Leland Stanford collection, 1869-1975
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- Primary and secondary sources pertaining to the life of Leland Stanford and the history of Stanford University's founding. Includes clippings, correspondence, articles, pamphlets, speeches, scripts, reports, memorabilia, and copies or facsimiles of historical documents. In addition to the business and political career of Leland Stanford, subjects include his ideas on education, the naming of Palo Alto, Stanford family genealogy, railroad history (especially the completion of the transcontinental railroad), Thomas Hill and his painting "Driving the Last Spike," Eadweard Muybridge and the invention of motion pictures, Stanford's residences in Sacramento and San Francisco, Vina Ranch, and Warm Springs Ranch.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Extent | 4.5 |
Place | California |
Publication date | 1869 - 1975 |
Issuance | monographic |
Language | English |
Subjects
Subject | Browne, Louise M |
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Subject | Clark, George A |
Subject | Curtis, Edward |
Subject | Farnham, Wallace D |
Subject | Fisher, Helen Dwight |
Subject | Hemsing, Peter |
Subject | Hill, Thomas A |
Subject | Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 |
Subject | Kimball, Sarah Louise, 1865- |
Subject | Lampson, Robin, 1900- |
Subject | Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 |
Subject | Myrick, David F |
Subject | Scibird, Ruth |
Subject | Stanford, Arthur W |
Subject | Stanford, Grant Lansing |
Subject | Stanford, Leland, 1824-1898 |
Subject | Stebbins, Horatio, 1821-1902 |
Subject | Wooster, C. M |
Subject | Central Pacific Railroad Company. |
Subject | Stanford University > History |
Subject | Stanford-Lathrop House (Sacramento, Calif.) |
Subject | Palo Alto (Calif.) |
Subject | Warm Springs Ranch (Calif.) |
Subject | Vina Ranch (Calif.) |
Bibliographic information
Location |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xg729zq2441 |
Location | Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Univ. Libraries, |
Access conditions
- 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://library.stanford.edu/spc).