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Call Number: SC0866
Creator:
Bergstrom, Francis William, 1897-1946.
Title: Francis William Bergstrom scrapbook
Dates: 1865-1927
Bulk Dates: 1909-1927
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet
Summary: This scrapbook documents his years as a Stanford student, with a few items on his family, his high school years, and his postdoctoral
years; it includes a large number of photographs with lesser numbers of clippings, programs, letters, postcards, and memorabilia
including his 1922 Ph.D. diploma. Photographs and postcards of Stanford scenes include buildings, chemistry labs, 1914 Bonfire
structure, Frosh-Soph tie-ups, LSJU mess hall 1918, card stunts at football games, and the Stanford band. Other images include
Yosemite, the high Sierra country, Lake Tahoe area, airplane flying over football game at Berkeley (labeled "Beachey 1914"),
two images of A. C. Kimber in front of a plane (1917 and 1918), and the Camp Fremont Song Festival [possibly the Patriotic
Song Festival held in the Stanford Stadium, June 9, 1918]. There is also a marriage certificate for W. H. Schoonover and Mary
Ann Wilkey [?] of Pennsylvania, 1865.
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.
Francis William Bergstrom Scrapbook (SC0866). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Francis W. Bergstrom was educated at Stanford University, earning his A.B. in chemistry 1918, chemical engineers degree 1919,
and Ph.D. 1922. After three years of postdoctoral work on a National Research Fellowship in Chemistry, he joined the Stanford
faculty in the Dept. of Chemistry in 1925, teaching there until his death in 1946.
This scrapbook documents his years as a Stanford student, with a few items on his family, his high school years, and his postdoctoral
years; it includes a large number of photographs with lesser numbers of clippings, programs, letters, postcards, and memorabilia
including his 1922 Ph.D. diploma. Photographs and postcards of Stanford scenes include buildings, chemistry labs, 1914 Bonfire
structure, Frosh-Soph tie-ups, LSJU mess hall 1918, card stunts at football games, and the Stanford band. Other images include
Yosemite, the high Sierra country, Lake Tahoe area, airplane flying over football game at Berkeley (labeled "Beachey 1914"),
two images of A. C. Kimber in front of a plane (1917 and 1918), and the Camp Fremont Song Festival [possibly the Patriotic
Song Festival held in the Stanford Stadium, June 9, 1918]. There is also a marriage certificate for W. H. Schoonover and Mary
Ann Wilkey [?] of Pennsylvania, 1865.
Box 1 contains the scrapbook pages; box 2 contains the original scrapbook covers.
Bergstrom, Francis William, 1897-1946.
Kimber, Arthur Clifford, 1896-1918.
Stanford University. Department of Athletics.
Stanford University. Stanford Band.
College students--California.
Photoprints.
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) --Pictorial works.
Yosemite Valley (Calif.) --Pictorial works.