Guide to the Sears Family Papers SC0523
Note
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jesse Sears: Family Series 1
J.B. Sears: incoming correspondence, 1920's
J.B. Sears: incoming correspondence, 1930's
J.B. Sears: incoming and outgoing corr., 1940-1947
Sears Family correspondence: 1948
Sears Family correspondence: 1949-1957
Sears Family correspondence: 1958-1959
Wallace Sterling to J.B. Sears, 1958
Miscellaneous Correspondence: ca. 1920-1973 (with ND)
Newspaper clippings
Sears Family correspondence: 1960-1966
Sears Family correspondence: 1967
Sears Family correspondence: 1968-1969
Sears Family correspondence: 1970-1971
Sears Family correspondence: 1972
Sears Family correspondence: incoming from Clara Sears McCullough,1964-1972 (later Clara Sara Reed)
Sears Family correspondence: ND
Sears Family correspondence: Photographs, 1964, 1970
Sears Family correspondence: J.R. Sears to J.B., 1972 (includes photographs)
Journal: "Trip to San Jacinto" (possibly Stella Sears)
Christmas cards; sympathy cards
J.B. Sears: Journals/Notebooks
J.B. Sears Papers: "The First Twenty Years of the Fellowship Forum, 1950-1970"
J.B. Sears Papers: "The Fellowship Forum: It's First Twenty Years, 1950-1970"
J.B. Sears Papers: "Proposed Plans for Evaluating Facilities..."
J.B. Sears Papers: "Proposal for a Study of Major Issues in Teacher Education"
J.B. Sears Papers: "Family Autobiographies..."
J.B. Sears Papers: "Jimmy Butler's Story of Himself and the Owl"
J.B. Sears Papers: "Proposal for a Comprehensive Study of Teacher Education," draft
J.B. Sears Papers: "Proposal for a Comprehensive Study of Teacher Education," final copy
J.B. Sears: Itenerary for European Trip
J.B. Sears: Correspondence: salary schedules
J.B. Sears: ephemera: death and birth records of Stella Louise Richardson
J.B. Sears: Sears genealogy
J.B. Sears: Sears genealogy
J.B. Sears: Sears genealogy
J.B. Sears: Sears genealogy
J.B. Sears: Sears genealogy
Sears Genealogy, 1803-1961 (2 copies)
Unidentified corr. re. Sears family history, 1903-1914
Robert Sears: School Ephemera Series 2
School Ephemera
Pre-School Writings and Drawings
Course descriptions and grades: Primary School
School Papers: Arithmetic, Geography
Correspondence, 8/31/1914 (Sear's 6th birthday)
Correspondence: classmates to Robert re. his surgery ca. 1918
Personal notes re. getting up for school
High School and Stanford ephemera
Drama Papers: Palo Alto Union High School
Palo Alto Union High School: Diploma
Palo Alto Union High School Commencement: programs and newsclippings; High School Stage Productions, programs.
"The A-S Reaction Study" completed by Robert Sears
English Theme, 1923.
School Papers: Palo Alto High School (includes Short Stories), 1923-1925
"Madrona": Palo Alto Union High School yearbook: 1923-1925
Short Stories and papers (High School or Stanford)
Short Stories and papers (High School or Stanford)
Short Stories and papers (High School or Stanford)
Short Stories and papers: Stanford
School Notes: Stanford
"The Stanford Lit." and "The Stanford Literary Magazine," 1926 & 1928.
