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Guide to the Stanford University Founding Grant Photographs
PC0040
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Call Number: PC0040
Creator:
Stanford University
Title: Stanford University Founding Grant photographs
Dates: circa 1981-circa 1985
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
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
[identification of item], Stanford University Founding Grant Photographs (PC0040). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator
and Mrs. Leland Stanford. Founding of the University was accomplished by a Grant of Endowment by Jane and Leland Stanford,
dated November 11, 1885.
This collection consists of black and white negatives and contact sheets of the original grant, done in calligraphy with some
embellishments, along with mounted prints of eight pages from the grant; and color negatives and prints of selected pages
from the original grant, including the LSJU monogram.
Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905.
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.