Manuscripts, drawings, clippings, photographs and maps
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- These papers are Branner's personal and professional papers and do not contain any of his Stanford University Presidential records. The collection contains most of his outgoing and incoming correspondence for the years 1882 to 1921. The outgoing correspondence is in letter press books and has not been indexed. The incoming correspondence has been arranged, but not indexed except for a very few names of importance to Stanford University or of national significance. There is a fairly complete collection of articles and books by Branner as well as manuscripts, photographs, and line drawings of geographical formations; three scrapbooks of earthquake pictures; the report of the Commission investigating the Panama Canal slides; and the manuscript of the Baker genealogy which Branner made. There is a lot of material of interest to geologists and students of the history of geology. While State Geologist of Arkansas Branner refused to encourage speculation concerning gold and silver mines and finally said that there were none of importance, for which he was reviled in many newspapers and hanged in effigy twice. The letters from his field assistants give a rather complete (and amusing) picture of Arkansas in the 1880s. There is also correspondence, mostly during 1906, concerning Branner's dissatisfaction with the U. S. Geological Survey and finally his resignation from it. Branner had many students at Stanford who went on to make quite a reputation as geologists, among them Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover. There are many letters from these students from all over the world. Especially interesting are those from the Hoovers and N. F. Drake who were in Tientsin at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Branner's great interest was Brazil. He had visited Brazil while a graduate student in 1882 and was to make return trips throughout his life. His interests were not purely geological as he also wrote a Portuguese grammar and translated a book on the Portuguese inquisition. A college classmate of his, Ajax J. Lamoureux, lived in Brazil from 1886 to 1906 and his letters give a detailed description of the life there.
Description
Type of resource | other |
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Date created | 1818 - 1911 |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922. |
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Subjects
Subject | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
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Subject | Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944) |
Subject | Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) |
Subject | Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) |
Subject | David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) |
Subject | John Casper Branner (1850-1922) |
Subject | Susan Kennedy Branner |
Subject | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1868-1941) |
Subject | Baker family |
Subject | Branner family |
Subject | Stanford University. Dept. of Geology. |
Subject | Stanford University > Faculty. |
Subject | Stanford University > Presidents. |
Subject | Geology > Brazil. |
Subject | Geology > California. Brazil. |
Subject | San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (Calif.) 1906. |
Subject | Panama Canal (Panama) |
Subject | Drawings. |
Subject | Slides. |
Subject | Scrapbooks. Genealogies. |
Subject | Articles. |
Subject | Reports. |
Subject | Photoprints. |
Subject | Research notes. |
Subject | Field notes. |
Subject | College teachers. |
Subject | College presidents. Geologists. |
Subject | Stanford University > Arboretum. |
Subject | Stanford University > Campus School. |
Subject | Stanford University > The Camp |
Bibliographic information
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/mn813kv2013 |
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Preferred citation
- Preferred Citation
- Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922. Manuscripts, drawings, clippings, photographs and maps. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/mn813kv2013
Collection
John Casper Branner Papers
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