The search for Jane's cold cream jar: an archaeological adventure at the Stanfords' Palo Alto home 2003

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The search for Jane's cold cream jar: an archaeological adventure at the Stanfords' Palo Alto home 2003

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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.

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Cecil H. Green Library. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Cecil H. Green Library. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893

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Lawyer born in Albany, New York but moved to California where he became active in the Republican Party, running for governor and losing in 1860. Later president of the Union Pacific Railroad and founder of Stanford University. From the description of Letter, March 14, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55662301 Leland Stanford was born March 9, 1824 in Waltervliet Township, New York. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1848 and married Ja...

Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905

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Jane Eliza Lathrop was born August 25, 1828, the daughter of Dyer Lathrop of Albany, New York. In 1850 she married Leland Stanford, returning with him to California in 1855 where they settled in Sacramento. Leland Stanford later became President of the Southern Pacific Railroad and Governor of California. Their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., was born in 1868. During a European tour in 1884 he contracted typhoid fever and died in Florence, Italy. In 1885, Jane and Leland Stanford founded the L...