines during this period.

On June 5, 1901, about three-hundred pounds of black powder stored at the Mare Island Naval Ammunition Depot exploded.

Includes good quality photos of the U.S.S. Maryland, the travelling party of President-elect Hoover and his family, newsmen and photographers, including Merl LaVoy, stops at Honduras and El Salvador, the trans-Andean train journey from Los Andes, Chile, to Mendoza, Argentina, en route to Bueno Aires, and the King Neptune ceremonies at the crossing of the equator.

Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, 1929-1933, earned his A.B. in geology at Stanford University in May 1895. "Off-the-Record talk to Stanford University faculty," April 11, 1938, is 29 pages long and covers the political and economic conditions in Western Europe focusing on Germany and the Nazis, with questions from the faculty and Hoover's answers.

Chester Francis Noble was appointed Chief of Police of the City of Palo Alto in January 1910, a position he held through June of 1924. Scrapbook contains clippings on crime and law enforcement activities in Palo Alto and other local communities, 1910-16, with a few items on Noble's career, 1910 and 1924, and his obituary, 1939.

Working papers for applications to and hearings before the California Railroad Commission or the Interstate Commerce Commission. Includes reports, histories, statistics, and maps giving background on a number of the smaller California railroads.

Founding partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Iverson, Yoakum, Papiano and Hatch where he worked until he was 84.

Legal papers relating to Judge James Roy Welch's term as City Attorney of San Jose (1894-1897) and later as a Superior Court Judge in Santa Clara County. Also includes a small amount of personal papers and photographs, largely about mining interests and automobiles.

Allene Thorpe Lamson, wife of Stanford Press employee David Lamson, was found dead in her campus home on Memorial Day 1933. David Lamson was charged with her murder, tried and convicted, but was granted a new trial; all charges against him were dropped in April 1936. Collection includes clippings about the murder of Allene Thorpe Lamson and the trials of David Lamson, 1933-1992; photocopy of the testimony of police chief H. A. Zink; original typescript of D. L. Webster's "Notes on Investigation of the Physical Evidence in the Lamson Bathroom," with accompanying photographs, 1934; three notebooks kept during the trials, partially using shorthand (no author noted); copy of Russell and Winters' book THE CASE OF DAVID LAMSON (1934); photographs of the house the Lamsons lived in, taken in 1992; and miscellaneous materials on David and Allene Lamson copied from various Stanford publications.

Keesling Sr. was a "regular" Republican, one of the few whose papers are extant, and greatly opposed to Hiram Johnson and the Progressives. This collection includes a wide variety of records related to the political activities, civic work, life insurance career, and personal papers accrued by Francis V. Keesling Sr.

Senator Jones served as State Senator for twenty-two years, 1913 through 1934. Correspondence, documents, pamphlets, clippings and photographs pertaining to Jones' work in the California Senate and including a considerable amount of material on legislative actions during the time he was active.

Lawyer and state legislator (1913-1934) from San Jose, California. Business correspondence, initiatives and referendums, legislation, scrapbooks, maps, newsclippings, and other papers, relating to Jones' career in the California State Senate and to State political activity after his term of office.

In 1899, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and remained in that body until he was defeated for re-election in 1913. Correspondence, papers, speeches, and photographs relating to Needham's congressional career, his connections with the Newman Oil Company in the 1920's, and the Covered Wagon Babies Club (of which Needham was a founder).

The James Rolph, Jr. papers include material from his five consecutive terms as San Francisco mayor from 1912-1931. The bulk of the collection consists of routine mayoral correspondence, including requests for letters of reference, permits, licenses, appointments, and employment as well as correspondence with city departments, state and federal agencies.

Rare small poster from the 1934 campaign by the Japanese-American labor leader and activist, Karl "Hama" Yoneda. Yoneda was a longtime member of the Communist party and an active labor organizer, who helped to found the International Longshoremans' and Warehouse Union.

Original carbon typescript of this essay, apparently unpublished, against New Deal "fifth columnists" in the approaching war with the Axis powers.

A souvenir of the launching of a World War II Liberty Ship at the Richmond Yards, presented to Miss Eugenia, who was official sponsor of the Launch. This unique assemblage includes: one page describing the ancient rite of Launching; a formal presentation letter from the Shipyard's Asst Manager; a brief biography of Millen Griffith, with a flag ribbon attached; and 20 original caption photographs of the Launching (8.5 x 11 in.), with many photographs showing the young Eugenia, accompanied by, apparently family members, and an older sister Alice who was her Matron of Honor.

A series of pictures made for display which show the first unmanned and first manned lift-offs, as well as many details of the interior, guiding mechanisms, assisting rockets, parachute boxes, and construction plant.

Barbara Boyd's personal scrapbook, primarily about the launching of the USS Missoula, contains newspaper clippings, invitations, ribbons, flyers, song sheets, programs, photographs, a list of VIP guests, a small metal ship, a Standard Stations hat, and other materials. There is also a deconstructed scrapbook with 46 programs from ship launches from the Permanente Metals shipyards in Richmond, California. The photo album was presented to Barbara Boyd, one of the 12 Harmonettes.

This collection consists of manuscript, printed, and photographic materials created by and related to aeronautical engineer Charles Froesch (1896-1982), and his career in the aviation industry.

1. Josef Stemmer correspondence with Alfred Fritz, 1955-1956, two letters, with an IAF (International Astronautical Federation) bulletin, 1955. 3. ARRAT (Arbeitskreis für Raketentechnik) letters to Alfred Fritz, 1956-1958, 4 letters and plans.

The museum was intended to gather and display technical and literary materials (both historical and contemporary) relevent to studies in astronautics. The collection primarily conains correspondence conducted worldwide concerning the planned museum. The collection is of value to those interested in the reception and development of post-war German research in space-travel.

The materials consist of: A commemorative album titled "Launching of the U.S.S. General William M. Black, July 23, 1943" assembled for Mrs. Decatur S. Higgins, the sponsor of the troop ship (as selected by Kaiser); a scrapbook titled "Elise M. Farley/ August 5, 1942" commemorating the engagement and subsequest wedding (on Sept. 24, 1942) of Elise Marie Farley to USN Lieut. Decatur Sawyer Higgins.

Professor of aeronautics at Stanford (1929-1965). The papers of Elliot G. Reid, dating from 1924 to 1966, document his research interests in aeronautics and his professional career at Stanford University. Included in the papers are correspondence, research notes and drawings, reports, articles, product specifications, commercial publications, and photographs.

Howard S. Seifert (1911-1977), an authority on rocket propulsion of space vehicles, was professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford from 1960 to 1976. Papers include correspondence, photographs, newsclippings, notes, memoranda, reports, reprints, proposals, and class materials (notes, problems, exams, and reference sources).

History, policies, organization, personnel, and technical trainingmaterials collected by Joseph D. Cusick during employment by Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. (LMSC) from August 1962 to May 1968 and the U.S. Air Force, at the Air Force Satellite Test Center [Satellite Operations Center] Onizuka Air Force Base, Sunnyvale, CA), from May 1962 through May 1991.

As the first Director of the Development and Planning Department, he proposed the creation of the Missile Systems Division to develop ballistic missiles and satellites. In 1961, he was named President of Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, and in 1969, he became Group Vice President of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The Leonard Eugene Root papers document his personal life and career in the aerospace industry from the 1940s to the 1960s, and includes correspondence, notebooks, business files, publications, memorabilia.

