Guide to the Thomas Welton Stanford Library Time Capsule Collection
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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Overview
Call Number: SC0646
Creator:
Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905.
Title: Thomas Welton Stanford Library time capsule collection
Dates: 1886-1898
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet
Summary: Collection consists of the items placed in the time capsule by Jane L. Stanford and interred at the cornerstone laying of
the library on November 2, 1898. Included are university circulars and registers, entrance exams, commencement programs, photograph
of T. W. Stanford, letter by Jane L. Stanford, Bible, crucifix, newspapers of the day, and coins.
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
Thomas Welton Stanford Library Time Capsule Collection (SC0646). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Historical Note
Thomas Welton Stanford, Leland Stanford's younger brother, reassigned half of his bequest from Leland Stanford's will to Jane
Stanford, who used the funds to build a new library. It was one of the first buildings to be completed in the construction
of the outer Quadrangle.
Description of the Collection
Collection consists of the items placed in the time capsule by Jane L. Stanford and interred at the cornerstone laying of
the library on November 2, 1898. Included are university circulars and registers, entrance exams, commencement programs, photograph
of T. W. Stanford, letter by Jane L. Stanford, Bible, crucifix, newspapers of the day, and coins.
Access Terms
Stanford University -- General subdivision--History.;
Stanford University. Libraries.
Stanford, Thomas Welton, 1832-1918.
Time Capsule items
Note
The original copper box that held these items is cataloged under the number AM-2002-27.
Box 1, Folder 1
Circulars 1-4 Circulars 1 and 2 (1891) : Act of the Legislature, Grant of Endowment, Address of Leland Stanford, First Meeting
of the Trustees, Laying of the Comer-Stone
1891
Box 1, Folder 1
Circular 3 (1891) : Statement of entrance requirements and of other matters preliminary to the organization of the work of
instruction for the first year of the university
1891
Box 1, Folder 1
Circular 4 (1891) : Announcement of the faculty of the university and an outline of the courses of instruction offered for
the academic year 1891-92
1891
Box 1, Folder 2
Circular 5 (1891) : Exercises of the Opening Day
Oct 1 1891
Box 1, Folder 2
Circular 6 (1891) : [directory of faculty and students, admission and graduation requirements, and list of courses]
1891
Box 1, Folder 3
Commencement programs
1892-1898
Box 1, Folder 5
Exercises of the Opening Day (program)
Oct. 1, 1891
Box 1, Folder 6
Founding Grant publication
Box 1, Folder 7
Hymn sung at the cornerstone laying of the TWS Library [manuscript, probably in Bertha Berner's hand]
Nov. 2, 1898
Box 1, Folder 8
Photograph of Thomas Welton Stanford
1898
Box 1, Folder 9
Schedule of lectures and recitations and directory
1898-99
Box 1, Folder 10
Stanford Sequoia
Oct. 28, 1898
Box 1, Folder 11
Stanford, Jane Lathrop. Address to Trustees
1897
Box 1, Folder 12
Stanford, Jane Lathrop. Letter written to be included in the time capsule, [signed by JLS but letter is probably in Bertha Berner's hand]
Nov. 1, 1898
Box 1
The Leland Stanford Junior University Registers, 1891-1897
1891-1897
Box 1
The Holy Bible. New York: American Bible Society. With inscription by Jane L. Stanford
1886-1898
Box 1
Kempis, Thomas A . The Following of Christ; in Four Books. Philadelphia: H. L. Kilner and Co. Crucifix
Physical Description: Crucifix
Box 2
San Francisco Chronicle
Nov. 2, 1898
Box 2
San Francisco Call
Nov. 2, 1898
Box 2
Palo Alto Times
Nov. 1, 1898
Box 2
Palo Alto Live Oak
Oct. 28, 1898
Box 3
Gold and silver coins
Note
Patrons must have permission of the University Archivist to view these.
