Guide to the Clarence Jennings Peterson Photograph Albums
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: A0046
Creator:
Peterson, Clarence Jennings.
Title: Clarence Jennings Peterson photograph albums
Dates: 1909-circa 1920
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear feet (2 volumes)
Summary: One volume contains images of student life at Stanford, 1909-1910, including track meets, interiors of rooms in Encina Hall,
crew team, student excursions off campus, the summer geology trip of 1909, and a photograph of Domenico Grosso, the "hermit"
of Stanford University. The second volume contains photographs and postcards pertaining to mining operations in the American
West and in Central and South America, ca. 1920.
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
Gift of Helen P. Hoyt, 1966.
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.
Clarence Jennings Peterson Photograph Albums (A0046). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Peterson earned his a.b. in geology at Stanford University in January, 1910; he was chief geologist with the Texoma Natural
Gas Company.
One volume contains images of student life at Stanford, 1909-1910, including track meets, interiors of rooms in Encina Hall,
crew team, student excursions off campus, the summer geology trip of 1909, and a photograph of Domenico Grosso, the "hermit"
of Stanford University. The second volume contains photographs and postcards pertaining to mining operations in the American
West and in Central and South America, ca. 1920.
Grosso, Domenico.
Peterson, Clarence Jennings.
Stanford University. Department of Athletics.
Stanford University. Department of Geology.
Mineral industries--Photographs.
Photoprints.
Box 1
Photograph Album