Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents note
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0716
Title: Jesse Lincoln Myers scrapbook
Dates: 1905-1958 (inclusive),,1913-1915 (bulk).
Physical Description:
1 volume
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Jesse L. Myers, 1958.
Biographical/Historical note
Jesse L. Myers attended Stanford 1913-15 and then earned his mechanical engineering
degree at Cornell University in 1920.
Scope and Contents note
Scrapbook largely pertains to his two years at Stanford and includes postcards (some
depicting Stanford in 1905), photographs, programs, tickets, and issues of the Daily
Palo Alto, 1913-1915; there are also postcards of San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles,
and Yosemite. Loose items from the scrapbook include assorted items from his student
life at Cornell; additional Stanford postcards; and a letter from Pete Allen (Stanford
News Service), 1958, thanking him for the gift of the scrapbook, which was sent to the
University Archives.
Access Terms
Stanford University--Students.
Postcards--California.