Description
Scrapbooks contain clippings, announcements, newsletters, brochures, programs, press releases, invitations, and several photographs
pertaining primarily to the rare book and manuscript collections, acquisitions, and exhibitions. People mentioned in the articles
include Jeannette M. Hitchcock, Albert M. Bender, Frederick E. Brasch and Nathan Van Patten; there are also some clippings
on the theft of books by Mitchell Strucinski in 1960. The photographs are of Albert Sperisen, J. Terry Bender, F. E. Brasch
and a class in the history of printing at San Jose State College (July 1954).
Background
The Bender Room of the Stanford University Library, located on the top floor of the 1919 building (now the Bing Wing of the
Cecil H. Green Library), was once the home of the rare book and manuscript divisions of the library.
Restrictions
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.
Availability
This collection is open for research.