Asks for materials for the museum displays. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

After the war he established his own office in San Francisco as a consulting engineer, specializing in issues pertaining to aviation such as air traffic control, noise mitigation, and landing aids. The papers of aeronautical engineer and pilot Maurice Garbell consist of articles, reports and other writing, photographs, personal corresondence, memorabilia, and other material.

Group of 31 original 8x10 photographs taken at the Richmond Shipyards by Nadaner Studio (presumably under contract for Kaiser), documenting a few events, including: 12 photographs of the Christening of "Gunner's Knot," on April 30, 1945, with James Cagney as master-of-ceremonies, joined by his co-star, actress Sylvia Sydney (as guest of honor); 12 photographs documenting two performances at the shipyards, one Cuban-themed and one Hawaiian-themed; 9 miscellaneous photos, some of workers at the shipyard, some views of a ship at sea, views of the SF Bay, and a photo of comedian Joe E. Brown at the christening of the U.S.S. Faribault [edited from dealer information]. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Nicholas J. Hoff was a professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University at the time of his death in 1997. Collection includes articles and papers by Hoff on aircraft structures and other matters, 1944-1981; diplomas, awards and other biographical materials, 1928-1997; and materials he collected on the history of aviation including articles, reports, and photographs, 1903-1958.

The Permanente Metals Corporation managed the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California. A decal for Yard Two of the Richmond Ship Yards. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Collection of 29 original captioned 8x10 photographs showing various phases in the construction of the Richmond Shipyards No. 3A [10 photos] and No. 4 [17 photos] + an untitled photograph showing a broader view of the Yards. The photographs show the rapid evolution of the formerly undeveloped section of the East Bay that was speedily turned into one of the largest and most productive shipyards for the construction of liberty ships, cargo ships, frigates, and other vessels for the War effort.

This report presents an engineering analysis of the possibilities of designing a man-made satellite. The question of power plants, structural weights, multiple stages, optimum design values, trajectories, stability, and landing are considered in detail. The results are used to furnish designs for two proposed vehicles.

Summary report based on interrogation of Germany's top rocket scientists at Peenemunde.

Minitrack and data acquisition dish characteristics for stations around the world.

Album commemorates the launching of the Liberty ship, SS. Edwin C. Musick. Photographs depict the ship; Capt. Edwin C. Musick.

This edition (vol. X, No.23) contains articles about the Mare Island shipyard dealing with safety issues, better tool performance and training activities. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Collection of nine large, bordered black and white photographs and a booklet from Thule Air Force Base, Greenland, circa 1961.

Director, Development Operations Division, Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

William Francis Whitmore was a mathematician in the field of oceanography and a scientist and consultant with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. This collection contains papers relating to William Francis Whitmore's work at Lockheed Missile and Space Company and as a consultant to the United States Navy.

Samuel was on staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories and at IBM in Poughkeepsie prior to joining the computer science faculty at Stanford in 1966. Collection is largely biographical and includes photographs, his C.V., biographies and obituaries, and Samuel's annotated copy of LEES' GUIDE TO THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS, 1953. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Charles Rosen was an American scientist and pioneering researcher and developer in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics. Five linear feet of material (1957-1985) including, professional papers and presentations given by Rosen; newspaper clippings and articles; correspondence, contract reports, grant proposals and memoranda pertaining to the robotics and Artificial Intelligence Center at Stanford Research Institute; and business planning documents for the Machine Intelligence Corporation.

Computer scientist; first Ph.D. from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence. Course notes and research material, largely from 1961 through 1974, in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Psychology, and other subjects.

Feigenbaum is a leading national figure in artificial intelligence and has developed computer resources for interactive research between medical and scientific collaborators on a national and global scale. Collection primarily concerns his work in artificial intelligence at Stanford University and includes administrative files, correspondence, project files, trip files, proposals, reports, reprints, Artificial Intelligence Lab memos, audio tapes, video tapes, and files on computer programs, mainly DENDRAL, MOLGEN, EPAM, and SUMEX.

The materials consist of SAIL Dump And Restore Technique (DART) backup files, 1972-1990; digital copies of 16 mm films created from 1963-1980; handbooks; log books; manuals; and photographs and videos from the 35th SAIL reunion held in 2009.

The materials consist of SAIL Dump And Restore Technique (DART) backup files, 1972-1990; digital copies of 16 mm films created from 1963-1980; handbooks; log books; manuals; and photographs and videos from the 35th SAIL reunion held in 2009. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (also known as Stanford AI Lab or SAIL) is the artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory of Stanford University.

This album is of the Buerotechnica Leipzig Fair of 1965 (or 1966). In addition to Ascota machines, Büromaschinenwerk Sömmenda is represented in the album (the leading manufacturer of computers in East Germany).

In addition to inventing the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart and his research team at SRI adapted a five-key "keyset" for typing and entering commands with the left hand while pointing and clicking with the mouse.

In 1966, he joined Stanford University, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as Director of the Center for Reliable Computing. His Stanford research focuses on logic testing, synthesis, design for testability, and fault-tolerant computing. The materials consist of subject files, teaching files, chronological files, and compter files.

According to the report's summary, "The sequence counter was developed to establish Remington Rand numerical codes for the automatic punching of pre-selected sequential runs of numbers into each of a deck of Remington Rand punch cards at a rate of 100 cards per minute.

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

While at Reminton Rand, Rutledge was one of the engineers responsible for the development of UNIVAC. Materials consist of 66 documents of Joseph Dela Rutledge's papers related largely to his work at the Eckhert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and Remington Rand Corporation.

Lecture about computer sciences in the 1960's and trends in computer engineering. The MacFest is a conference of speakers, seminars, and product demonstrations pertaining to the Macintosh computer, sponsored by the Stanford Macintosh Users' Group.

Interview with Douglas Engelbart on January 7, 2005, developer of the computer mouse and the first hypertext system.

This collection documents that activities of Douglas C. Engelbart, a computer scientist whose pioneering work in the 1950s and 1960s (first at SRI International, later at Tymshare, Inc.) led to the development of the interactive personal computer. Professional papers, including correspondence, research proposals, technical reports, notes, journals, and computer disks, as well as audiovisual material on a variety of media.

He founded the Stanford Computer Science Department, one of the first such departments in the nation, on January 1, 1965. While George was developing Computer Science education at the college level, Sandra was also actively pioneering this area at the high school level and continues to pursue this activity. Professional correspondence, notes for lectures and publications, committee records and publications, materials relating to the Forsythes' writings in the field of computer science and materials relating to Alexandra Forsythe's interest in secondary school instruction of computer science.

Course documents for MIT's course number 6.535 on computer coding and logic in the fall of 1952. A simplified version of Jay W. Forrester's Whirlwind I was used as a teaching aid in this course.

The Department of Computer Science was established in 1965. Reports and memoranda concerning departmental rap sessions, 1968-69; memoranda, reports, diagrams, papers, and other materials, 1976-1981, pertaining to development of the SUN workstation, a network-based personal computer system designed at Stanford University; report on the Department, 1970; listing of personnel (staff, faculty, and students), 1971; files of Carolyn Tajnai, Director of the Stanford Computer Form, pertaining to Silicon Valley history and F. E. Terman, 1963-2007; class materials (syllabi, handouts, exams), 1962-84; reports on research in the department, 1967-69; Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Operating Notes, numbers 1-70 (incomplete set); "The Future of Computer Science at Stanford," by Forsythe, Herriot, and Miller, Feb. 1967; and Robert Floyd "Notes toward a revised formula ALGOL," 1966.

