Stanford University, Libraries, Bender Room scrapbooks, 1926-1969.

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Stanford University, Libraries, Bender Room scrapbooks, 1926-1969.

Scrapbooks contain clippings, announcements, newsletters, brochures, programs, press releases, invitations, and several photographs pertaining primarily to the rare book and manuscript collections, acquisitions, and exhibitions. People mentioned in the articles include Jeannette M. Hitchcock, Albert M. Bender, Frederick E. Brasch and Nathan Van Patten; there are also some clippings on the theft of books by Mitchell Strucinski in 1960. The photographs are of Albert Sperisen, J. Terry Bender, F. E. Brasch and a class in the history of printing at San Jose State College (July 1954).

1.5 linear feet.

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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...

Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941

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Prominent 19th Century poet and social activist. Born Charles From the description of Letter,1925 October 7, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], Poet of my heart [Staten Island] / Albert M. Bender. 1925. (Wagner College). WorldCat record id: 43935480 From the description of Letter,1926 April 5, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], Poet [Staten Island] / Albert M. Bender. 1926. (Wagner College). WorldCat record id: 43935496 From the description of Letter,1922 ...

Bender, J. Terry (John Terry)

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Chief of Division of Special Collections and keeper of rare books at Stanford University Libraries. From the description of Correspondence, 1962-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553284 From the guide to the J. Terry Bender correspondence, 1962-1966, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Strucinski, Mitchell J.

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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, ...

Sperisen, Albert, 1908-1999

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Van Patten, Nathan, 1887-

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Director of Stanford University Libraries, 1927-1947, Professor of Bibliography, 1948-1952, Professor Emeritus, 1952-1956, and Curator, Memorial Library of Music, 1952-1955. From the description of Memorial Library of Music : files, 1947-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122369477 Director, Stanford University Libraries, 1927-1947. From the description of Nathan Van Patten certificate, 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867263 Director of Stanfor...

Brasch, Frederick E. (Frederick Edward), 1875-1967

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Frederick E. Brasch was educated at Stanford University (1899), the University of California (1901), and Harvard (1916). He worked as a librarian at Stanford, in Chicago, St. Paul, MN, and in Washington, D.C. before becoming chief of the Library of Congress scientific collection in 1925. He served as corresponding secretary of the history of science section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1920 through 1928. Brasch died in 1967. From the description of ...