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Guide to the Ray Lyman Wilbur Photographs
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  • Overview
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Sketch
  • Description of the Collection
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: PC0015
    Creator: Wilbur, Ray L., (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949
    Title: Ray Lyman Wilbur photographs
    Dates: circa 1880-1949
    Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
    Summary: Photographs of Ray Lyman Wilbur as a child, from his student days at Stanford University and Cooper Medical College, as President of Stanford, and as Secretary of the Interior. Student photos include images of his room in Encina Hall, Hopkins Marine lab, and a medical school anatomy lab. Other persons pictured include David Starr Jordan, Lucie Stern, Herbert Hoover, and Calvin Coolidge. There are also photos of his wife Marguerite Blake Wilbur and Wilbur family photographs, including family homes in North Dakota and Riverside, Calif., and students at Riverside High School, 1891.
    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

    Provenance

    Gift of Ray Lyman Wilbur, Jr.

    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

    Ray Lyman Wilbur Photographs (PC0015). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical Sketch

    Ray Lyman Wilbur graduated from Stanford University (B.S. 1896, M.S. 1897) and from Cooper Medical College (M.D. 1899). He served as lecturer and professor of physiology and of medicine (1897-1903), Dean of the Cooper Medical College (Stanford) (1911-1916), third President of Stanford University (1916-1943), Chancellor of Stanford, and Secretary of the Interior (September 1929-1933) under President Hoover.

    Description of the Collection

    Photographs of Ray Lyman Wilbur as a child, from his student days at Stanford University and Cooper Medical College, as President of Stanford, and as Secretary of the Interior. Student photos include images of his room in Encina Hall, Hopkins Marine lab, and a medical school anatomy lab. Other persons pictured include David Starr Jordan, Lucie Stern, Herbert Hoover, and Calvin Coolidge. There are also photos of his wife Marguerite Blake Wilbur and Wilbur family photographs, including family homes in North Dakota and Riverside, Calif., and students at Riverside High School, 1891.

    Access Terms

    Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933.
    Cooper Medical College.
    Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
    Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
    Stern, Lucie.
    Wilbur family.
    Wilbur, Marguerite Blake.
    Wilbur, Ray L., (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949
    Medical students--California.
    Photoprints.
    Riverside (Calif.) --Photographs.