Collection contains 972 PDF technical reports by various authors from within the Stanford Computer Science Department.

The Guy F. Atkinson Company is a construction and engineering firm founded in 1926 that specializes in civil projects such as dams, tunnels, and roadbuilding. The records contain materials related to the construction business (estimates, contracts, agreements, indexes of jobs, calculations, budgets, business correspondence, summary sheets, overheads, as well as individual projects' files), legal and financial papers, along with industrial publications, various leaflets, catalogs, clippings, photos, and scrapbooks.

Harold W. Burke was an engineering geologist, with particular interest in structural geology, limestone problems, and small hydroelectrics. He did field work around the world in evaluation of foundation problems, particularly for dams and tunnels. Correspondence, reports, subject files, unpublished research, computer data files, bibliography, photographs, and maps.

Project management files, personal project files, and correspondence documenting John Kiely's years as Vice-President of Bechtel Corporation's Power Division, mostly in the late 1940s-early 50s. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Catalogs and other promotional material, mostly concerning electronics, mostly from the 1960s and 70s. Ted Nelson, often referred to as the "father of hypertext," has a long history in the field of computing. This collection primarily contains mailed promotional material in the form of catalogs and advertisements, much of which was requested by Nelson via reader service cards in trade magazines from the 1960s through the early 1990s.

Typescript history (written between 1953 and 1974) of the engineering company founded in 1933 by four Stanford alumni: F. L. Kallam, Gregory H. Lifur, William L. Rifenberick, and Angelo F. Semino. The company developed and produced machinery for the petroleum refining industry; it was dissolved in 1972.

Joseph D. Eisenstadt (later Ardon) founded Ran, the Palestine and Israeli Battery company which was the predecessor of the Israeli electronics and military communications equipment firm Tadiran. Included are technical documents, correspondence, and graphic and advertising materials.

Ralph M. Heintz was chemical engineer and a physical chemist. He was a leading figure in early electronics and radio engineering. He then started the firm Heintz & Kaufman which produced transmitting and vacuum tubes for radios as well as completed radio sets primarily for airplanes and ships. Prints, tracings, and sketches of technical equipment such as compressors and generators.

The Stauffer Chemical Company was founded in 1885 in San Francisco by two European immigrants, John Stauffer, Sr. and Christian de Guigne. The company mainly produced herbicides for corn and rice. The materials include minutes books, financial statements, correspondence, and photographs.

Correspondence, articles, statements, reports, newsletters, newsclippings, notes, photographs and posters, primarily concerned with agricultural labor organizations and issues in California. The Anne Draper Papers reflect Draper's work as a trade union organizer, writer, and champion of the rights of farm workers.

In the fall of 1969, Cesar Chavez toured the East Coast of the United States and Canada to build support for a national boycott of non-union harvested grapes and other produce. Chavez met with boycott staff, donors, politicians, and organized labor leaders, accompanied by four guards led by organizer Mack Lyons, his personal assistant Juanita Brown, nurse Marion Moses, and documentary photographer Bob Fitch.

Includes thumb drive and several documents and photographs in connection with Ornelas Bracero Oral History Project. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Mr. Batom was an African American union member and a member of civil rights organizations. Includes union items (Cannery Workers Union No. 750, Teamsters, Oakland; ILWU Local 6, the Oakland Warehouse local of the longshore union; Construciton and General Laborers' Union Local 304, Oakland; and Retired Railroad Employee's Club); civil rights items (2 membership cards in the NAACP, 1963 & 1974); fraternal organization items (a membership card in Good Hope Lodge #29, Prince Hall Order, Oakland, and the Prince Hall "Masonic Digest," 1964); and two business cards.

Correspondence, reports, minutes, legal documents, notes, newsletters, press releases, newsclippings, statistical information, questionnaires and photographs documenting Galarza's career as a labor organizer, scholar, Research Director in the National Agricultural Workers Union (1947-1960), and nationally prominent Mexican American activist. The Galarza Papers are particularly rich in information about Mexican and Mexican American farm workers in California from 1948 to 1960.

Frank Bardacke is a historian, author, educator, trade unionist, and political activist. Contains manuscript drafts of his book "Trampling Out The Vintage," United Farm Worker administrative material, research files, correspondence, and recordings of interviews and UFW meetings.

Fred W. Ross, Sr. was a pioneer community and labor organizer who fought racial prejudice and championed the rights of the working poor. His papers include correspondence, memoranda, subject files, press clippings, drafts, unpublished writing, photographs, and audio recordings.

Correspondence, reports, legislative testimony, speeches, articles, minutes, agendas, newsclippings, oral history tape and transcript, and photographs, documenting Vizzard's career as a lobbyist and worker on behalf of rural poor, migrants and braceros. As the Washington representative for the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (and later for the United Farm Workers), Vizzard was instrumental in influencing legislation aimed at improving the lot of the largely unorganized agricultural labor force.

Joan London (1901-1971) was the librarian for the California Labor Federation from the 1940s until her retirement in 1962. Correspondence, book draft, newsletters and statements, and newsclippings and publications relating to the agricultural labor movement in California.

The Dr. Marion Moses, M.D., papers consist of her career spanning fifty years as a nurse, physician, and advocate for farmworkers with the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). The collection consists of her many years of work with the UFW, meeting notes, correspondence with Cesar Chavez, Eliseo Medina, Jessica Govea, Marshal Ganz among many more UFW founders and organizers.

The film, in Spanish, is "made from still photographs as an organizing tool for the United Farm Workers. The film-maker combines his photogrpahs with the sounds of the movement: from the march to Sacramento, through Cesar's fast, to the union label on a grape box."

These pieces document one of the seminal events in Mexican-American political history. The 1966 Peregrinacion, a 350-mile pilgrimage from the vineyards of Delano to the State Capitol in Sacramento, was for Chicano farmworkers what the Selma-to-Montgomery March had been for Southern African Americans a year earlier.

Galarza discusses Mexican American labor history, leading up to Joseph DiGiorgio and the DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation and the union organizing and strike attempts in 1949-1950. He discusses the bracero program, illegal immigration of Mexicans, and the political maneuvering to break the strike.

The recording recounts the farm workers' 300 mile pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento, California, in March, 1966. Live recordings of song and spoken word performances. All but two are original songs from the strike written by Valdes, Lira or Cantu.

Collection consits of Maxey’s lab book of mechanical drawings, patent applications, large-scale drawings, and photographs from his time working for AMPEX. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

This is a group of small collections, assembled from various donors, related to the history of the Ampex Corporation and its role in the development of sound recording on tape and stereophonic sound.

Video recordings produced or used by Ampex. Five reels of 1960s-70s video tape recordings, all labeled "Ampex Training Department." Most were produced by Ampex themselves.

Primarily known for their mass storage systems, instrumentation/data recorders, helical scan tape drives, robotic storage libraries, post-production switchers, digital special effects, tape cartridges, and system components. Artifacts (including audio and video recording devices, recordings, and memorabilia) formerly comprising the Ampex Museum collection; approximately 25,000 photographs (including negatives and prints) and related indexes; documents in hard copy or microfilm form (including manuals, memos, sales materials, public relations materials, articles, drawings, engineering notes, specifications, and manuscripts); and other miscellaneous material relating to the history of the Ampex Corporation and the recording industry.

This collection consists of a single carousel of slides documenting videorecording equipment developed at Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE) under Jack Mullin's direction as well as notes and ephemera.

