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Call Number: PC0116
Creator:
Harper, Tro.
Title: Tro Harper photographs of Stanford student life
Dates: 1935-1940
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet
Summary: Collection largely consists of negatives 1935-37, a few
contemporary prints, and contact sheets from selected negative rolls made in 1988.
Subjects include rehearsals for student plays, parties and excursions, Prof. Thomas
Bailey in class, exams, 1936 graduation, campus scenes, and individuals and groups of
students. Collection also includes a small amount of correspondence, 1938-40, and
miscellaneous financial documents.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
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.
Tro Harper Photographs of Stanford Student Life (PC0116). Dept. of Special
Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Frederick Troman (Tro) Harper earned his AB in social sciences at Stanford University in
1937. He owned and operated Tro Harper, Books in San Francisco. He was a member of The
Bohemian Club and the San Francisco Golf Club.
Collection largely consists of negatives 1935-37, a few contemporary prints, and contact
sheets from selected negative rolls made in 1988. Subjects include rehearsals for
student plays, parties and excursions, Prof. Thomas Bailey in class, exams, 1936
graduation, campus scenes, and individuals and groups of students. Collection also
includes a small amount of correspondence, 1938-40, and miscellaneous financial
documents.
Bailey, Thomas Andrew, 1902-
Harper, Tro.
Stanford University--Pictorial works.
Stanford University--Students.
| A1 | Candids of Brown (H.C.), Allaga, Ettlinger, Rosemary, Drysdale, Cottril, Slusser |
| A2 | Mac at Phelps, Mrs. Bacon, Santa Cruz over the fourth of July |
| A3 | Ernie; Mrs. Dougherty; George Hatch; Library shots of pillars; Langstroff |
| A4 | Sausalito; Bulloch; Pratt; Fisherman's wharf; San Francisco from Russian Hill; Amelia Baines working on costume; Amelia and Gist |
| A5 | Candids of [Thomas] Bailey in history class; Antony and Cleopatra in rehearsal |
| A6 | Stage Classics Workshop pix |
| A7 | Antony and Cleopatra in rehearsal (2nd pix) |
| A8 | Caesar and Cleopatra in rehearsal in the women's gym; Onyet Watson and cig |
| A9 | Typewriter; Ed and Carl Abbott on golf course; me; Ed |
| A10 | Ed; Phyllis Corson; Onyet; Betty Butcher; Bay Bridge; Shots on stage at Golden Gat NG |
| A11 | Dress rehearsal of Caesar and Cleopatra, Marge Bailey, Phyllis Corson, Onyet Watson (summer 1936) |
| A12 | Gilman Gist modeling; Phelps-Terkel; Mac at Phelps; trees in arboretum (Aug. 27, 1936 |
| A15 | Portraits of me, Weaver; Illustrated Review cover of Union (Oct. 1936) |
| A19 | Beer Bust with Cal (October 1936) |
| A25 | Antony and Cleopatra in final rehearsal |
| G1 | Exams (pix taken for LIFE--no sale), Eisenbach & Johnson Hill |
| G2 | Exams, girl asleep, Middletown, campus shots |
| G3 | Easter vacation 1937; Johnson Hill, Shirley Jones, Marjorie Hallohan, Tro Harper, Helen Zwick, Donna Evans, Bettye Faus, Hunt Kingsbury, Tom Spivey |
| G4 | Easter vacation at Bass Lake; Bettye and Onyet, poker game, snow shots |
| G5 | End of Easter vacation 1937; Ettlinger at home, Leah Ray, Sophia, Bettye on lot, Leah on set, Fox lot, Onyet in makeup |
| G6 | Bettye climbs fence, Loupe, fire in San Francisco, rescue shots, pole vault, track meet, Ben Eastman and brother, Templeton, Peterson and Klaube |
| G7 | Eisenbach, Seid, Frost, red filter shots of campus (April 10, 1937) |
| G8 | Shots taken at Holy City, Calif. in preparation for an article for LIFE (April 11, 1937) |
| G9 | Shots of Bettye Faus, track pictures of McCurdy etc. for layouts in Daily, also baseball, Dink Templeton |
| G10 | Operation pix (April 18, 1937) |
| G11 | Hospital pix for Ballard |
| G12 | Campus shots taken for Ballard's brochure (April 1937) |
| G13 | Rehearsal shots of "Down the Hatch", track meet USC |
| G14 | Weigle and farmer in class; Zwick in class; Brownell; Kales; McDaniel-- world's record vault; new theater |
| G15 | Lutz in class, patterns in tiles, Art Dept. |
| G16 | Nitery, Farm shots, women's pool and archery, Chi Omega house (Spring 1937) |
| G17 | In Stanford chem. lab; Bettye; Phil Kuhn; makeup room for "Down the Hatch" |
| G18 | L.P. Gebhardt at Stanford in connection with infantile stuff for California; after the party pix (Spring 1937) |
| S1 | The Flower Lady, Mrs. Coverly, Mrs. Croak in the lower division office, loud George--6/20/36 |
| S2 | Dorothy Gaff, Figureheads in Memorial Court, Copey, RR joint-- 6/18/36 |
| S3 | Ted Turlow, Paul Thurlow, shots taken from Olsen and Johnson-- 6/21/36 |
| S4 | Life Saver, lights and shadows, Brown (Phil and H. W.), fire, Jack at Beltramos, Ballard, Weigle, Farmer, Ettiene, Ted at Phelps--6/26/36 |
| S5 | Graduation, night pictures at the Mark--6/17/36 |
| S6 | Dorothy Gaff, sectional trials, Tiny Thornhill, Gordon Davis, Bob Bacon --6/14/36 |
| #34 | Graduation exercises; Onyet; Weaver and father; Beta class; Beta House comes down (June 1937 |