Guide to the William Westley Guth Scrapbook
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: SC0847
Creator:
Guth, William Westley, 1871-1929.
Title: William Westley Guth scrapbook
Dates: 1891-1894
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Scrapbook largely contains clippings on various aspects of Stanford University's first three years - academic life, faculty,
lectures given, athletics, campus construction, club activities, concerts, and Benjamin Harrison's visit. There are also a
few clippings of articles by Ambrose Bierce, a few newspaper facsimiles of autographs and historic letters, and one photograph
of Charles B. Henderson who attended Stanford 1892-93.
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
This collection is open for research.
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.
William Westley Guth Scrapbook (SC0847). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
William W. Guth earned his A.B. in history at Stanford University in 1895; he was active in the Press Club and worked on the
student magazine The Sequoia.
Scrapbook largely contains clippings on various aspects of Stanford University's first three years - academic life, faculty,
lectures given, athletics, campus construction, club activities, concerts, and Benjamin Harrison's visit. There are also a
few clippings of articles by Ambrose Bierce, a few newspaper facsimiles of autographs and historic letters, and one photograph
of Charles B. Henderson who attended Stanford 1892-93.
Guth, William Westley, 1871-1929.
Henderson, Charles Belknap.
Scrapbooks
Box 1
Scrapbook