Included in box 1 is a biography of Poniatoff (probably an autobiography), circa 1978, written when Mr. Poniatoff was 86 years old. There are also original photographs, excerpts from the Ampex Monitor, and some correspondence. Box 2 contains the tape recorder.

Born near Boise, Idaho, Fred Pfost (1928-2023) was an American engineer and the last surviving member of the pioneering 1956 Ampex video tape recorder development team which included Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsburg, Alex Maxey, Charles Anderson, and Shelby Henderson. Fred Pfost's correspondence, lab reports, testing notes, and assorted materials--including two tape head assemblies--regarding his work on tape head design for Ampex Corporation's video tape recorder project in the 1950s-60s.

James Arthur Miller (1891-1971) was an inventor, engineer and businessman best known for his 1930s audio recording system Millertape. The papers of sound recording engineer James Arthur Miller (1891-1971) include correspondence, press, reports & articles, patents, as well as equipment, prototypes, and personal ephemera.

Neal Kyser McNaughten served as Ampex's Vice President for Professional Products from 1957 to 1962. The papers include copies of corporate memos, personal correspondence, photographs, and other documents related to Neal Kyser McNaughten's career at Ampex. Also, in a small envelope, there is a 1954 prototype video head wheel.

Philip Rice was an American physicist with a particular interest in vision, ultrasound, optics, and electronics. Correspondence, research proposals, and product notes and descriptions (including diagrams and photographs) pertaining to Rice's major innovations in the video/electronics field, 1953-1981. Specific topics and products include electrostatic printing/imaging systems, photographic discs, the electrophotographic process, the development of the first optical videodisc, and a videodisc-based document storage and retrieval system.

Ray Milton Dolby was an American engineer whose inventions and company, Dolby Laboratories, have had a profound effect on the storage, transmission, and reproduction of audio and video. Materials in the collection include Dolby's schoolwork, circuit drawings and engineering schematics for work both at Ampex and Dolby Laboratories, research notes and calculations, patents, correspondence, ephemera from Ampex and from the early years of Dolby Laboratories, and photographs.

The Richard Hess Collection chronicles the early history of tape recording in the United States. The tapes were assembled and reformatted by engineer and researcher Richard L. Hess from 2003 to 2008. Entertainer Bing Crosby was an enthusiastic early adopter, and this collection is largely recordings used in the production of his radio programs.

Joe Roizen was a television and broadcasting technologist, author, and consultant. These DVDs contain selected film clips that were used by Roizen as part of technology demonstrations for Ampex Corporation, Telegen, and several other corporate and governmental bodies. They represent a sampling of television broadcasting during the late 1950s through the 1970s. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Tom Rose worked as a Design Engineer at Dynasonic Systems of Dallas, Texas. The collection includes product catalogs, brochures, flyers, and handouts from electronics firms throughout the United States, as well as from U.S. subsidiaries of international electronics firms. The majority of the materials document electronic sound and data recording technology.

Materials related to the history of Ampex Corporation. Includes documents, photocopies, audio recordings of interviews with former Ampex executives and engineers, and a set of Ampex annual reports. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Donald R. MacQuivey (1913-1993) was an engineer and policy analyst in the field of telecommunications. MacQuivey's work largely centered on radio frequency allocation and management, as well as satellite communication and its implementation. The professional papers of Donald MacQuivey consists primarily of correspondence, memoranda, and reports kept by Macquivey in the course of his work.

General telephone and electronics: video, voice and data transmission systems. The Lenkurt Demodulator is circulated monthly to technicians, engineers, and managers employed by companies of government agencies who use and operate communications systems, and to educational institutions.

The tape begins with comments by Russel Varian. Numerous speakers follow. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

The Communication Products Industry (CPI), Eimac Division media collection includes photographic media, motion film, and sound recordings produced from the mid-1940s to late 1980s by Eitel-McCullough Incorporated (Eimac), an early innovator in the development and application of high frequency vacuum tubes and radar technology founded in San Bruno, California in 1934.

The Don Preist papers include 32 containers of print and photographic materials dating back to the 1930s, and document Preist's life and his involvement with innovative research and development for transmitter tubes and klystron beams while he was a lead engineer with the Eimac and Varian companies. The collection includes technical reports and drawings; inter-office memos; research notes and calculations; correspondence; and photographs.

Co-founder of Varian Associates and a pioneer in microwave tube technology and linear accelerator development. Papers regarding Ginzton's activities at Stanford University, with Varian Associates, and on national committees and local organizations. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, journals, publications, technical reports, manufacturing reports, oral history materials, and photographs.

Eitel-McCullough Inc. ("Eimac") was a company based in San Bruno, California and an early innovator of radio transmitter tubes. Diode cuff links and tie clasp, together with a lighter with the Eimac logo.

Publication of the Eimac company featuring employees, events, and engineering activities at their San Bruno, California and Salt Lake City, Utah plants. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Dr. Nalos' research has been in electron physics and electronics, high power microwave devices and electromagnetic scattering. Technical information on electron tube research and early GE Microwave Lab (Stanford) reports including original data on the first derivative tube at S and X-band; also lecture and lab notes, some correspondence, photos and objects relating to electron tubes.

Co-founder of Eitel-McCullough Inc. (EIMAC), now a division of Varian Associates. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

John Paul (frequently referred to as J.P.) Smith worked on the early development of television at Radio Corporation of America (RCA). His collection consists primarily of his reseach papers and schematics, but also includes patents, notes, diagrams, instructions, graphs, articles, reprints, photographic prints and slides.

Karl Spangenberg (1910-1964) served as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. This collection contains correspondence, teaching materials, subject files, and research notes of Karl R. Spangenberg relating to his work as an electircal engineer specilizing in vacuum tubes at Stanford.

The Lester L. Libby papers consist of files created and maintained by Lester Louis Libby (1916-2002) pertaining to his work in the technical field of sound engineering and the application of microwave frequency technologies in various industries including radio, television, and early electronics from the 1930s to the 1970s. Materials include Libby's resarch notebooks, work papers, diagrams and schematics, articles he authored, and patents received.

He served as Chair of the Department of Applied Physics from 1962-69 and Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, 1959-78. Collection largely pertains to his research in linear accelerators, klystrons, and microwaves; professional activities; classes he taught at Stanford; and administrative duties at Stanford.

Oswald Garrison Villard Jr. (1916-2004), a leader in electromagnetic theory and experimental methods, earned his engineer's degree in 1943 and his Ph.D. in 1949 at Stanford, studying with Dr. F. E. Terman. The papers include correspondence, articles and research papers, memoranda, reports, research files, contracts, minutes, and other materials, 1958-1998. The collection also includes instruction manuals and a log for radio station W6YX, 1932-1933 (club station at Stanford).

A time estimate computer with resource cost scale. Scales include expected time, pessimistic time, most likely time, optimistic time, and on the reverse, the resources cost. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University and world renowned communications scientist, Rudolf Kompfner came to Stanford in 1973 after a distinguished career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Oxford University, and with British government research. His invention of the traveling wave tube during this time is credited with making future satellite communications practicable. The collection concentrates primarily on Professor Kompfner's research interests while at Bell Laboratories, Stanford University and Oxford University. Included are general correspondence files, diaries (1937-1941), notebooks and notes (1937-1977), articles and reports (1937-1980), awards, and drawings.