Stanford "Datebook" and 1925-1926 Handbook
Stanford Syllabus: "Medieval Europe," 1926
Stanford Syllabus, "Problems of Citizenship," 1925-1926
Stanford Syllabus, "Herodotus," 1925
Stanford Syllabus, "Greek History," 1926 and personal notes
Stanford Syllabus, "Russian Art," 1926 and "Slavic Literature," 1925
Stanford Syllabi, 1925-1926
"Homeric Troy"
Chemistry 4 School Lab book, 1925: Stanford
"Essays and Notes on English Literature form Beowulf to Shakespeare," ca. 1929
Sears' Play Reviews and "Intellectual Diary"
Theater Programs
"Out of India" by Robert Sears, as published in The Campanile
Miscellaneous Items: Newsclippings, Theater Programs, Poems, Notes
English 184, History 24: 1928
Post Stanford: "Hypnotic Anesthesia"
Sears Family: Correspondence Series 3
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), 1905
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), 1906-1907
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), 1908
Incoming corr. re. Robert's birth and early childhood, 1908
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), Jan.-Sept. 24, 1909
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), Sept. 26 - Dec., 1909
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), 1910
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), Jan. - July 1911
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), Aug. - Dec. 1911
Jesse & Stella Sears (incoming), 1912-1913
Robert's "grandmother," 1913
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1922-1929
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1930
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan. - June 1931
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Nov. - Dec., 1931
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1932
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), May-July, 1934
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Aug.-Oct., 1934
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Nov.-Dec., 1934
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1935 (re. wedding)
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1935
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1935
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-Sept., 1936
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Oct.-Dec., 1936
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-March, 1937
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), April-July, 1937
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Sept.-Dec., 1937
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-Aug., 1938
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Sept.-Dec., 1938
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1939
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Sept. - Dec., 1939
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan. - May, 1940
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), June-Dec., 1940
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1941
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1942
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1943
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-July, 1944
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Aug.-Dec., 1944
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-May, 1945
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), June-Dec., 1945
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-March, 1946
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), April-June, 1946
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), July-Nov., 1946
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Dec., 1946
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-April, 1947
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), May-Sept., 1947
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Oct. - Dec., 1947
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Jan.-April, 1948
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), May-Sept., 1948
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), Oct.-Dec., 1948
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), 1949
Jesse & Stella Sears (outgoing), undated
Robert Sears (outgoing), 1918
Robert Sears (outgoing), 1919
Robert Sears (outgoing), 1925
Robert Sears (outgoing), 1926-1928
Robert Sears (outgoing), 1929
Robert Sears (outgoing), Jan.-May, 1930
Robert Sears (outgoing), June-Dec., 1930
Robert Sears (outgoing), Jan.-July, 1931
Robert Sears (outgoing), Aug.-Dec., 1931
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1932
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1933
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-April, 1934
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), May-June, 1934
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), July-Dec, 1934
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-July, 1935
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Aug.-Dec, 1935
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1936
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1937
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), July-Dec., 1937
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1938
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1939
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1940
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), July-Dec., 1940
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1941
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1942
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1943
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1944
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), July, 1944
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Aug.-Dec., 1944
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1945
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), July, 1945
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Aug.-Dec., 1945
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-April, 1946
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), May-Oct., 1946
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Nov.-Dec., 1946
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1947
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), July-Dec., 1947
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1948
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), July-Dec., 1948
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1949
Robert, Pauline, and David Sears (outgoing), 1950
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1951
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1952
Robert, Pauline, and David Sears (outgoing), 1953
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1957
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), ND (ca. 1944-1950)
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), ND
Robert Sears (outgoing), misc. ND
