Leland Stanford photograph album, 1868-1882.

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Leland Stanford photograph album, 1868-1882.

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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. In addition there is one image of Wilsie [Wilson] Taylor, a friend of Leland Jr.; the remaining images are of other friends and relatives, mostly unidentified. Loose images include one of Leland Stanford Jr. age 2; a tintype of Leland Stanford Jr., 13 years old, with possibly his tutor; two unidentified family members; and one photo [nearly completed faded away] taken by Leland Jr. in France, 1880.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8131407

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford family.

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Stanford, Leland, 1868-1884

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Leland Stanford, Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. Leland Stanford, was born in Sacramento, California on May 14, 1868. His early death in March 1884 just before his sixteenth birthday inspired the founding of Leland Stanford Junior University in 1885. From the description of Leland Stanford, Jr. papers, 1871-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019681 Biography Leland Stanford, Jr., the only child of Senator and...

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...

Taylor, Wilson A. (Wilson Allen), 1874-

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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...