Russsell and Sigurd Varian were co-inventors, with William W. Hansen, of the klystron and rhumbatron and co-founders of Varian Associates. Joined by his brother, Sigurd, a pilot with Pan American Airlines, he began work on microwave technology as a research assistant with Professor William Hansen. In addition to original research notebooks and correspondence regarding the klystron, the collection includes materials on numerous other inventions and ideas from Russell's work for Philo Farnsworth and Humble Oil as well as the brothers' years at Stanford and at Varian Associates.

Biographical material about Russell Varian, and articles and speeches written by him. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Correspondence and news clippings regarding the Klystron Tube Research Project, 1937-1945; correspondence between department chairman Paul Kirkpatrick and Stanford President Donald B. Tresidder regarding budget and faculty matters, 1943-1947; and statements of William W. Hansen and Robert L. Wathen, 1944, regarding the physics department and research on microwave devices, with a statement by David L. Webster on Hansen's memo, 1949.

Brothers Sigurd and Russell Varian worked in collaboration with Prof. William W. Hansen beginning in 1937 to invent and perfect the Klystron, a device for generating high-power microwaves. Reports generated at the Sperry Gyroscope Company on various aspects of the Klystron, 1945-1947; photocopy of the Wave Guide Handbook, 1944-1945, prepared by the Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; paper by V.F. Kovalenko on the history of microwave electron-beam tubes, 1940; and printed patents for the various elements of the Klystron, 1936-1949.

The addendum contains a Report on RRL Project A500 (Tuba) from the Radio Research Laboratory, Harvard University along with research materials about Project A500. There is also newsletters from the Varian Association and the Collins Radio Company, Eimac photographs, Eimac runs of code, and Sterling McNees diploma from Allegheny College.

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Includes early petitions, correspondence, and final patent for thermionic vacuum tubes and circuits, which was invented by Russell Varian and David Packard, and assigned to the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University in 1951 for 17 years.

William Webster Hansen was Professor of Physics and Director of the Microwave Laboratory at Stanford University, 1929-1949. Hansen's professional and research papers include correspondence, manuscripts, research notebooks, lecture notes, patents, unpublished studies and notes on various experiments and scientific developments such as radar, the rhumbatron, the klystron, radiation, and microwave mechanics.

Videorecording of the roundtable discussion held on September 27, 2005, moderated by Leslie Berlin, featuring Gordon Moore, Jay Last, Julius Blank, all co-founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, and James F. Gibbons, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford.

The Armen Sahagun papers consist of material related to the development of semiconductor technology during the 1950s-60s. Included are two binders of engineering data, price lists, and other reports from American Micro Devices, a semiconductor manufacturing company founded in Minnesota in 1961.

Dr. Deal's work involved studies of silicon thermal oxidation and passivation for semiconductor device and circuit applications, and he also directed activities in all phases of semiconductor materials process, device, and design technology. Collection of technical papers and publications from the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, Research and Development Laboratory assembled by Bruce E. Deal, a chemist research staff member for the company.

Academic research files and recorded interviews created by Christophe Lécuyer, a published historian of Silicon Valley high tech industries. He has written books on Fairchild Semiconductor and the history of Silicon Valley. The bulk of materials within the collection is comprised of research notes, photocopied resource materials, presentations, and academic works by Lécuyer.

Includes early pictures of researchers and projects, including a progression of chips from the early transistor to the latest 4500.

On October 4, 2007, Julius Blank, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, and Arthur Rock--three Fairchild Semiconductor founders and the venture capitalist who backed them -- discussed the firm's early years and its significance in a panel discussion moderated by Leslie Berlin of the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University.

The Steve Allen photographs of Fairchild Semiconductor contains photographs of professional photographer Steve Allen, a Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor Corporation employee from 1966 through about 1997. The collection documents executive employees, sales force, fabrication facilities, and products of Fairchild Semiconductor.

Includes important letters, telegrams, photographs, newsclippings, etc.

Tells the story of the company that invented the integrated circuit, describing the events that spawned the first generation of Silicon Valley technology companies. It covers the period from Fairchild's founding in 1957 to the purchase of the company by National Semiconductor in 1986.

Co-inventor of the solar cell, Pearson held a total of 34 U.S. patents relating to thermistors, transistors, silicon power diodes, and solar cells. Correspondence, 1961-1982, research notebooks on optical properties of solids and other subjects, technical reports prepared during his tenure at Bell Telephone Laboratories, reprints, photographs and slides, legal papers relating to patents, transcript of an oral history interview, memorabilia, and other miscellaneous items.

Gordon Earle Moore (1929- ), was co-founder of Intel Corporation and progenitor of "Moore's Law." Digital surrogates of the original notebooks held by the Computer History Museum. Gordon Moore kept notes on projects at Fairchild Semiconductor in these notebooks.

Victor Grinich (November 24, 1924 - November 5, 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He worked at the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, and then left with other disgruntled members to create the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.

References to Fairchild Semiconductor are numerous.

The collection contains materials from Jay T. Last, one of the "traitorous eight" who quit Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to establish Fairchild Semiconductor. In addition to materials from Last's time at Shockley and Fairchild, there is an assortment of articles, papers, and memorabilia about the history of the semiconductor industry and the lasting impact of Fairchild Semiconductor and its founders in the establishment of Silicon Valley.

The collection contains materials from Jean A. Hoerni, one of the "traitorous eight" that quit Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to establish Fairchild Semiconductor. The collection includes correspondence between Hoerni and various semiconductor laboratories, including Shockley, as he searched for a position during the mid-1950s; handwritten notes from his time at Shockley and Fairchild; and copies of Hoerni's publications throughout his education and career.

An employment offer with terms, together with a follow-up letter asking Blank to discuss the offer with his supervisor at Western Electric so that there be no suggestion of "indirect methods." [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Primarily manufacturing images relating to the work of Robert C. Hall at Fairchild Semiconductor; also some failure analysis photos. There are also some historical reports from the 1960s relating to the work of G. Tripp and J.H. Friedrich.

The epic story of silicon chip inventor Robert Noyce, godfather of today's digital world. Recalls the heady days of Silicon Valley's seminal start-ups and tells how Noyce also founded Intel, the company responsible for more than 80% of the microprocessors in personal computers.

Hoerni's summary of this paper states, "the new organization will be geared to provide not only diffusion and epitaxial capabilities, but also sputtering and die-electric isolation techniques in order to achieve greatest flexibility in custom circuits fabrication." He discusses the market and the forecast for custom vs. standard integrated circuits.

Raytheon's Semiconductor Division was established in Mountain View, California in 1968 by its parent company, Raytheon Company of Lexington, Massachusetts, which, in 1990, was described as "one of the largest and most diversified electronics companies in the United States." The collection consists of files that Raytheon's Semiconductor Division kept to monitor both the progress of their competitors and trends in the electronics industry.

The collection documents the research phase of Berlin's biography of Robert Noyce, entitled THE MAN BEHIND THE MICROCHIP. The collection consists of photographs, transcripts and audiotapes of interviews, speeches given by Noyce and others, and background research on the history of the micro-chip industry and the growth of Silicon Valley.

1. Photo of first MOS/LSI chip -- 2. Mock-up of 2000 Gae computer fabricated using Micrologic in TO-18 cans (which were not used) -- 3a. Color print of an actual Victor EC-3900 Logic Board with 28 LSI-ICs of 23 types. Included is a report by Fry Associates to Pyle National Board, "Evaluation of General Micro Electronics business proposal, including market, personnel, and Arthur Anderson analysis of proposed financial plan.