Robert Sears to Kenneth Pitzer, 1969
Robert and Pauline Sears (outgoing), 1972 (includes family members)
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1930-1935
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1935-1936
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1937
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1938 (with photographs)
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1939
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1940
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1940
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1942-1943
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1944
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1945
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1946 (with photographs)
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1947-1948
Robert and Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., Lewis Terman, 1951
Robert Sears: Incoming corr., 1969-
Pauline Sears: Incoming corr., 1972-1974
Sears: Incoming corr., ND
Norman Sears, 1930-1971
Edith Sears (Tysie), 1943-1972
Snedden Family: Correspondence Series 4
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), 1932
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), 1934
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1935
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), July-Dec., 1935
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan.-Feb., 1936
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), March-April 3, 1936
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), April 11-May, 1936
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Sept.-Dec., 1936
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), 1937
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan.-April, 1938
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), May-August, 1938
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Sept.-Dec., 1938
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan.-April, 1939
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), May-Dec., 1939
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan-April, 1940
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), May-Dec., 1940
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), 1941
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), 1942
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), 1943
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan.-May, 1944
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), June-Dec., 1944
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1945
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), July-Dec., 1945
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan.-June, 1946
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), July-Dec., 1946
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Jan.-July, 1947
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), Aug.-Dec., 1947
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), 1948
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), 1949, 1951
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), ND (ca. 1936-1940)
David and Genevra Snedden (outgoing), ND
Hope Snedden (outgoing), 1909
Hope Snedden (outgoing), 1934-1935
Hope Snedden (outgoing), 1936
Hope Snedden (outgoing), 1937-1938
Hope Snedden (outgoing), 1939-1940
Hope Snedden (outgoing), 1942-1944
Hope Snedden and Leonard Carlsmith, 1945-1946
Hope Snedden and Leonard Carlsmith, 1947
Hope Snedden (outgoing), 1948
Hope Snedden (outgoing), ND
Janet Snedden (outgoing), 1934-1935
Janet Snedden (outgoing), 1938
Janet Snedden (outgoing), 1939-1941
Janet Snedden (outgoing), 1943-1948
Ruth Snedden (outgoing), 1935-1948
Sears Family: Journals/Business Papers Series 5
Sears: Retirement Arrangements
Sears: House papers, 22 Appian Way House
Sears: House papers, 181 Coleridge, Palo Alto
Sears: House related
Sears: Business/Legal
Sears: Art Gallery receipts
Sears/Stanford University Archives Agreement
Financial Journal, 1921-1936
Financial Journal, 1937-1971
Financial Journal, 1927
Checking Acct. Journal, 1940-1941
Financial Journals (3)
Sears Family: Miscellaneous Series 6
Harry Johnson Sears Autobiography
Pauline Sears, VITA
Norman Sears, Christmas gift, 1918
Sears: clippings and articles
Sears: clippings and articles
Miscellaneous items
Robert Sears: Press release
Pauline and Robert Sears: retirement papers
Notes found in Identification and Child Rearing by Robert Sears
"Papers Published in Journals, Bulletins, Yearbooks, and Proceedings, 1915-1953," by Jesse B. Sears
Sears/Snedden: Photographs Series 7
Sears Family
J.B. Sears
J.B. Sears
Robert Sears (early school)
Robert Sears
Robert Sears
Robert and Pauline Sears
Robert and Pauline Sears
Sears (houses, pets, etc.)
Snedden Family
unknown
Misc. negatives
Glass slide: High School Play Production
Snedden Family
unknown
Sears/Snedden: Ephemera, Publications, Oversize Series 8
Sears: WW II ephemera
Sears: WW II ephemera
Sears: WW II ephemera
Sears: WW II ephemera (photographs: NDRC gunnery)
Sears: WW II ephemera (16 mm film: NDRC gunnery, 2 rolls)
Snedden Family publications
1. "Anna O'Keefe and Samuel Snedden, 1867-1975" (compiled by Virginia Culbert, 1975)
2. "Six Generations in California: Anna O'Keefe & Samuel Snedden 1867-1986" (compiled by Virginia Culbert, 1985)
3. "Mountain Cattle and Frontier People" - Genevra Sisson Snedden
4. "Docas, Indian of Santa Clara" - Genevra S. Snedden
5. "A Memorial to Genevra Sisson Snedden" - David Snedden (2 cc)
6. "Recollections" - David Snedden (2 cc)
Robert Sears: ephemera (includes books, artwork as child)
Robert Sears: ephemera (newspaper clippings, awards, photographs, drawings)
File box: Psychology Test questions/answers (on file cards)
Additional Materials Accession ARCH_2018_001
Harvard School of Education - Lab of Human Development. 1952 Jun
Harvard - David and Nancy
Harvard - Robert R. Sears; Pauline Snedden Sears
Harvard - Robert R. Sears; Pauline Snedden Sears
Stanford 1953-1957
Pauline Snedden Sears - Reprints
Pauline Snedden Sears - Reprints
CASBS 1955
Boys Town proposal 1973
SRCD Gov. Council. Annual report 1978
Robert R. Sears - Speeches
Robert R. Sears - Montreal Congress 1974
Harvard
Illinois: Robert R. Sears and Pauline Snedden Sears 1932-1936
Illinois: Robert R. Sears and Pauline Snedden Sears: photos 1932-1936
Illinois. Faculty and student directory 1935
Yale: Robert R. Sears and Pauline Snedden Sears 1936-1942
Iowa: Robert R. Sears and Pauline Snedden Sears 1942-1949
Stanford 1953-1957
Stanford - Beginning - David and Nancy 1953-1957
Stanford - Beginning - David and Nancy 1953-1957
Stanford 1959
Stanford 1959
Robert R. Sears - Correspondence
Pauline Snedden Sears - Souvenirs 1966-1971
Pauline Snedden Sears - Souvenirs 1966-1971
Pauline Snedden Sears - Souvenirs 1973-1991
Iowa. Child welfare, League of Women Voters, etc.
