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Call Number: PC0003
Creator:
Crandall, Berton W., 1882-1979.
Title: Berton W. Crandall proof album collection
Dates: 1904-1930
Physical Description:
18 albums
Summary: Proof albums assembled by Crandall of photograph
taken during the year to be broused by patrons of his Palo Alto studio. Crandall
concentrated primarily on Stanford athletics and student activities. Sports most
heavily documented are football, track, and baseball; others include crew, swimming,
basketball, gymnastics, and polo. There are a few photographs of women's crew,
track, and basketball teams. Student activities include the Frosh-Soph Tie-Up,
student parades, initiations of the honor society Skull & Snakes and the Press
Club, dances, plays, Plug Ugly events, junior day activities on Lake Lagunita, and
commencement processions. Special events documented include John C. Branner's
inauguration as Stanford University President, 1913; and the Student Army Training
Corps, 1916-1917.
Language(s): In English.
Repository:
Department 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
Gift of Berton W. Crandall.
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.
Berton W. Crandall Proof Album Collection (PC0003). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Berton W. Crandall moved with his family to Palo Alto in 1898 from Pompey, New York,
where he had been born in 1882. After graduating from Palo Alto High School, he
attended Stanford University, earning his bachelor's degree in chemistry in January
1907. A professional photographer, he also owned and operated a photography store on
University Avenue in Palo Alto. He died in May of 1979.
Proof albums assembled by Crandall of photograph taken during the year to be broused
by patrons of his Palo Alto studio. Crandall concentrated primarily on Stanford
athletics and student activities. Sports most heavily documented are football,
track, and baseball; others include crew, swimming, basketball, gymnastics, and
polo. There are a few photographs of women's crew, track, and basketball teams.
Student activities include the Frosh-Soph Tie-Up, student parades, initiations of
the honor society Skull & Snakes and the Press Club, dances, plays, Plug Ugly
events, junior day activities on Lake Lagunita, and commencement processions.
Special events documented include John C. Branner's inauguration as Stanford
University President, 1913; and the Student Army Training Corps, 1916-1917.
Albums organized by year;
photographs arranged by negative number within each album.
Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.
Crandall, Berton W., 1882-1979.
Stanford University--Athletics.
Stanford University--Pictorial works.
Stanford University--Presidents.
Stanford University--Students.
Stanford University. Student Army Training
Corps.
Albums.
Photographers--California.
Photoprints.