The is the story of the pioneering semiconductor company from it's founding in 1957 to it's sale to National Semiconductor in 1986. The story is told in the words of those who were there.

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Professor of engineering at Stanford (1958-1975; emeritus 1975-1989). Shockley was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, 1956. Professional and personal papers relating to Professor Shockley's controversial interests in environment and genetic influences on intelligence; research on transistors and electronics; and science education. Also includes extensive family materials including diaries and correspondence.

Black and white negatives related to Silicon Valley corporate culture. Images depict primarily electronic equipment, though people and buildings (including a number by developer Joseph Eichler) are also represented in the collection. Companies represented include Hewlett-Packard, Beckman Instruments, Varian, Wiltron, and Applied Biosystems.

In 1950 He joined the Hewlett-Packard company as director of research. Transcript of an interview conducted by Arthur L. Norberg covering Oliver's early life, his education, and work experiences at Bell Laboratories and Hewlett-Packard.

Frederick Emmons Terman (1900-1982) was an American electrical engineer known for his contributions to electronics research and anti-radar technology. Collection consists of photocopies of biographical materials including drafts of the memorial resolution on Terman, newspaper articles and obituaries, list of his patents, speeches and a few articles by Terman, text of remarks from a dinner in honor of Terman in 1977, and several published articles on Terman and Silicon Valley.

[The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Source tapes used in the production of FOUNDERS OF THE FUTURE, a video project honoring William Hewlett and David Packard and their contributions to Stanford University, and several copies of the final edited version. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

Papers include class notes, files, and records relating to the Vidar Corporation and Silicon Graphics. In addition to the bound memoir covering Anderson's life, there is a 14-page review written by Anderson about his engineering career.

Dr. Ned Chapin was a leader in the field of Computer Science, particularly the discipline of Software Maintenance, from its infancy. This collection primarily consists of conference materials, manuscripts, minicartridges, floppy disks, publications, and computer printouts relating to the courses and system development primarily created by Chapin during his tenure at Stanford University.

Robert W. Floyd joined the Stanford faculty in 1968 as an associate professor of computer science. His most important scientific achievement was pioneering systematic methods of program verification. These papers include his Stanford course files, 1976-94; correspondence, 1968-95, including that with Donald Knuth, 1963-1987; research and subject files; reprints and manuscripts; computer printouts; and note cards.

Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelson is an information technology pioneer and systems humanist. Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960, a global hypertext system designed to permanently connect different types of documents, display visible connections between documents, and include a simplified copyright system.

Typescripts generated by the Southern Pacific public relations office concerning historical material, the Southern Pacific Pipe Lines, Inc., and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company. Also included is a bibliography, a photocopy of a speech by C.P. Huntington, May 1900, and two publications.

The collection includes 78 maps produced by Southern Pacific Railroad of lines, sidings, stations, and rail yards in California, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area but also including the Santa Barbara region.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. Contains board minutes, ledgers, engineering report books, mechanical car books, maps, mechanical specifications, valuation maps, leases, and cash receipts for the Southern Pacific Company and more than 500 other companies acquired by the Southern Pacific Company between 1895 and 1991.

Collection includes Southern Pacific dispatcher's daily train sheets and correspondence, a memorandum and a map regarding the sheets. The sheets are a sampling from three stations (Los Angeles, Beaumont, and Mexicali, Baja).

Alan Bagley was a longtime Hewlett-Packard engineer and manager. Communications, technical notes, in-house publications, newspaper clippings, organizational charts, catalogs, training manuals, and other materials related to the career of Alan Bagley, primarily at Hewlett-Packard.

American computer scientist. Correspondence, printed matter and miscellany, relating to Soviet-American aerial cooperation during World War II and to the postwar computer industry in the Soviet Union.

Images, which are identified by Pettit, include the fairgrounds where the show was held, company exhibits, and various electronic instruments.

The papers include speeches, personal correspondence, and correspondence and documents relating to Lane Publishing Co., producers of Sunset Magazine, books, and films. Laurence William Lane Jr. often known as Bill Lane (November 7, 1919 - July 31, 2010) was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist. The Lane family owned and published Sunset Magazine.

In the late 1940s and early 50s, physicist Martin Packard made significant contributions to the emerging field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology at Stanford University. Packard was later employed by Varian Associates, where he became head of the analytical instrumentation department, Corporate Vice President, and finally Assistant to Board Chairman Edward Ginzton. The collection is largely from his time at Varian, consisting of correspondence and memoranda, subject files maintained as Varian's reference library, and files related to Varian's corporate history.

Grant joined National Company in 1954, becoming their vice-president of engineering. Mr. Grant has 11 patents in atomic beam frequency standards, radar circuits, mircrowave components, and laser technology.

Pacific Improvement Company was a large holding company in California, formed by C. P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Business areas covered include land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.

Project Plowshare, which originated at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Livermore, in 1956, was concerned with the peaceful uses of nuclear explosions in excavations and other engineering projects. Collection consists largely of reports and studies from various projects and experiments, with some memoranda, press releases, articles, clippings, and brochures.

He became associated with the Crockers and after making a success of the Crocker-Hoffman Land and Water Company, which he managed, he was subsequently offered a position managing the Pacific Improvement Company in 1915. Contains personal correspondence of Samuel Morse, correspondence of the Pacific Improvement Company relating to liquidation of the company, and a report (12 v.) prepared for the Pacific Improvement Company in 1916, titled, "Iron, Steel, Coal & Coke on the Pacific Coast."

Materials include company documents, drawings, printed material, product development plans, and artifacts, as well as reference materials used by Rojo to set up and run his company.

This archive documents military, computing and space history.

Correspondence, financial records, catalogue checking copies, orders, appraisals, account books, jeweler's inventory books, flyers, publications, scrapbook, and photographs.

Professor of chemistry at Stanford University and chairman of the board of Metronics Associates, Inc. Text of address presented at the Statewide Conference on Man in California, 1980s, held in Sacramento, January 27, 1964. [The subject placement of this collection was inferred and may not be correct.]

The San Mateo County Resource Conservation District (formerly known as the San Mateo County Soil Conservation District) is a non-regulatory public benefit district to help protect, conserve, and restore natural resources through information, education, and technical assistance programs. The records of the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District span the history of the organization and include administrative and financial files, meeting minutes, reports, maps, and other material.

Story told in photographs of the shelling and cleaning procedure of getting walnuts from shell to can, each with a typed caption mounted below the photograph.

A 2017 scan of a 1950 photograph of an orchard owned by W.S. Wilcox that once stood where the Intel building is now in the Santa Clara Valley.

Report of land conditions on the agricultural lands requested of the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by the University; includes photographs, charts, and a partial map.

Compilation of ranch records from the Steele Ranches of San Mateo County, California. Includes financial papers, legal papers, photographs, maps, and miscellaneous background notes written by Mrs. Catherine Steele. The collection covers over 100 years of ranching in California.

Typescript report on mineral, water, and oil resources on Stanford land by Benjamin M. Page, Stanley N. Davis, Frank W. Atchley, L. Trowbridge Grose, John W. Harbaugh, and Charles F. Park, Jr.; with related correspondence of Park and university president J. E. Wallace Sterling.

The materials consist of engineering reports on mining and metallurgy.

Professor of geology (1946-1969; emeritus, 1969-); and Dean of the School of Earth Sciences (1950-1965). Collection largely consists of correspondence with professional colleagues and correspondence which covers Park's activities in national and international geological organizations (especially the Society of Economic Geologists and the International Association of the Genesis of Ore Deposits), mineral explorations, work as a mining consultant, and the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford.

