Ralph Caylor McSherry photograph albums 1911-1916

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Ralph Caylor McSherry photograph albums 1911-1916

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Two albums of photographs, clippings, and Stanford ephemera such as programs, broadsides, and tickets, pertaining to his student days at Stanford University. Subjects include the Big Game, his dormitory room, Plug Ugly events, and fellow students. There are also photographs of Domenico Grosso, the "hermit" of Stanford University, and of Thomas Edison during his visit to the campus. Non-Stanford subjects include his vacation trips to Seattle, Idaho, Monterey, and other locations, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Grosso, Domenico.

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