Pauline Snedden Sears - Telephone book with some addresses [Stanford]
Pauline Snedden Sears - Address book circa 1985
Pauline Snedden Sears - Social doings; lists of people to have; menus [Stanford]
Robert R. Sears. Autobiographical sketch 1977
Recollections of Robert Sears 1988 Aug
Pauline Snedden Sears - Reminiscences of Childhood at Lake Winnipesaukee. 1988 Aug
Hope Snedden Carlsmith - Family genealogy
Ruth Snedden Shoup - Recollections 1980 Feb
Harvard. Laboratory of Human Development. Analysis schedule for psychological testing 1953-1954
Photographic Negatives
Audio tape
Additional Materials Accession ARCH-2019-217
Robert's Early Life 1904-1916
Robert Sears' Letters to Family 1925
Robert Sears' Letters to Pat 1928
Robert Sears' Letters from College 1929
Letters from Colleagues and Friends 1929-1932
Letters from Pat and Bob to Geneva 1928
Robert Back at Stanford 1929
Pat and Bob to Geneva 1930-1931
Pat and Bob from Champaign 1932
Pat and Bob to Geneva 1933
Pat and Bob to Geneva 1934
Pat and Bob to Geneva 1935
Pat and Bob to Geneva 1936
Pat Sears to Geneva 1936-1937
Letters from Paula 1938
Pat and Bob to Geneva 1940
Pat to Bob at Yale 1928-1929
Pat to Rob 1930
Bob and Pat's Letters to Family 1930-1934
Very Early Letters from GSS and David Snedden 1905-1911
Paula to Geneva Family 1926
Pat to Geneva 1927
Letters to Pat and Robert 1937-1944
Robert's Letters to Pat 1930
Letters of Pat to Robert 1931
Pat and Bob's Letters to J.B. Stella
Family's Letters to Pat & Robert 1928-1934
Letters from Pat to Robert 1934
Correspondence 1937-1939
Family Letters to Pat and Rob 1936-1942
Norman's Letters to Bob 1941-1942
Letters to JBS and SRS from Rob and Pat 1934
Geneva's Letters to Pat and Bob 1941-1943
Pat's Letters to Bob 1942
Letters from Pat to Bob 1944
Letters to J.B. and Stella 1942-1943
Letters from Robert and Pat 1944-11946
Yale Student 1929-1932
Yale Student - To Save for Family 1929-1932
Robert at Stanford 1925-1929
Letters of Robert and Pat 1937-1944
Hope to Pat and Robert 1937
Geneva's "Home' Project 1989
Early Letters of Nancy 1953
Letters from Nancy to Parents 1957-1958
Paris to Geneva 1958-1959
European Travel 1959
Nancy's Letters to Parents
Snedden Correspondence
Snedden Academics
Social Life
Scapes and Scrapes
Additional Materials Accession ARCH-2019-256
Photos of Young Robert Sears
My Story by Stella R. Sears 1948
The Story of My Life and Work, An Autobiography by Jesee Brundage Sears 1959
ARCH 2023-004 ARCH 2023-004
Correspondence, photographs, subject files Box 1 1906-1983
Correspondence, photographs, subject files Box 2 1929-1960
Correspondence, photographs, subject files 1930-1990
Correspondence, photographs, subject files 1930-1974
Addenda, 2024-505 ARCH-2024-505
Empty envelopes