Daniel Cowan Jackling (1869-1956) was a mining engineer who established several mining companies in the Western United States. Primarily correspondence, together with ledgers pertaining to Jackling's finances, photographs, annual reports, and clippings.

Correspondence, legal and financial documents, ledgers, reports, research notes, photographs, maps, plans, profiles, charts and artifacts relating to the operation of the New Almaden Mine and the Quicksilver Mining Co.

Robert B. Hoy graduated from Lafayette College (Pennsylvania) in 1937 and pursued a career as a geologist, working with the New Jersey Zinc Company, Stanford Research Institute, and AMAX Exploration, Inc. Collection includes manuscripts, project files, reports, correspondence, and subject files related to his career.

Logs contain information for an estimated 6,000 oil test wells in California from an area extending from Eureka to the Salton Sea.

The Richard Finnie Collection contains films, audio recordings, and photographs by Richard Sterling Finnie (1906-1987), a documentary filmmaker, photographer, ethnographer, and historian. As a producer for Bechtel's industrial film division, Finnie made over 60 promotional films touting Bechtel's pipeline and other development projects around the world, including such titles as Oil Across Sumatra , More Power to Korea , Exploring Libya , and Bechtel in Europe . Photographs, films, and audio recordings relating to Bechtel Corporation's development projects, especially pipe line construction, all by company historian and film producer Richard Finnie.

Robert Moran has been recognized as an early pioneer in the fields of petroleum geology and petroleum engineering and was one of a handful of geologists who gathered in 1924 to assist in the formation of the Pacific Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Collection includes reports, maps, correspondence, cross sections, logs, notes, printed material, production data, and other miscellaneous material relating to the professional career of Robert Moran.

The photo albums were created by Theodore Lenzen, a Standard Oil executive who worked in a number of locations including Richmond, California, Alaska, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia, and Bahrain. This collection consists 15 photo albums, which include some correspondence and documents.

Oral history interview conducted in June 2007 pertaining to his 30-year career in community relations and public affairs at Stanford. Topics include San Hill Road, Peter Coutts housing development, SLAC power line, commercial development of Stanford lands, and relations with Palo Alto and Santa Clara County.

Collection consists of project booklets and related materials for the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in San Francisco. There are also news clippings and correspondence from National-Braemar, Inc. to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.

List of the lottery picks for prospective lessees when Frenchman's Hill was to be developed, circa 1965. The 'prospective lessee's' was handed out to attendees at the drawing for lots in Frenchman's Hill.

Harry L. Sanders came to Stanford in 1956 as associate director of planning. This collection includes reports, proposals, agenda, minutes, transcripts of public hearings, and other documents pertaining to development in San Francisco, especially Diamond Heights and the Western Addition, 1948-54; and reports, booklets, and brochures pertaining to planning in general, 1940-70.

Crowder served as Palo Alto City Planner from 1972-1982 and was on the Portola Valley Planning Commission from 1974-1982. The collection consists primarily of reports and other publications regarding land use in California, particularly in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, 1958-1980.

A business proposal with supporting documents tipped in. The proposal itself is brief (3 pages) and a bit opaque as to purpose but it concerns development of the Westview Tract (aka Pacific Highlands, one of the neighborhoods that became Pacifica when the city was incorporated in 1957). The proposal is followed by several attachments, including a VA Master Certificate of Reasonable Value, an FHA Subdivision Report, an FHA Description of Materials, two blueprint reproductions, three tract maps of Pacific Hightlands and a brochure promoting the Westview home (a 1-1/2 story home with 4 bedrooms, two baths and a single car garage).

Photocopied clippings pertaining to land development at Stanford University. Subjects include flood control, freeways, housing, the industrial park, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Stanford Shopping Center, the Stanford Barn (the old winery), the medical center, the Veterans Administration Hospital, and related events in Menlo Park and Palo Alto.

Photographs of individual houses and housing complexes on the Stanford University campus; includes images taken during the construction of homes in the Frenchmen's Hill subdivision, 1967-69,and of the Stanford West Apartments, 2000.

The maps in this collection pertain to the University campus, to other lands owned by Jane and Leland Stanford or the University, and to adjacent communities.

The Office of the General Counsel (OGC) is responsible for addressing all of the legal issues arising out of the activities of Stanford University, Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Records from the legal office pertain to real estate matters, including the Stanford Shopping Center, other leases, and gift deeds.

This collection consists of aerial photographs of the Stanford University campus and lands taken by Hatfield Aerial Surveys, a firm owned by Adrian R. Hatfield. Of notes are images of areas of the campus now the site of the Stanford Shopping Center, the Medical Center, the industrial park, and faculty housing developments.

From 1953 to his retirement in 1985, James Crossen worked with the U.S. Geological Survey, primarily making topographic maps in the seven western states and Hawaii.

Materials consist ofthe incoming and outgoing correspondence John L. Lee, most of it related to the operation of the tanker SS Umatilla by San Francisco-based Pacific Tankers Inc. between April 17, 1944 and November 21, 1944.

A special supplement for the opening of the new airport, including history and photos of older airports, photos of the new airport and members of the Public Utilities Commission, and numerous related articles and advertisements.

Material concerning railroads, shipping, automobiles, and transportation which was once part of the Hopkins Transportation Library at Stanford. One of several of sharing the name, this collection contains multiple accessions from various donors over many years, including a ledger from an English sailing vessel dated 1711-1757, railroad stock and bond certificates signed by Hopkins and Huntington, deeds and legal documents involving a variety of rail companies (including the signatures of founding stockholders for the Oakland Railroad Co. in 1868), and a great deal of Southern Pacific Railroad material, some of which was sent directly to the Hopkins Library while it was under the care of director Jeanette Hitchcock in the 1940s.

Ephemera related to the construction and operation of railroads in the Western United States and the United Kingdom, including dispatcher's records from Beaumont, California; Los Angeles, California; and Mexicali, Baja California. While primarily about railroads, the collection also contains printed material and ephemera about other forms of transport, including automobiles, passenger ships, and airplanes, as well as various mostly related engineering plans and reports.

A miscellaneous collection, including railroad history, ca. 1940-1952, ramifications of the Clayton Act which outlawed as monopolistic the agreements railroads had formed among themselves, aviation in the post World War II era and a bit about its advent, many articles on the effect of World War II on railroads, municipal railroads, particularly in San Francisco, ships for trade and leisure, and a few clippings about the Hopkins family and the sale of the Hopkins house to Hollywood in the 1940s.

Collection contains over 2,600 photographs documenting various railways and trolley lines in the United States (primarily California) and Mexico.

During the 1950s there were several important local organizations devoted to railroad history: The Pacific Coast Railroad and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., the California-Nevada Railroad Historical Society, the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association, and the Central Railway Club of San Jose. Society newsletters and magazines, rail excursion flyers, excursion photographs, news clippings, announcements, time tables, ticket stubs, map, etc.

Album prepared as a promotional piece for the British Overseas Airways Corporation and for Lufthansa on the opening of San Francisco International Airport. Ephemera includes photographs; plot and elevation plans; booklet on statistical facts of air traffic; brochures and data describing San Francisco and the airport.

William Ripley Dorr, a resident of Palos Verdes Estates, California, was a confirmed rail fan. Dorr photographed each trip, and mounted the photographs in two albums, which comprise the collection. They are mainly examples of types of engines and types of cars, from both the era of steam and the more modern diesel era.

