Plan for whole university differing from plan of Olmsted

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: 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.

Subject	Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Subject	Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905
Subject	Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893
Subject	Stanford University > History
Subject	Stanford University > Pictorial works
Genre	Lithographs

Note	Materials were acquired through varied sources.
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bc290xm8565
Location	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford, CA

Use and reproduction: Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv).

Stanford University print collection, 1862-2001

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