Guide to the Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand

Jenny Johnson
Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford, California
February 2012
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.


Overview

Call Number: SC1097
Creator: Durand, William Frederick, 1859-1958
Creator: Simkins, H. W.
Title: Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand
Dates: 1899-1944
Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
Summary: Three bound volumes. The 1904 & 1905 Stanford University viewbooks published by H. W. Simkins with additional photographs and handwritten notes added by Frank Oakes Ellenwood. Selected Papers of William Frederick Durand: Reprinted in Commemoration of the Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of His Birth. Pasadena, a bibliography of the published works of Professor W.F. Durand, signed by Durand to F. O. Ellenwood.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Information about Access

The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Ownership & Copyright

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Cite As

[identification of item], Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand (SC1097). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical note

Frank Oakes Ellenwood was born November 10, 1878 in Little Hocking, Ohio. In 1904 he received the degree of A.B. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and in 1922 the degree of Mechanical Engineer, also from Stanford University. In 1911 he went to Cornell University as an assistant professor of heat-power engineering after serving as an instructor of mechanical engineering at Stanford from 1908 to 1911. In 1915 he was made Professor of Heat-Power Engineering; in 1940 he was made head of that department, and in 1941 he was appointed John Edson Sweet Professor of Engineering. He died in Rochester, New York, on September 7, 1947.

Scope and Contents

Three bound volumes. The 1904 & 1905 Stanford University viewbooks published by H. W. Simkins with additional photographs and handwritten notes added by Frank Oakes Ellenwood. Selected Papers of William Frederick Durand: Reprinted in Commemoration of the Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of His Birth. Pasadena, a bibliography of the published works of Professor W.F. Durand, signed by Durand to F. O. Ellenwood.

Access Terms

Ellenwood, Frank Oakes
Stanford University--Campus scenes
Stanford University--History.


Box 1

1904 Stanford University viewbook by H. W. Simkins.

Box 1

1905 Stanford University viewbook by H. W. Simkins.

Box 1

Selected Papers of William Frederick Durand: Reprinted in Commemoration of the Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of His Birth. Signed by Durand to F. O. Ellenwood.