Report on wear and tear of Treasure Island's infrastructure, especially water leakage and salt-water intrusion, "Requested by P.M. Downing and L.J. Brown, Construction Superintendent, Golden Gate International Exposition." Includes six original tipped-in photographs and nine folding plans of various portions of Treasure Island, showing the location of water-system tests in relation to specific proposed exhibition space, etc.

Albert Wilson (1903-1996), was a San Francisco Bay Area botanist, landscape architect, author, teacher and lecturer on gardening and landscaping, as well as a TV and radio talk show personality who wrote several books popularizing gardening, as well as an autobiography. Material related to Wilson's career as horticulturalist, author, and broadcaster.

The California Flower Market, Inc. was founded in 1912 by Japanese American flower growers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The records of the California Flower Market, Inc. include photographs, photograph albums, manuscript materials, books, articles, ephemera, and audiovisual materials from the late 1800s to 2014, with the bulk covering the period 1910 to 1990.

Japanese American Toichi Domoto (1902-2001) was a noted horticulturist who began in his family's Domoto Brothers Nursery and later founded his own nursery in Hayward, California. The collection contains family and business correspondence, legal advice concerning the Alien Land Law of 1913, early nursery business records, early nursery catalogs (from the Yokohama nursery, the Domoto Bros. nursery, and Toichi Domoto's nursery), photographs of the Domoto family and early nursery business, class notes and subject files.

The materials consist of research files, correspondence, teaching materials, biographical material, publications, photographs, and some experimental equipment. Albert Vinicio Baez, Ph.D. (1912-2007) was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña. In 1948, along with Stanford University professor Paul Kirkpatrick (1894–1992), Baez developed the X-ray reflection microscope for examination of living cells.

Anthony Siegman was an electrical engineer, primarily focused on masers and lasers. Siegman became an assistant professor at Stanford in Electrical Engineering in 1957. The materials consist of administrative files, research files, correspondence, and publications.

Excelling in both theoretical and experimental physics, Bloch won the Nobel Prize in 1952 for his work in nuclear magnetism. Tapes from a symposium held on October 27 and 28, 1989, at Stanford University; speakers included Robert Hofstadter, James S. Harris, William A. Little, K. Halbach, Erwin Hahn, D. Fisher, H. Gutfreund, Alexander Pines, E. Raymond Andrew, and W.F. Brinkman.

He joined the Stanford faculty in 1961 as professor in the applied physics and electrical engineering departments, serving two terms as chair of the department of applied physics. Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, contracts, grants, course materials and other records pertaining to his research and teaching at Stanford, including work at the Ginzton Laboratory; and offsets, glossies, and slides from the acoustic microscope project.

He remained Professor of Physics at Stanford until 1954, when he retired. The papers of David Locke Webster document his career as a professor and physicist and include course material from physics classes taught at Stanford (1946-1954); notes and notebooks from his earlier teaching career at Harvard, Michigan and M.I.T.; correspondence and subject files on Army research projects; budget material for the Stanford physics department (1924-1943); reprints of articles; research data; photographs of apparatus used in experiments; manuscripts; correspondence (1939-70) regarding Webster's interests (e.g. Klystron Tube, compton effect); research notebooks (1916-1970); correspondence relating to the Physics Department during the 1940's; glass plates for printing graphs; photographs; maps.

The Bloch papers document Felix Bloch's role in twentieth century physics as a scientist, teacher and administrator. The collection includes correspondence, grant proposals, lecture notes, minutes and accompanying documentation regarding departmental, university and national committees, research notebooks, grants, patents, and designs; files regarding organizations in which Bloch played an active role; publications (predominantly reprints) by Bloch; and photographs.

Collection consists of three notebooks (in facsimile) kept by Fu Chun Yu while he was a post-doc in Prof. Felix Bloch's NMR laboratory at Stanford; they cover Yu's work with Warren Proctor that lead to a realization of the chemical shift in molecules.

Richard G. Sweet developed an ink-jet recorder at Stanford University in the early 1960s. Funded by an Army Signal Corps contract, Sweet developed a technique for selective charging and deflection of individual ink droplets, resulting in higher recording speeds for ink-jet printers.

Slides show measuring equipment and graphs and measurements.

co-author, with Charles H. Townes, of Microwave Spectroscopy (1955), dealing with theory and experimental techniques of microwave spectroscopy; marriage in 1951 to Aurelia Townes, and move to Bell Telephone Laboratories: working on superconductivity, in 1957-1958 collaborating with Townes on the optical maser (laser), and publication of "Infrared and Optical Masers"; discussion of the atmosphere at Columbia and at Bell Labs, pressures, publications, patents; joins physics faculty at Stanford University: research group in laser spectroscopy, Ted Hänsch, students, administrative matters, other faculty.

Professor of physics at Stanford University since 1931 (emeritus, 1960 - ); best known for his pioneering work in x-ray technology. General reminiscences about his life, including recollections about his work and colleagues at Stanford.

Contracts, proposals, correspondence, and memoranda from the files of the William W. Hansen Laboratories relating to the construction of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, the development of the Klystron tube, and medical research using linear accelerators.

Official publication for MEChA, Stanford University.

Mary Hill Skougaard (AB 1950 in communications) was the first female station manager at Stanford?s student radio station, KZSU. Copy negatives of original images in a scrapbook owned by Mary Hill Skougaard, with photocopies of most of the original images. Subjects include KZSU engineers and staff, live broadcasts, and parties; individuals include Bill Kane, Fred Steiner, Rosemarie Armstrong [Ostberg], Peter F. Dawson, Mary Hill [Skougaard], and Steve Phillips.

The "ham radio" station W6YX at Stanford dates back to 1924 and is still active; electronics professor Oswald G. Villard Jr. served as faculty advisor and trustee for many years. Scrapbook contains clippings, articles, correspondence, membership list, certificates (one issued to Osward G. Villard), photographs, and 1 FCC complaint; some of the correspondence is with the American Radio Relay League regarding records of calls made by the club.

The Stanford Village complex was developed from converted military housing located in Menlo Park on the current site of SRI International. Cookbook compiled by Stanford Village residents, 1961. Recipes include Meats, Casseroles; Salads, Vegetables; Breads; Cakes, Cookies, Pies, Desserts.

Patrick Suppes was the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and a member of the departments of Statistics and Psychology and of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. This collection consists of research, notes, papers, and correspondence with a particular emphasis on Suppes' work on computer-assisted education research.

Before joining the Stanford faculty in the School of Education in 1953, she taught at Yale and Harvard and was a research associate at the Child Welfare Research Station at the State University of Iowa. Her research subjects included the classroom effects of computer assisted instruction, development of creativity, and teaching strategies for effective reinforcement of culturally different children. The papers of Pauline Sears primarily pertain to her career at Stanford, with only one folder of materials pertaining to her activities during the 1930s.

The Stanford Consultation Services, under the direction of Education Professor Robert N. Bush, conducted case studies of teachers and administrators in selected school systems in California, Colorado, Washington, and Australia. Records include complete case files from three individual studies at Alameda High School in Alameda, CA, MR Trace Elementary School in San Jose, CA, and Jordan Junior High School in Palo Alto, CA; summary folders from all other cases; and general administrative files.

Bernard Roth, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, is one of the founders of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the d.school) and is active in its development: currently, he serves as Academic Director.