Stanford University, Libraries, book plate collection, ca. 1892-1945.

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Stanford University, Libraries, book plate collection, ca. 1892-1945.

Album containing bookplates used in the Stanford University Libraries from ca. 1892-ca. 1945, with notes about their history and design; also includes correspondence with Jeannette M. Hitchcock, rare book librarian at Stanford, 1945.

.25 linear foot.

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Stanford university libraries

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John M. Willits earned his A.B. in economics at Stanford in 1925; he was an instructor in psychology and marketing at Stanford prior to earning his Ph.D. in psychology in 1937. From the guide to the John Metts Willits papers, 1911-1933, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives) The new main library at Stanford was designed by the San Francisco architectural firm of John Bakewell, Jr. and Arthur Brown, Jr.; is it now known as the Bing Wing of the Cecil H. Gr...

Hazelton, Alan W., collector.

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Hitchcock, Jeannette M. (Jeannette McCrory)

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Hitchcock was Chief, Division of Special Collections, Stanford Univ. Libraries in the 1950s. She was writing an article about Elliott and particularly the so-called Elliott map, a rare railroad map of central California, 1860. Elliott was a civil engineer and railroad surveyor. From the description of Research file on Simon G. Elliott, 1950-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448642 A graduate of Stanford (1914), Jeannette Hitchcock came to the Stanford Library in 1923, ...