Stanford University Archives print collection, 1862-2001.

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Stanford University Archives print collection, 1862-2001.

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This collection contains lithographs, drawings, watercolor paintings, art prints, diplomas, certificates, printed illustrations, cartoons, advertisements, bird's eye maps, and other printed formats. The main focus is Stanford University and its founders; subjects include the career of Leland Stanford, his racing horses, Stanford University's history, student life, campus buildings, views of campus, faculty achievements, and others. Some items of note include The Leland Stanford Junior University, Plan of Central Premises, 1888, by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, architects, and Frederick Law and J. C. Olmsted, landscape architects; original water color designs of mosaics for Memorial Church by A. E. Paoletti; nine demands posted by Students for a Democratic Society on the door of the President's office, concerning the Stanford Research Institute, 1968; original sketches by Leland Stanford, Jr.; Currier and Ives prints of Stanford's race horses; design for the president's house by Louis Christian Mullgardt, architect; woodblock prints by Della Taylor Hoss from Mary Curry Tressider's "Trees of Yosemite," 1932; print by Enrique Chagoya "Illegal Spirit in Black and White", 1994; caricature sketches of members of Beta Theta Pi, including Winstead "Doodles" Weaver, circa 1935; and Santa Fe Wing No. 9 by Nathan Oliveira, 1990.

330 items.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8131593

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Mullgardt, Louis Christian, 1866-1942

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Mullgardt was a San Francisco architect known for his design of "California Houses." He served on the architectural board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). From the description of Louis Christian Mullgardt papers, 1904-1907. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122563732 Louis Christian Mullgardt designed residences and large buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1905 until approximately 1920. He was appointed to the board of the 1...

Paoletti, Antonio

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Stanford University. Memorial Church

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Construction of Memorial Church began in 1899 and the church was dedicated in 1903. After being partially destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, the church was rebuilt and opened again in 1913. The first pastor of the church was Heber Newton, who was followed by Rev. David Charles Gardner (1902-1936). Rev. D. Elton Trueblood (1936-1945), Rev. George J. Hall (1946-1947), Rev. Robert M. Minto (1947-1948; 1950-1973), Rev. Paul C. Johnston (1949-1950), and Robert McAfee Brown (1972-1973) also served the ...

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...

Chagoya, Enrique

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Enrique Chagoya (1953- ) is a Mexican American painter, graphic artist, and educator in San Francisco, Calif. Kara Maria (1968- ) is Chagoya's wife. From the description of Oral history interview with Enrique Chagoya, 2001 July 25-Aug. 6 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78793720 ...

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

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Landscape architect. From the description of Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979908 American landscape designer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Charles A. Dana, 1876 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872066 Landscape architect. Related material in Biography and Genealogy Files under 'F.L. Olmsted.' From the description ...

Oliveira, Nathan, 1928-2010

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Oliveira is a painter and teacher, Stanford, Calif. The print series "Archival Site" was done for the 25th anniversary of the Archives of American Art; a print was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, ca. 1982. From the description of [Prints] [graphic] / Nathan Oliveira. 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477585 From the description of [Prints] [graphic] / Nathan Oliveira. 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205920 Painter and printmaker (Stanf...

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, 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...

Currier & Ives

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Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...