Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: A0055
Creator:
McSherry, Ralph Caylor.
Title: Ralph Caylor McSherry photograph albums
Dates: 1911-1916
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet (2 volumes)
Summary: Two albums of photographs, clippings, and Stanford ephemera such as programs, broadsides, and tickets, pertaining to his student
days at Stanford University. Subjects include the Big Game, his dormitory room, Plug Ugly events, and fellow students. There
are also photographs of Domenico Grosso, the "hermit" of Stanford University, and of Thomas Edison during his visit to the
campus. Non-Stanford subjects include his vacation trips to Seattle, Idaho, Monterey, and other locations, and the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition in San Francisco.
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
This collection is open for research.
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
Ralph Caylor McSherry Photograph Albums (A0055). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
McSherry earned his a.b. in English from Stanford University in 1916.
Description of the Collection
Two albums of photographs, clippings, and Stanford ephemera such as programs, broadsides, and tickets, pertaining to his student
days at Stanford University. Subjects include the Big Game, his dormitory room, Plug Ugly events, and fellow students. There
are also photographs of Domenico Grosso, the "hermit" of Stanford University, and of Thomas Edison during his visit to the
campus. Non-Stanford subjects include his vacation trips to Seattle, Idaho, Monterey, and other locations, and the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition in San Francisco.
Access Terms
Edison, Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
Grosso, Domenico.
McSherry, Ralph Caylor.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Stanford University. Department of Athletics.
Photoprints.